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

Ta Obreht is the author of the novel The Morningside, available from Random House.Obrehtis the internationally bestselling author ofThe Tiger's Wife,which won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her secon

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In today's flashback, an outtake fromEpisode 521, my conversation with authorTao Lin. It first aired on May 20, 2018.Lin is the author of the memoirTrip, the novelsLeave Society,TaipeiandRichard Yates, Eeeee Eee Eeee. He is also the author of the

Katya Apekina is the author of the novel Mother Doll, available from The Overlook Press.Apekinais a novelist, screenwriter, and translator. Her debut novel,The Deeper the Water, the Uglier the Fish, was named a Best Book of 2018 byKirkus, Buzzfeed, Li

Tana French is the author of the novel The Hunter, available from Viking Books. It is the official March pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Tana French is theNew York Timesbestselling author of eight previous books, includingIn the Woods,The Likeness, a