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Too Hot For Radio: Mona Simpson "Wrong Object"

Michael Ian Black

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Mona Simpson is the author of six books including Anywhere But Here, My Hollywood and Casebook. Her Too Hot For Radio story features a therapist, a patient, and one uniquely inappropriate relationship.This story was originally published in Harper’s and selected by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All The Light You Cannot See, Anthony Doerr, for The Best American Short Stories 2019 for which he served as the guest editor. Read by the incomparable Cynthia Nixon, the story can be described as moving, unsettling, disturbing, but above all else, captivating. This episode was hosted by Michael Ian Black and features a conversation with the author.

Please note: as with all Too Hot for Radio episodes, this show contains strong language and mature subject matter.

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