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Podcast: Steven Amsterdam’s What the Family Needed

Steven Amsterdam is the author of acclaimed novel Things We Didn’t See Coming, and his new book, What the Family Needed, has been called ‘a wonderfully fresh perspective on families’, as well as ‘a probing exploration of familial love and forbearance’.

In What the Family Needed, members of a family are granted superpowers: invisibility, the power of flight, and so on. We asked Steven: well, what if you did have superpowers? What would you do? What power would you want to have?

Edited by Sam Szoke-Burke.

Kill Your Darlings podcasts appear monthly. Music is Pompey and Sam Szoke-Burke. Subscribe to the Kill Your Darlings podcast via iTunes or the podcast feed.

• families
• fiction
• short fiction
• Sleepers Publishing
• Steven Amsterdam
• superpowers
• The Brothers Karamazov
• Things We Didn't See Coming
• What the Family Needed
• writing

One Response to Podcast: Steven Amsterdam’s What the Family Needed

1. Annabel Smith
   1:02 pm, March 30, 2012 Reply

   Great interview. I love the idea of creativity as a superpower.

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