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63. James Bernard Frost
22 april 2012 · 1 uur 14 min
James Bernard Frost is the guest. He's the author of the novel A Very Minor Prophet, now available from Hawthorne Books.
Frost is also the author of the novel World Leader Pretend, and the award-winning travel guide The Artichoke Trail. His fiction and nonfiction has been published in many places, including the San Francisco Examiner, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and Wired. He lives in Oregon with the author Kerry Cohen, their four children, the rain, the freaks, and the trees. His bike is currently in disrepair.
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Episode 62 — Heidi Julavits
18 april 2012 · 1 uur 17 min
Heidi Julavits is today's guest. She's the author of four books, the most recent of which is a novel called The Vanishers, now available from Doubleday. And she's also the co-editor of The Believer magazine. Here's what The New York ... Continue reading →
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61. Rosecrans Baldwin
15 april 2012 · 1 uur 15 min
Rosecrans Baldwin is a co-founder of The Morning News and the author of a memoir called Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down (FSG).
Baldwin is also the author of the novel The Last Kid Left. His next book, Everything Now, is forthcoming June 2021 from MCD x FSG (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
As a magazine writer, Baldwin is a frequent contributor to GQ. Other titles include Esquire, Men’s Journal, Travel + Leisure, AFAR, Saveur, and Bon Appétit, with several features selected as notable essays in the Best American Essays and Best American Travel Writing collections (2013, 2015, 2019). Rosecrans has written opinion pieces for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and the Guardian, as well as Buzzfeed, Salon, and Slate. As a columnist, he created “The Digital Ramble” for The New York Times T Magazine and the “Confidential” page for Centurion, a magazine for American Express “Black Card” members. (Rosecrans is not a “Black Card” member.) In 1999, he co-founded the online zine TMN with publisher Andrew Womack, and continues to help oversee the Tournament of Books.
Rosecrans also works as half of a screenwriting team with his partner Rachel Knowles. Together, they’ve written scripts and treatments in collaboration with Groundswell Productions, A+E Studios, Patagonia Films, Atlas Entertainment, Film 44, Gran Via Productions, Avalon Television, Assembly Entertainment, and CBS Studios. Rosecrans has also written and produced podcasts with Luminary, Western Sound, Mirum, and m ss ng p eces. From 2012-2014, he was a regular on-air contributor to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.
A MacDowell fellow, Rosecrans has taught fiction writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, nonfiction writing at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, and he was an author-in-residence at Miami Dade College’s Miami Writers Institute. He lives in Los Angeles.
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Episode 60 — Kris Saknussemm
11 april 2012 · 1 uur 20 min
Kris Saknussemm is the guest. His latest novel, Reverend America, is now available from Dark Coast Press. And the soundtrack to the book is now available at iTunes. From Booklist: Once upon a time, Mathias Gaspenny was a child preacher ... Continue reading →
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Episode 59 — Amelia Gray
8 april 2012 · 1 uur 13 min
Amelia Gray is the guest. She's the author of three works of fiction, the most recent of which is a novel called Threats, now available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Doug Dorst, author of The Surf Guru, has this to ... Continue reading →
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Episode 58 — Melissa Broder
4 april 2012 · 1 uur 9 min
Melissa Broder is the guest. Her new poetry collection, entitled Meat Heart, is now available from Publishing Genius Press. And by day she is the publicity manager for Penguin Group. Says Publishers Weekly: Broder’s second collection cranks up the weird ... Continue reading →
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Episode 57 — Hari Kunzru
1 april 2012 · 1 uur 13 min
Hari Kunzru is the guest. He's the author of four books, the most recent of which is a novel called Gods Without Men, now available from Knopf. David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas, calls it a "beautifully written echo chamber ... Continue reading →
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Episode 56 — Jessica Keener
28 maart 2012 · 1 uur 14 min
Jessica Keener is today's guest. Her debut novel, Night Swim, is now available from Fiction Studio Books. Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan says: Jessica Keener steps boldly into the terrain of Eugene O'Neill, conjuring up the pathologies and quirks of a ... Continue reading →
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Episode 55 — Catherine Chung
25 maart 2012 · 1 uur 18 min
