Sep 29, 2023

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 117, conversation with Susan Straight, author of the novel Mecca (FSG). This episode first aired on March 5, 2014.

Straight's other novels include the national bestseller Highwire Moon, a finalist for the National Book Award, and A Million Nightingales, a finalist for the...

Sep 27, 2023

Vauhini Vara is the author of the story collection This is Salvaged, available from W.W. Norton & Co.

Vara has been a reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine, and is the prize-winning author of the novel The Immortal King Rao, which was a finalist for the...

Sep 24, 2023

Mona Awad is the bestselling author of the novel Rouge, available from Marysue Rucci Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

Awad's other books include the novels All's Well, Bunny, and the story collection 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. Bunny was a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award and the New England Book Award....

Sep 22, 2023

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 257, my conversation with Natalie Baszile, author of the novel Queen Sugar (Penguin Books). This episode first aired on March 5, 2014.

Baszile is the author of the novel Queen Sugar, which was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2014, longlisted for the Crooks Corner...

Sep 20, 2023

Anne Enright is the author of the novel The Wren, The Wren, available from W.W. Norton & Co.

Enright is author of seven novels, most recently Actress. She has been awarded the Man Booker Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Irish Book Awards. She lives...