The Maris Review

Episode 139: Glory Edim

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Glory Edim is the founder of Well-Read Black Girl, a book club and digital platform that promotes Black literature and sisterhood. She won the Innovat...

Episode 138: Jami Attenberg

13 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jami Attenberg is the New York Times bestselling author of 7 books of fiction, including The Middlesteins and All This Could Be Yours. She has contrib...

Episode 137: Xochitl Gonzalez

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Xochitl Gonzalez received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Prior to writing, she wore many hats, including entrepreneur, wedding planner, fund...

Episode 136: Vendela Vida

30 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Maris Review, Vendela Vida joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her latest novel, We Run the Tides, out now from Ecco. This interview wa...

Episode 135: Jen Spyra

23 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jen Spyra is a former staff writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Onion. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Time...

Episode 134: Alex McElroy

16 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Alex McElroy is a nonbinary writer based in Brooklyn. Their debut novel, THE ATMOSPHERIANS, was published in May by Atria. Their other writing appears...

Episode 133: Stephen Graham Jones

09 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and been recipient of ...

Episode 132: Rebecca Donner

02 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rebecca Donner's essays, reportage and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Bookforum, Guernica, and The Beli...

Episode 131: Chibundu Onuzo

25 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Chibundu Onuzo was born in Lagos, Nigeria and lives in London. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and regular contributor to The Guardian, sh...

Episode 130: Hermione Hoby

18 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hermione Hoby is the author of the novel Neon in Daylight, which was twice listed as a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her writing has appeared in T...

Episode 129: Amitava Kumar

11 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

AMITAVA KUMAR is a writer and journalist. He was born in Ara, India, and grew up in the nearby town of Patna, famous for its corruption, crushing pove...

Episode 128: Ash Davidson

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ash Davidson was born in Arcata, California, and attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work has been supported by the Arizona Commission on the A...

Episode 127: Miriam Toews

28 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Miriam Toews is the author of seven previous bestselling novels, Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding...

Episode 126: Phoebe Robinson

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Phoebe Robinson is a stand-up comedian, writer, producer, and actress. She’s the cocreator and costar of the hit podcast and series of TV specials 2...

Episode 125: Susan Orlean

14 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including The Library ...

Episode 124: Dave Eggers

07 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dave Eggers is the author of many books, among them The Circle— the companion to The Every— and also The Monk of Mokha, A Hologram for the King, W...

Episode 123: Melissa Broder

30 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Melissa Broder is the author of the novels Milk Fed and The Pisces, the essay collection So Sad Today, and four poetry collections, selections from wh...

Introducing True Love, Season 2

26 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How do you hide a love affair when you’re two big-name Hollywood stars? True love is a new scripted podcast from Wondery that brings you stories of ...

Episode 122: Nichole Perkins

23 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Nichole Perkins is a writer from Nashville, Tennessee who examines the intersections of pop culture, race, sex, gender, and relationships. She’s a 2...

Episode 121: Lauren Groff

16 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lauren Groff is a two-time National Book Award finalist and The New York Times–bestselling author of three novels, The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadi...

Episode 120: Maggie Nelson

09 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Maggie Nelson is the author of several books of poetry and prose, most recently the New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award w...

Episode 119: Julia Turshen

02 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Julia Turshen is the bestselling cookbook author of Small Victories, Feed the Resistance, and Now & Again. She hosts the IACP-nominated podcast 'Keep ...

Episode 118: Matthew Salesses

26 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

MATTHEW SALESSES is the author of three novels, Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, The Hundred-Year Flood, and I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying, an...

Episode 117: Megan Abbott

19 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Megan Abbott is the award-winning author of ten novels, including Give Me Your Hand, You Will Know Me, The Fever, Dare Me, and The End of Everything. ...

Episode 116: Katie Kitamura

12 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Katie Kitamura's most recent novel, A Separation, was a finalist for the Premio Gregor von Rezzori and a New York Times Notable Book. It was named ...

Episode 115: Kelsey McKinney

05 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

KELSEY McKINNEY is a freelance features writer and cofounder of Defector Media. She previously worked as a staff writer at Vox, Fusion, and Deadspin. ...

