126: The Stranger in Your House – A Conversation with Adam Gnuse

In this episode, we speak with novelist Adam Gnuse about his debut, Girl in the Walls (4th Estate and Ecco Editions, 2021), and related matters: squatters, lurkers, secret rooms, how to know whether it’s a mouse or a ghost, things that go bump in the night, and home invasions. Also, how to sell your debut novel to the Big Four, why authors need to learn to stop worrying and love marketing, and what they won’t teach you in the MFA. Adam’s work has appeared in The Guardian, Gulf Coast, Literary Hub, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Passages North, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.