Peter Sagal

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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! · A fond farewell to brunch and also humankind · 19 Sep 2026 podcast

I wonder though, since since you were able to pursue your art with such passion for what you were doing in isolation just for yourself, is it actually harder now that you're an award winning acclaimed novelist who everybody expects great things from?

We also read that for all of this writing, including all those novels that didn't get published and now the novels that have been published to acclaim, you've used the same pen for twenty years.

This pen?

That pen.

yeah.

I grew up with that.

invented that pen.

And I love those things.

That might help your art because you'd be like, well, this character's getting angry.

I guess I'm changing to Red.

I I have one more question for you before we get to our game, and that's as I as I indicated, uh one of the things that makes you stand out, I think, as an author of literary fiction is how different your books are.

So your first published novel in the distance is a Western, or it's set in the Western United States in those days.

As I said, trust is early 20th century, New York financiers in Europe.

Ply, set in the far future, very sort of science fiction.

What's your next genre?

Have you considered, for example, romanticy?

so many dragons.

Yes.

All right, here all right, hear me out.

Dragons, but they play hockey and actually heated rivalry.

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