Aug 6, 2023

Khashayar J. Khabushani is the author of the debut novel I Will Greet the Sun Again, available from Hogarth Books.

Khabushani was born in Van Nuys, California, in 1992. During his childhood he spent time in Iran before returning to Los Angeles. He studied philosophy at California State University, Northridge, and prior...

Aug 4, 2023

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 684, my conversation with Michael Schumacher, author of Dharma Lion: A Biography of Allen Ginsberg (University of Minnesota Press).

Schumacher has written extensively about Allen Ginsberg and the Beat Generation. His articles, reviews, and essays have appeared in newspapers...

Aug 2, 2023

Jamel Brinkley is the author of the story collection Witness, available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.

Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories, which won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Story...

Jul 30, 2023

Edan Lepucki is the bestselling author of the novel Time's Mouth, available from Counterpoint Press.

Lepucki's other books include the novels California and Woman No. 17. She is also the editor of Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them. Her nonfiction has been published in The New York...

Jul 28, 2023

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 419, my conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of the bestselling novel The Sympathizer.

His other books are Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle...