Margaret Wappler is the guest. Her debut novel Neon Green is available now from The Unnamed Press.

This is the final conversation recorded in the old garage.  

In today's monologue, I catch up on listener mail.  

S.J. Watson is the guest. His novel Second Life is available now in paperback from Harper. It was the official July pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club.

In today's monologue, I talk about recording in a crowded house. And I talk with my daughter, who is about to celebrate her sixth birthday.

Lesley M. M. Blume is the guest. Her new book is called Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises, available now from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

In today's monologue, I talk about Lesley's book and Ernest Hemingway. 

Jonathan Franzen is the guest. His latest novel, Purity, is available now in trade paperback from Picador. It is the official August selection of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club.

In today's monologue, I discuss being in flux. And my dog Walter.

Dorthe Nors is the guest. Her new book, So Much For That Winter, is available now in the United States from Graywolf Press.

I had a great time talking with Dorthe. She is, I believe, the first Danish author to guest on the program.