You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.

I'm author and book devour, Mallory O'Mara.

And I'm Brea Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader.

This episode, we do a deep dive into fable.

It's a social media app, but it's also a club, but it's also a place where you can

get book recommendations. This is a lot of things. And we decide whether bookish social media

apps are worth using. Wow, stick around for that. Plus, we recommend books with folklorist

protagonists. Very cute. Very specific. And debate whether you should use the library bathroom

when you're not using the library. I am so excited about this.

But first, Brea, what are you reading?

Last night I started a book that I had been looking forward to that came out this year.

It is A Better World by Sarah Langen.

Oh.

Sarah Langen wrote Good Neighbors.

Yes, which we loved.

This is, seems like it's also going to be a creepy suburbia book.

I don't know.

I'm on a creepy suburbia kick, I guess, because the River Solomon book was also a creepy

suburbia book.

This one is about, okay, so it starts with a world.

It's kind of a near future world where everything's kind of gone to shit because everything

has been automated, basically.

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