The Maris Review
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Introducing The Lit Hub Podcast
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Literary Hub has a new podcast! Hosted by LH podcasts editor Drew Broussard, this new weekly show goes behind the scenes at Lit Hub, diving deeper int...
Episode 236: Tyriek White
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Tyriek White joins Maris Kreizman to talk about his Center for Fiction First Novel prize-winning novel, We Are A Haunti...
Episode 235: Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Sarah Blakley-Cartwright joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Alice Sadie Celine, out now from Simon & Schuster. Sarah Blak...
Episode 234: Naomi Alderman
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Naomi Alderman joins Maris Kreizman live at the Strand Bookstore in New York City to discuss The Future, out now from ...
Episode 233: Casey Plett
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Casey Plett joins Maris Kreizman to discuss On Community, out now from Biblioasis. Casey Plett is the author of A Drea...
Episode 232: K-Ming Chang
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, K-Ming Chang joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Organ Meats, out now from One World. K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman Fellow, a ...
Episode 231: Ed Park
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Ed Park joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Same Bed Different Dreams, out now from Random House. Ed Park is the author of...
Episode 230: Stephanie Land
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Stephanie Land joins Maris Kreizman to talk about her new book Class, out now from Atria Books. Stephanie Land is the a...
Episode 229: Jesse David Fox
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Jesse David Fox joins Maris Kreizman to talk about Comedy Book, out now from FSG. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...
Episode 228: Molly McGhee
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Molly McGhee joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Jonathan Abernathy, You Are Kind, out now from Astra House. Learn more abo...
Episode 227: Justin Torres
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Justin Torres joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Blackouts, out now from FSG. Justin Torres is the author of We the Anima...
Episode 226: Safiya Sinclair
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Maris Kreizman chats with Safiya Sinclair about her debut memoir, How to Say Babylon, out now from 37Ink. Safiya Sincl...
Episode 225: C Pam Zhang
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, C Pam Zhang joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Land of Milk and Honey, out now from Riverhead. C Pam Zhang is the author o...
Episode 224; Aparna Nancherla
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Maris Kreizman talks to Aparna Nancherla about her new memoir, Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Imposter Syndrome, ...
Episode 223: Kristi Coulter
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of The Maris Review, Maris Kreizman talks with Kristi Coulter about her new book Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Ca...
Episode 222: John Manuel Arias
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, John Manuel Arias joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Where There Was Fire, out now from Flatiron Books. John Manuel Arias...
Episode 221: Myriam Gurba
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Myriam Gurba joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Creep, out now from Avid Reader Press. Myriam Gurba is a writer and ar...
Episode 220: Hilary Leichter
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Hilary Leichter joins Maris to talk about her new novel Terrace Story, out now from Ecco. Hilary Leichter is the autho...
Episode 219: Jenn Shapland
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of The Maris Review, Maris talks with Jenn Shapland about her new essay collection Thin Skin, out now from Pantheon. Jenn Shapland's ...
Episode 218: Edan Lepucki
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Edan Lepucki joins Maris to discuss Time's Mouth, out now from Counterpoint. Edan Lepucki is the New York Times bestse...
Episode 217: Elizabeth Acevedo
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Maris talks with Elizabeth Acevedo about her new book Family Lore, out from Ecco. Elizabeth Acevedo is the New York Ti...
Episode 216: Jamel Brinkley
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Maris talks with Jamel Brinkley about Witness, his new short story collection, out now from FSG. Jamel Brinkley is the...
Episode 215: Donovan X. Ramsey
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Maris talks with Donovan X. Ramsey about his new book, When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era, ...
Episode 214: Sarah Rose Etter
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Maris talks with Sarah Rose Etter about her new book Ripe, out now from Scribner. Sarah Rose Etter is the author of th...
Episode 213: Ruth Madievsky
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Ruth Madievsky joins Maris Kreizman to discuss All Night Pharmacy, out now from Catapult. Ruth Madievsky's debut novel...
