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Novelist Dana Spiotta talks about her latest novel, Stone Arabia, her other work, and finding the connections between California and upstate New York; spoiler alert: they're both odd.
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LARB Contributor
Michael Szalay is a film and television editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books. He teaches at UC Irvine and his most recent book is Second Lives: Black-Market Melodramas and the Reinvention of Television (Chicago, 2023).