Yxta Maya Murray on God Went Like That

Mar 21

March 21, 2023. This week on Bibliocracy Radio, my conversation with playwright, art critic, novelist and short story writer Yxta Maya Murray, whose newest book, God Went Like That, combines scientific research, history, the formal elements of documentary and interviews toward reconstructing in fiction the story of the long if hidden history of contamination and health dangers caused at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. Imagine John Dos Passos meets Anna Deveare Smith, through an EPA investigator’s telling of the real-life effects on workers, children, lab techs, lawyers and activists. Startlingly intimate, beautiful, and brave, her writing combines research, drama, imagination, politics and voice in another experimental meets realist meets poetic reimagining of our political moment.

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