Coco Mellors is the author of two novels, and her love of her craft is just infectious. Her debut, Cleopatra and Frankenstein exploded onto the literary scene in 2022, documenting one couple’s impulsive marriage in New York City and the ripple effect it has on their close circle of friends. Everyone is reading and loving this book, even Carrie Bradshaw who i ... Show More
Nov 7
Jennifer Lawrence: Die My Love by Ariana Harwicz
Today’s book of choice is Die My Love by Ariana Harwicz, an Argentine writer, screenwriter, playwright, and documentary maker. It was first published in Spanish in 2012, before being translated into English in 2017 by Sarah Moses and Caroline Orloff, and longlisted for the Intern ... Show More
30m 1s
Sep 2024
Book Club: 'The Hypocrite,' by Jo Hamya
<p>Jo Hamya’s novel <strong>“The Hypocrite”</strong> follows a famous English novelist as he watches a new play by his daughter, Sophia, in London. The lights go down in the theater, and immediately the novelist realizes: The play is about him, the vacation he took with Sophia a ... Show More
41m 55s
Jul 2025
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'The Catch,' by Yrsa Daley-Ward
<p>In this month’s installment of the Book Review Book Club, we’re discussing “The Catch,” the debut novel by the poet and memoirist Yrsa Daley-Ward. The book is a psychological thriller that follows semi-estranged twin sisters, Clara and Dempsey, who were babies when their mothe ... Show More
52m 25s
May 2025
12 Summer Books We're Looking Forward To
<p>Summer arrives just over a month from now, and along with your last-minute scramble for a house share or a part-time job scooping ice cream, you’re probably also wondering what to read. On this week’s episode, Gilbert Cruz talks with Joumana Khatib about some of the books they ... Show More
32m 49s
Sep 2024
Dame Tracey Emin, Doreen Soulsby, Dame Maureen Lipman, Young Adult Fiction
Dame Tracey Emin, one of the most famous artists and leading figures of the Young British Artists movement of the 1990s. Hers is a uniquely provocative, confessional style which confronts issues such as trauma of abortion, rape, alcoholism and sexual history. In recent years Trac ... Show More
56m 40s
Feb 2025
Anne Enright Reads John McGahern
Anne Enright joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Sierra Leone,” by John McGahern, which was published in The New Yorker in 1977. Enright, a winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, among others, has published eleven books of fiction ... Show More
1h 7m
Jan 2024
150: The 2024 Culture Preview
<p>It’s a new year f**kettes, and we’re back to discuss all the random stuff that we watched over the holidays: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otNh9bTjXWg"><em>Wonka</em></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJP2QblqLA0"><em>Maestro</em></a>, <a href="https://w ... Show More
58m 56s
Aug 20
Unintentional Monsters: Tiffany D. Jackson on Real Horrors and Core Memories
“Whenever I think of people who have gone through something, I'm always like, but they were human before this. Before they were monsters, they were human. Before they were zombies, they were human.” — Tiffany D. JacksonSome of the most unsettling monsters don’t come from nightmar ... Show More
34m 22s
Aug 1
Lauren Groff Reads Elizabeth Hardwick
Lauren Groff joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Faithful,” by Elizabeth Hardwick, which was published in The New Yorker in 1979. Groff’s works of fiction include the novels “Fates and Furies” and “Matrix,” both of which were finalists for the National Book Award, and ... Show More
1h 12m