Episode 114: Tahmima Anam

29 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Tahmima Anam is the recipient of a Commonwealth Writers Prize, an O. Henry Prize, and has been named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. S...

Episode 113: Yaa Gyasi

22 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ ...

Episode 112: Kristen Radtke

15 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

KRISTEN RADTKE is the author of the graphic nonfiction book Imagine Wanting Only This. The recipient of a 2019 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, Radt...

Episode 111: Dana Spiotta

08 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dana Spiotta is the author of Innocents and Others; Stone Arabia, A National Books Critics Circle Award finalist; and Eat the Document, a finalist ...

Episode 110: Rivka Galchen

01 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rivka Galchen is the recipient of a William Saroyan International Prize for Fiction and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, among other distincti...

Episode 109: Joan Silber

24 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Joan Silber is the author of nine books of fiction. Her last book, Improvement, was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/...

Episode 108: Ashley C. Ford

17 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ashley C. Ford is a writer, host, and educator who lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with her husband, poet and fiction writer Kelly Stacy, and their cho...

Episode 107: Katherine Heiny

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Katherine Heiny is the author of Standard Deviation and Single, Carefree, Mellow, and her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlan...

Episode 106: Zakiya Dalila Harris

03 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Zakiya Dalila Harris spent nearly three years in editorial at Knopf/Doubleday before leaving to write her debut novel The Other Black Girl. Prior to w...

Episode 105: Sanjena Sathian

27 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A Paul and Daisy Soros fellow, Sanjena Sathian is a 2019 graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has worked as a reporter in Mumbai and San Franci...

Episode 104: Elizabeth McCracken

20 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Elizabeth McCracken is the author of seven books, including The Souvenir Museum, Bowlaway, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, and The Giant’s House (a N...

Episode 103: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

13 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller, The Nest, which is currently in development as a limited series b...

Episode 102: Maggie Shipstead

06 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Maggie Shipstead is the New York Times best-selling author of the novels Astonish Me and Seating Arrangements and the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize...

Episode 101: Gabriela Garcia

29 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gabriela Garcia is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award and a Steinbeck Fellowship from San Jose State University. Her fiction and ...

Episode 100! Live Episode with Alexander Chee, Morgan Parker, and Emma Straub

22 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Over the course of 99 episodes, The Maris Review has featured casual yet intimate conversations with authors like Susan Choi, George Saunders, Raven L...

Episode 99: Melissa Febos

15 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart and two essay collections: Abandon Me and her latest is Girlhood. She is an associate professor a...

Episode 98: Amy Solomon and Aparna Nancherla

08 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Maris Review, Amy Solomon and Aparna Nancherla join Maris Kreizman to discuss the anthology Notes from the Bathroom Line: Humor, Ar...

Episode 97: Jo Ann Beard

01 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jo Ann Beard is the author of the groundbreaking collection of autobiographical essays, The Boys of My Youth and Festival Days and the novel, In Zanes...

Episode 96: Jessica Winter

25 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jessica Winter is an editor at The New Yorker and the author of the novel Break in Case of Emergency. Her writing has appeared in the New York Ti...

Episode 95: Elon Green

18 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Green has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The Columbia Journalism Review, and appears in the true-...

Episode 94: Naima Coster

11 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Naima Coster is the author of What's Mine and Yours and Halsey Street, and a finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. She holds an MFA in Creat...

Episode 93: Anakana Schofield

04 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Anakana Schofield is an award-winning Irish-Canadian writer of fiction, essays, and literary criticism. Her previous novels are Malarky (2012) and Mar...

Episode 92: Patricia Lockwood

25 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Maris Review, Patricia Lockwood joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her book, No One Is Talking About This, out now from Riverhead. Pat...

Episode 91: Rebecca Carroll

18 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rebecca Carroll is host of the podcast Come Through with Rebecca Carroll, and former cultural critic at WNYC. Her writing has been published widely, a...

Episode 90: Brandon Hobson

11 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Brandon Hobson is the author of the novel, The Removed, as well as Where the Dead Sit Talking, which was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Awa...

