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Okt 16 2025

Episode on Justin Torres’s novel "Blackouts"

"Well Read" Podcast

Well Read is the American Studies' departments book review podcast, in which we can't help ourselves but also be literary scholars. In the first episode of Well Read, Tim Lanzendörfer, Heike Schäfer, and Cameron Seglias talk about Justin Torres's novel Blackouts, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 2024. Is it any good? Did we like it? Have we got any intelligent things to say about it? You'll need to find out.


Credits

Well Read Theme and Well Read Pon Take by
Torsten Schmidt and Nicholas Epe
Well Read Episode One edited by
Tim Lanzendörfer