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Jan 17, 2024

Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of the novel Beautyland, available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.

Bertino's other books include the novels Parakeet and 2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas, and the story collection Safe as Houses. She was the 2017 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellow in Cork, Ireland. She has...


Jan 14, 2024

De'Shawn Charles Winslow is the author of the novel Decent People, now available in trade paperback from Bloomsbury.

Winslow's debut novel, In West Mills, won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winner, an American Book Award, and a Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles...


Jan 12, 2024

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 659, my conversation with Jean Kyoung Frazier. This episode first aired on July 22, 2020.

Jean's debut novel, Pizza Girl, is available in trade paperback from Anchor Books. She lives in Los Angeles.

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Jan 10, 2024

A new 'Craftwork' episode. A conversation with Kathleen Schmidt, an expert on the book business and the author of a Substack called Publishing Confidential. In this episode, Kathleen shares her publishing industry predictions for 2024.

Kathleen Schmidt is a well-respected voice in book publishing with in-depth...


Jan 7, 2024

Julie Myerson is the author of the novel Nonfiction, available from Tin House. It is the official January pick of the Otherppl Book Club.

 Myerson is the author of ten novels, including the bestselling Something Might Happen and The Stopped Heart, and three works of nonfiction, including Home: The Story of Everyone Who...