Episode 651-With L.J. Cohen

The Functional Nerds Podcast

This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome L.J. Cohen, author of Litany for a Broken World.

About Litany for a Broken World: A young girl’s disastrous first foray through the multiverse cleaves her from her family and abandons her in a homeless encampment, adrift in a world and a body not her own.

A doctor struggling with grief volunteers for the annual Boston homeless census and is confronted by the impossible and her deeply buried childhood trauma.

A lonely, disaffected seer, rejected by those he seeks to help, is drawn from his home by a desperate call across the world walls.

When the three strangers, each broken in some way, are pulled into a conflict between those with the ability to travel the multiverse and the organization seeking to exploit them, they must risk everything that matters to heal the fractured places in themselves and throughout reality.

About L.J. Cohen: LJ Cohen is a poet, novelist, blogger, ceramics artist, local food enthusiast, Doctor Who fan, and relentless optimist. She lives on a homestead farm in Central Massachusetts with her partner and two dogs (only one of which actually ever listens to her). When she doesn’t have her hands busy in dirt, clay, or yarn, LJ can be found writing, which looks a lot like daydreaming.

LJ is a member of SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) and Broad Universe, a national organization promoting women and other marginalized gender writers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

This week’s picks:

• L.J.: Snow!
• Tracy: The Spice House – Chicago
• Patrick: Jalapeno Cheese Bread

Links:

• L.J. Cohen on Instagram
• Tracy Townsend on BluSky
• Patrick Hester on Instagram
• The Functional Nerds Patreon Page

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