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846. Lorrie Moore
Episode 846
Lorrie Moore is the bestselling author of the novel I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home, available from Knopf.
Moore is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbi…
3 years, 3 months ago
Tim O'Brien on Death, Fatherhood, Child Wisdom, Pacifism, War, Memory, and the Illusion of Self
In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 616, my conversation with Tim O'Brien from December 2019.
O'Brien received the 1979 National Book Award …
3 years, 4 months ago
845. Leila Slimani
Episode 845
Leila Slimani is the author of the novel Watch Us Dance, available from Viking. Translated by Sam Taylor.
Slimani is the bestselling author of The Pe…
3 years, 4 months ago
844. Alejandra Oliva
Episode 844
Alejandra Oliva is the author of Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration, available from Astra House.
Oliva is an essayist, translat…
3 years, 4 months ago
Pulitzer Special: Hernan Diaz and Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Today on the program, a special Pulitzer Prize episode featuring authors Hernan Diaz and Ingrid Rojas Contreras. Diaz won a 2023 Pulitzer Prize in F…
3 years, 4 months ago
843. Molly Lynch
Episode 843
Molly Lynch is the author of the debut novel The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman, available from Catapult.
Lynch grew up on the west coast o…
3 years, 4 months ago
842. Tania James
Episode 842
Tania James is the author of the novel Loot, available from Knopf.
James is the author of the novels The Tusk That Did the Damage and Atlas of Unknow…
3 years, 4 months ago
Andre Dubus III on Family, Divorce, Fear, Poverty, Vigilante Justice, Writing as Salvation, and the Divine
In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 549, my conversation with Andre Dubus III from October 2018.
Dubus is the author of several books, inclu…
3 years, 4 months ago
841. Jasmin Iolani Hakes
Episode 841
Jasmin 'Iolani Hakes is the author of the debut novel Hula, available from HarperVia.
Hakes was born and raised in Hilo, Hawai'i. Her essays have app…
3 years, 4 months ago
840. Jim Ruland
Episode 840
Jim Ruland is the author of the novel Make It Stop, available from Rare Bird Books.
Ruland is the co-author of Do What You Want with Bad Religion, and…
3 years, 4 months ago