On Stage with Jim Pounds. Ilana Masad’s May Book Recommendations

It’s our monthly On Stage with Jim Pounds segment. He talks with Paul W Kruse who is the playwright of eelpout which is now playing at Chicago’s Witt Theatre. For tickets head to Shattered Globe’s website: https://shtheatre.org. Then he talks with John Heimboch from Walking Shadow in Minneapolis about the upcoming production of Perfect Arrangement. It runs May 30 – June 21, 2026 at the Crane Theater in NE Minneapolis. For tickets: https://walkingshadow.org.

THEN: Ilana Masad is back with her May book recommendations:

Dream Facades: The Cruel Architecture of Reality TV by Jack Balderrama Morley

Buy: https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9781662602924

Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen

Buy: https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9781638930518

Here for the Wrong Reasons by Annabel Paulsen and Lydia Wang

Buy: https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9781639107094

Ilana is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and criticism whose work has been widely published. She holds a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and is the author of the novels All My Mother’s Lovers and Beings, as well as the coeditor of the forthcoming anthology Here for All the Reasons: Why We Watch The Bachelor. Get it here: https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9781684426126. Connect with Ilana here: https://www.ilanamasad.com

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