About this episode

Lina Chern joins Jen to discuss the themes of psychics, fate, and free will in various films.

Lina Chern, the Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author of Play the Fool , is here this week to discuss psychics solving crime, predestination and tarot onscreen, and the beauty of free will on film in Minority Report , The Dead Zone , The Gift , and Three Colors: Red . Her delightful sequel to Fool , Tricks of Fortune , was released over the summer, and we did a full-length video interview about the book, her writing, and our taste in pop culture, which you can see on the Poisoned Pen Bookstore YouTube Channel. Originally Posted on Patreon (12/20/25) here : https://www.patreon.com/posts/145545464 Shop Watch With Jen logo Merchandise in Logo Designer Kate Gabrielle's Threadless Shop Donate to the Pod via Ko-fi & PayPal Theme Music: Solo Acoustic Guitar by Jason Shaw, Free Music Archive

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