In our morning reading: thoughts on Paul Lisicky’s new book, interviews with Max Brooks and Bill Buford, and more.
A George Saunders Radio Drama (More or Less)
I grew up in a house with a lot of records, one of which was an evocative recording of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood narrated by Thomas and featuring a larger vocal cast, echoing its roots as a radio drama commissioned by the BBC. In the years since then, some recordings of books have taken a page from the radio drama playbook: the audio version of Max Brooks’s World War Z echoed the novel’s oral history structure, and featured a […]