Nov 24, 2023

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 647, my conversation with author Susan Choi. She won the National Book Award in 2019 for her novel Trust Exercise. This episode first aired on June 10, 2020.

Susan's first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, and her...

Nov 22, 2023

Lindsay Hunter is the author of the novel Hot Springs Drive, available from Roxane Gay Books.  

Hunter received her MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of two story collections and three novels. Her story collection Don't Kiss Me was named one of Amazon's 10 Best Books of...

Nov 19, 2023

Lexi Freiman is the author of the novel The Book of Ayn, available from Catapult.

Freiman is an Australian writer and editor who graduated from Columbia's MFA program in 2012. Her first novel, Inappropriation, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. She also writes for...

Nov 17, 2023

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 520, my conversation with author Jonathan Ames.

Ames is the author of several books, including I Pass Like Night; The Extra Man; What's Not to Love?; My Less Than Secret Life; Wake Up, Sir!; I Love You More Than You Know; The Alcoholic; The Double Life Is Twice as Good, and...

Nov 15, 2023

Michael Cunningham is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of the novel Day, available from Random House.

 Cunningham is a novelist, screenwriter, and educator. His novel The Hours received the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1999. He has taught at Columbia University and Brooklyn College. He...