Episode 212: Sarah Viren
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Sarah Viren joins Maris Kreizman to discuss To Name the Bigger Lie, out now from Scribner. Sarah Viren is a contributi...
Episode 211: Tania James
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Tania James joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Loot, out now from Knopf. Tania James is the author of the novels The Tusk...
Episode 210: Keziah Weir
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Keziah Weir joins Maris Kreizman live at P&T Knitwear in New York City to discuss The Mythmakers, out now from Simon & ...
Episode 209: Mattie Lubchansky
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Mattie Lubchansky joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Boys Weekend, out now from Pantheon. Mattie Lubchansky is a cartooni...
Episode 208: S. A. Cosby
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, S. A. Cosby joins Maris Kreizman to discuss All the Sinners Bleed, out now from Flatiron Books. S. A. Cosby is an Anth...
Episode 207: Maureen Ryan
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Maureen Ryan joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood, out n...
Episode 206: Rita Chang-Eppig
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Rita Chang-Eppig joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea, out May 30 from Bloomsbury. Rita Cha...
Episode 205: Samantha Irby
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Samantha Irby joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new book, Quietly Hostile, out now from Vintage Books. Samantha Irby...
Episode 204: Christina Sharpe
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Christina Sharpe joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new book, Ordinary Notes, out now from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ...
Episode 203: Jaime Green
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Jaime Green joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new book, The Possibility of Life, out now from Hanover Square Press. J...
Episode 202: Claire Dederer
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Claire Dederer joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her latest book, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma, out now from Knopf. Claire Dederer is the author of Love an...
Episode 201: Victor LaValle
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Victor Lavalle joins Maris Kreizman to discuss his latest novel, Lone Women, out now from One World. Victor LaValle is ...
Episode 200: Alex Mar
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Mar joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new book, Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy, out now from Penguin Press. Alex Mar is ...
Episode 199: Nicole Chung
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nicole Chung joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new book, A Living Remedy, out now from Ecco Press. Nicole Chung is the author of the national bestse...
Episode 198: Idra Novey
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Idra Novey joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new novel, Take What You Need, out now from Viking. Idra Novey is the a...
Episode 197: Catherine Lacey
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Lacey joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new novel, Biography of X, out now from FSG. Catherine Lacey is the author of the novels Nobody I...
Episode 196: Jenny Jackson
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jenny Jackson joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her debut novel, Pineapple Street, out now from Pamela Dorman Books. Jenny Jackson is a vice president ...
Episode 195: Jennifer Wright
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Wright joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her latest book, Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fe...
Episode 194: Michael Schulman
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Schulman joins Maris Kreizman to discuss his new book, Oscar Wars, out now from Harper. Michael Schulman is a writer living in New York City....
Episode 193: Rebecca Makkai
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Makkai joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new novel, I Have Some Questions for You, out now from Viking. Rebecca Makkai’s last novel, The...
Episode 192: Malcolm Harris
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Malcolm Harris joins Maris Kreizman to discuss his new book, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, out now from Little Brown ...
Episode 191: Ayobami Adebayo
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new novel, A Spell of Good Things, out now from Knopf. AYỌ̀BÁMI ADÉBÁYỌ̀ was ...
Episode 190: Sabrina Imbler
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Sabrina Imbler joins Maris Kreizman to discuss their new essay collection, How Far the Light Reaches, out now from Litt...
Episode 189: Aubrey Gordon
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Aubrey Gordon joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new book, “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People, out now from Beac...
Episode 188: Monica Heisey
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Monica Heisey joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her debut novel, Really Good, Actually, out now from William Morrow. Moni...
Episode 187: Dan Kois
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Kois is a writer, editor, and podcaster at Slate, where his work has been nominated for two National Magazine Awards and a Writers Guild Award. ...
Episode 186: Kashana Cauley
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kashana Cauley is a former Midtown antitrust lawyer and Brooklyn resident. She is a writer for the Fox comedy The Great North, a contributing opinion ...
