All Episodes

Irvine Welsh: Skagboys

Robin Sloan: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Megan Mayhew Bergman: Birds of a Lesser Paradise

Scott Hutchins: A Working Theory of Love

Ian Frazier: The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days

Margaret Talbot: The Entertainer

Marcus Samuelsson: Yes, Chef

Cassie J. Sneider: More Fine Fine Music

Sam Sax: Memorized Poems

Colin Meloy: Under Wildwood

William Gibson: Distrust That Particular Flavor

Paul Auster: Winter Journal

Nate Waggoner: April 3rd 2012

Diana Salier: Letters from Robots

D.W. Lichtenberg: Our Generation is One of Moving Back in with Your Mother

Alli Warren: Chapbook Poems

Andrea Kneeland: People Who Are Good People

Molly Ringwald: When It Happens to You

Cassie J. Sneider: Fine Fine Music

John Brandon: A Million Heavens

David Rakoff: Half Empty

Rob Reid: Year Zero

Cheryl Strayed: Tiny Beautiful Things

Karen Thompson Walker: The Age of Miracles

Chuck Palahniuk: Invisible Monsters Remix

Bill Clegg: Ninety Days

Sapphire: The Kid

Rosecrans Baldwin: Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down

Joan Frank: Make It Stay

Wendy McClure: The Wilder Life

Jenny Lawson: Let's Pretend This Never Happened

Delia Ephron: The Lion Is In

Jim Nisbet: Weight Less Than Shadow

Eric Erlandson: Letters to Kurt

Alison Bechdel: Are You My Mother?

Miranda Mellis: None of This Is Real

Doug Mack: Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day

Moshe Kasher: Kasher in the Rye

Ramona Ausubel: No One Is Here Except All Of Us

Martha Grover: More from One More for the People

Matt Ruff: The Mirage

Ellen Ullman: By Blood

Trinie Dalton: Baby Geisha

Krys Lee: Drifting House

Martha Grover: One More for the People

Nathan Englander: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

Blake Nelson: Dream School

Ryan Boudinot: Blueprints of the Afterlife

Leigh Stein: The Fallback Plan

Ellis Avery: The Last Nude

Tea Obreht: The Tiger's Wife

Joshua Mohr: Damascus

Ismet Prcic: Shards

Anisse Gross: Last Year's Snow

Peter Orner: Love and Shame and Love

John Jeremiah Sullivan: Pulphead

Hector Tobar: The Barbarian Nurseries

Erin Morgenstern: The Night Circus

Alan Hollinghurst: The Stranger's Child

Ann Joslin Williams: Down from Cascom Mountain

Jeffrey Eugenides: The Marriage Plot

Jesmyn Ward: Salvage the Bones

LitCrawl Event Preview: Lisa Brown: Baby, Be Of Use

Michael David Lukas: The Oracle of Stamboul

Alice LaPlante: Turn of Mind

Charles Warnke: I Have A Few Last Words

Justin Torres: We The Animals

Lizzy Acker: Monster Party

Ben Loory: More from Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day

Ben Loory: Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day

Grace Krilanovich: The Orange Eats Creeps

S.G. Browne: Fated

Charles Yu: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Jesse Ball: The Curfew

Oscar Hijuelos: Thoughts without Cigarettes

Francine Prose: My New American Life

Daniel Orozco: Orientation

Keetje Kuipers: Beautiful in the Mouth

Francisco Goldman: Say Her Name

Chris Adrian: The Great Night

Michelle Tea: Black Wave

Sloane Crosley: How Did You Get This Number

Geoff Dyer: Otherwise Known as the Human Condition

Blake Butler: There Is No Year

Gabrielle Hamilton: Blood, Bones and Butter

Terry Castle: The Professor

Neil Strauss: Everyone Loves You When You're Dead

Joyce Carol Oates: A Widow's Story

Kristin Kimball: The Dirty Life

Benjamin Hale: The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore

Jasmin Darznik: The Good Daughter

Wesley Stace: Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer

Mira Bartok: The Memory Palace

Karen Russell: Swamplandia!

