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Jun 30, 2023

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 401, my conversation with Hanya Yanagihara from February 2016.

Hanya Yanagihara is a prize-winning author and the Editor-in-Chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Her novel entitled To Paradise, published in 2022, was a #1 NY Times bestseller. Her novel A...


Jun 28, 2023

Tess Gunty is the author of the debut novel The Rabbit Hutch, now available in trade paperback from Vintage. It received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2022.

Gunty earned an MFA in creative writing from NYU, where she was a Lillian Vernon Fellow. Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Joyland, Los Angeles...


Jun 25, 2023

Lorrie Moore is the author of the novel I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home, available from Knopf.

Moore is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, as well as the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for her achievement in...


Jun 23, 2023

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 616, my conversation with Tim O'Brien from December 2019.

O'Brien received the 1979 National Book Award for Going After Cacciato. Among his other books are The Things They Carried, Pulitzer Finalist and a New York TimesBook of the Century, and In the Lake of the Woods,...


Jun 21, 2023

Leila Slimani is the author of the novel Watch Us Dance, available from Viking. Translated by Sam Taylor.

Slimani is the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny, one of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2018, for which she became the first Moroccan woman to win France's most prestigious literary prize,...