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'The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley' (feat. Hannah Tinti)
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:54:14
Publish Date: 2017-07-01 09:39:22
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This week on the MashReads Podcast, we read and discuss Hannah Tinti's novel The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley with author Hannah Tinti herself! 

The novel is a father/ daughter story about what it means to be a hero, and the price we pay to protect the people we love the most. The book follows two stories, told in parallel: The history of Samuel Hawley and his "twelve lives" (which are the twelve bullet wounds he's received while working as a criminal smuggler), told side-by-side with the coming of age story of Loo, Samuel's daughter.

When Samuel and Loo settle into a small New England seaside town, they quickly learn that the past Hawley's desperately tried to escape is still defining their present.

Join us as we talk about father/ daughter stories, the significance of whales in literature, and being an outsider.

And if you want to see footage of the greasy pole, a real life tradition that Hannah writes about in The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, you can check out her tweets from the event here and here and here.

And as always, we close the show with recommendations:

  • Hannah has been reading a lot of comics and recommends: Saga by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples, East of West by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta, Sweet Tooth by Jeff Lemire, and Mind Mgmt by Matt Kindt.
  • Aliza recommends Glow, Netflix's new series about the world of women wrestlers in the '80s. "Speaking of complex femininity, y'all need to watch the new Netflix series Glow. It is amazing!"
  • MJ recommends Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, a postmodern novel about grief by Max Porter. "It's really beautiful and what I love about this book is that it captures how mundane grief can be ... it's a moving, really weird, and really beautiful novel." MJ also recommends "Laverne Cox boldly addresses the one issue the LGBTQ community doesn't want to talk about," an interview with Laverne Cox by Mashable's social good writer Katie Dupere about inclusion in Pride and the LGBTQ+ community.
  • Peter recommends McSweeny's article "11 Ways That I, a White Man, Am Not Priviledged" and "It's just a quick read, and it takes a turn, as it does, and it's pretty funny. I don't want to say more."
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