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Mira Gonzalez’s mom ‘live-tweets’ Episode 133
Mira Gonzalez is the guest on Episode 133. It has come to my attention that her mother, Lora Norton, listened to the show and ‘live-tweeted’ the experience. Below is a sampling of Lora’s reaction to the episode, as captured on … Continue reading
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HTML Giant reviews my tweets
The lovely Melissa Broder (my guest in Episode 58) has reviewed my tweets for the esteemed lit blog HTML GIANT. Big thanks, Melissa!
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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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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
Episode 58 — Melissa Broder
Melissa Broder is the guest. Her new poetry collection, entitled Meat Heart, is now available from Publishing Genius Press. And by day she is the publicity manager for Penguin Group. Says Publishers Weekly: Broder’s second collection cranks up the weird … Continue reading
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Episode 50 — Maud Newton
Maud Newton is the guest. One of the web’s most influential book bloggers. She also reviews books and is a former attorney who now works as an editor and writer for (a legal publishing division of) Thomson Reuters. She has … Continue reading
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Episode 96 — Steve Roggenbuck
Steve Roggenbuck is the guest. He is a traveling poet-slash-blogger whose latest poetry collection, Crunk Juice, is now available from Lief Books. He also hosts a weekly, web-based television show called The Illuminati Power Hour, which is available via Spreecast. … Continue reading →
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