Episode 185: Rivka Galchen
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation was live from the Miami Book Fair. See more programming from this year's festival at MiamiBookFair.com. Rivka Galchen is the recipi...
Episode 184: Evette Dionne
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Evette Dionne joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her debut book, Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul...
Episode 183: Heather Radke
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Heather Radke is an essayist, journalist, and contributing editor and reporter at Radiolab, the Peabody Award-winning program from WNYC. She has wr...
Episode 182: Jeanna Kadlec
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanna Kadlec is a writer, astrologer, former lingerie boutique owner, and recovering academic. Her writing has appeared in ELLE, NYLON, O the Opr...
Episode 181: Taffy Brodesser-Akner (Revisited!)
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. She has also written for GQ, ESPN the Magazine, and many other publications. ...
Episode 180: Nick Drnaso
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Drnaso was born in 1989 in Palos Hills, Illinois. His debut, Beverly, received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Graphic Novel. His f...
Episode 179: Lydia Millet
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Maris Review, Lydia Millet joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new novel, Dinosaurs, out now from W.W. Norton. ____________________...
Episode 178: George Saunders
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
George Saunders is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven books, including A Swim in a Pond in the Rain; Lincoln in the Bardo, which won t...
Episode 177: Ling Ma
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ling Ma is a writer hailing from Fujian, Utah, and Kansas. She is the author of the novel Severance, which received the Kirkus Prize, a Whiting Awar...
Episode 176: Namwali Serpell
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Namwali Serpell was born in Lusaka, Zambia, and lives in New York. Her debut novel, The Old Drift was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2019 by th...
Episode 175: Jasmine Guillory
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jasmine Guillory is a New York Times bestselling author; her novels include The Wedding Date, the Reese's Book Club selection The Proposal, and By The...
Episode 174: Bobby Finger
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bobby Finger is a writer and co-host of the popular celebrity and entertainment podcast, Who? Weekly. A Texas native, he lives in Brooklyn, New York. ...
Episode 173: Rachel Aviv
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Aviv is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes about medicine, education, criminal justice, and other subjects. In 2022, she won a ...
Episode 172: Nona Willis Aronowitz
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nona Willis Aronowitz is the sex and love columnist for Teen Vogue. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Cut, Elle, Vice, The W...
Episode 171: Miriam Parker
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Miriam Parker is the associate publisher of Ecco and the author of The Shortest Way Home and Room and Board. She has an MFA in creative writing fro...
Episode 170: Megan Giddings
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Megan Giddings is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota. Her first novel, Lakewood, was one of New York Magazine's top ten books of 20...
Episode 169: Steven W. Thrasher
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Steven W. Thrasher, PHD holds the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg chair at Northwestern University’s Medill School, the first journalism professorship i...
Episode 168: Elaine Castillo
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elaine Castillo, named one of "30 of the Planet's Most Exciting Young People" by the Financial Times, was born and raised in the Bay Area. Her debut n...
Episode 167: CJ Hauser
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
CJ Hauser teaches creative writing at Colgate University. She is the author of two novels, Family of Origin and The From-Aways. In 2019 she published ...
Episode 166: Ada Limón
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ada Limón is the author of The Hurting Kind, as well as five other collections of poems. These include, most recently, The Carrying, and Bright Dead ...
Episode 165: Isaac Fitzgerald
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Isaac Fitzgerald appears frequently on The Today Show and is the author of the bestselling children's book How to Be a Pirate as well as the co-aut...
Episode 164: Elisa Albert
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elisa Albert is the author of After Birth, The Book of Dahlia, the short story collection How This Night Is Different, and the editor of the anthology...
Episode 163: Tomi Obaro
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
TOMI OBARO is an editor at BuzzFeed News. She lives in Brooklyn. Her debut novel is called Dele Weds Destiny. Recommended Reading: Nervous Condition...
