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Marginalia: Benjamin Rybeck

Corby Kelly

This episode features an interview I had recently with Benjamin Rybeck. His book, The Sadness, focuses on two central characters, twin brother and sister, Max and Kelly. 

Max is a failed filmmaker and obsessive film fan; and Kelly, well, she’s a failed adult, obsessively looking for her long-deserted father. With layer upon beautiful layer stylized storytelling, Rybeck has penned a rich, smart, impressive novel about the burdens of family, the nuances of filmmaking, and the disappointments of life. Although Rybeck describes in more simple terms...

If you listened to the Marginalia commentary on-air, this is what you heard:

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Marginalia, the commentary | Benjamin Rybeck

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The Sadness by Benjamin Rybeck was published by Unnamed Press.  

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Editor: LuAnne Stephens
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Producer: Beth Golay

Beth Golay is KMUW's Director of Marketing and Digital Content. She is the host of the KMUW podcast Marginalia, co-host with Suzanne Perez of the Books & Whatnot podcast, creator of the podcast You're Saying It Wrong, creator of KMUW's daily news podcast Wichita's Early Edition, and NPR StoryLab Workshop team member on the award-winning podcast My Fellow Kansans.