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Aug 26, 2020

Emerson Whitney is the guest. He is the author of a memoir called Heaven, available from McSweeney's.

Whitney is also the author of Ghost Box. He teaches in the BFA creative writing program at Goddard College and is a postdoctoral fellow in gender studies at the University of...


Aug 19, 2020

Nick Flynn is the guest. His new memoir, This is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire, is available from W.W. Norton & Co. It is the official August pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club.

Flynn is the author of three previous memoirs, including the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award–winning Another Bullshit Night in Suck...


Aug 16, 2020

Stephen Graham Jones is the guest. His latest novel, The Only Good Indians, is available from Gallery Books.

Jones is the author of twenty-five or so novels and collections, and there’s some novellas and comic books in there as well. Stephen’s been an NEA recipient, has won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for...


Aug 12, 2020

Mesha Maren is the guest. Her debut novel, Sugar Run, is available from Algonquin Books.

Maren's short stories and essays can be read in Tin HouseThe Oxford American, The Guardian, CrazyhorseTriquarterly, The Southern Review, Ecotone, Sou’westerHobart, Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial, and...


Aug 9, 2020

Sabrina Orah Mark is the guest. Her story collection, Wild Milk, is available from The Dorothy Project.

Sabrina grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She earned a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University, an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD in English from the University of Georgia. She is the author of the...