When Amelia Gray stops by the Damn Library, Christopher turns a drink blue again, and they discuss her new book, Isadora. Particularly: what it was like to write a book about a dancer during a time when she wasn’t dancing. A quote about dancing is misattributed. Plus, we get into Nell Zink’s fearlessness in her novel, Nicotine, about activists and squat housing.

Also: Amelia Gray starts an exquisite corpse in our iTunes reviews.

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15 seconds of a song: Lykke Li – Dance Dance Dance

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