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Melissa Febos on Hollywood, Bullshit, Extroversion, Celibacy, Loneliness, and Relationships
In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 460, my conversation with Melissa Febos, author of Body Work, Girlhood, and other books.
Girlhood was a …
3 years, 2 months ago
858. Lydia Kiesling
Episode 858
Lydia Kiesling is the author of the novel Mobility, available from Crooked Media Reads.
Kiesling is the author of The Golden State, a 2018 National Bo…
3 years, 2 months ago
857. Khashayar J. Khabushani
Episode 857
Khashayar J. Khabushani is the author of the debut novel I Will Greet the Sun Again, available from Hogarth Books.
Khabushani was born in Van Nuys, Ca…
3 years, 2 months ago
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…
3 years, 2 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,…
3 years, 2 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…
3 years, 2 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 …
3 years, 2 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…
3 years, 2 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…
3 years, 2 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…
3 years, 3 months ago