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May 8, 2013

Episode 172 — Ken Baumann

Ken Baumann is the guest. He is an actor, writer, and publisher. His new novel, Solip, is now available from Tyrant Books. HTML Giant says: There is nothing on the back cover. A wall of black staring at you. No … Continue reading →

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March 10, 2013

Episode 155 — Lenore Zion

Lenore Zion is the guest. She is the author of two books, the first of which, a humor collection called My Dead Pets Are Interesting, was published by TNB Books in 2011. And now her debut novel, Stupid Children, has … Continue reading →

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January 30, 2013

Episode 144 — Andrea Seigel

Andrea Seigel is the guest. She’s the author of three novels: Like the Red Panda, To Feel Stuff, and The Kid Table. She’s also an accomplished screenwriter. Chuck Klosterman says If Helen Fielding had been born in 1979 and become … Continue reading →

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December 23, 2012

Episode 133 — Mira Gonzalez

Mira Gonzalez is today’s guest. Her debut poetry collection is called I Will Never Be Beautiful Enough to Make Us Beautiful Together. It is due out from Sorry House in late January 2013. Blake Butler says Mira Gonzalez’s brain spans … Continue reading →

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December 19, 2012

Episode 132 — Diana Wagman

Diana Wagman is the guest. She is the author of four novels and a past recipient of the PEN West Award for Fiction. Her latest novel, The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets, is now available from Ig Publishing. It … Continue reading →

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November 14, 2012

Episode 122 — T.C. Boyle

T.C. Boyle is the guest. He is the author of twenty-three books of fiction, including The Tortilla Curtain, Drop City, and World’s End, for which he won the PEN/Faulkner award. His latest novel, San Miguel, is now available from Viking. … Continue reading →

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August 19, 2012

Episode 97 — Oksana Marafioti

Oksana Marafioti is today’s guest. She’s the author of a new memoir called American Gypsy, now available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Kirkus calls it Engaging . . . Marafioti describes with humor and introspection how the self-described ‘Split Nationality … Continue reading →

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July 29, 2012

Episode 91 — Sheila Heti

Sheila Heti is today’s guest. She is the Interviews Editor at The Believer magazine, and her new novel, How Should a Person Be?, is now available in the United States from Henry Holt. Miranda July raves: A new kind of … Continue reading →

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July 22, 2012

Episode 89 — Jess Walter

Jess Walter is the guest. He’s a National Book Award nominee and the author of several novels, the most recent of which is called Beautiful Ruins, now available from Harper. Helen Schulman, writing for the New York Times Book Review, … Continue reading →

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Tagged as 9/11, Aleksandar Hemon, Anna Karenina, authors, Beautiful Ruins, Brad Listi, brand, Breakfast of Champions, Don DeLillo, Edgar Award, fear, Hollywood, interviews, Iraq War, Jess Walter, journalism, Kurt Vonnegut, Los Angeles, Louis Ferdinand Celine, Marilynne Robinson, McSweeney's, movies, music, National Book Award, Other People, podcasts, profanity, reading, romance, Ruby Ridge, screenwriting, shame, storytelling, Twitter, writers, writing

July 1, 2012

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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