Tag Archives: The New Yorker
Episode 107 — D.T. Max
D.T. Max is the guest. He’s a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and the author of Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, now available from Viking. The San Francisco Chronicle calls … Continue reading →
Episode 100 — George Saunders
George Saunders is today’s guest. He’s the bestselling author of several books, including CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, and The Braindead Megaphone, and his brand new story collection, Tenth of December, is due out from Random House in January 2013. … Continue reading →
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Episode 99 — Elizabeth Ellen
Elizabeth Ellen is today’s guest. She’s the author of the chapbook Before You She Was a Pit Bull (Future Tense) and her latest book, Fast Machine, is a collection of her best work from the last decade. She lives in … Continue reading →
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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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Episode 48 — Ramona Ausubel
Ramona Ausubel is the guest. Her debut novel, No One is Here Except All of Us, is now available in hardcover from Riverhead Press. And her short story “Atria” was published in the April 4, 2011 issue of The New … Continue reading →
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Episode 29 — Ben Loory
Ben Loory is the guest. He’s the author of the debut collection Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day, now available from Penguin. Long a favorite of small zine readers in print and online, as well as a longtime … Continue reading →
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