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Listen "Best of Debut Fiction, featuring Mateo Askaripour and Sameer Pandya"
Episode Synopsis
This best of features two guests whose debut novels focus in on racial issues in the workplace with Askaripour’s novel, Black Buck, set in the sales industry and Pandya’s Members Only homing in on academia. Both guests speak to their inspirations, drawing from life experience, and the nuance and complexities (and also the importance) of tackling racial issues in fiction.
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