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692. Ahmed Naji

10 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ahmed Naji is the guest. He is the author of three novels, including Using Life (University of Texas Press), which led to his imprisonment in Egypt—...

691. Michael Bible

03 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Bible is the guest. His new novel, The Ancient Hours, is available from Melville House. Support independent booksellers! Get your copy here. B...

690. Te-Ping Chen

27 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Te-Ping Chen is the guest. Her debut story collection, Land of Big Numbers, is available from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It is the official January pi...

689. Rob Doyle

20 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Doyle is the guest. His new book, Threshold, is available from Bloomsbury. Doyle's debut novel, Here Are the Young Men, was published in 2014 by ...

688. Gil Adamson

13 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gil Adamson is the guest. Her new novel, The Ridgerunner, will be published in the United States by House of Anansi Press on February 2, 2021. Adamson...

687. George Saunders

06 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

George Saunders is the guest. His new book, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, is available from Random House. This is George's second time on the program....

686. Holiday Spectacular

23 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In keeping with the tenets of 2020, this year's holiday episode unfolded online, not in a Zoom room but in a "Skype amphitheater." With guest appearan...

685. Alex Branson

16 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Branson is the guest. His new novel, Water, Wasted, is available from Rare Bird Books. It is the official December pick of The Nervous Breakdown ...

684. Michael Schumacher

09 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Schumacher is the guest. He is the editor of The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971, by the late Allen Ginsberg, available now from the Unive...

683. Travis Hoewischer

02 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Travis Hoewischer is the guest. He is the author of the Two Dollar Radio Guide to Naming Your Baby, available now from Two Dollar Radio. Hoewischer ha...

682. Darien Gee

25 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Darien Gee is the guest. She has two books out this year. The first is called Other Small Histories, a poetry collection available from Poetry Society...

681. Kasey Thornton

18 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kasey Thornton is the guest. Her debut novel-in-stories, Lord the One You Love is Sick, is available now from Ig Publishing. It is the official Novemb...

680. Andrew Weatherhead

11 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Weatherhead is the guest. His latest book, $50,000, is available from Publishing Genius. Weatherhead is a writer and artist from Chicago, Illin...

679. Sebastian Castillo

04 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sebastian Castillo is the guest. His new book, Not I, is available from Word West Press. Castillo is the author of 49 Venezuelan Novels (Bottlecap ...

678. Jared Yates Sexton

28 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jared Yates Sexton is the guest. His new book, American Rule, is available from Dutton. This is Jared's second time on the program. He first appeared ...

677. Anne Helen Petersen

21 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Anne Helen Petersen is the guest. Her new book, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, is available from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...

676. Laura Bogart

14 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Laura Bogart is the guest. Her debut novel, Don't You Know I Love You, is available from Dzanc Books. Bogart is also a non-fiction writer who focuses ...

675. Dean Koontz

07 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dean Koontz is the guest. His new novel, Elsewhere, is available from Thomas & Mercer. Koontz is the author of fourteen number one New York Times be...

674. Lynn Steger Strong

04 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Lynn Steger Strong is the guest. Her new novel, Want, is available from Henry Holt. Strong was born and raised in South Florida. Her first novel, Hold...

673. Steven Dunn

30 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Steven Dunn is the guest. His latest novel, water & power, is available from Tarpaulin Sky. Dunn's other novel, Potted Meat, is also available from Ta...

672. Amy Shearn

23 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Amy Shearn is the guest. Her new novel, Unseen City, is available from Red Hen Press. It is the official September pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book ...

671. Kathleen Rooney

16 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kathleen Rooney is the guest. Her new novel, Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey, is available from Penguin Books. This is her second time on the program. S...

670. Matthew Salesses

09 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew Salesses is the guest. His new novel, Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, is available from Little A Publishing. This is Matthew's second time ...

669. David Goodwillie

02 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

David Goodwillie is the guest. His new novel, Kings County, is available from Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster. Goodwillie's other books include t...

668. Emerson Whitney

26 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Emerson Whitney is the guest. He is the author of a memoir called Heaven, available from McSweeney's. Whitney is also the author of Ghost Box. He teac...

667. Nick Flynn

19 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Flynn is the guest. His new memoir, This is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire, is available now from W.W. Norton & Co. It is the official Augus...