Episode 89: Christopher Bonanos

04 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Christopher Bonanos is city editor at New York magazine, where he covers arts and culture and urban affairs. He is the author of Instant: The Story of...

Episode 88: Torrey Peters

28 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Torrey Peters is the author of the novellas Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker, which are available for free on her website. She holds ...

Episode 87: Mateo Askaripour

21 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

MATEO ASKARIPOUR was a 2018 Rhode Island Writers Colony writer-in-residence, and his writing has appeared in Entrepreneur, Lit Hub, Catapult, The Rump...

Episode 86: George Saunders

14 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

George Saunders is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Man Booker Prize; Congrat...

Episode 85: Kate Zambreno

08 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Zambreno is the author of several acclaimed books including Screen Tests, Heroines, and Green Girl. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review,...

Episode 84: David Hill

06 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

David Hill is a writer from Hot Springs, Arkansas. His work has appeared regularly in Grantland and The Ringer, and has been featured in The New Yorke...

Episode 83: Maggie Smith

24 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Maggie Smith is the author of three books of poetry: Good Bones,The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, and Lamp of the Body. Her latest book, Keep Moving:...

Episode 82: Jess Walter

17 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jess Walter is the author of six novels, including the bestsellers Beautiful Ruins and The Financial Lives of the Poets, the National Book Award final...

Episode 81: Michelle Buteau

10 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Michelle Buteau is a comedian, actress, and host known for her roles in The Circle, Always Be My Maybe, First Wives Club, Someone Great, Russian Doll,...

Introducing Little Stories Everywhere

05 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

While you wait for our next episode, we wanted to share Wondery’s newest podcast, Little Stories Everywhere, with you. Little Stories Everywhere is ...

Episode 80: Sarah Shun-Li Bynum

03 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is the author of the novels Ms. Hempel Chronicles, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award; and Madeleine Is Sleeping, a finalist ...

Episode 79: Emily Temple

26 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Emily Temple earned a BA from Middlebury College and an MFA in fiction from the University of Virginia. Her short fiction has appeared in Colorado Rev...

Episode 78: Kiese Laymon

19 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, Kiese Laymon, Ottilie Schillig Professor in English and Creative Writing and the University of Mississippi, i...

Episode 77: Diane Cook

12 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Diane Cook is the author of the novel, THE NEW WILDERNESS, which was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, and the story collection, MAN V. NATURE, w...

Episode 76: David Sedaris

04 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

David Sedaris is the author of Calypso, Theft by Finding, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, When You Are Engulfed in Flames,...

Episode 75: David Goodwillie

29 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

David Goodwillie is the author of the novel American Subversive, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and the memoir Seemed Like a Good Idea at ...

Episode 74: Rumaan Alam

22 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rumaan Alam is the author of Leave the World Behind, Rich and Pretty, and That Kind of Mother. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Elle, N...

Episode 73: Jason Diamond

15 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Diamond is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. His first book was Searching for John Hughes. And his latest is called The Sprawl. Recommende...

Episode 72: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

08 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the author of the novels Mexican Gothic, Gods of Jade and Shadow, Certain Dark Things, Untamed Shore, and a bunch of other boo...

Episode 71: Ayad Akhtar

01 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ayad Akhtar is a playwright, novelist, and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts an...

Episode 70: Colin Dickey

24 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Colin Dickey is a writer, speaker, and academic, and has made a career out of collecting unusual objects and hidden histories all over the country. He...

Episode 69: Morgan Jerkins

17 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Morgan Jerkins is the NYT bestselling author of This WIll Be My Undoing. She is a senior editor at Medium’s ZORA magazine. Her work has been feature...

Episode 68: Karolina Waclawiak

10 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Karolina Waclawiak is the author of the novels How to Get into the Twin Palms and The Invaders. Formerly an editor at The Believer, she is the executi...

Episode 67: Natasha Trethewey

03 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Natasha Trethewey is a former US poet laureate and the author of five collections of poetry, as well as a book of creative nonfiction. She is currentl...

Episode 66: Tara Isabella Burton

27 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tara Isabella Burton is a contributing editor at the American Interest, a columnist at Religion News Service, and the former staff religion reporter a...

