{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmissingwitches.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fwf-saleema-nawaz-ZDz8GN6X","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"WF Saleema Nawaz: Songs for the End of the World","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/d0579887-88af-472c-a216-4c64025f97bd/ba86f688-f0c9-499f-b68c-bee51df5de9f/screen-shot-2020-11-22-at-12-55-31-pm.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/4f4277eb-2b53-4d2e-93bd-6808ec29f825\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"WF Saleema Nawaz: Songs for the End of the World\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Risa talks with Saleema Nawaz, author of the weirdly prophetic and deeply lovely and hopeful Songs for the End of the World about coming out as a witch in our teens, tapping into the vast ocean of inspiration, living in a world you spent years imagining, and writing as an encounter with fear. \n\n\"Astounding. . . . The book is surprisingly reassuring. If someone could have imagined what we're going through in such vivid details, it somehow makes the situation less scary, less predictable, more knowable.\" — The Globe and Mail\n\n\"In these dark days, Saleema Nawaz dares to write of hope. Songs for the End of the World is a loving, vivid, tenderly felt novel about men, women, and a possible apocalypse. I couldn't put it down.\" — Sean Michaels, author of Us Conductors and The Wagers.\n\nhttps://www.saleemanawaz.com/"}