In November, The Brattle invited bestselling author, cinephile, and Brattle regular Rebbeca Kuang to program a day of movies in conjunction with the release of a special collector's edition of her first novel, The Poppy War. That whole day of screenings sold out rapidly, so we invited her onto the podcast to share her thoughts on watching movies, how movies differ from novels, how movies impact an artist working in a different medium, and other topics with our listeners.

Netflix Pacific Rim The Black, High Rise Invasion, I Care A Lot, Freaky, Lola Bunny, Florida snorkler finds cocaine, first tweet of twitter, Burger King and women, Naked Cowboy, Powerpuff girls, Bald Eagle ice skate, CIA catfish, Panda Express strip-down, cheating surgeon

Stu and Jamie talked about voting, a gun stopped got robbed, the Sausage King got killed, UK Burger King did something crazy, and more. Please like the Facebook and Twitter pages. Please consider subscribing to the Patreon.

Claudia Piñeiro is an Argentine novelist and television scriptwriter best known for writing literary crime novels, most of which are best sellers in Latin America. She was born in Buenos Aires and has won numerous literary prizes including the German LiBeraturpreis for Elena Sabe and the Clarin Prize for fiction for Thursday Night Widows. Four of her novels have been translated into English by Bitter Lemon Press, all of which have been adapted into feature films.  We met at The Blue Met Literary Festival (Claudia was awarded the 2019 Premio Azul, Blue Met’s Spanish-language prize) in Montreal to talk about, among other things, Edgar Allan Poe, G.K. Chesterton and detective stories; literary prizes, and the difference between writing novels and television series screenplays.   

Join the Gorehound, Jazz Bomb, and Nick! as they venture through Wine Country with the whole crew: Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, etc., etc. How much did they enjoy it? Did it make us less lonely? Find out!