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Episodes
Episode 295 — Letitia Trent
16 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Letitia Trent is the guest. Her debut novel, Echo Lake, is now available from Dark House Press. Kirkus Reviews says "Trent’s years as a poet serv...
Episode 294 — Leesa Cross-Smith
13 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Leesa Cross-Smith is the guest. Her debut story collection Every Kiss a War is now available from Mojave River Press. It was a finalist for the F...
Episode 293 — Guillaume Morissette
09 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Guillaume Morissette is the guest. His debut novel, New Tab, is now available from Vehicule Press. Melissa Broder says “In this hilarious novel, ...
Episode 292 — Julia Fierro
06 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Julia Fierro is the guest. She is the founder of the Sackett Street Writers' Workshop and her debut novel, Cutting Teeth, is now available from St. Ma...
Episode 291 — John Brandon
02 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
John Brandon is the guest. His new story collection, Further Joy, is now available from McSweeney's. Kirkus Reviews calls it “An impressive col...
Episode 290 — Smith Henderson
29 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Smith Henderson is the guest. His debut novel, Fourth of July Creek, is now available from Ecco. Ron Charles of The Washington Post calls it “The...
Episode 289 — Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
25 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore is the guest. Her new novel, Bittersweet, is now available from Crown. It is a New York Times bestseller and the official ...
Episode 288 — Mike Sacks
22 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Sacks is the guest. His new book, Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today's Top Comedy Writers, is now available from Penguin. Bob Odenkir...
Episode 287 — Robin Sloan
18 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Robin Sloan is the guest. His bestselling novel, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, was the May 2014 selection of the TNB Book Club. It is now availab...
Episode 286 — Ariel Schrag
15 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Ariel Schrag is the guest. Her new novel Adam is now available from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Publishers Weekly says "Schrag's frisky debut...is...
Episode 285 — Tom Barbash
11 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Barbash is the guest. His story collection Stay Up With Me is now available in paperback from Ecco. The Daily Beast calls it “Fantastic…The...
Episode 284 — Brittani Sonnenberg
08 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Brittani Sonnenberg is the guest. Her debut novel, Home Leave, is now available from Grand Central Publishing. Karen Russell says "It's hard to bel...
Episode 283 — Nicholas Grider
04 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Grider is the guest. His story collection, Misadventure, is now available from A Strange Object. Brian Evenson calls it "A dark and luscio...
Episode 282 — Aaron Gwyn
01 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Gwyn is the guest. His new novel, Wynne's War, is now available from Eamon Dolan Books. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, says "Gwyn’s...
Episode 281 — Ana Carrete
28 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Ana Carrete is the guest. Her poetry collection Baby Babe is now available from Civil Coping Mechanisms. Sam Pink says “The first time I heard An...
Episode 280 — Kelly Braffet
25 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Kelly Braffet is the guest. Her novel Save Yourself is now available in paperback from Broadway Books. Dennis Lehane calls it "The real deal. Save ...
Episode 279 — Lee Klein
21 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Lee Klein is the guest. He has two books out this year. The first is called Thanks and Sorry and Good Luck, available now from Barrelhouse. The secon...
Episode 278 — Katherine Faw Morris
18 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine Faw Morris is the guest. Her debut novel, Young God, is now available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Daniel Woodrell says "Young God is...
Episode 277 — Stacey D'Erasmo
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Stacey D'Erasmo is the guest. Her new novel, Wonderland, is now available fromHoughton Mifflin Harcourt. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, call...
Episode 276 — Megan Stielstra
11 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Megan Stielstra is the guest. Her new essay collection, Once I Was Cool, is now available from Curbside Splendor. Roxane Gay says "In Once I Was ...
Episode 275 — Leslie Jamison
07 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Leslie Jamison is the guest. Her new collection of essays, entitled The Empathy Exams, is now available from Graywolf Press. The New York Times Book...
Episode 274 — Kathleen Rooney
04 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Kathleen Rooney is the guest. Her new novel, O, Democracy!, is now available from Fifth Star Press. Jonathan Evison raves “O, Democracy! infuriat...
Episode 273 — Juliet Escoria
30 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Juliet Escoria is the guest. Her new story collection, Black Cloud, is now available from Civil Coping Mechanisms. Adam Wilson says "Juliet Esco...
Episode 272 — Sommer Browning
27 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Sommer Browning is the guest. Her new poetry collection, Backup Singers, is now available from Birds Publishing. Mathias Svalina says "Sometimes...
Episode 271 — Josh Raab
23 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Raab is the guest. He is the founder of The Newer York Press, an experimental literary publisher based in Los Angeles. Its latest title, The In...
