Storybound is a radio theater program designed for the podcast age. Hosted by Jude Brewer and with original music composed for each episode, the podcast features the voices of today’s literary icons reading their essays, poems, and fiction.
On the seventh episode of the third season, Jason Diamond reads an excerpt from The Sprawl, with sound design and music composition from Xander Marsden.
Jason Diamond is the founder of the website Vol. 1 Brooklyn and has worked as editor and writer at outlets such as Flavorwire, Men’s Journal, Rolling Stone, and Insidehook.com. He’s written for the New York Times, Outside, The Paris Review, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, The Wall Street Journal, New Republic, Vice, Tablet, The Awl, Pitchfork, McSweeney’s, NPR, and more. His memoir Searching for John Hughes was published in 2016. The Sprawl is his second book.
Xander Marsden is a singer and songwriter living in LA. He is 15 years old.
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