Colm Toibin: The Empty Family

Heidi Durrow: The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

David Levithan: The Lover's Dictionary

Vivek Shraya: God Loves Hair

Tom Rachman: The Imperfectionists

Christie Hodgen: Elegies for the Brokenhearted

Salman Rushdie: Luka and the Fire of Life

Suzanne Rivecca: Death Is Not An Option

Stephen O'Connor: Here Comes Another Lesson

Terry McMillan: Getting to Happy

Nora Ephron: I Remember Nothing

Nicole Krauss: Great House

Koren Zailckas: Fury

Dinaw Mengestu: How to Read the Air

Michael Cunningham: By Nightfall

Myla Goldberg: The False Friend

Howard Norman: What is Left the Daughter

Doug Dorst: The Surf Guru

William Gibson: Zero History

Yiyun Li: Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

Alex Cohen and Jennifer Barbee: Down and Derby

Charlie Smith: Three Delays

Gary Shteyngart: Super Sad True Love Story

Trinie Dalton: Sweet Tomb

Paul Harding: Tinkers

David Mitchell: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Jon Clinch: Kings of the Earth

Joshua Mohr: Termite Parade

Joshilyn Jackson: Backseat Saints

T Cooper: The Beaufort Diaries

Kate Walbert: A Short History of Women

Katie Crouch: Men and Dogs

Vanessa Woods: Bonobo Handshake

Aimee Bender: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad

John Waters: The Kindness of Strangers

John Waters: Cult Leader

Claire Light: Pinball Effect

Aryn Kyle: Boys and Girls Like You and Me

Wendy Burden: Dead End Gene Pool

Kate Simmons: Your Next Girlfriend

Zachary Mason: The Lost Books of the Odyssey

Sam Lipsyte: The Ask

Joe Hill: Horns

Max Watman: Chasing the White Dog

Jandy Nelson: The Sky Is Everywhere

SG Browne: Breathers

Eric Puchner: Model Home

Amy Bloom: Where the God of Love Hangs Out

Adam Haslett: Union Atlantic

Elaine Beale: Another Life Altogether

Elizabeth Kostova: The Swan Thieves

Joshua Ferris: The Unnamed

Patti Smith: Just Kids

Lori Ostlund: Talking Fowl with My Father

Kristen Tracy: What Kind of Animal

Mary Karr: More Lit

Mary Karr: Lit

Holly Payne: Kingdom of Simplicity

James Ellroy: Bloods A Rover

Julie Powell: Cleaving

Stephen Elliott: The Adderall Diaries

Amy Reed: Beautiful

Jonathan Safran Foer: Eating Animals

Jonathan Lethem: Chronic City

Oran Canfield: Long Past Stopping

Linda Morganstein: My Life with Stella Kane

Reif Larsen: The Selected Works of TS Spivet

Donna de la Perriere: True Crime

Heather Barbieri: The Lace Makers of Glenmara

David Eagleman: SUM

Mary Gaitskill: Dont Cry

Jonathan Tropper: This Is Where I Leave You

Joyce Maynard: Labor Day

Doug Dorst: Alive in Necropolis

Suzanne Finnamore: Split

Gloria Frym: Lie and More Lies

Luis Alberto Urrea: Into the Beautiful North

Colson Whitehead: Sag Harbor

Sesshu Foster: World Ball Notebook

Deirdre Shaw: Love or Something Like It

Lisa Lutz: Revenge of the Spellmans

David Sedaris: Interview

David Sedaris: Author, Author?

David Sedaris: Just a Quick E-mail

Jean Hanff Korelitz: Admission

Hillary Jordan: Mudbound

Dave Reidy: Captive Audience

Joseph Boyden: Through Black Spruce

Ben Greenman: Please Step Back

John Christgau: Kokomo Joe

John Wray: Lowboy

Mark von Schlegell: Mercury Station

Patrick deWitt: Ablutions

Catherine Brady: The Mechanics of Falling

Craig Arnold: Made Flesh

Chris Cleave: Little Bee

Jeff O'Keefe: The New Haven Line

Daniyal Mueenuddin: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

Debra Gwartney: Live Through This

Christina Sunley: The Tricking of Freya

Tiffany Baker: The Little Giant of Aberdeen County

Christopher Moore: Fool

David Vann: Legend of a Suicide

Laura Schadler: How to Survive

Rodes Fishburne: Going to See the Elephant

Anisse-Marie Gross: Forevertron

Playground/Allen: Mistaken Variations

Robert Gluck: Denny Smith

J. M. Tyree: My Other Family

Miranda Mellis: The Revisionist

Stewart O'Nan: Songs for the Missing

Vincent Carrella: Serpent Box

Kate Hahn: Forgotten Fashion

Margot Kahn: Horses that Buck

David Francis: Stray Dog Winter

Carson Mell: Saguaro

Carol Cassella: Oxygen

Joe Meno: Demons in the Spring

Playground/Pine: Investing

Selden Edwards: The Little Book

Junot Diaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Hanif Kureishi: Something to Tell You