Catherine Chung is the guest. Her debut novel, Forgotten Country, is now available from Riverhead Books. Booklist, in a starred review, raves: Chung’s superb debut examines the twin hearts of cruelty and compassion between sisters in particular and family in ... Continue reading →
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Episode 54 — Jeff Ragsdale
21 maart 2012 · 1 uur 18 min
Jeff Ragsdale is the guest. He's the co-author, along with David Shields and Michael Logan, of Jeff, One Lonely Guy. Here's what Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho, has to say about it: You can either make fun of ... Continue reading →
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Episode 53 — Sarah Manguso
18 maart 2012 · 1 uur 14 min
Sarah Manguso is today's guest. She's the author of the new book The Guardians: An Elegy, now available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Megan O'Grady, writing for Vogue, says: Shortly after returning home from a fellowship year in Rome, poet ... Continue reading →
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Episode 52 — Lysley Tenorio
14 maart 2012 · 1 uur 18 min
Lysley Tenorio is the guest. A winner of the Whiting Writer's Award and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he is the author of a debut story collection called Monstress, now available from Ecco. Raves Chang-Rae Lee, New York ... Continue reading →
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Episode 51 — Lauren Groff
11 maart 2012 · 1 uur 21 min
Lauren Groff is the guest. She's the author of the novel The Monsters of Templeton, the story collection Delicate Edible Birds, and most recently, a novel called Arcadia, which has received starred reviews from Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and ... Continue reading →
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Episode 50 — Maud Newton
7 maart 2012 · 1 uur 20 min
Maud Newton is the guest. One of the web's most influential book bloggers. She also reviews books and is a former attorney who now works as an editor and writer for (a legal publishing division of) Thomson Reuters. She has ... Continue reading →
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Episode 49 — Joe Blair
4 maart 2012 · 1 uur 17 min
Joe Blair is the guest. He's the author of the memoir By the Iowa Sea, now available from Scribner. Scott Spencer, author of Main in the Woods, raves: An intimate, startling memoir that honors and elevates our quotidian existence. With ... Continue reading →
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Episode 48 — Ramona Ausubel
29 februari 2012 · 1 uur 17 min
Ramona Ausubel is the guest. Her debut novel, No One is Here Except All of Us, is now available in hardcover from Riverhead Press. And her short story "Atria" was published in the April 4, 2011 issue of The New ... Continue reading →
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Episode 47 — Ryan Boudinot
26 februari 2012 · 1 uur 18 min
Ryan Boudinot is the guest. He's the author of the new novel, Blueprints of the Afterlife, now available from Grove Press. John Schwartz, in a review for the New York Times, raves: A fierce literary imagination, building the kinds of ... Continue reading →
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Episode 46 — Cheryl Strayed
22 februari 2012 · 1 uur 22 min
Cheryl Strayed is the guest. She's the author of the new memoir Wild, due out from Knopf on March 20, 2012. And she's also Sugar, the popular advice columnist over at The Rumpus. Wild, which details Strayed's 1,100-mile solo hike ... Continue reading →
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Episode 45 — Adam Wilson
19 februari 2012 · 1 uur 17 min
Adam Wilson is the guest. He's the author of the debut novel Flatscreen, now available from Harper Perennial. Raves Sam Lipsyte: "Adam Wilson is a gutsy, funny, and often beautiful writer, and Flatscreen is one of the most hilarious and ... Continue reading →
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Episode 44 — Eleanor Henderson
15 februari 2012 · 1 uur 18 min
Eleanor Henderson is the guest. She's the author of the debut novel Ten Thousand Saints, now available in trade paperback from Ecco. It was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2011 by the New York Times Book Review. ... Continue reading →
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Episode 43 — Ben Marcus
12 februari 2012 · 1 uur 21 min
Ben Marcus is today's guest. He's the author of four books of fiction, the most recent of which is the critically acclaimed novel The Flame Alphabet, now available from Knopf. "Think again," writes Fiona Maazel at Book Forum. "[The Flame ... Continue reading →
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Episode 42 — Ben Tanzer
8 februari 2012 · 1 uur 20 min
Ben Tanzer is the guest. He's the author of several books, including 99 Problems, You Can Make Him Like You, and My Father's House. He is also the proprietor of vast faux media empire. Michael Fitzgerald, author of Radiant Days, ... Continue reading →
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Episode 41 — Claire Bidwell Smith
5 februari 2012 · 1 uur 21 min
Claire Bidwell Smith is the guest. She's the author of the memoir The Rules of Inheritance, available now from Hudson Street Press. Darin Strauss, the author of Half a Life, calls it "a perfectly crafted story — not about grief, ... Continue reading →