Episode 162: Marie Myung-Ok Lee
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Marie Myung-Ok Lee is a Korean American writer and author of the young adult novel Finding my Voice, thought to be one of the first contemporary-set A...
Episode 161: Sloane Crosley
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sloane Crosley is the author of the novel The Clasp and the essay collections Look Alive Out There and the New York Times bestsellers I Was Told There...
Episode 160: Melissa Chadburn
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa Chadburn's writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Book Review, and many other publications. Her extensive reporting...
Episode 159: Dan Chaon
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Chaon is the author of several previous books, including Ill Will, a national bestseller, named one of the ten best books of 2017 by Publishers We...
Episode 158: Kim Kelly
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kim Kelly is an independent journalist, author, and organizer. She has been a regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue since 2018, and her writing on la...
Episode 157: Elif Batuman
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elif Batuman's first novel, The Idiot, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in the UK. She is al...
Episode 156: Annie Hartnett
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Annie Hartnett is the author of Rabbit Cake, which was listed as one of Kirkus Reviews‘s Best Books of 2017 and a finalist for the New England Bo...
Episode 155: Michelle Hart
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michelle Hart's fiction has appeared in Joyland and Electric Literature, and she has written nonfiction for Catapult, NYLON, The Rumpus, and The New Y...
Episode 154: Vauhini Vara
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vauhini Vara has worked as a Wall Street Journal technology reporter and as the business editor for The New Yorker. Her fiction has been honored by th...
Introducing Storybound
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Now celebrating its fifth season, Storybound is a radio theater program designed for the podcast age. Hosted by 2021 KCRW Radio Race winner Jude Brewe...
Episode 153: Chantal V. Johnson
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chantal V. Johnson is a tenant lawyer and writer. A graduate of Stanford Law School and a 2018 Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellow, she lives i...
Episode 152: Maeve Higgins
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Maeve Higgins is a contributing writer for The New York Times and a former comedian who performed all over the world. She starred in the multi-award w...
Episode 151: Emily St. John Mandel
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL’s five previous novels include The Glass Hotel and Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/...
Episode 150: Chloé Cooper Jones
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chloé Cooper Jones is a philosophy professor and freelance journalist who was a finalist for a 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing. Her work has a...
Episode 149: Maud Newton
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Maud Newton has written for The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, The New York Times Book Review, and Oxford American. She grew up in Miami and gra...
Episode 148: Alex Segura
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Segura is the SVP of Sales and Marketing at Oni Press and the author of Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall and the acclaimed Pete Fernandez Mystery...
Episode 147: Liz Scheier
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Liz Scheier is a former Penguin Random House editor who worked in publishing and content development for many years, including at Barnes & Noble.com a...
Episode 146: Alejandro Zambra
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alejandro Zambra is the author of Multiple Choice; My Documents, a finalist for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award; and three other wo...
Episode 145: Sarah Manguso
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Manguso is the author of eight books. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, and the Rome Prize. Her work is regu...
Episode 144: Bethany Morrow
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bethany C. Morrow is a national bestselling author writing for adult and young adult audiences. She is the author of the novels Mem, A Song Below Wate...
Episode 143: Julia May Jonas
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Julia May Jonas is a playwright and she teaches theater at Skidmore College. She holds an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University and lives in Bro...
Episode 142: Tessa Hadley
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tessa Hadley is the author of seven highly acclaimed novels, including Clever Girl and The Past, as well as three short story collections/. Her storie...
From Well-Read Black Girl: Min Jin Lee on Being a Student of bell hooks
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're sharing a special preview of the new podcast, Well-Read Black Girl from Pushkin Industries. Well-Read Black Girl is the literary kickback you ne...
Episode 141: Isaac Butler
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Isaac Butler is the coauthor (with Dan Kois) of The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America, which NPR named one of the best book...
Episode 140: John Darnielle
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John Darnielle’s first novel, Wolf in White Van, was a New York Times bestseller, National Book Award nominee, and a finalist for the LA Times Book ...