666. Stephen Graham Jones

16 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Graham Jones is the guest. His latest novel, The Only Good Indians, is available from Gallery Books. Jones is the author of twenty-five or so ...

665. Mesha Maren

12 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mesha Maren is the guest. Her debut novel, Sugar Run, is available from Algonquin Books. Maren's short stories and essays can be read in Tin House, ...

664. Sabrina Orah Mark

09 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sabrina Orah Mark is the guest. Her story collection, Wild Milk, is available from The Dorothy Project. Sabrina grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She ear...

663. Hilary Leichter

05 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary Leichter is the guest. Her debut novel, Temporary, is available from Coffee House Press. Hilary teaches at Columbia University, where she earne...

662. Leigh Stein

02 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Leigh Stein is the guest. Her new novel, Self Care, is available from Penguin. This is Leigh's third time on the program. She first appeared in Episod...

661. Raphael Bob-Waksberg

29 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Raphael Bob-Waksberg is the guest. He is the creator of the animated television series BoJack Horseman and the author of a new story collection cal...

660. Maggie Downs

26 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Maggie Downs is the guest. Her new memoir, Braver Than You Think: Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother's) Lifetime, is available from Counterpoi...

659. Jean Kyoung Frazier

22 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jean Kyoung Frazier is the guest. Her new novel, Pizza Girl, is available from Doubleday. It is the official July pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book C...

658. Nikki Dolson

19 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Nikki Dolson is the guest. Her new story collection, Love and Other Criminal Behavior, is available from Bronzeville Books. Dolson is a writer primari...

657. Genevieve Hudson

15 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Genevieve Hudson is the guest. Their new novel, Boys of Alabama, is available from Liveright Publishing. This is their second time on the program. The...

656. Wayne Koestenbaum

12 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Wayne Koestenbaum is the guest. His new essay collection, Figure It Out, is available from Soft Skull Press. Koestenbaum has published nineteen books,...

655. Joseph Di Prisco

08 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Joseph Di Prisco is the guest. His new novel, The Good Family Fitzgerald, is available from Rare Bird Books. It was the official May pick of The Nervo...

654. Meredith Talusan

05 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Meredith Talusan is the guest. Her new memoir, Fairest, is available from Viking. Talusan is an award-winning journalist and author. She has written ...

653. Brian Allen Carr

01 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Allen Carr is the guest. His new novel, Opioid, Indiana, is available from Soho Press. This is Carr's second time on the program. He first appea...

652. Natalie Diaz

28 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Natalie Diaz is the guest. Her new poetry collection, Postcolonial Love Poem, is available from Graywolf Press. It is the official June pick of The Ne...

651. Brady Hammes

24 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Brady Hammes is the guest. His debut novel, The Resolutions, is available from Ballantine Books. Hammes lives in Los Angeles by way of Colorado and Io...

650. Spring Washam

21 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Spring Washam is the guest. She is the author of A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage, and Wisdom in Any Moment (Hay House). Washam is a well-kno...

649. Ashleigh Bryant Phillips

17 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ashleigh Bryant Phillips is the guest. Her debut story collection, Sleepovers, is available from Hub City Press. It is the winner of the 2019 C. Micha...

648. Roxane Gay

14 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Roxane Gay is the guest. A contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, she is the author of several bestselling books, including Bad Feminist,...

647. Susan Choi

10 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Susan Choi is the guest. Her novel, Trust Exercise, is available in trade paperback from Henry Holt. It is the winner of the 2019 National Book Award ...

A Few Words

03 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The podcast is dark this week, in light of the events of the past few days. A few brief words on the current state of things, recorded in Los Angeles...

646. Kristen Millares Young

27 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kristen Millares Young is the guest. Her debut novel, Subduction, is available from Red Hen Press. Young is a prize-winning journalist and essayist wh...

645. Chelsea Bieker

20 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Chelsea Bieker is the guest. Her debut novel, Godshot, is available from Catapult Press. Bieker's forthcoming story collection, Cowboys and Angels, i...

644. Chris Dennis

17 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Dennis is the guest. His new story collection, Here is What You Do, is available from Soho Press. Dennis' work has appeared in The Paris Review,...

