Jul 21, 2023
Johannes Lichtman joins me to discuss his novel "Calling Ukraine."
National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and author of Such Good Work Johannes Lichtman returns with a novel that is strikingly relevant to our times—about an American who takes a job in Ukraine in 2018, only to find that his struggle to...
Oct 20, 2022
Lauren Oliver joins me to discuss her novel 'Panic.'
Heather never thought she would compete in Panic, a legendary game played by graduating seniors, where the stakes are high and the payoff is even higher. She’d never thought of herself as fearless, the kind of person who would fight to stand out. But when she finds...
Oct 24, 2021
Lincoln Michel joins me to discuss his novel 'The Body Scout.'
In the future you can have any
body you want—as long as you can afford it.
But in a New York ravaged by climate change and repeat pandemics,
Kobo is barely scraping by. He scouts the latest in gene-edited
talent for Big Pharma-owned baseball teams, but...
Oct 5, 2020
Teddy Wayne joins me to discuss his novel 'Apartment.'
In 1996, the unnamed narrator of Teddy Wayne’s Apartment is attending the MFA writing program at Columbia on his father’s dime and living in an illegal sublet of a rent-stabilized apartment. Feeling guilty about his good fortune, he offers his spare...
Nov 5, 2019
Carmen Maria Machado joins me to discuss her memoir 'In the Dream House.'
'In the Dream House' is Machado’s wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship, Machado...