Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchReplay Episode: Tessa Mellas (Episode 70, from 2013)
While John attempts his convalence from his contempible cold, here is a replay of a classic episode from 2013 with the fiction writer Tessa Mellas.
1 year, 5 months ago
668: Margie Sarsfield!
In Margie Sarsfield's debut novel, Beta Vulgaris, a hipster Brooklyn couple take on temporary work at a Minnesota beet farm at harvest time in order …
1 year, 5 months ago
667: Samantha Nickerson interviews Sally Wen Mao and Susan Mauddi Darraj
On this show, correspondent Samantha Nickerson speaks with Sally Wen Mao about her story collection, Ninetails, plus Samantha speaks with Susan Maudd…
1 year, 6 months ago
666: A Discussion of David Lynch's Ronnie Rocket, with Stephen McClurg!
In honor of the passing of David Lynch, John and Stephen McClurg discuss the peculiar mysteries of a screenplay for a legendary project that was neve…
1 year, 6 months ago
665: Jaydra Johnson!
In this week's show, John speaks with Jaydra Johnson about her new book, Low: Notes on Art and Trash, and the tensions and connections between class …
1 year, 6 months ago
664: Rigoberto Gonzales & Richard Blanco!
On today's show, I speak with the poet and editor Rigoberto Gonzales about the curation of the Library of America anthology of Latino Poetry. Then Ri…
1 year, 6 months ago
663: A Discussion of Bill Knott's Corpse and Beans, with Rachael Tillman.
0On #633, Rachael Tillman and I discuss the surreal paradoxes and sullen joys of Bill Knott's debut collection of poetry, The Naomi Poems: Corpse and…
1 year, 7 months ago
662: Rufi Thorpe & Susan Minot (Interviewed by Samantha Nickerson)
On today's episode, Samantha Nickerson speaks with fiction writer Rufi Thorpe about her striking novel Margo's Got Money Problems. In this episode, y…
1 year, 7 months ago
661: Kathy Fish!
In this episode, John interviews the notable flash fiction writer Kathy Fish about the anxious nuances of that medium and genre. Is flash fiction jus…
1 year, 7 months ago
660: A Discussion About John D. MacDonald, with Andrew Gulli and Maynard MacDonald
In this episode, John discusses the career of crime novelist John D. MacDonald (1916-1986) in light of a new posthumous short story, "The Accomplice.…
1 year, 7 months ago