Amy Tan: Fate Luck Chance

Donna George Storey: Thirteen Views of Grief

Andrew Davidson: The Gargoyle

Linda Robertson: What Rhymes with Bastard

Paul Auster: Man in the Dark

Silhouettes

Zoe Ferraris: Finding Nouf

Robin Messing: Serpent in the Garden of Dreams

Tamim Ansary: West of Kabul, East of New York

Rudolph Delson: Maynard and Jennica

Jack Pendarvis: Awesome

Miranda July: The Shared Patio

Andrew Sean Greer: The Story of a Marriage

Ben Greenman: Helpmate

Brian Copeland: Not a Genuine Black Man

Opium Magazine: Bookmark Contest -- Part Two

Opium Magazine: Bookmark Contest

Ben Joseph: It's Not You, It's Your Uncontrollable Telekinesis

Dan White: Operation Water Dump

Naomi Williams: Sunday School

Sloane Crosley: The Pony Problem

Playground/Rabin: Reunion

Masha Tupitsyn: Kleptomania

Peter Malae: Turning Point

Toby Barlow: Sharp Teeth

Peter Orner: Pampkin's Lament

Playground/Groenveld: Missive

Samantha Hunt: The Invention of Everything Else

Michael Krasny: Off Mike

Tom Dolby: The Sixth Form

Ellis Avery: The Teahouse Fire

Jean-Pierre Lacrampe: Objects Of My Disaffection

Mack and Kaufman: A Version of the Truth

Paul Auster: Travels in the Scriptorium

Jane Rhodes: Framing the Black Panthers

Playground/Brady Lea: Sewermonster Diaries

Pia Ehrhardt: Stop

Toni Mirosevich: Pink Harvest

Veronica Gonzalez: twin time: or, how death befell me

Nora Pierce: East Side West Side

James P. Othmer: The Futurist

Tess Uriza Holthe: The Flame

Joseph Lease: Broken World

Jean Thompson: Lost

Wesley Stace: by George

M. Allen Cunningham: Lost Son

Elizabeth Bernstein: Laundry Day

Kiara Brinkman: Up High in the Trees

Armistead Maupin: Michael Tolliver Lives

Andrew Sean Greer: Wakefield

David Lozell Martin: Our American King

George Saunders: The New Mecca

George Saunders: Manifesto

Playground/Garret Jon Groenveld: Ondine

Sean Beaudoin: Guerrero

Gina Apostol: Imeldific

Mike Carey: The Devil You Know

Word for Word/Cornell Woolrich: Angel Face

Kenneth Walton: Fake

Min Jin Lee: Free Food for Millionaires

Mark Lindquist: The King of Methlehem

Playground/Tom Swift: The Beginning

Jeremy Larner: Chicken on Church

Jennifer Belle: Little Stalker

Ayelet Waldman: Darling, I Like You That Way

Nicole Mones: The Last Chinese Chef

Kottie Paloma: The Immense Complexities of Love

Elaine Beale: The Increasing Crime Rate

Pagan Kennedy: The First Self-Made Man

Kristen Yawitz: Rear Views

Lisa Lutz: The Spellman Files

Aaron Nielsen: Jimmy

Kurt Andersen: Heyday

Elizabeth Bernstein: Alice

Ben Greenman: Black, Gray, Green, Red, Blue

China Mieville: Un Lun Dun

Lalita Tademy: Red River

Alex Espinoza: Still Water Saints

Claire Phillips: Tove's Secret Letter Writing Campaign

Howard Norman: Devotion

Geetha Reddy: Honey, I'm Home

Craig Clevenger: Dermaphoria

Daniel Alarcon: Lost City Radio

Sigrid Nunez: The Last of Her Kind

Mark Coggins: Candy from Strangers

Sharon Olson: The Long Night of Flying

Pati Poblete: The Oracles

Stephen Elliott: My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up

Playground: Sever

Christina Nunez: Colored Purple

Michelle Tea: Rose of No Man's Land

Janet Fitch: Paint It Black

Kate Atkinson: One Good Turn

Jennifer Kirmse: Mortified

Meg Tilly: Gemma

Allison Burnett: The House Beautiful

Katharine Noel: Halfway House

Kelly Link: The Hortlak

Michael Tolkin: The Return of the Player

Brad Meltzer: The Book of Fate

Daniel Handler: Adverbs

Ben Ehrenreich: The Suitors

Marisha Pessl: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Janis Cooke Newman: Mary

Keith Donohue: The Stolen Child

John Lescroart: The Adventure of the Giant Rat of Sumatra

Leslie Larson: Slipstream

Evany Thomas: The Secret Language of Sleep

Sarah Anne Cox: We of the Capitals

Edie Meidav: Crawlspace

Paul Malmont: The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril

Lee Skirboll: Herman Melville, Metafictional Laff Riot