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...
Jun 18, 2019
Ryan Chapman joins me to discuss his debut novel 'Riots I Have Known.'
An unnamed Sri Lankan inmate has barricaded himself inside a prison computer lab in Dutchess County, New York. A riot rages outside, incited by a poem published in The Holding Pen, the house literary journal. This, our narrator’s final Editor’s...