Reading The Game

Episode 20 - Shoeless Joe

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Episode notes

Shoeless Joe is a 1982 magic realist novel by Canadian author W.P Kinsella which became better known due to its 1989 film adaptation, Field of Dreams.

We were delighted to welcome back Ash Day to the show to discuss the book, the film, and the 1980s farming crisis, which was fuelled by a combination of factors but perhaps chiefly by exports becoming limited by the US grain embargo on the Soviet Union....

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(oh, and btw the actor who played Karin in the film, and who later appeared in Girls and Transparent amongst other shows, was Gaby Hoffman - it’ll make sense when you hear the episode)