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Nov 12, 2014

Hannah Pittard is the guest. Her new novel is called Reunion, and it is available now from Grand Central Publishing. 

Emily St. John Mandel calls it

"A nuanced and intriguing study of family and love, money and debt, failure and success, starring one of the most likeable flawed narrators to come along in some time."

And...


Nov 9, 2014

Bich Minh Nguyen is the guest. Her new novel, Pioneer Girl, is available now from Viking.

The San Francisco Chronicle calls it

"[A] sincere and moving novel... a surprising synthesis of the personal and the public, the intimate and the epic, the historical and the fictional. Nguyen takes two disparate strands of our...


Nov 5, 2014

Frederick Barthelme is the guest. His latest novel, There Must Be Some Mistake, is available now from Little, Brown & Co.

David Shields says

"Very nearly alone among his peers, Frederick Barthelme has, over the last thirty-five years, written fiction about what it actually feels like to live in...


Nov 2, 2014

Elizabeth McCracken is the guest. Her latest book is a story collection called Thunderstruck & Other Stories, and it is available now from The Dial Press.

The New York Times Book Review says

“Elizabeth McCracken knows how loss can melt reality, forever altering a person’s sense of time....In her new collection,...


Oct 29, 2014

Sarah Gerard is the guest. Her debut novel, Binary Star, is due out from Two Dollar Radio in January 2015.

Kate Zambreno says

"I felt a breathless intensity the whole time I read Sarah Gerard's brilliant Binary Star. I sped through it, dizzy, devastated, loving all of it."

And Jenny Offill calls it

"A bold, beautiful...