Welcome to our September episode of Late Night Debut. This month we feature Sara Levine’s debut novel, Treasure Island!!! “Levine is a wonderful storyteller with a vibrant voice,” writes Rebecca Barry for The New York Times. “Treasure Island!!! is a rollicking tale, shameless, funny and intelligent. In her strong-willed protagonist, Levine has created a quintessential unreliable narrator, one who sees other people’s flaws perfectly and almost never her own, who feints and dodges nimbly around her deep feelings and questionable mental stability like a sailor dancing the hornpipe.”
Act 1: Host Paul Martone covers controversial and entertaining book stories in the news
Act 2: Co-host authors Gabriel Blackwell and Michael Martone discuss Sara’s debut
Act 3: Paul talks with Sara about all kinds of cool stuff
“While I was writing the book I thought, ‘This is a book about perception . . . it’s about the nihilistic wiles of the self-insulating ego.’ ”
About Sara:
Sara Levine is the author of the novel
Treasure Island!!! and the short story collection
Short Dark Oracles. Her essays have been anthologized in
The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction, A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years, and
Understanding the Essay. She has a PhD in English literature from Brown University and is professor of the Writing Program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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