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May 2021
56m 23s

161: Loan Le (A PHO LOVE STORY) & John S...

Christopher Hermelin
About this episode

Loan Le is hanging in Zoom Hyperspace with the guys, and since she's a triple threat (writer, editor, reader) there is tons to cover. First, the pleasures of the food writing in A Pho Love Story, and writing teenagers on the brink. Then, what it's like to go from professionally editing books to writing and back again. And finally, with her reader hat on, she brought John Searles' Help for the Haunted, and we talk slippery time and why Loan believes in ghosts.

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