About This Episode
This week on Books That Changed My Life, host Chris "Bulldog" Collins sits down with writer and executive producer Justin Halpern (Abbott Elementary, Harley Quinn, S**t My Dad Says) to talk about Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Justin opens up about growing up as an only child in San Diego, spending countless after-school hours in a VA cancer ward where his father worked, developing a love of sitcoms as a latchkey kid, and finally discovering reading through the shortest book on his father's shelf. He and Chris dig into Golding's examination of power, tribalism, and masculinity, tracing how a group of ordinary boys turn on each other once rejection and isolation set in. The conversation moves from a science fair project gone wrong to the making of Abbott Elementary, from Norm Macdonald's mastery of silence to Halpern's upcoming novel, Get Lost — all circling back to the questions raised by Golding's book: what happens when the pursuit of power trumps all else? Watch to the end for Halpern's take on the book's final, gutting image, and why he thinks it's the moment the whole book has been building toward. #books #library #bookrecs #bookreport #interview #podcast #chrisbulldogcollins 🚨 Grab the coolest book & library tees, socks, hoodies & more! https://booksthatchangedmylife.org/collections/all