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Episode 78 — Miles Klee

Miles Klee is the guest.  He’s the author of a debut novel called Ivyland, now available from O/R Books. Publishers Weekly raves: Delightfully manic and sharply intelligent … Klee is undoubtedly a formidable talent in the making—he can make sentences crackle … Continue reading

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Episode 76 — Esi Edugyan

Esi Edugyan is the guest.  She’s a Canadian author whose novel, Half-Blood Blues,  was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2011.  It won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and is now available from Picador here in the United States. The … Continue reading

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Episode 74 — Jim Lynch

Jim Lynch is today’s guest.  He’s the author of three novels, the most recent of which is Truth Like the Sun, now available from Knopf.  It was the May selection for the TNB Book Club. Janet Maslin of the New … Continue reading

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Episode 71 — Ben Fountain

Ben Fountain is the guest.  He is the author of the debut short story collection Brief Encounters with Che Guevara (Harper Perennial), which won him the PEN/Hemingway Award.  And now he has published his first novel, entitled Billy Lynn’s Long … Continue reading

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Episode 28 — Edan Lepucki

Edan Lepucki is the guest.  She’s the author of the novella If You’re Not Yet Like Me, originally published by Flatmancrooked and now available from Nouvella Books.  She’s a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and a staff writer over … Continue reading

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