An homor and pleasure to be in conversation with Brandon Taylor one of the contemporary novelists I most admire. @riverheadbooks.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Fantastic campus novel posing as an MA thesis plumbs the depths of the desire and power nexus. Fun, painful, compelling. Seduction Theory is the perfect late summer read. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Joan Wallach Scott 4eva!

Got a chance to talk with Alejandro about his beautiful and painful novel of Venezuelan revolution and resistance, Freedom is a Feast. A novel that does not shy away from the most difficult questions about our limits, ethical and otherwise, in seeking freedom podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

@nellstevens ‘s The Original is one of the best novels of the year, and Nell couldn’t be smarter in thinking through literary and historical hoaxes. It’s a must read. (And a must listen). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Wherein I try to speak semi-intelligently about SAD GROWNUPS while Chris Holmes brings all the best questions and so much generosity. (Thank you, @burnedbybooks.bsky.social!) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Congrats to @meganmcummins on the pub day for her beautiful debut novel, AtomicHearts.Megan and I chat about the preternatural wisdom of teens, friendships built around trauma,how to live in two time frames in a novel and so much more. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

I dare you to read any opening line in the stories collected in @amy_stuber_ ‘s Sad Grownups and not be consumed. They are jarring, funny, dark, and most of all human to the core. A righteous collection that will demand your attention. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

@jessebrownerauthor ‘s Sing to Me lives in the world of Greek epics but speaks and sings directly to our moment. Hani, an eleven year old on a journey to Troy to find his sister is wiser about the costs and weight of war than any of the leaders currently waging it. Lyrical, hopeful, unforgettable.

@jenkabat comes at every act of writing w/ an openness to the world that is rare indeed.Night Shining is a memoir,a history of scientific arrogance and genius, and deep time plunge into the geologic story of hope that will outlive us. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

@kate__folk ‘s SkyDaddy will be the funniest, most unhinged novel you read all summer. It is also a powerful indictment of a culture of loneliness and conformity. And, yes, it’s horny for airplanes. @randomhousekids.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...

A novel that predicted our moment of prison camps and the broad elimination of human rights based on fear and lies. @knuyen.bsky.social ‘s My Documents should be required reading, as painful as it is to invite a history of detention camps back into the present. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...

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Rob Franklin’s Great Black Hope dazzles with the prose of poet-novelist, tracing the ongoing effects of America’s greatest sin on black families of great wealth and culture capital.A story of how a small misstep can reveal the fragility of black life in the U.S. in spaces of supposed privilege.

I welcomed back the brilliant @andrew.porter.writer to talk about his latest novel, The Imagined Life, a story of family fracture, cultural bigotry, academic excommunication, all told through the eyes of teenager @aaknopf.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Ithaca folks: let’s get up to some good trouble and rally to get the government’s #handsoff colleges and universities. Thursday 5pm Ho Plaza. Big numbers give universities spines.

Loved my conversation with Betsy Lerner about her amazing novel Shred Sisters. We talked about painful sibling relationships, the search for a constant in an unstable world, her casting choices for a movie adaptation, and so much more. @groveatlantic.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

What a privilege to be in conversation with Colum McCann about his latest gift of a novel, Twist. I can’t recommend it enough. It is about cables deep in the dark of the ocean, but it’s about everything, and told in a poet’s voice.Get it. @randomhouse.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

@laurenelkin.bsky.social ‘s Scaffolding takes place in a single Parisian apt. spanning two eras of protest, resistance,and the search for intimacy that builds community.A story of many loves, losses,and desires. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @fsgbooks.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

Come take a class with me at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn! Bad Education in The Secret History, Never Let Me Go, and The School for Good Mothers. Gorgeous books, magnificent building with a bookshop and membership library, and led by a professor and podcaster :)

A big book with a big impact. @adamrosswriter has written a showstopper about a child actor, a wrestler, and a middle schooler who has an affair with a woman 20yrs older than him, and they are all the same unforgettable character. Playworld is a magic novel of an earlier New York City.

Nice when the author is just as funny and insightful and fascinating as their character. Rufi Thorpe was a dream guest, and her latest, Margo’s Got Money Troubles, was a top ten novel of 2024 for me. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

What a gift to be interviewed by @carolinelevine.bsky.social, a scholar whose work has influenced my own for years.She is such an attentive and generous reader. I’m grateful, and I hope you’ll listen. Especially for fans of Ishiguro. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Was lucky enough to welcome Andrew Lipstein back to the pod to talk about his latest, Something Rotten, a novel about seeking meaning in life when we understand that we are dying. Also, it’s hilarious and bruising. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @fsgbooks.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

Maria.zoccola’s gorgeous reimagining of the story of Helen of Troy, transported to Sparta Tennessee, dazzles on the level of the line, while working a narrative thread that will tangle up what you thought you knew about the Iliad. Have a listen to our episode and hear Maria read. #poetry

