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Michael Schumacher on Allen Ginsberg, New York City, Poetry, Kindness, Controversy, and Writing a Biography
In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 684, my conversation with Michael Schumacher, author of Dharma Lion: A Biography of Allen Ginsberg (Uni…
2 years, 11 months ago
856. Jamel Brinkley
Episode 856
Jamel Brinkley is the author of the story collection Witness, available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.
Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories,…
2 years, 11 months ago
855. Edan Lepucki
Episode 855
Edan Lepucki is the bestselling author of the novel Time's Mouth, available from Counterpoint Press.
Lepucki's other books include the novels Californ…
2 years, 11 months ago
Viet Thanh Nguyen on History, War Movies, Race, Refugees, Vietnam, and the Need for Political Literature
In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 419, my conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of the bestselling novel The …
2 years, 11 months ago
854. Geoff Rickly
Episode 854
Geoff Rickly is the author of the debut novel Someone Who Isn't Me, available from Rose Books. It is the official July pick of the Otherppl Book Club…
2 years, 11 months ago
853. Ruth Madievsky
Episode 853
Ruth Madievsky is the author of the debut novel All-Night Pharmacy, available from Catapult.
Madievsky is the author of a bestselling poetry collecti…
2 years, 11 months ago
Carmen Maria Machado on Anxiety, Death, Childhood, Sick Lit, Writing Letters, and Religion
In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 491, my conversation with Carmen Maria Machado, author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House.
Ma…
2 years, 11 months ago
852. Jenny Xie
Episode 852
Jenny Xie is the author of the debut novel Holding Pattern, available from Riverhead Books.
Xie is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. Originally …
2 years, 11 months ago
851. Andrew Lipstein
Episode 851
Andrew Lipstein is the author of the novel The Vegan, available from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Lipstein is also the author of Last Resort (FSG, 202…
3 years ago
D.T. Max on David Foster Wallace, Different Kinds of Intelligence, Bret Easton Ellis, Irony vs. Sincerity, and 12-Step Philosophy
In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 107, my conversation with D.T. Max, New Yorker staff writer and author of Every Love Story is a Ghost S…
3 years ago