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Episode 126 — Erika Rae

28 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Erika Rae is today's guest. Her debut memoir, Devangelical, will be published by Emergency Press on December 11, 2012.  Laurie Notaro, author of The...

Episode 125 — Michael Kardos

25 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Kardos is the guest. His debut novel, The Three-Day Affair, is now available from Mysterious Press. The New York Times says Michael Kardos’...

Episode 124 — Karen Engelmann

21 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Karen Engelmann is the guest.  Her debut novel, The Stockholm Octavo, is now available from Ecco.  Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, says "Ne...

Episode 123 — Sam Pink

18 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Pink is the guest.  He is the author of several books, including the novel Person.  And his latest novel, Rontel, is due out from Lazy Fascist P...

Episode 122 — T.C. Boyle

14 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

T.C. Boyle is the guest. He is the author of twenty-three books of fiction, including The Tortilla Curtain, Drop City, and World's End, for which he w...

Episode 121 — Lisa Carver

11 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Lisa Carver is the guest.  Also known as Lisa Suckdog, she is a writer and performance artist whose latest book is called Reaching Out with No Hands:...

Episode 120 — Michael Kimball

07 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Kimball is the guest.  He is the author of four books, the latest of which is a novel called Big Ray, now available in hardcover from Bloomsb...

Episode 119 — Julie Klam

04 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Julie Klam is the guest. She is the author of several books, the most recent of which is called Friendkeeping: A Field Guide to the People You Love, H...

Episode 118 — J. Robert Lennon

31 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

J. Robert Lennon is today's guest.  He is the author of several books, and his latest novel, Familiar, is now available from Graywolf Press. The New ...

Episode 117 — Susan Straight

28 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Susan Straight is the guest.  She is the author of several books and has been a finalist for the National Book Award.  Her new novel, Between Heaven...

Episode 116 — Antoine Wilson

24 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Antoine Wilson is today's guest.  He's the author of two novels, the most recent of which is called Panorama City, now available from Houghton Miffli...

Episode 115 - Jami Attenberg

21 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Jami Attenberg is the guest. Her new novel, The Middlesteins, is now available from Grand Central Publishing.  Jonathan Franzen raves "The Middleste...

Episode 114 — Sean Beaudoin

17 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Sean Beaudoin is today's guest.  He's the author of several books, the most recent of which is a novel called The Infects, now available from Candlew...

Episode 113 — Paula Bomer

14 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Paula Bomer is today's guest. She's the author of two books, the most recent of which is a novel called Nine Months, which is available now from Soho ...

Episode 112 — Lorin Stein

10 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Lorin Stein is the guest.  He is the editor of The Paris Review and the co-editor (with Sadie Stein) of a new anthology called Object Lessons: The Pa...

Episode 111 — Kathleen Alcott

07 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Kathleen Alcott is today's guest.  Her debut novel, The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets, is now available from Other Press. Bookslut raves Heartbreakin...

110. Steven Gillis

03 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Steven Gillis is the author of several books and the co-founder of Dzanc Books.  His latest story collection, The Law of Strings, is now available fr...

Episode 109 — Benjamin Wood

30 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Benjamin Wood is the guest.  His debut novel, The Bellwether Revivals, is now available from Viking in the United States and Simon & Schuster in the ...

Episode 108 — Amber Sparks

26 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Amber Sparks is today's guest.  Her debut story collection, May We Shed These Human Bodies, is now available from Curbside Splendor. Raves Michael Ki...

Episode 107 — D.T. Max

23 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

D.T. Max is the guest.  He's a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and the author of Every Love Story is a Ghost Story:  A Life of David Foster ...

106. Thad Ziolkowski

19 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Thad Ziolkowski is the author of the debut novel, Wichita (Tonga Books). Also by Thad Ziolkowski: On a Wave: A Memoir Ziolkowski is the author of Ou...

105. Leigh Stein

16 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Leigh Stein is the author of the novel THE FALLBACK PLAN and the poetry collection DISPATCH FROM THE FUTURE (Melville House). Support independent book...

Episode 104 — David Abrams

12 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

David Abrams is the guest.  He's the author of the debut novel Fobbit, which is now available from Grove/Atlantic. Publishers Weekly, in a starred re...

Episode 103 — Dana Johnson

09 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Dana Johnson is the guest.  She's the author of the story collection Break Any Woman Down, winner of the Flannery O'Connor award for short fiction, a...

Episode 102 — Alix Ohlin

05 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Alix Ohlin is the guest.  She's the author of several books, the most recent of which are the story collection Signs and Wonders, available now from ...

