Saturday Show #52: The Cloak by Isak Dinesen (Secretly Known as Karen Blixen) + A Secret History of the American Crash by Gonzalo Lira

Summary: What is the purpose of a postmodern literary story? How is it different from storytelling styles of the past? And why should you care? Plus, Frank reads an excerpt from “The Cloak” by Isak Dinesen (pen name of Danish author Karen Blixen) and from the new novel “A Secret History of the American Clash” by modern-day renaissance man Gonzalo Lira.<br> Show notes:<br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Blixen" target="_blank">Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)</a><br><br> <a href="https://liraspg.com/a-secret-history-of-the-american-crash/" target="_blank">A Secret History of the American Crash by Gonzalo Lira</a><br><br> <a href="http://www.uh.edu/~cfreelan/courses/1361/BaudrillardQuotes.html" target="_blank">Jean Baudrillard as the High Priest of Postmodernism</a><br><br> <a href="http://amzn.to/10HYTnT" target="_blank">Almost Home: The New Paltz Novel by Frank Marcopolos</a><br><br> <a href="http://amzn.to/T5hfux" target="_blank">The Whirligig: 6 Years of a Lit Mag, Edited by Frank Marcopolos</a><br><br> <a href="http://amzn.to/1hXMm9l" target="_blank">The Machinist, starring a scary Christian Bale</a><br><br> <a href="http://sxsw.com/" target="_blank">South by Southwest</a><br><br> <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Real-Writers/" target="_blank">Real Writers Fiction-Writing Workshop Meetup in Austin, TX</a><br> ***<br> Music provided by radiotimes, admiralbob77, and lazztunes_07 of <a href="http://ccmixter.org" target="_blank">ccMixter.org</a>. Outtro courtesy of melodysheep on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR9sFzaG9Ia_kXJhfxtFMBA" target="_blank">YouTube</a>. Intro voicework by <a href="http://fiverr.com/belindajoh" target="_blank">BelindaJoh</a>.<br>