Steve Stern is most recently the author of The Book of Mischief. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Wondering why they’re playing the bagpipes. Author: Steve Stern Subjects Discussed: Playing bagpipes for the dead, the relationship between Jewish identity and the phantasmagorical in Stern’s fiction, growing up without Jewish identity, being an oral historian in Memphis, Beale [...]
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Jeffrey Ford is most recently the author of Crackpot Palace. He previously appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #36 and The Bat Segundo Show #191. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Constricted by restrictive taxonomies. Author: Jeffrey Ford Subjects Discussed: Eleven-hour drives from Ohio, the first-person “road” stories featuring a fictitious “Jeffrey Ford” and his wife Lynn [...]
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Ariel S. Winter is most recently the author of The Twenty-Year Death. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Wondering if he can condense the shards of his life into a twenty-year epic spanning three books. Author: Ariel S. Winter Subjects Discussed: Day jobs, being a stay-at-home father, sneaking out to write in the library, the exhaustion of [...]
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Paula Bomer is most recently the author of Nine Months. She previously appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #375 Condition of Mr. Segundo: Searching for the mother who stole the car keys. Author: Paula Bomer Subjects Discussed: Katie Roiphe’s In Praise of Messy Lives, similarities between exploring women’s issues in fiction and hyperbolic op-ed journalists, [...]
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Martin Amis is most recently the author of Lionel Asbo. He previously appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #101. This episode of The Bat Segundo Show is brought to you by Audible.com. If you want to listen to Martin Amis’s Lionel Asbo, and help keep this show going, sign up for a free audiobook and [...]
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Laura Lippman is most recently the author of And When She Was Good. She previously appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #280. This episode of The Bat Segundo Show is brought to you by Audible.com. If you want to listen to Laura Lippman’s And When She Was Good, and help keep this show going, sign [...]
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Katie Kitamura is most recently the author of Gone to the Forest. This episode of The Bat Segundo Show is brought to you by Audible.com. If you want to listen to Katie Kitamura’s The Longshot, and help keep this show going, sign up for a free audiobook and a 30 day trial. Use this handy [...]
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Megan Abbot is most recently the author of Dare Me. She previously appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #404. This episode of The Bat Segundo Show is brought to you by Audible.com. If you want to listen to Megan Abbott’s Dare Me, and help keep this show going, sign up for a free audiobook and [...]
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Andrew Shaffer is most recently the author of Fifty Shames of Earl Grey. This episode of The Bat Segundo Show is brought to you by Audible.com. If you want to listen to Fanny Merkin’s Fifty Shames of Earl Grey, and help keep this show going, sign up for a free audiobook and a 30 day [...]
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John Lanchester is most recently the author of Capital. This episode of The Bat Segundo Show is brought to you by Audible.com. If you want to listen to John Lanchester’s Capital, and help keep this show going, sign up for a free audiobook and a 30 day trial. Use this handy link: http://www.audiblepodcast.com/bat Condition of [...]
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Karolina Waclawiak is most recently the author of How to Get Into the Twin Palms. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Combing through the immigrant experience and what’s left of his deliquescing hair. Author: Karolina Waclawiak Subjects Discussed: Kafka’s The Trial, being forced by parents to read Kafka and Dostoevsky, Roald Dahl, avoiding biographical details about a [...]
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Jennifer Weiner is most recently the author of The Next Best Thing. This episode of The Bat Segundo Show is brought to you by Audible.com. If you want to listen to Jennifer Weiner’s The Next Best Thing, and help keep this show going, sign up for a free audiobook and a 30 day trial. Use [...]
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