Just before winning a Whiting Award, Kaitlyn Greenidge brought her debut novel “We Love You, Charlie Freeman” to the Damn Library. She confesses to hating animals, amongst other deep explications, and then we switch to talking the genre of “sexy-ckens” with Sarah Waters’ “Tipping the Velvet,” a novel whose filthy title is only the start of the sex within its pages.

15 seconds of a song: Javelin – Nnormal

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