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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 …
3 years, 3 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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago
850. Nicole Flattery
Episode 850
Nicole Flattery is the author of the novel Nothing Special, available from Bloomsbury.
Flattery is also the author of the story collection Show Them A…
3 years, 3 months ago
849. Sarah Rose Etter
Episode 849
Sarah Rose Etter is the author of the novel Ripe, available from Scribner.
Etter's other books include The Book of X and Tongue Party. Her work has a…
3 years, 3 months ago
Elif Batuman on Epistolary Relationships, Childhood, the Foolishness of Youth, Creative Humiliation, Perseverance, and Finding the Beauty in Yourself
In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 506, my conversation with Elif Batuman.
Elif Batuman's first novel, The Idiot, was a finalist for a Puli…
3 years, 3 months ago
848. Patrick deWitt
Episode 848
Patrick deWitt is the author of the novel The Librarianist, available from Ecco.
His other books include the novels French Exit, a national bestselle…
3 years, 3 months ago
How to Start an Indie Press
Chelsea Hodson is the author of the essay collection Tonight I'm Someone Else, which came out in 2018. She is the founder of the new indie press Rose…
3 years, 3 months ago
Hanya Yanagihara on Big Books, Writing Quickly, Creative Immersion, Great Readers, Complex Interiors, and the Removal of Context
In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 401, my conversation with Hanya Yanagihara from February 2016.
Hanya Yanagihara is a prize-winning autho…
3 years, 3 months ago
847. Tess Gunty
Episode 847
Tess Gunty is the author of the debut novel The Rabbit Hutch, now available in trade paperback from Vintage. It received the National Book Award for …
3 years, 3 months ago