Episode 270 — Justin Hocking
20 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Hocking is the guest. His new memoir, The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld, is now available from Graywolf Press. It is the official April ...
Episode 269 — Labor Day Special
16 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Today's show features conversations with multiple authors, all of whom have contributed to a new anthology entitled Labor Day: True Birth Stories by ...
Episode 268 — Douglas Coupland
13 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Douglas Coupland is the guest. His new novel is called Worst. Person. Ever. and it is available now from Blue Rider Press. The Globe and Mail says ...
Episode 267 — T. Greenwood
09 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
T. Greenwood is the guest. Her latest novel, Bodies of Water, is now available from Kensington Books. Publishers Weekly says "Greenwood is a writer...
Episode 266 — Scott O'Connor
06 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Scott O'Connor is the guest. His new novel, Half World, is now available from Simon & Schuster. The Daily Beast calls it "Gripping...The perfect...
Episode 265 — Rene Denfeld
02 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Rene Denfeld is the guest. She is an accomplished journalist who has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Oregonian, and other publications. ...
Episode 264 — Jacinda Townsend
30 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Jacinda Townsend is the guest. Her new novel Saint Monkey is now available from W.W. Norton & Co. Roxane Gay says “Saint Monkey is an absolute ma...
Episode 263 — D. Foy
26 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
D. Foy is the guest. His debut novel, Made to Break, is now available from Two Dollar Radio. Anthony Swofford says "Reading D. Foy's prose is like ...
Episode 262 — Mary Beth Keane
23 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Beth Keane is the guest. Her latest novel, Fever, is now available from Scribner. The New York Times Book Review calls it “[A] tender, detai...
Episode 261 — Antonia Crane
19 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Antonia Crane is the guest. Her new memoir, Spent, is now available from Rare Bird Lit / A Barnacle Book. Kirkus calls it "...revelatory, [an] una...
Episode 260 — Heather Christle
16 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Heather Christle is the guest. She was the recipient of the 2012 Believer Magazine Poetry Award for her collection entitled The Trees, The Trees (Oct...
Episode 259 — Catherine Lacey
12 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Lacey is the guest. Her debut novel, Nobody Is Ever Missing, is due out from FSG Originals in July 2014. David Shields says "At the cent...
Episode 258 — Willy Vlautin
09 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Willy Vlautin is the guest. His new novel The Free is now available from Harper Perennial. It is the official March selection of The TNB Book Club. ...
Episode 257 — Natalie Baszile
05 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Natalie Baszile is the guest. Her debut novel, Queen Sugar, is now available from Pamela Dorman Books. O Magazine says “In Queen Sugar, two bul...
Episode 256 — Adrianne Harun
02 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Adrianne Harun is the guest. Her new novel, A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain, is now available from Penguin. Jess Walter calls it “Mythic...
AWP 2014 Special — Live at The HTMLGIANT House
01 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This special episode of the podcast was recorded spur-of-the-moment on the afternoon of February 28, 2014. I had the chance to talk with some folks ...
Episode 255 — Kelcey Parker
26 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Kelcey Parker is the guest. Her new novella, Liliane's Balcony: A Novella of Fallingwater, is now available from Rose Metal Press. Booklist says "...
Episode 254 — Randa Jarrar
23 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Randa Jarrar is the guest. Her debut novel, A Map of Home, is now available from Penguin. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, raves Jarrar's spa...
Episode 253 — Spencer Madsen
19 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Spencer Madsen is the guest. He is the founder of Sorry House, an independent press based in Brooklyn, and his new book of poetry, You Can Make Anyth...
Episode 252 — Nina McConigley
16 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Nina McConigley is the guest. Her debut story collection, Cowboys and East Indians, is now available from FiveChapters Books. Antonya Nelson says...
Episode 251 — Aubrey Hirsch
12 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Aubrey Hirsch is the guest. Her story collection, Why We Never Talk About Sugar, is now available from Braddock Avenue Books. Matt Bell says "In Why ...
Episode 250 — Chris Parris-Lamb
09 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Parris-Lamb is the guest. He is a literary agent at The Gernert Company in New York City. His clients include Chad Harbach (The Art of Fielding)...
Premium: Gina Frangello
06 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Gina Frangello is the guest. Her new novel, A Life in Men, is the official February selection of The TNB Book Club. It is available now from Algonqu...
Episode 249 — Kyle Minor
05 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Kyle Minor is the guest. His new story collection, Praying Drunk, is now available from Sarabande Books. Publishers Weekly raves "Similar to a great ...
