Episode 20: John Sayles

We’re excited to welcome filmmaker and author John Sayles to the show. John spoke with us about his most recent novel, Crucible, which focuses on the impact that an egocentric automobile magnate’s uninformed plans has on the economy and other populations. Sounds vaguely familiar. We also dove into his career, screenwriting vs. writing fiction, and what makes Pittsburgh so great. 

Then, our intrepid hosts returned to a topic hinted at last time: how much overlap there is between the books the two of us have read? What a shocker: we both read Moby-Dick!

Crucible by John Sayles is out now

Works cited this episode:

A Moment in the Sun, John Sayles
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt, John Bellairs
Want, Lynn Steger Strong
Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel, Lisa Sunshine
Don’t Skip Out on Me, Willy Vlautin
The Killer is Dying, James Sallis
Pulp Fiction, dir. Quentin Tarantino
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen