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Back to SearchMarcy Dermansky, "Hurricane Girl" (Knopf, 2022)
Episode 43
An interview with novelist Marcy Dermansky. Hurricane Girl (Knopf, 2022) brings us another unforgettable Dermansky-character, Allison Brody, whose ra…
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Adrienne G. Perry, "Flashé Sur Moi" The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)
Episode 37
Adrienne G. Perry speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her essay “Flashé Sur Moi,” which appears in The Common’s new spring issue. Adrienne …
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John Scalzi, "The Kaiju Preservation Society" (Tor Books, 2022)
Episode 142
One could call The Kaiju Preservation Society (Tor Books, 2022) a pandemic novel because a) John Scalzi wrote it during the pandemic and b) the pande…
4 years ago
Tajja Isen, "Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service" (Atria/One Signal, 2022)
Episode 257
In this stunning debut collection, Catapult editor-in-chief and award-winning voice actor Tajja Isen explores the absurdity of living in a world that…
4 years ago
Zhanna Slor, "At the End of the World, Turn Left" (Agora Books, 2021)
Episode 258
Today I talked to Zhanna Slor about her novel At the End of the World, Turn Left (Agora Books, 2021).
19-year-old Anna’s parents won’t pay her college…
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Keith Gessen, "Raising Raffi: The First Five Years" (Viking, 2022)
Episode 259
"I was not prepared to be a father--this much I knew."
Keith Gessen was nearing forty and hadn't given much thought to the idea of being a father. He …
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82* Zadie Smith in Focus (JP)
Episode 82
In this 2019 episode, John interviews the celebrated British writer Zadie Smith. The conversation quickly moves through Brexit (oh, the inhumanity!) …
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Peter C. Baker, "Planes" (Knopf, 2022)
Episode 42
An interview with debut novelist Peter C Baker. Planes (Knopf, 2022) is the story of a global crime unfolding principally in the domestic lives of tw…
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Eleanor Lerman, "Watkins Glen" (Mayapple Press, 2021)
Episode 256
Watkins Glen (Mayapple Press, 2021) is the story of Susan -- a woman in her sixties -- who finds herself taking care of her estranged older brother M…
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Catherine Lloyd, "Miss Morton and the English House Party Murder" (Kensington, 2022)
Episode 141
As we soon find out in this opener to a new series set in 1830s London, Lady Caroline Morton’s illustrious heritage has been tarnished by the financi…
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