Lydia Millet is the guest. She is a Guggenheim fellow, a past recipient of the PEN-USA Award for Fiction, and her story collection, Love in Infant Monkeys (2009), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her latest novel, Magnificence, is now available in hardcover from W.W. Norton and Company.
Jonathan Lethem raves
“[Magnificence is] elegant, darkly comic. . . with overtones variously of Muriel Spark, Edward Gorey and JG Ballard, full of contemporary wit and devilish fateful turns for her characters, and then also to knit together into a tapestry of vast implication and ethical urgency, something as large as any writer could attempt: a kind of allegorical elegy for life on a dying planet. Ours, that is.”
And Salon calls it
“Flawlessly beautiful.”
Monologue topics: chest colds, tuberculosis, the consumption, agent, manuscript, uncertainty, reading, the concept of “good” art, self-perception.
This podcast now has its own app, available (free!) for the iPhone, iPod, or iPad, and is also availalble (free!) for Android devices.
To learn more about the app and how to get access to premium content, please click right here.
Also: You can subscribe to the show over at iTunes, or at Stitcher, free of charge.
***Like the podcast? Please take a moment to rate and review it on iTunes. Thank you!
Pingback: Book Bits: Breakthrough novel award, ‘Between Heaven and Here,’ Lit search engine, Lydia Millet « The Sun Singer's Travels
Pingback: Is Lydia Millet one of the best living American novelists? | Gather Round Children