All episodes

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