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Episode 40 — Susan Sherman
1 februari 2012 · 1 uur 17 min
Susan Sherman is the guest. She's the author of the acclaimed debut novel The Little Russian, now available from Counterpoint Press. And she's also the co-creator of one of the most successful television shows in the history of Disney. Library ... Continue reading →
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Episode 39 — Caroline Leavitt
29 januari 2012 · 1 uur 16 min
Caroline Leavitt is the guest. She's the author of nine novels, the most recent of which is called Pictures of You, a New York Times bestseller, now available from Algonquin Books. Kirkus Reviews calls it "heartfelt, deft, and highly readable ... Continue reading →
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Episode 38 — Vanessa Veselka
25 januari 2012 · 1 uur 19 min
Vanessa Veselka is the guest. She's the author of the novel Zazen, now available from Red Lemonade. Says Publishers Weekly: "Veselka's prose is chiseled and laced with arsenic observations...[Zazen] makes a case for hope and meaning amid sheer madness." Endless ... Continue reading →
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Episode 37 — Alan Heathcock
22 januari 2012 · 1 uur 20 min
The guest is Alan Heathcock, author of the critically acclaimed story collection Volt, now available from Graywolf Press. Volt was named a Best Book of 2011 by a variety of publications, including Publishers Weekly, GQ, the Chicago Tribune, the ... Continue reading →
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Episode 36 — D.R. Haney
18 januari 2012 · 1 uur 19 min
D.R. Haney is the guest. He's the author of the novel Banned for Life (And/Or Press) and the nonfiction collection Subversia, now available from TNB Books. PANK magazine calls Subversia "...heartfelt and personal...a joyful read..." Duke is an old ... Continue reading →
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Episode 35 — Tayari Jones
15 januari 2012 · 1 uur 20 min
The guest today is Tayari Jones, author of the novels Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, and most recently, Silver Sparrow, now available from Algonquin Books. Library Journal, in a starred review, calls it a "a graceful and shining work about finding ... Continue reading →
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Episode 34 — Roxane Gay
11 januari 2012 · 1 uur 15 min
Roxane Gay is the guest. Her debut, Ayiti, is a collection of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and it is now available from Artistically Declined Press. She is an English professor at Eastern Illinois University, co-editor of PANK magazine, fiction ... Continue reading →
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Episode 33 — Rex Pickett
8 januari 2012 · 1 uur 19 min
Rex Pickett is the guest. He's the author of the novel Sideways, which was adapted for the screen by Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor. The movie went on to win the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, among many other awards, ... Continue reading →
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Episode 32 — Cecil Castellucci
4 januari 2012 · 1 uur 20 min
The guest is Cecil Castellucci. She's the author of several novels for young adults, the most recent of which is First Day on Earth, now available from Scholastic Press. Kirkus calls it "a simple, tender work that speaks to the ... Continue reading →
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Episode 31 — Dana Spiotta
1 januari 2012 · 1 uur 22 min
Happy New Year, everybody! The guest today is Dana Spiotta. She's the author of three novels: Lightning Field, Eat the Document (a finalist for the National Book Award), and, most recently, Stone Arabia, now available from Scribner. Publishers Weekly calls ... Continue reading →
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Episode 30 — Jamal Joseph
28 december 2011 · 1 uur 27 min
Today's guest is Jamal Joseph, author of the memoir Panther Baby, which details his coming of age within the Black Panther movement during the 1960s and '70s—a journey that took him to Riker's Island and Leavenworth prisons before ultimately leading ... Continue reading →
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Episode 29 — Ben Loory
25 december 2011 · 1 uur 20 min
Ben Loory is the guest. He's the author of the debut collection Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day, now available from Penguin. Long a favorite of small zine readers in print and online, as well as a longtime ... Continue reading →
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Episode 28 — Edan Lepucki
21 december 2011 · 1 uur 22 min
Edan Lepucki is the guest. She's the author of the novella If You're Not Yet Like Me, originally published by Flatmancrooked and now available from Nouvella Books. She's a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and a staff writer over ... Continue reading →
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Episode 27 — Barry Eisler
18 december 2011 · 1 uur 25 min
