Jul 9, 2023

Sarah Rose Etter is the author of the novel Ripe, available from Scribner.

Etter's other books include The Book of X and Tongue Party. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cut, Electric Literature, Vice, Guernica, Philadelphia Weekly, and more. She is the recipient of writing residencies in Portugal and the...

Jul 7, 2023

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 506, my conversation with Elif Batuman.

Elif Batuman's first novel, The Idiot, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in the UK. She is also the author of a novel called Either/Or, published in 2022, as well as...

Jul 5, 2023

Patrick deWitt is the author of the novel The Librarianist, available from Ecco.

His other books include the novels French Exit, a national bestseller; The Sisters Brothers, a New York Times bestseller short-listed for the Booker Prize; and the critically acclaimed Undermajordomo Minor and Ablutions. Born in...

Jul 2, 2023

Chelsea Hodson is the author of the essay collection Tonight I'm Someone Else, which came out in 2018. She is the founder of the new indie press Rose Books as well as the Morning Writing Club, and is currently booking one-on-one writing coaching sessions on her website. The first Rose Books title, Someone Who Isn't Me,...

Jun 30, 2023

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 401, my conversation with Hanya Yanagihara from February 2016.

Hanya Yanagihara is a prize-winning author and the Editor-in-Chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Her novel entitled To Paradise, published in 2022, was a #1 NY Times bestseller. Her novel A...