{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 177 \u2014 Masha Hamilton","description":"Masha Hamilton is the guest. She is currently working in Afghanistan as Director of Communications and Public Diplomacy at the US Embassy, and her new novel, What Changes Everything, is now available from Unbridled Books.\nCaroline Leavitt raves\n\n"As real and immediate as a racing pulse, Hamilton’s dark jewel of a novel turns the political into the personal with a blazing tapestry of characters, all grappling with the terrifying cost of war and the unbreakable bonds of love. Thrilling and magnificent."\n\nAnd Jillian Cantor says\n\n"Intensely gripping and beautifully written, What Changes Everything shows the lengths we will go to save each other and ourselves. A stunning collage of loss, grief, love, and most of all, survival, Hamilton’s characters—and their stories—are richly drawn and achingly real."\n\nMonologue topics: Memorial Day, Frances Ha, personal lives of celebrities intruding on the moviegoing experience.","author_name":"Otherppl with Brad Listi","author_url":"http:\/\/otherppl.com","html":"