It’s been two months since my last podcast (the end of school is like that), but I talked to Mark Athitakis, one of the world’s leading experts on Midwestern literature, about David Foster Wallace’s tragically unfinished novel The Pale King.
This episode was going to be a discussion of Suzan-Lori Parks’s work with the coolest person I know, but the coolest person I know had to do some traveling and won’t be back till July.
You can read an excerpt from Mark’s excellent The New Midwest here, and you can buy the book here. It’s a much-needed corrective to the idea that Midwestern literature means only prairies and white people.