643. Mary South

13 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mary South is the guest. Her debut story collection, You Will Never Be Forgotten, is available from FSG Originals. South is a graduate of Northwestern...

642. Danielle Trussoni

06 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Danielle Trussoni is the guest. Her new novel, The Ancestor, is available from William Morrow. Trussoni is the New York Times, USA Today, and Sunda...

641. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

29 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is the guest. Her new novel, Starling Days, is available from The Overlook Press. It is the official April pick of The Nervous B...

640. Kevin Bigley

22 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Bigley is the guest. His new novel, Comaville, is available from Clash Books. Bigley is an actor/author. He can be seen on such television as Am...

639. Juliana Delgado Lopera

19 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Juliana Delgado Lopera is the guest. Their new novel, Fiebre Tropical, is available from The Feminist Press. It was the official February pick of The ...

638. Amanda Goldblatt

15 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Amanda Goldblatt is the guest. Her debut novel, Hard Mouth, is available from Counterpoint Press. Goldblatt's work can lately be found at NOON, Fenc...

637. Megan Boyle

12 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Megan Boyle is the guest. Her novel LIVEBLOG is available from Tyrant Books. This is Megan's second time on the program. She first appeared in Episode...

636. Crissy Van Meter

08 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Crissy Van Meter is the guest. Her debut novel, Creatures, is available from Algonquin Books. She teaches creative writing at The Writing Institute at...

635. Sarah Kendzior

05 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Kendzior is the guest. Her new book, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America, is available from Flatiron...

634. Jenn Shapland

01 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jenn Shapland is the guest. Her debut, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, is a genre-bending work of nonfiction. It is available from Tin House Boo...

633. Deb Olin Unferth

29 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Deb Olin Unferth is the guest. Her new novel Barn 8 is now available from Graywolf Press. It is the official March pick of the TNB Book Club. This is ...

632. Monika Woods

25 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Monika Woods is the guest. She is a literary agent and founder of Triangle House Literary in New York. Woods' clients have won the PEN Bingham Award, ...

631. Sam Farahmand

18 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Farahmand is the guest. His debut novel, Chimero, is available from dr.Doctor Press. Farahmand is originally from Los Angeles. His writing has app...

630. Erin Eileen Almond

11 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Erin Eileen Almond is the guest. Her debut novel, Witches' Dance, is available from Lanternfish Press. Almond is a novelist, short story writer, essa...

629. April Dávila

08 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

April Dávila is the guest. Her debut novel, 142 Ostriches, is available from Kensington Books. Dávila received her undergraduate degree from Scripps...

628. Emily Nemens

04 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Emily Nemens is the guest. Her debut novel, The Cactus League, is available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. In 2018, Nemens became the seventh editor o...

627. Megan Fernandes

01 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Megan Fernandes is the guest. Her new poetry collection, Good Boys, is available from Tin House Books. It was a finalist for the Kundiman Book Prize a...

626. Garth Greenwell

26 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Garth Greenwell is the guest. His new book Cleanness is available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which...

625. Katharine Coldiron

19 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Katharine Coldiron is the guest. Her debut novella, Ceremonials, is available from Kernpunkt Press. Coldiron's work has appeared in Ms., the Washingto...

624. Nicolette Polek

12 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Nicolette Polek is the guest. Her new story collection, Imaginary Museums, is available from Soft Skull Press. Polek is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio ...

623. Amina Cain

05 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Amina Cain is the guest. Her new novel, Indelicacy, is available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. This is Amina's second time on the program. She first ...

622. Elaine Kahn

29 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Elaine Kahn is the guest. She is a writer and artist currently based in Los Angeles. Her new poetry collection, Romance or The End, is available from...

621. Matthew Zapruder

22 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew Zapruder is the guest. His latest poetry collection, Father's Day, is available from Copper Canyon Press. This is his second time on the progr...

620. Amanda Yates Garcia

15 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Amanda Yates Garcia is the guest. Her new memoir, Initiated: Memoir of a Witch, is available from Grand Central Publishing. This is Amanda's second ti...

619. Steffie Nelson, Heather John Fogarty, & Sarah Tomlinson

08 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Steffie Nelson, Heather John Fogarty, and Sarah Tomlinson are the guests. All are contributors to a new essay anthology called Slouching Towards Los A...

