Ivy Pochoda returned to the program to talk about her latest work, a horror novel inspired by an ancient Greek play by Euripides. Pochoda was a classics scholar at Harvard, so her retelling of this gory tale was right up her alley — or at least along her beach. She's working on more horror stories, and after reading this one, I think she'll find a new readership in that genre.
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