Episode 248 — Bill Cotter
02 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Cotter is the guest. His new novel, The Parallel Apartments, is now available from McSweeney's. Heidi Julavits says "Reading Bill Cotter's The...
Episode 247 — Matthew Specktor
29 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Specktor is the guest. His novel, American Dream Machine, is now available from Tin House. Mona Simpson says "Joan Didion prophesied this nov...
Episode 246 — Michael J. Seidlinger
26 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Michael J. Seidlinger is the guest. He is the book reviews editor for Electric Literature and the founder of an independent press called Civil Coping ...
Episode 245 — Rachel Cantor
22 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Cantor is the guest. Her debut novel, A Highly Unlikely Scenario, Or, A Neetsa Pizza Employee's Guide to Saving the World. Library Journal says...
Episode 244 — Hilton Als
19 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Hilton Als is the guest. His latest book, White Girls, is now available from McSweeney's—and it has just been nominated for the National Book Critic...
Premium: Gloria Harrison
16 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Gloria Harrison is the guest. She is a writer and a longtime contributor to The Nervous Breakdown, and in May of 2013 she was featured on This America...
Episode 243 — Jennifer Percy
15 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Percy is the guest. Her new book, Demon Camp, is available from Scribner. It is the official January selection of The TNB Book Club. Dexter...
Episode 242 — Mary Miller
12 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Miller is the guest. Her debut novel, The Last Days of California, is available from Liveright. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, raves “...
Episode 241 — Elisa Gabbert
08 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Elisa Gabbert is the guest. Her new book, The Self Unstable, is now available from Black Ocean. Teju Cole, writing for The New Yorker, says "I foun...
Episode 240 — Ravi Mangla
05 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Ravi Mangla is the guest. His new novella, Understudies, is now available from Outpost 19. Laura van den Berg raves "Ravi Mangla's Understudies is ...
Episode 239 — James Scott
01 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
James Scott is the guest. His debut novel, The Kept, is available from Harper. Kirkus, in a starred review, says “Scott is both compassionate moral...
Episode 238 — Jennifer Michael Hecht
29 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
[Note: I've decided to make this episode available without subscription so that people can listen to it and share it as easily as possible. -BL] Je...
Episode 237 — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
25 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the guest. Her new memoir, The End of San Francisco, is now available from City Lights Books. Kirkus calls it "A blist...
Episode 236 — Olivia Laing
22 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Olivia Laing is the guest. Her new book The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking, is available from Picador. Publishers Weekly, in a starred r...
Ned Vizzini, 1981—2013
20 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This is my conversation with Ned, which first aired on December 16, 2012. I wanted to make it available to those who love him and those who love his...
Episode 235 — Joyelle McSweeney
18 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Joyelle McSweeney is the guest. Her books include the poetry collection The Red Bird, and the novels Nylund, the Sarcographer and Flet. Recently, her ...
Episode 234 — Jonathan Miles
15 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Miles is the guest. His new novel, Want Not, is now available from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Dave Eggers, writing for The New York Times Boo...
Episode 233 — Karolina Waclawiak
11 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Karolina Waclawiak is the guest. Her debut novel, How to Get Into the Twin Palms, is now available from Two Dollar Radio. The New York Times Book Revi...
Episode 232 — Noah Cicero
08 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Noah Cicero is the guest. His new novel is called Go to Work and Do Your Job. Care for Your Children. Pay Your Bills. Obey the Law. Buy Products., and...
Episode 231 — Colum McCann
04 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Colum McCann is the guest. In 2009, he won the National Book Award for his novel Let the Great World Spin and this year published a new novel called T...
Episode 230 — Ben Brooks
01 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Brooks is the guest. His new novel, Lolito, is now available from Canongate Books. Nick Cave says "Lolito is the funniest, most horrible book I'v...
Episode 229 — Jamie Iredell
27 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie Iredell is the guest. His new essay collection, I Was a Fat Drunk Catholic School Insomniac, is now available from Future Tense. Scott McClan...
Episode 228 — Claire Vaye Watkins
24 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Claire Vaye Watkins is the guest. Her debut story collection, Battleborn, is now available in paperback from Riverhead. Antonya Nelson, writing for T...
Episode 227 — Kevin Sampsell
20 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Sampsell is the guest. His debut novel, This is Between Us, is now available from Tin House Books. Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins, says ...
Episode 226 — Daniel Alarcón
17 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Alarcón is the guest. His new novel, At Night We Walk in Circles, is now available from Riverhead Books. The New York Times Book Review calls ...
Episode 225 — Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon
13 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon is the guest. Her debut novel, Nothing, is now available from Two Dollar Radio. Joy Williams calls it "A burning mean and da...
