The Midnight Citizen 244: "True Fiction"

Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night, on the eve of his 40th birthday…

…where he wonders if a chance meeting with Salman Rushdie once rendered him unable to distinguish between truth and fiction. Also: the truth that great fiction makes us see the world in unreal and alternate ways. And a toast to Kenneth Starr, the great romance novelist of the 1990’s, who dies this week at 76.

*Music Break: “American English” by the Canoes; “Spontaneous Disappearance” by Blue Lotus

Backing Music: “Danger Night Expedition” by Lobo Loco; “Up, Then Down” by Way Lyricist; “Sailing Away” by HoliznaCCO; “Tuesday Night (Radio Edit) ” by Marteen Schellekens; “Abstract Technology” by Scott Holmes; Loyalty Freak Music.

All music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org. 

Video Street Video Store: “City Slickers” documentary (1991)

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released September 2022 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.