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June 2025

🌿Lives of Radical Simplicity
Jess Walter's new novel SO FAR GONE and modern American madness...a Character Studies conversation with a 35-year-old woman in remission from breast…
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🪐 The Very End of Space and Time
S. A. Cosby on crime fiction and the rural American South...a Character Studies conversation with a British architect-turned-painter...Brad & Mira…
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⏳ Do Not Squander Your Life
Claire Hoffman on the magical mystery of Aimee Semple McPherson...a Character Studies conversation with a grad student from Jersey...Brad & Mira reflect…
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🪟nothing in the room
Andrew Lipstein goes to Denmark in his new novel, SOMETHING ROTTEN...Vauhini Vara explores selfhood in the digital age...a 'Character Studies…
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May 2025

↖️ a radically new form
J. Robert Lennon talks about BUZZ KILL, this month's book club pick...Kate Folk on her debut novel SKY DADDY...Brad & Mira examine popular culture…
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🚶🏻‍♀️the something closest to doing nothing
Honor Jones on the family drama at the heart of her debut novel SLEEP...a Character Studies conversation with a man who has been a Blue Man for more…
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📚 the true purpose of education
A conversation with Ocean Vuong about THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS...Katie Kitamura talks with me about AUDITION...a vegan activist in this week's Character…
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☯️ this is a creative act
Jonathan Evison on the novel he wrote for his mom...A Character Studies conversation with a 38-year-old ice-fishing social worker...Maggie Smith gives a…
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April 2025

🌕 the men who went to the moon
A Craftwork conversation with Jane Friedman about how to make a living as a writer...a Character Studies conversation with a 56-year-old mother and…
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👁️ a willingness to contemplate what is happening
A conversation with horror master Stephen Graham Jones...a Character Studies conversation with a geospatial scientist from North Carolina...Brad & Mira…
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🌪️the centrifugal bumblepuppy
A conversation with Emma Pattee, author of the riveting debut novel TILT...a Character Studies conversation with a 28-year-old musician who works for…
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