The burned by books top 10 of 2024. A great year for books. #bestbooks2024

My favorite episode of the year is always the Booksellers’ Best of, and this year is no different. I’m joined by @lifeevenso of @butffalostreetbooks and @jsbagnulo of @greenlightbklyn for a conversation about their favorites of 2024 and the books they can’t wait to recommend in 2025. Full list @ web

The most formally audacious novel of the year, Christine Coulson’s One Woman Show, a narrative made entirely of museum labels, most notably more than 75 words. We had a great conversation about constraint,the objectification of women as pieces to be curated, &much more. @avidreaderpress.bsky.social

Had a great conversation with Sam Sax about their debut novel, Yr Dead, a story bracketed by death, but brimming with humor, love, loss, and the indefatigable struggle to be truly alive in our one body. @mcsweeneys.net @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #books

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I love pub dates for the authors I interview—it’s nice to have one of my own. Happy birthday to Kazuo Ishiguro Against World literature, born today with Bloomsbury. #books #kazuoishiguro www.bloomsbury.com/us/kazuo-ish...

Here’s another new book worth checking out, from my dear friend Chris Holmes, whose podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social consistently brings the 🔥 with interviews with fiction writers from the anglophone world and beyond. www.bloomsbury.com/us/kazuo-ish...

Congrats to Samantha Harvey, friend if the podcast, on her Booker Prize for Orbital. We had a winderful conversation, and yiu can hear her read a section 19’-25:36 #books #bookerprize podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Long listed for the @nationalbookfoundation award, short listed for the @thebookerprizes Yeah, it’s that good. Have a listen to our episode and learn why the flea and the Neanderthal weave us into the fabric of humanity. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

If you were as blown away by Kaliane Bradley’s blockbuster debut The Ministry of Time, you’ll love hearing her talk about her light obsession with a dead polar explorer,and the glories of writing for the super fans of polar exploration.The book is propulsive, and beautifully crafted.@avidreaderpress

@callyfiedorek has written a brilliant NYC novel that feels like a tribute to the classics of that genre. No sad Brooklyn girls here—a taxi medallion con, broken men looking for salvation, and the necessity of even complicated families. A joy! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Aysegül Savas’s The Anthropologists is a novel about making a home in a physical space, and in the community of the world. It is about the small choices that bond us to one another or that throw us to the outer rings of family and friendship. It leaves a mark. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

On this complicated day I am very pleased to share my conversation with @iriscmwanza an feminist activist, novelist, and writer awake to the world in all its radiant and despoiled truths podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Have a listen to my great conversation with @rrrrrrrachelkhong about her newest novel, Real Americans, which C Pam Chang called “a grand novel that explores the American psyche.” @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

I loved talking with @kimberlykingparsons about her knockout debut, We Were The Universe. The novel is funny and tender and revelatory as it touches the live wires of motherhood, queer desire, and grief. Grab a copy from your local indie, and then listen in! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

Had the pleasure of speaking with a writer I’ve admired for years, @nellfreudenbergerauthor about her latest, The Limits. We discussed her research on Mo’orea, the power of indigenous science, the impossible work of doctoring during COVID, and being a bad stepchild. Have a listen and get the book!

Had a wonderful conversation with @mmmockett about arborism, writing during COVID, the power of reclaiming the body, and The Tale of Genji. All wrapped up in her fabulous novel, The Tree Doctor.

Loved talking with @scottalexanderhoward about his fabulous debut novel, The Other Valley. Comparisons to Ishiguro and Atwood are indeed apt! You will be consumed by this novel, such is the pull of its imagined world. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

I got to talk with the brilliant Marie-Helene Bertino about her extraordinary new novel, Beautyland.I’ve read amazing novels in 2024, and this one stands with the best of that bunch.I feel lucky to have talked with a writer I admire about the things we share in common. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

Few books on guns work as both social histories and reportage on a contemporary crisis. American Gun is one of them. @cammcwhirter.bsky.social and Zusha Elinson take up the history of the AR-15, while documenting the massacres committed with that gun and the lived forever changed by its presence.

Samantha Harvey’s Orbital is my book of the year so far. A novel of wonderment and beauty, hopefulness and desolation. Five astronauts on a spacestation observe the earth as it spins away from them. Magnificent. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

Julius Taranto’s devilish mix of quantum physics, cancel culture, an out of control university, and a plan to save the planet, How I Won A Nobel Prize, is smart, funny, audacious, and truthful. Is it satire or just prophetic? @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

An absolute must-read! A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens, @raulpalmaphd ‘s brilliant, mordantly funny, ominously paranormal historical reckoning with colonialism and indebtedness is a black comedy that will aborb you. @duttonbooks @newbooksnetwork podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Got to talk with the amazing @courtneydenelle about her debut novel It’s Not Nothing.We touched on outsider art, homelessness, what it means to land in a body after recovery, and the optimism of making art. Not a book or a conversation to be missed. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @santafewritersprojec

Put a little spooky in your 2024 with Rebecca Turkewitz’s genre-bending ghost stories, Here in the Night. Rebecca puts female friendship, reproductive rights, queer love, and the relentless misogyny of US culture on the coast of Maine where the fog has just rolled in. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social