May 16, 2026
Daniel Kraus is the author of the novel Angel Down, available from Atria Books. It was awarded the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Daniel Kraus is a New York Times bestselling writer of novels, TV, and film. His novel Whalefall received a front-cover review in The New York Times Book Review, won the Alex...
May 14, 2026
Volume 89 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...the return of Mira...still alive...describes her health ordeal...Brad's colonoscopy journey...his true crime spiral continues...gets reprimanded for helping the homeless...revisiting the hyper-capitalist hell of the Met Gala...making sense of the Baldoni-Lively saga...Channing...
May 12, 2026
Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the New York Times bestselling author of London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth (Doubleday).
Patrick's other books include the New York Times bestsellers Rogues, Empire of Pain (winner of the Baillie...
May 9, 2026
Vol. 9 of Story Time, a new series on the program featuring an author reading aloud from his work. In this episode, Kim Samek reads the title story from her acclaimed debut collection, I Am the Ghost Here (The Dial Press).
Samek's fiction has won the O.Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and has been cited as...
May 7, 2026
Mira is out sick again this week, so instead of a new episode of Brad & Mira for the Culture, I am instead joined by Chris Stuck, who came to my attention recently when he published a very provocative and unusually candid essay on the online literary magazine Zona Motel. The essay is called ‘Chasing Wild...