The guest is Barry Eisler. He's the author of several bestselling thrillers, the most recent of which is The Detachment, which caused a stir in publishing earlier this year when Eisler turned down a six-figure deal from St. Martin's and ... Continue reading →
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Episode 26 — David Shields
14 december 2011 · 1 uur 21 min
David Shields is the guest. He's the author of twelve books, including Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Knopf, 2010), which was named one of the best books of the year by more than thirty publications; The Thing About Life Is That ... Continue reading →
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Episode 25 — John Warner
11 december 2011 · 1 uur 19 min
Today's guest is John Warner. He's the author of four books, most recently a debut novel called The Funny Man, available now from SoHo Press. And he's also the longtime editor of McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Publishers Weekly calls The Funny ... Continue reading →
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Episode 24 — Charles Shields
7 december 2011 · 1 uur 18 min
Charles Shields is the guest. He's the author of And So It Goes — Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, now available in hardcover from Henry Holt. Shields is also the author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, also available from ... Continue reading →
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Episode 23 — Dennis Cooper
4 december 2011 · 1 uur 19 min
Dennis Cooper is the guest. He's the author of several books, including The Sluts, God Jr., the five novels of the George Miles cycle, and, most recently, The Marbled Swarm, now available from Harper Perennial. "Disquieting, humbling, and sadly beautiful ... Continue reading →
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Episode 22 — Darin Strauss
30 november 2011 · 1 uur 20 min
Darin Strauss is today's guest. He is the author of three novels—Chang & Eng, The Real McCoy, and More Than It Hurts You. And his most recent book is a memoir called Half a Life (McSweeney's) which won the National ... Continue reading →
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Episode 21 — Janet Reitman
27 november 2011 · 1 uur 20 min
Janet Reitman is the guest. She is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine and the author of the bestselling Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion, recently named by the New York Times as one of its ... Continue reading →
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Episode 20 — Adam Novy
23 november 2011 · 1 uur 23 min
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! The guest is Adam Novy, author of the debut novel The Avian Gospels, available now from Short Flight / Long Drive Books, an independent press run by the good people over at Hobart. "The Avian Gospels has ... Continue reading →
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Episode 19 — Elissa Schappell
20 november 2011 · 1 uur 19 min
The guest is Elissa Schappell, author of the story collections Use Me (William Morrow), which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the brand new Blueprints for Building Better Girls, available now from Simon & Schuster. A former senior ... Continue reading →
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Episode 18 — Katie Arnoldi
16 november 2011 · 1 uur 19 min
Today's guest: Katie Arnoldi, the bestselling author of three novels: Chemical Pink, The Wentworths, and Point Dume. This one's gonna blow your mind, people. Just trust me. It'll make you want to buy a plane ticket. It'll make you want ... Continue reading →
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Episode 17 — Joshua Mohr
13 november 2011 · 1 uur 27 min
Joshua Mohr is the guest. He's the author of three novels: Some Things That Meant the World to Me, Termite Parade, and, most recently, Damascus. All are available from Two Dollar Radio, one of America's finest independent presses. "The bard ... Continue reading →
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Episode 16 — Gina Frangello
9 november 2011 · 1 uur 25 min
Gina Frangello is the guest. She is the critically acclaimed author of the novel My Sister's Continent (Chiasmus Press), the story collection Slut Lullabies (Emergency Press), and the forthcoming novel A Life in Men (Algonquin). She is also the esteemed ... Continue reading →
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Episode 15 — Jillian Lauren
6 november 2011 · 1 uur 25 min
The guest is Jillian Lauren, author of the memoir Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, a New York Times bestseller, and the brand new novel Pretty, both available from Plume Books. Kirkus calls her a "deft storyteller," and Antoine ... Continue reading →
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Episode 14 — Shann Ray
2 november 2011 · 1 uur 23 min
The guest is Shann Ray, author of the critically acclaimed story collection American Masculine, now available from Graywolf Press. A very impressive guy. A college basketball star. A doctorate in psychology. A professor of leadership studies (with an emphasis on ... Continue reading →
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