In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 455, my conversation with author Min Jin Lee. The episode first aired on January 9, 2019.Min Jin Lee is the author of the novelsFree Food for MillionairesandPachinko, a finalist for the National Book Award

A new 'Craftwork' episode, about how to write good stories. My guest is Steve Almond, author of a new book on writing called Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow, available from Zando.Almondis the author of a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction, inclu

Lydia Millet is the author of We Loved It All: A Memory of Life, available from W.W. Norton & Co.Milletis the author ofA Children's Bible, shortlisted for the National Book Award and aNew York TimesTop 10 book of 2020. Her many other works of fiction

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 559, my conversation with poet, artist, and television writer Tommy Pico. The episode first aired on January 9, 2019.Pico is a poet, artist, and tv writer. He is author of the books IRL, Nature Poem, Junk, an

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 Mez

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 Fict

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, pro

Catherine Lacey is the author of the novel Biography of X, available in trade paperback from Picador.Laceyis the author of the novelsNobody Is Ever Missing,The Answers, andPew, and of the short-story collectionCertain American States. She has receiv

Rowan Beaird is the author of the debut novel The Divorces, available from Flatiron Books.Beairdis a writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming inThe Kenyon Review,The Southern Review, andThe Common, among others. She is the recipient of theP

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 666, my conversation with author Stephen Graham Jones. It first aired on August 16, 2020.Stephen Graham Jones is the bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw, among others. He ha