Lydia
Fitzpatrick is the guest. Her debut novel, Lights
All Night Long, is available from Penguin Press.
Fitzpatrick’s work has appeared in the The O. Henry Prize
Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, One Story, Glimmer
Train, and elsewhere. She was a Wallace Stegner
Fellow at Stanford University, a fiction fellow at the Wisconsin
Institute for Creative Writing, and a recipient of an Elizabeth
George Foundation grant. She graduated from Princeton University
and received an MFA from the University of Michigan. She lives in
Los Angeles with her husband and daughters.