Nov 18, 2020

Kasey Thornton is the guest. Her debut novel-in-stories, Lord the One You Love is Sick, is available now from Ig Publishing. It is the official November pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club.

Thornton attended both the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and North Carolina State University for her MFA...

Nov 11, 2020

Andrew Weatherhead is the guest. His latest book, $50,000, is available from Publishing Genius.

Weatherhead is a writer and artist from Chicago, Illinois. His other books include the poetry collections TODD and Cats and Dogs -- and a chapbook, The Kids I Teach, with Mallory Whitten. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New...

Nov 4, 2020

Sebastian Castillo is the guest. His new book, Not I, is available from Word West Press.

Castillo is the author of 49 Venezuelan Novels (Bottlecap Press). You can find his writing in Hobart, Peach Mag, X-R-A-Y, and elsewhere. He lives in New York, where he teaches writing. 

Today's monologue: pre-election...

Oct 28, 2020

Jared Yates Sexton is the guest. His new book, American Rule, is available from Dutton.

This is Jared's second time on the program. He first appeared in Episode 478 on August 23, 2017.

Sexton is the author of The Man They Wanted Me to Be and The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore. His political...

Oct 21, 2020

Anne Helen Petersen is the guest. Her new book, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, is available from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It is the official October pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club.

A former senior culture writer for BuzzFeed, Petersen now writes her newsletter, Culture Study, as a...