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May 31, 2024

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 381, my conversation with author and literary agent Bill Clegg. It first aired on September 23, 2015.

Clegg is a literary agent in New York and the author of the bestselling memoirs Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days. The author of the novels Did You Ever...


May 29, 2024

R.O. Kwon is the author of the novel Exhibit, available from Riverhead Books.

Kwon is the author of the nationally bestselling novel The Incendiaries, which was named a best book of the year by more than forty publications and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award. With Garth Greenwell,...


May 26, 2024

Colombe Schneck is the author of Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories, available from Penguin Press. Translated by Lauren Elkin and Natasha Lehrer.

Schneck is documentary film director, a journalist, and the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction. She has received prizes from the Académie...


May 24, 2024

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 545, my conversation with author and poet Mark Leidner. It first aired on October 3, 2018.

Leidner is a writer from south Georgia who currently lives in California with his family. His books include a poetry collection called Returning the Sword to the Stone, a...


May 22, 2024

Hari Kunzru is the author of the novel Blue Ruin, available from Knopf.

Kunzru is the author of six other novels, Red PillWhite TearsGods Without MenMy RevolutionsTransmission, and The Impressionist. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin, and the Cullman...