Ranked #1
Episode 052: Nicholson Baker
Episode 052: Nicholson Baker
Nicholson Baker is a novelist and essayist, the author of the acclaimed novels The Mezzanine, Room Temperature and Vox, ... Read more
25 Feb 2011
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Ranked #2
Episode 056: Ron Hansen
Episode 056: Ron Hansen
Ron Hansen is the author of ten works of fiction and a collection of essays. He is particularly known for his meticulous... Read more
22 Sep 2011
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Ranked #3
Episode 060: Catherine Chung
Episode 060: Catherine Chung
Catherine Chung was born in Evanston, IL, attended college in Chicago, and studied fiction writing at Cornell University... Read more
16 Feb 2012
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Ranked #4
Episode 048: Carl Phillips
Episode 048: Carl Phillips
Carl Phillips was born in 1959. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Speak Low and Quiver of Arro... Read more
14 Oct 2010
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Ranked #5
Episode 049: Michael Silverblatt
Episode 049: Michael Silverblatt
A New York native, Michael Silverblatt graduated from the State University of New York in Buffalo and later took advance... Read more
26 Oct 2010
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Ranked #6
Episode 058: Robert Hass
Episode 058: Robert Hass
Robert Hass is the author of many books of poetry, including The Apple Trees at Olema; Time and Materials, which won the... Read more
20 Oct 2011
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Ranked #7
Episode 059: Alexi Zentner
Episode 059: Alexi Zentner
Alexi Zentner is the author of the novel Touch, which was shortlisted for The 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award and... Read more
16 Feb 2012
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Ranked #8
Episode 061: Edwidge Danticat
Episode 061: Edwidge Danticat
Fiction writer and essayist Edwidge Danticat is best known for her work chronicling the Haitian immigrant experience. Sh... Read more
23 Feb 2012
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Ranked #9
Episode 051: Stewart O'Nan
Episode 051: Stewart O'Nan
Stewart O’Nan is the author of ten novels, including Last Night At The Lobster, Snow Angels and A Prayer for the Dying, ... Read more
17 Feb 2011
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Ranked #10
Episode 047: Lydia Davis
Episode 047: Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis is the author of six books of fiction, including the story collections Almost No Memory, Varieties of Distur... Read more
30 Sep 2010
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Ranked #11
Episode 045: Julia Alvarez
Episode 045: Julia Alvarez
Poet, novelist, and essayist Julia Alvarez was born in New York, then spent the first ten years of her childhood in the ... Read more
9 Sep 2010
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Ranked #12
Episode 044: Téa Obreht
Episode 044: Téa Obreht
Téa Obreht was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia, and spent her childhood in Cyprus and Egypt before eventually immi... Read more
8 Jul 2010
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Ranked #13
Episode 043: Paul Muldoon
Episode 043: Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he... Read more
8 Apr 2010
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Ranked #14
Episode 042: Billy Collins
Episode 042: Billy Collins
Billy Collins is the author of ten collections of poetry, including the recent Ballistics and Sailing Alone Around The R... Read more
11 Mar 2010
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Ranked #15
Episode 037: Manuel Muñoz
Episode 037: Manuel Muñoz
Manuel Muñoz is the author of two collections of short stories: Zigzagger (Northwestern University Press, 2003) and The ... Read more
15 Oct 2009
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Ranked #16
Episode 036: Lydia Peelle
Episode 036: Lydia Peelle
Lydia Peelle is the author of a collection of short stories, Reasons For And Advantages Of Breathing. Peelle was born in... Read more
15 Oct 2009
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Ranked #17
Episode 034: Gina Franco
Episode 034: Gina Franco
Gina Franco received a B.A. from Smith College, an M.F.A. in poetry writing, and an M.A. in English from Cornell Univers... Read more
24 Sep 2009
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Ranked #18
Episode 030: Lisa M. Steinman
Episode 030: Lisa M. Steinman
Lisa M. Steinman’s fifth volume of poetry is Carslaw’s Sequences, from the University of Tampa Press. Steinman teaches ... Read more
26 Feb 2009
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Ranked #19
Episode 028: Julie Schumacher
Episode 028: Julie Schumacher
Julie Schumacher is the author of many works of fiction, novels and stories for adults young and old; these include The ... Read more
20 Feb 2009
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Ranked #20
Episode 027: Melissa Bank
Episode 027: Melissa Bank
Melissa Bank is the author of the international bestseller The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing (1999) and The Wonder... Read more
12 Feb 2009
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