101. Matthew Batt

02 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew Batt is the author of the memoir Sugarhouse (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Support independent bookstores! Buy your copy here. Batt's work has ...

Episode 100 — George Saunders

29 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

George Saunders is today's guest.  He's the bestselling author of several books, including CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, and The Braindead...

99. Elizabeth Ellen

26 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Elizabeth Ellen is the author of the chapbook Before You She was a Pit Bull (Future Tense) and Fast Machine, a collection of her best work from the la...

Episode 98 — Pauls Toutonghi

22 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Pauls Toutonghi is today's guest.  He's the author of two novels, the latest of which is called Evel Knievel Days, now available from Crown Books. Ki...

Episode 97 — Oksana Marafioti

19 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Oksana Marafioti is today's guest.  She's the author of a new memoir called American Gypsy, now available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Kirkus calls...

Episode 96 — Steve Roggenbuck

15 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Roggenbuck is the guest.  He is a traveling poet-slash-blogger whose latest poetry collection, Crunk Juice, is now available from Lief Books. ...

Episode 95 — Maria Semple

12 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Maria Semple is today's guest.  For years she worked in television, writing for shows like Mad About You and Arrested Development.  Then, in 2008, s...

Episode 94 — Karl Taro Greenfeld

08 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Karl Taro Greenfeld is the guest.  He's a journalist who has written for The Nation, Time magazine, and Sports Illustrated.  And he's the author of ...

93. Lidia Yuknavitch

05 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the debut novel Dora: A Headcase (Hawthorne Books). Support indie booksellers! Also by Lidia Yuknavitch: The Chrono...

Episode 92 — Patrick Wensink

01 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Patrick Wensink is today's guest.  His latest novel, Broken Piano for President, is now available from Lazy Fascist Press. It recently incited an unu...

91. Sheila Heti

29 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Sheila Heti is the author of How Should a Person Be? (Henry Holt). Heti is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction, including Motherhoo...

Episode 90 — Christopher Beha

25 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Christopher Beha is the guest. He's an associate editor at Harper's magazine and the author of the debut novel What Happened to Sophie Wilder, now ava...

Episode 89 — Jess Walter

22 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Jess Walter is the guest.  He's a National Book Award nominee and the author of several novels, the most recent of which is called Beautiful Ruins, n...

Episode 88 — Christopher Narozny

18 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Christopher Narozny is the guest.  His debut novel, Jonah Man, is now available from Ig Publishing. Raves Patrick DeWitt, author of The Sisters Broth...

Episode 87 — Scott McClanahan

15 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Scott McClanahan is the guest.  He is the author of several books, the latest of which is called The Complete Works of Scott McClanahan, Vol. 1, now ...

Episode 86 — Alexis Smith

11 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Alexis Smith is today's guest.  Her debut novel, Glaciers, is now available from Tin House Books. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, calls it .....

85. Seth Greenland

08 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Seth Greenland is the author of three novels, the most recent of which is The Angry Buddhist (Europa Editions). Also by Seth Greenland: A Kingdom of ...

Episode 84 — Elizabeth Collins

04 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Elizabeth Collins is today's guest.  She's the editor of The Beautiful Anthology, a collection of essays, stories, and poems from TNB Books, all of w...

83. Joshua Henkin

01 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Joshua Henkin is the author of the novel The World Without You (Pantheon). His other books include Morningside Heights, Swimming Across the Hudson, ...

82. Jürgen Fauth

27 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Jürgen Fauth is the author of the novel KINO (Atticus Books). Fauth is also the author of Raves and The Ashakiran Tape. He lives in Berlin and Dakar...

Episode 81 — Kate Christensen

24 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Christensen is today's guest (photo credit:  Marion Ettlinger).  She's the author of six novels, the fourth of which, The Great Man, won the 20...

Episode 80 — Erik Larson

20 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Today's episode of Other People is brought to you by Audible.com.  And here's a special offer:  Right now, listeners of this program can get a free ...

Episode 79 — Elizabeth Crane

17 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Elizabeth Crane is the guest.  She's the author of three story collections—When the Messenger is Hot, All This Heavenly Glory, and You Must Be This...

78. Miles Klee

13 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Miles Klee is the author of a debut novel called Ivyland (O/R Books). Support indie bookstores! Shop here. Klee is also the author of the story colle...

77. Ron Rash

10 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Ron Rash is the author of the novel The Cove (Ecco). Rash is the author of six novels, five collections of short stories, and four collections of poe...

