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Nov 10, 2013

Laura van den Berg is the guest. Her new story collection, The Isle of Youth, is now available from FSG Originals. 

Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, raves

"If ever there was a writer going places, it’s Laura van den Berg, who follows up her debut collection, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water...


Nov 6, 2013

Monica Drake is the guest. Her new novel, The Stud Book, is now available from Hogarth Press.

Cheryl Strayed says

“Monica Drake has written a take-your-breath-away good, blow-your-mind wise, crack-your-heart-open beauty of a novel. The Stud Book is a smart, sexy, comic, compassionate, absorbing, and necessary story...


Nov 3, 2013

Doug Dorst is the guest. His latest novel, co-authored with film director J.J. Abrams, is called S. (Mulholland Books). 

USA Today calls it

"...an intriguing and impressive experiment in storytelling that's full of paranoia, conspiracy theory, love and mystery..."

And The Telegraph calls it

"...a beautiful hardback...


Oct 30, 2013

Jennifer duBois is the guest. Her new novel, Cartwheel, is now available from Random House.

The New York Times Book Review calls it

“Psychologically astute . . . Dubois hits [the] larger sadness just right and dispenses with all the salacious details you can readily find elsewhere. . . . The writing in Cartwheel is...


Oct 27, 2013

Chelsea Martin is the guest. Her new book, Even Though I Don't Miss You, is due out from Short Flight / Long Drive Books on November 1, 2013. 

Blake Butler says

"Someone who should not die is Chelsea Martin."

Monologue topics:  Mellow Pages Library, mail, suspending disbelief, my current reading taste,...