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Episode 170 — Emily Rapp

Emily Rapp is the guest. Her new memoir, The Still Point of the Turning World, is now available from Penguin. Cheryl Strayed says The Still Point of the Turning World is about the smallest things and the biggest things, the … Continue reading

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Episode 149 — Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams is the guest. She is the author of several books, including the environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. Her latest book is called When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice.  It … Continue reading

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Episode 93 — Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch is today’s guest.  She’s the author of several books, including the critically acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water, and now she has published her debut novel, called Dora: A Headcase.  Both titles are available from Hawthorne Books. Chuck … Continue reading

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Episode 83 — Joshua Henkin

Joshua Henkin is the guest.  He is the author of several books, the most recent of which is a novel called The World Without You, now available from Pantheon.  He is also the director of the MFA program in Fiction … Continue reading

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Episode 81 — Kate Christensen

Kate Christensen is today’s guest (photo credit:  Marion Ettlinger).  She’s the author of six novels, the fourth of which, The Great Man, won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award.  Her latest novel, The Astral, is now available in trade paperback from Anchor … Continue reading

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Episode 79 — Elizabeth Crane

Elizabeth Crane is the guest.  She’s the author of three story collections—When the Messenger is Hot, All This Heavenly Glory, and You Must Be This Happy to Enter.  Her debut novel, We Only Know So Much, is now available from … Continue reading

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Episode 53 — Sarah Manguso

Sarah Manguso is today’s guest.  She’s the author of the new book The Guardians: An Elegy, now available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Megan O’Grady, writing for Vogue, says: Shortly after returning home from a fellowship year in Rome, poet … Continue reading

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Episode 46 — Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed is the guest.  She’s the author of the new memoir Wild, due out from Knopf on March 20, 2012.  And she’s also Sugar, the popular advice columnist over at The Rumpus. Wild, which details Strayed’s 1,100-mile solo hike … Continue reading

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Episode 41 — Claire Bidwell Smith

Claire Bidwell Smith is the guest.  She’s the author of the memoir The Rules of Inheritance, available now from Hudson Street Press. Darin Strauss, the author of Half a Life, calls it “a perfectly crafted story — not about grief, … Continue reading

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Episode 22 — Darin Strauss

Darin Strauss is today’s guest.  He is the author of three novels—Chang & Eng, The Real McCoy, and More Than It Hurts You.  And his most recent book is a memoir called Half a Life (McSweeney’s) which won the National … Continue reading

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