Paper Trails: the Very Weird Fiction of Victor LaValle

Connecticut Public Radio | By Mark Oppenheimer

Published February 25, 2011 at 2:38 PM EST

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Victor LaValle is the author of Big Machine, his second novel, and the his first one about a secret African American society headquartered in the Vermont woods, where they rescue junkies, alcoholics, and criminals and set them to work as quasi-superheroes looking to save the world.

On this episode of Paper Trails, the public radio show about books, LaValle faces down our panel of hosts Mark Oppenheimer and Brian Francis Slattery and their guest novelist Gregory Feeley.

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