Episode 76 — Esi Edugyan

06 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Esi Edugyan is the guest.  She's a Canadian author whose novel, Half-Blood Blues,  was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2011.  It won the Sc...

75. Jerry Stahl

03 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Jerry Stahl is the author of several books, including the memoir Permanent Midnight, which was adapted into a film starring Ben Stiller.  Stahl's ot...

Episode 74 — Jim Lynch

30 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Jim Lynch is today's guest.  He's the author of three novels, the most recent of which is Truth Like the Sun, now available from Knopf.  It was the ...

Episode 73 — Elna Baker

27 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Elna Baker is the guest.  She's the author of memoir The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance, now available from Penguin.  She's also a...

72. Edgar Oliver

23 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Edgar Oliver is the guest. He is an American stage and film actor, a poet, a performance artist, and a playwright. His poetry collections include The...

71. Ben Fountain

20 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Fountain is the author of the novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Ecco Press). He was born in Chapel Hill and grew up in the tobacco country o...

Episode 70 — Emily St. John Mandel

16 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Emily St. John Mandel is the guest.  Her latest novel is called The Lola Quartet, and it is available now from Unbridled Books. Library Journal, in a...

Episode 69 — Etgar Keret

13 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Etgar Keret is the guest.  He's the author of several books, the most recent of which is called Suddenly, a Knock on the Door, now available from Far...

68. David Rees

09 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

David Rees is the author of How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artist...

67. Chloe Caldwell

06 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Chloe Caldwell is the author of the debut essay collection Legs Get Led Astray, now available from Future Tense Books. Caldwell is the author of th...

66. Kris D’Agostino

02 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Kris D'Agostino is the author of the debut novel The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac (Algonquin). He is also the author of the novel The Antiques. *** ...

65. Matt Bell

29 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Bell is the author of several chapbooks, a fiction collection called How They Were Found, and his most recent book is a novella called Cataclysm ...

Episode 64 — Noah Hawley

25 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Noah Hawley is the guest.  He's the author of several books, the most recent of which is a novel called The Good Father, now available from Doubleday...

63. James Bernard Frost

22 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 62 — Heidi Julavits

18 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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 Double...

61. Rosecrans Baldwin

15 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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 i...

Episode 60 — Kris Saknussemm

11 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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 av...

Episode 59 — Amelia Gray

08 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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,...

Episode 58 — Melissa Broder

04 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 57 — Hari Kunzru

01 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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. Davi...

Episode 56 — Jessica Keener

28 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Jessica Keener is today's guest.  Her debut novel, Night Swim, is now available from Fiction Studio Books. Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan says: ...

Episode 55 — Catherine Chung

25 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Catherine Chung is the guest.  Her debut novel, Forgotten Country, is now available from Riverhead Books. Booklist, in a starred review, raves: Chung...

Episode 54 — Jeff Ragsdale

21 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

Episode 53 — Sarah Manguso

18 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 52 — Lysley Tenorio

14 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 51 — Lauren Groff

11 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 50 — Maud Newton

07 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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 edi...

Episode 49 — Joe Blair

04 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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, rave...

Episode 48 — Ramona Ausubel

29 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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 s...

Episode 47 — Ryan Boudinot

26 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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 revie...

Episode 46 — Cheryl Strayed

22 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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 advi...

Episode 45 — Adam Wilson

19 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 44 — Eleanor Henderson

15 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 43 — Ben Marcus

12 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 42 — Ben Tanzer

08 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 41 — Claire Bidwell Smith

05 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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, t...

Episode 40 — Susan Sherman

01 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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 als...

Episode 39 — Caroline Leavitt

29 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 38 — Vanessa Veselka

25 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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 ch...

Episode 37 — Alan Heathcock

22 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

  The guest is Alan Heathcock, author of the critically acclaimed story collection Volt, now available from Graywolf Press. Volt was named a Best Boo...

Episode 36 — D.R. Haney

18 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

  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 ...

Episode 35 — Tayari Jones

15 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

The guest today is Tayari Jones, author of the novels Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, and most recently, Silver Sparrow, now available from Algonquin ...

Episode 34 — Roxane Gay

11 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

 Roxane Gay is the guest. Her debut, Ayiti, is a collection of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and it is now available from Artistically Declined P...

Episode 33 — Rex Pickett

08 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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 wen...

Episode 32 — Cecil Castellucci

04 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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 f...

Episode 31 — Dana Spiotta

01 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 30 — Jamal Joseph

28 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

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 a...

Episode 29 — Ben Loory

25 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

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 fav...

Episode 28 — Edan Lepucki

21 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 27 — Barry Eisler

18 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

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 publ...