{"podcast":{"title":"Inklings Book Club","slug":"inklings-book-club-7466333","podcast_index_feed_id":7466333,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/inklings","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d43a05ee-82d8-11f0-b290-8b14ec327370/image/98345a127b5b5bff01e70664b20b83c5.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Jack Edwards","episode_count":53,"summary":"The internet's resident librarian, Jack Edwards, presents... Inklings! The Inklings Book Club is a community for book lovers, championing storytellers from around the world. Subscribe for weekly author interviews and our spotlight monthly book club chat, where we'll be grilling authors on their writing process, inspiration, and future projects. To be involved with the group-read, search Inklings on the Fable app or join us on Instagram.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T08:20:51.579352+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inklings-book-club-7466333"},"episode":{"title":"Rachel Khong: Real Americans and My Dear You","slug":"rachel-khong-real-americans-and-my-dear-you","published_at":"2026-04-07T19:56:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inklings-book-club-7466333/rachel-khong-real-americans-and-my-dear-you","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inklings-book-club-7466333","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/IBC3266542632.mp3?updated=1775589031","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/IBC3266542632.mp3?updated=1775589031","summary":"Rachel Khong started out as the executive editor of Lucky Peach Magazine, before turning her eye to novel writing. Her debut, Goodbye, Vitamin, was released in 2017 and won the California Book Award for First Fiction. Her second novel, Real Americans, became an instant New York Times bestseller, following three generations of a family, spanning 80 years. It explores themes of Chinese-American identity, genetic engineering, inheritance, and the way that our heritage shapes our lives. Today we’ll mostly be discussing her new short story collection, My Dear You, which uses supernatural elements to explore human concerns around race, destiny, and mortality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Rachel Khong started out as the executive editor of Lucky Peach Magazine, before turning her eye to novel writing. Her debut, Goodbye, Vitamin, was releas…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2915,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/inklings-book-club-7466333/episodes/rachel-khong-real-americans-and-my-dear-you/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inklings-book-club-7466333/rachel-khong-real-americans-and-my-dear-you.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}