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J. Ryan Stradal on his new novel and his love of the midwest

J. Ryan Stradal is the author of "Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club"
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J. Ryan Stradal is the author of "Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club"

J. Ryan Stradal can’t resist writing about the midwest. His most recent novel, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club, utilizes the same setting of Minnesota that his two previous novels did, and for good reason.

I recently visited with J. Ryan Stradal about his love of the midwest, what exactly a supper club is, the burden of family pressures that parents pass on to their children, and more. I’m Beth Golay. From KMUW Studios, part of the NPR Podcast Network, this is Marginalia.

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Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club was published by Pamela Dorman Books.

Marginalia was produced at KMUW Wichita and is part of the NPR Podcast Network.

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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.