Episode 422: Catastrophes of Literacy

Guest: Daniel Kalder, Author of The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy. Transcript at http://hdl.handle.net/1853/61024

First broadcast May 3, 2019.

Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/05/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-may-3rd-how-to-write-a-book-iii-catastrophes-of-literacy-episode-422/

"If you're writing a book about dictators...there's all kinds of strategies to bring the reader along so they are not suffering."