MashReads: 'The Unfinished World' is a genre-bending look at loneliness and death

"It just goes to show how fairy tales always stop too soon in the telling...the happily-ever-after is just a false front. It hides the hungry darkness inside."

This week on the MashReads Podcast, we read and chat about The Unfinished World, Amber Sparks' short story collection about the grounded realities that make up even the most enchanting tales. Think space janitors, werewolf hunters and a revived Lancelot all exploring loneliness and death.

Then, inspired by the many different types of stories in The Unfinished World, we discuss authors and books that can't be categorized by one genre.

And as always, we close the show by talking about what we've read recently.

• Aliza mentioned that she's reading the current MashReads book club selection Modern Lovers by Emma Straub.

• Peter read 'Donald Trump does not have a campaign,' MSNBC's look inside Donald Trump's 2016 presidential bid.
  

• MJ recommends 'To Write Better Code, Read Virginia Woolf,' J. Bradford Hipps' New York Times article about how an education in the humanities can help programmers. 

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