Joanna Smith Rakoff in conversation with Alex Shephard Joanna Smith Rakoff’s 2009 debut A Fortunate Age is one of the best novels about being in your twenties in New York City in recent memory. Perhaps more importantly, the novel, which follows five graduates of my and Rakoff’s alma mater, Oberlin College, is about trying to […]
Dan Chaon in conversation with Max Rivlin-Nadler Dan Chaon is the author of two novels and two short-story collections. A National Book Award finalist, his most recent novel, Await Your Reply, was described as “ambitious, gripping and unrelentingly bleak.” Sometimes, Chaon writes about men who like to drink beer and look at fires. Sometimes, Chaon […]
Leslie Jamison in conversation with Max Rivlin-Nadler Leslie Jamison has an MFA from Iowa, is working on a PhD from Yale, and has published a sensitive and complicated novel called The Gin Closet. Her writing has appeared (or shortly will) in The Believer, Vice Magazine, A Public Space, and Black Warrior Review. The paperback version […]
Daniel Radosh in conversation with Alex Shephard While visiting his wife’s family in Kansas in 2005, Daniel Radosh accompanied his sister-in-law to an evangelical Christian rock festival. At one point, one of his sister-in-law’s friends ran up to him and exclaimed, “That was awesome! They prayed like three times in a 20-minute set!” From that […]