Episode 65: Lacy Crawford

20 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Lacy Crawford is the author of the novel Early Decision. She lives in Southern California with her family. Her memoir is called Notes On a Silencing. ...

Episode 64: Raven Leilani

13 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Raven Leilani’s work has been published in Granta, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Narrative, Yale Review, Conjunctions, and The Cut, among other p...

Episode 63: Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman

06 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman are the hosts of Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long-distance besties. They wrote their new book, Big Friendship, t...

Episode 62: Lynn Steger Strong

30 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Lynn Steger Strong's first novel, Hold Still, was released by Liveright/WW Norton in 2016. Her nonfiction has been published by Guernica, Los Angel...

Episode 61: Adrian Tomine

23 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Adrian Tomine is the author of Scenes from an Impending Marriage, Shortcomings, Summer Blonde, Sleepwalk, 32 Stories, and the comic book series Optic ...

Episode 60: Jenny Zhang

16 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jenny Zhang was born in Shanghai and grew up in New York. She is the author of the poetry collection Dear Jenny, We Are All Find and the story collect...

Episode 59: Matt Ortile

09 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Ortile is the managing editor of Catapult. His writing has been published by BuzzFeed, Into, Self, and Out, among others. He lives in Brook...

Episode 58: Alexandra Petri

02 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Alexandra Petri is an American humorist and newspaper columnist at the Washington Post. She lives in Washington DC. Nothing Is Wrong And Here Is Why i...

Episode 57: Zaina Arafat

25 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Zaina Arafat is a Palestinian-American writer. Her stories and essays have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Granta, and more. Sh...

Episode 56: Jayson Greene

18 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jayson Greene is a music writer and the author of Once More We Saw Stars. Recommended Reading: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa Learn more about your ...

Episode 55: Marie-Helene Bertino

11 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of 2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas and the story collection Safe as Houses. Her work has received The O. Henry Prize, T...

Episode 54: Ishmael Beah

04 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ishmael Beah is the Sierra Leonean and American author of the novel Radiance of Tomorrow and the memoir A Long Way Gone, which was a #1 New York Times...

Episode 53: Patrick Hoffman

28 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Patrick Hoffman is a writer and private investigator based in Brooklyn. His first novel, The White Van, was a finalist for the Crime Writers’ Associ...

Episode 52: Ivy Pochoda

21 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ivy Pochoda is the author of The Art of Disappearing, Visitation Street, and Wonder Valley, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and winner of the ...

Episode 51; Susannah Cahalan

14 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Susannah Cahalan is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, a memoir about her struggle with a rar...

Episode 50: Esmé Weijun Wang

07 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Esmé Weijun Wang is the author of The Border of Paradise. She received the Whiting Award in 2018 and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young Americ...

Episode 49: Amber Sparks

30 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Amber Sparks is the author of The Unfinished World, and her fiction and essays have appeared in American Short Fiction, Paris Review, Tin House, ...

Episode 48: Teddy Wayne

23 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Teddy Wayne is the author of Loner, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, and Kapitoil. He is the winner of a Whiting Writers' Award and an NEA Creative W...

Episode 47: Laura Zigman

16 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Laura Zigman is the author of Animal Husbandry (which was made into the movie, Someone Like You, starring Hugh Jackman and Ashley Judd), Dating Big Bi...

Episode 46: Rebecca Solnit

09 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than 20 books, including A Field Guide to Getting Lost, The Faraway Nearby, and Wanderlust. She is also the autho...

Episode 45: Kevin Nguyen

02 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Nguyen is the features editor at The Verge and was previously a senior editor at GQ. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. His debut novel is called N...

Episode 44: Quan Barry

26 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Raised in the coastal town of Danvers, Massachusetts, QUAN BARRY is the author of the novel She Weeps Each Time You’re Born and of four books of poe...

Episode 43: Lidia Yuknavitch

19 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Lidia Yuknavitch is the nationally bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children, and Dora: A Headcase, and of the me...

Episode 42: Brandon Taylor

12 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Brandon Taylor is the senior editor of Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading and a staff writer at Lit Hub. He holds graduate degrees from the U...