Thank you, Ben! I'm glad you're digging EMBASSYTOWN!

Congratulations, Erin!

Also, you can really tell the difference between Johnson's dialogue and the dialogue invented for the movie. The additions are all well written, but they're pretty different in tone too. Some of Kerry Condon's character sounds a little like she's from another movie, as good as Condon is.

I do think they bobbled the morality of the man being thrown off the bridge! Granier is much less complicit in the movie, so his haunting makes less sense. I understand why they did it, but it might be a flinch. The movie is more sentimental than the book, which was the case with Jesus' Son too.

I liked it a lot! I wasn't surprised by any of the changes they made to adapt it—putting the story in chronological order, de-emphasizing the wolf girl narrative, changing certain characters/events—because it was probably necessary to do some of that. Edgerton is always good, and it's gorgeous.

The movie is an hour and fifty minutes long, and the novel is only two hours and twenty minutes on audio. A rare example of a film and a book that are essentially the same length.

Just reread it again this morning. Absolutely perfect.

Yes! One of the "traps" of the writing/publishing life: when you're actually writing well, there's little to show for it publicly; then, during the following fallow period, everything comes out—but you feel like a bit of a fraud because you're not actually writing so much! (Or so it goes for me.)

It's been a while since I flipped through it! But I love Alissa's stories.

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

I loved the book, and I hope it finds all the readers it deserves: lanternfishpress.com/shop/a-harve...

Oh no.

Thanks for attending, Jeffrey! We should have the recording up in a week or so.

We should have the recording up in the next week! Thanks so much for coming.