Listen "Character Draft"
Episode Synopsis
Ben and Matthew select 10 characters from stories covered on the podcast, then take turns picking them in a character draft. Whose team has more literary clout? Which one would win on a basketball court? Below are the characters, although not in the order they were drafted.Enid from Alice Munro’s “Love of a Good Woman”Billie in Dantiel Moniz’s “Necessary Bodies”Narrator in Roberto Bolano’s “Sensini”Eric from Jamel Brinkley’s “Everything the Mouth Eats”Narrator in Thom Jones’s “The Pugilist at Rest”Tar Cutler in Chris Offutt’s “Old of the Moon”Woodrow L. Cunningham in Edward P. Jones’s “A New Man”Spurgeon from ZZ Packer’s “The Ant of the Self”Yunior in Junot Diaz’s “Ysrael”Kamara from Chimamanda Adichie's "On Monday of Last Week"
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