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Feb 8, 2026 27 min

Erin Somers

from Better Known Hosted by Ivan Wise

Erin Somers discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Erin Somers is a reporter and news editor at Publishers Lunch. Her first novel, Stay Up with Hugo Best was a Vogue Best Book of the Year in 2019. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Paris Review, New York Times Book Review, New Republic, New York Magazine, Atlantic, Esquire, GQ, Best American Short Stories and many other publications. She has been the recipient of an Emerging Writer Fellowship from the NYC Centre for Fiction, a fellowship from the Millay Colony, and was a 2020 finalist for a National Magazine Award. She lives in New York's Hudson Valley with her family. Her new novel is The Ten Year Affair, which is available at https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-ten-year-affair-erin-somers/7940888?ean=9781837264568&next=t. The record Entrance Music by Okonski https://okonski.bandcamp.com/album/entrance-music The author Max Apple https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/books/review/Hodgman-t.html The film 101 Reykjavik https://www.theguardian.com/film/News_Story/Critic_Review/Observer_review/0,,501343,00.html This recording of October in the Railroad Earth by Jack Kerouac and Stephen Allen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hjPZpaXNsw The Codex Seriphinianus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus Colony Pizza in Fairfield County, Connecticut https://colonygrill.com/ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

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