618. Milo Martin

25 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Milo Martin is the guest. He is the author of the poetry collections Poems for the Utopian Nihilist (Echo Park Press) and the forthcoming sublemon/sub...

617. Mark Guerin

18 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Guerin is the guest. His debut novel, You Can See More From Up Here, is available from Golden Antelope Press. It is the official December pick of...

616. Tim O'Brien

11 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Tim O'Brien is the guest. He is the author of The Things They Carried, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Aw...

615. Abigail Tarttelin

04 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Abigail Tarttelin is the guest. Her new novel, Dead Girls, is available from Rare Bird Books. It was the official November pick of The Nervous Breakdo...

614. Fiona Alison Duncan

27 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Fiona Alison Duncan is the guest. Her debut novel, Exquisite Mariposa, is available from Soft Skull Press. Duncan is a Canadian-American artist, write...

613. Leland Cheuk

20 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Leland Cheuk is the guest. His new novel, No Good Very Bad Asian, is available from C&R Press. A MacDowell Colony and Hawthornden Castle Fellow, Cheuk...

612. Adrienne Brodeur

13 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Adrienne Brodeur is the guest. Her memoir, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me, is available from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It was the official O...

611. Mimi Lok

06 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Mimi Lok is the guest. Her debut story collection, Last of Her Name, is available from Kaya Press. Lok is the recipient of a Smithsonian Ingenuity Awa...

610. Adam Mansbach

03 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Mansbach is the guest. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the Fuck to Sleep, and has just published a new book called Fuc...

609. Ashley Wurzbacher

30 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ashley Wurzbacher is the guest. A 5 Under 35 honoree, her debut story collection, Happy Like This, won the 2019 John Simmons Short Fiction Award. It i...

608. Steph Cha

27 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Steph Cha is the guest. Her new novel, Your House Will Pay, is available from Ecco. This is Steph's second time on the program. She first appeared in ...

607. Jarett Kobek

23 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jarett Kobek is the guest. His new novel, Only Americans Burn in Hell, is available from We Heard You Like Books. This is Kobek's third time on the pr...

606. Madeline Stevens

20 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Madeline Stevens is the guest. Her debut novel, Devotion, is available from Ecco. Stevens is from Boring, Oregon and is currently based in Los Angeles...

605. Zulema Renee Summerfield

16 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Zulema Renee Summerfield is the guest. Her debut novel, Every Other Weekend, is available in trade paperback from Back Bay Books. Summerfield holds an...

604. Elizabeth Cantwell

09 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Elizabeth Cantwell is the guest. Her new poetry collection, All the Emergency-Type Structures, is available from Inlandia Institute. Cantwell lives in...

603. Adam Popescu

06 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Popescu is the guest. His debut novel, Nima, is available from Unnamed Press. Popescu is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in The N...

602. Robin Page

02 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Robin Page is the guest. Her debut novel, Small Silent Things, is available from Harper Perennial. Page was raised in Cincinnati and has degrees from ...

601. Belén Fernández

29 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Belén Fernández is the guest. Her new book, Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World, is available from OR Books. It is the official September...

600. Sarah M. Broom

25 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah M. Broom is the guest. Her debut memoir, The Yellow House, is available now from Grove Press. Broom began her writing career as a newspaper jour...

599. Dora Malech

22 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dora Malech is the guest. Her most recent poetry collection, Stet, is available from Princeton University Press. Malech's other collections include Sa...

598. Kimberly King Parsons

18 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Kimberly King Parsons is the guest. Her debut story collection, Black Light, is available now from Vintage. Born in Lubbock, Texas, Parsons earned a B...

597. Josh Gondelman

11 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Josh Gondelman is the guest. His new book, Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results, is available from Harper Perennial (Sept. 17).  Go...

596. R.O. Kwon

04 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

R.O. Kwon is the guest. Her bestselling debut novel, The Incendiaries, is available in trade paperback from Riverhead Books. Named a best book of the ...

595. Chris L. Terry

28 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Chris L. Terryis the guest. His new novel, Black Card, is available from Catapult Press. This is Terry's second time on the podcast. He first appeared...

594. Shane Jones

21 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Shane Jones is the guest. His latest novel, Vincent and Alice and Alice, is available from Tyrant Books. It is the official August pick of The Nervous...