Episode 224 — Laura van den Berg
10 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Laura van den Berg is the guest. Her new story collection, The Isle of Youth, is now available from FSG Originals. Publishers Weekly, in a starred r...
Episode 223 — Monica Drake
06 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Monica Drake is the guest. Her new novel, The Stud Book, is now available from Hogarth Press. Cheryl Strayed says “Monica Drake has written a take-...
Episode 222 — Doug Dorst
03 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Doug Dorst is the guest. His latest novel, co-authored with film director J.J. Abrams, is called S. (Mulholland Books). USA Today calls it "...an i...
Episode 221 — Jennifer duBois
30 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer duBois is the guest. Her new novel, Cartwheel, is now available from Random House. The New York Times Book Review calls it “Psychologicall...
Episode 220 — Chelsea Martin
27 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Chelsea Martin is the guest. Her new book, Even Though I Don't Miss You, is due out from Short Flight / Long Drive Books on November 1, 2013. Blake ...
Episode 219 — Davis Schneiderman
23 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Davis Schneiderman is the guest. His new novel, [SIC], is now available from Jaded Ibis Productions. [SIC] includes public domain works published unde...
218. Jesmyn Ward
20 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Jesmyn Ward is the guest. She was the 2011 recipient of the National Book Award for her novel, Salvage the Bones, and her new memoir, Men We Reaped, i...
Episode 217 — Chris L. Terry
16 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Chris L. Terry is the guest. His debut novel, Zero Fade, is now available from Curbside Splendor. Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's ...
Episode 216 — Lauren Grodstein
13 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren Grodstein is the guest. Her new novel, The Explanation for Everything, is now available from Algonquin Books. It is the official October select...
Episode 215 — Ethel Rohan
09 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Ethel Rohan is the guest. Her new story collection, Goodnight Nobody, is now available from Queen's Ferry Press. Peter Orner raves “Ethel Rohan spe...
Episode 214 — Cari Luna
06 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Cari Luna is the guest. Her debut novel, The Revolution of Every Day, is now available from Tin House. Kirkus says "Luna creates an array of complex ...
Episode 213 — Jeff Jackson
02 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Jackson is the guest. His debut novel, Mira Corpora, is now available from Two Dollar Radio. Don DeLillo says "It's fine work in its manic pac...
212. Jonathan Lethem
29 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Lethem is the guest. His latest novel, Dissident Gardens, is now available from Doubleday. The Los Angeles Times raves "Lethem is as ambitio...
Episode 211 — Edwidge Danticat
25 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Edwidge Danticat is the guest. Her new novel Claire of the Sea Light (Knopf), is the official September selection of The TNB Book Club. Kirkus says “...
Episode 210 — Curtis Sittenfeld
22 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Curtis Sittenfeld is the guest. She is the bestselling author of the novels Prep and American Wife, and her new book, Sisterland, is now available in ...
Episode 209 — Tom Perrotta
18 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Perrotta is the guest. He is the author of several acclaimed works of fiction, including Election, Little Children, The Abstinence Teacher, and Th...
Episode 208 — Mitchell S. Jackson
15 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Mitchell S. Jackson is the guest. His debut novel, The Residue Years, is now available from Bloomsbury. Jesmyn Ward says "I know these characters wel...
Episode 207 — Roy Kesey
11 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Roy Kesey is the guest. His latest story collection, Any Deadly Thing, is now available from Dzanc Books. Elizabeth Crane says "Roy Kesey's stories i...
Episode 206 — Cal Morgan
08 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Cal Morgan is the guest. He is a senior vice president and executive editor at the Harper division of HarperCollins, where he is also the editorial di...
Episode 205 — Beth Lisick
04 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Beth Lisick is the guest. Her new book, Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames, is due out from City Lights Publishers on September 24, 2013. Kath...
Episode 204 — Mark Leibovich
01 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Leibovich is the guest. His new book, This Town, is a #1 New York Times bestseller. It's available now from Blue Rider Press. Politico says “N...
Episode 203 — Peter Orner
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Orner is the guest. His new story collection, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, is now available from Little, Brown. Tom Bissell says “Pet...
Episode 202 — Lindsay Hunter
25 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Lindsay Hunter is the guest. Her new story collection, Don't Kiss Me, is now available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Kirkus Reviews raves “Don’...
Episode 201 — Gregory Sherl
21 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Gregory Sherl is the guest. His new book Monogamy Songs is now available from Future Tense. The Huffington Post raves "The problem with post-confessi...
Episode 200 — Susan Orlean
18 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Orlean is the guest. A staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, she is also the bestselling author of several books, including The Orchid Thief...