The Maris Review
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 41: Rachel Vorona Cote
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Vorona Cote publishes frequently in such outlets as the New Republic, Longreads, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and Literary Hub. She was previously...
Episode 40: Alexis Coe
27 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alexis Coe is the author of Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis (soon to be a major motion picture). Coe has frequently appeared on CNN and the...
Episode 39: Ada Calhoun
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ada Calhoun is the author of the memoir Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, named an Amazon Book of the Month and one of the top ten memoirs of 2017 by...
Episode 38: R. Eric Thomas
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
R. Eric Thomas is a senior staff writer at Elle online where he has written the daily pop culture and politics humor column “Eric Reads the News” ...
Episode 37: Miranda Popkey
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Miranda Popkey has written for The New Republic, The New Yorker's Page-Turner blog, the Paris Review Daily, The Hairpin, The Awl, GQ, and New York mag...
Episode 36: Kali Fajardo-Anstine
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kali Fajardo-Anstine is from Denver, Colorado. Her fiction has appeared in The American Scholar, Boston Review, Bellevue Literary Review, The Idaho Re...
Episode 35: Garth Greenwell
23 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs To You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year and was long-listed for the National Book...
Episode 34: Steph Cha
16 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Steph Cha is the author of the Juniper Song crime trilogy. She’s an editor and critic whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, a...
Episode 33: Leslie Jamison
09 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Leslie Jamison is the author of the NYT bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams, and the novel The Gin Closet. She’s a contributing writer ...
Episode 32: Susan Orlean
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the author of seven books, including Rin Tin Tin, Saturday Night, and The Or...
Episode 31: E. Jean Carroll
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
E. Jean Carroll writes the ASK E. JEAN column in ELLE magazine. It is the longest, currently-running advice column in American publishing. Her new boo...
Episode 30: Susan Choi
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Choi’s first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist f...
Episode 29: Lane Moore
28 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lane Moore is an award-winning comedian, writer, actor, and musician. The New York Times called her comedy show Tinder Live “ingenious.” Her comed...
Episode 28: Deborah Levy
21 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Deborah Levy writes fiction, plays, and poetry. The author of highly praised novels, including Hot Milk and Swimming Home (both Man Booker Prize final...
Episode 27: Kevin Wilson
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Wilson is the author of the New York Times best-selling novel The Family Fang (Ecco, 2012), Perfect Little World (Ecco, 2017), and Nothing to Se...
Episode 26: Cathleen Schine
07 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cathleen Schine is the author of The New Yorkers and The Love Letter, among other novels. She has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Review o...
Episode 25: Lili Anolik
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lili Anolik is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Her work has also appeared in Harper’s, Esquire, and The Believer. She is the author of Hollywo...
Episode 24: Jami Attenberg
24 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jami Attenberg is the New York Times bestselling author of five novels, including The Middlesteins and Saint Mazie. She has contributed essays about s...
Episode 23: John Hodgman
17 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
John Hodgman is a writer, comedian, and actor. He is the author of The Areas of My Expertise, More Information Than You Require, That Is All, and Vaca...
Episode 22: Shea Serrano
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Shea Serrano's most recent book, Basketball (And Other Things), was a #1 New York Times bestseller and selected by President Barack Obama as one of hi...
Episode 21: Kimberly King Parsons
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Born in Lubbock, Texas, Kimberly King Parsons received her MFA from Columbia University. Her fiction has been published in The Paris Review, Best Smal...
Episode 20: Shelly Oria
26 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Shelly Oria is the author of New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014), which earned nominations for a Lambda Literary Award and the Ed...
Episode 19: Josh Gondelman
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Gondelman is a comedian and writer who has earned two Peabody Awards, three Emmys, and two WGA Awards for his work on Last Week Tonight with John...
Episode 18: Sarah Weinman
12 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Weinman is the author of The Real Lolita. She’s the editor of Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s (Library of Americ...
Episode 17: Kristen Arnett
05 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kristen Arnett is a queer fiction and essay writer. She won the 2017 Coil Book Award for her debut short fiction collection, Felt in the Jaw, and was ...
Episode 16: R.O. Kwon
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
R. O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. The Incendiaries is her first novel, and it was named a best book of the year by ov...
Episode 15: Oyinkan Braithwaite
22 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Oyinkan Braithwaite is a graduate of Creative Writing and Law from Kingston University. She is the author of My Sister, the Serial Killer, which won t...
Episode 14: Lyz Lenz
15 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lyz Lenz’s writing has appeared in the Huffington Post, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Pacific Standard, and others. Her book God Land was...
Episode 13: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
08 Aug 2019
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 12: Linda Holmes
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for National Public Radio and the host of the podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour. Evvie Drake Starts Over is h...
Episode 11: Laura Lippman
25 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Lippman is a New York Times bestselling novelist who has won more than twenty awards for her fiction, including the Edgar Award. Since her debut...
Episode 10: Marcy Dermansky
18 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Marcy Dermansky is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Red Car, Bad Marie and Twins. Very Nice is her latest novel. Learn more about you...
Episode 9: Julia Phillips
11 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Julia Phillips is a Fulbright fellow whose writing has appeared in Glimmer Train, The Atlantic, Slate, and The Moscow Times. Disappearing Earth is her...
Episode 8: Lauren Mechling
27 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren Mechling has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, The New Yorker online, and Vogue, where she writes a book column. ...
Episode 7: Mona Awad
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mona Awad is the author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize that won the Colorado Book Award, the Amazon C...
Episode 6: Anna Merlan
13 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Merlan is a New Mexico-born, New York-based journalist, specializing in politics, crime, religion, subcultures, conspiracy theories, and women’...
Episode 5: Nicole Dennis-Benn
06 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nicole Dennis-Benn is a Lambda Literary Award winner and New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship recipient. She's also a finalist for the 2...
Episode 4: Ryan Chapman
23 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Maris Review, Maris talks to Ryan Chapman, the author of Riots I Have Known. The two discuss the influences on the book, writing from...
Episode 3: Juliet Grames
16 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Maris Review, Maris talks to Juliet Grames, the author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna. The two discuss the personal f...
Episode 2: Erin Somers
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Maris Review, Maris talks to Erin Somers, the author of Stay Up with Hugo Best. The two discuss researching a book without any inside...
Episode 1: Mira Jacob
01 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Maris Review. Our very first guest is Mira Jacob, the author of Good Talk. We talk about the creation of the book, her family relations...