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Jacinda Townsend on Music, Kentucky, Childhood, Greyhound Buses, Getting Taken Seriously, Siblings, Skipping Grades, Leaving Home, and Harvard
In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 264, my conversation with author Jacinda Townsend. It first aired on March 30, 2014.
Jacinda Townsend is…
2 years, 3 months ago
899. Sarah Tomlinson
Episode 899
Sarah Tomlinson is the author of the novel The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers, available from Flatiron Books.
Tomlinson, a former music journalist…
2 years, 3 months ago
898. Paul Theroux
Episode 898
Paul Theroux is the author of the novel Burma Sahib, available from Mariner Books.
Theroux is the author of many highly acclaimed books. His novels i…
2 years, 3 months ago
Bethany C. Morrow on Air Travel, Basic Human Manners, Throat Chops, Self-Soothing, Pretzels, Mindful Eating, California Produce, The Obscenity of Vegetarians, and Her Sister’s Potato Salad
In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 531, my conversation with author Bethany C. Morrow. It first aired on July 4, 2018.
Morrow is a national…
2 years, 3 months ago
897. Margot Livesey
Episode 897
Margot Livesey is the author of the novel The Road from Belhaven, available from Knopf.
Livesey was born and grew up on the edge of the Scottish Hig…
2 years, 3 months ago
896. Brandi Wells
Episode 896
Brandi Wells is the author of the debut novel The Cleaner, available from Hanover Square Press.
Wells' other books include the novella This Boring Ap…
2 years, 3 months ago
Megan Boyle on Tao Lin, Marriage, Media Coverage, Blogging, Me Fatigue, Isolation, Hippie Siblings, Moving, Shyness, and Alien Abductors
In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 13, my conversation with author Megan Boyle. It first aired on October 30, 2011.
Boyle (b. 1985) lives i…
2 years, 3 months ago
895. Christina Cooke
Episode 895
Christina Cooke is the author of the debut novel Broughtupsy, available from Catapult.
Cooke's writing has previously appeared in The Caribbean Writer…
2 years, 3 months ago
894. Annie Liontas
Episode 894
Annie Liontas is the author of the memoir-in-essays Sex with a Brain Injury, available from Scribner.
Liontas is also the author of the novel Let Me…
2 years, 3 months ago
Lidia Yuknavitch on Artistic Responsibility, Life and Death Moments, The Savior Complex, Understanding Others, Ideology, Direct Action, Rage, and Change
In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 370, my conversation with author Lidia Yuknavitch. It first aired on July 15, 2015.
Yuknavitch is the be…
2 years, 3 months ago