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Apr 3, 2024

A new 'Craftwork' episode, about how to get (somewhat) better at art. My guest is Nicholson Baker, author of Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art, available from Penguin Press.

Nicholson Baker has written seventeen books, including The Mezzanine, Vox, Human Smoke, The Anthologist, and Baseless--also an...


Mar 31, 2024

Alexandra Tanner is the author of the debut novel Worry, available from Scribner.

Tanner is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor. She is a graduate of the MFA program at The New School and the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell and The Center for Fiction. Her writing appears in The New York Times Book ReviewGawker,...


Mar 29, 2024

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 762, my conversation with author John Keene about his poetry collection Punks, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2022. The episode first aired on March 9, 2022.

Keene is a writer, translator, professor, and artist who was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2018. In...


Mar 27, 2024

Catherine Lacey is the author of the novel Biography of X, available in trade paperback from Picador.

Lacey is the author of the novels Nobody Is Ever MissingThe Answers, and Pew, and of the short-story collection Certain American States. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, the New York Public...


Mar 24, 2024

Rowan Beaird is the author of the debut novel The Divorcées, available from Flatiron Books.

Beaird is a writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon ReviewThe Southern Review, and The Common, among others. She is the recipient of the Ploughshares Emerging Writer Award, and her work has been...