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Oct 26, 2014

Lin Enger is the guest. His new novel, The High Divide, is available now from Algonquin Books. It is the official October selection of The TNB Book Club.

Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, calls it

"[A] masterfully told Western reinvention of Homer’s Odyssey...Set against a backdrop of beauty and danger, this is...


Oct 22, 2014

Diane Cook is the guest. Her debut story collection, Man V. Nature, is available now from Harper Books.

Tea Obreht says

"Man V. Nature is as close to experiencing a Picasso as literature can get: the worlds in Diane Cook’s impressive debut are bizarre, vertiginous, funny, pushed to the extreme-but just familiar enough...


Oct 19, 2014

Celeste Ng is the guest. Her debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, is now available from Penguin. 

The New York Times Book Review says

"If we know this story, we haven’t seen it yet in American fiction, not until now… Ng has set two tasks in this novel’s doubled heart—to be exciting, and to tell a story...


Oct 15, 2014

Mira Jacob is the guest. Her debut novel, The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing, is now available from Random House.

Kirkus, in a starred review, says

"Comparisons of Jacob to Jhumpa Lahiri are inevitable; Lahiri may be more overtly profound, Jacob more willing to go for comedy, but both write with naked honesty about the...


Oct 12, 2014

Tod Goldberg is the guest. His new novel Gangsterland is now available from Counterpoint Press.

Kirkus, in a starred review, says

“Clearly influenced by the great Elmore Leonard, Goldberg puts his own dry comic spin on the material…Clever plotting, a colorful cast of characters, and priceless situations make this...