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Ayad Akhtar on Living in Proximity to the Unknown (opens the original)
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Hello friends,What a startling conversation I had with Ayad Akhtar about his new novel, The Radiance, in which a man—also named Ayad—wakes from a hit-and-run accident into a spontaneous state of heightened perception. The experience unfolds over months as he navigates an academic scandal in a politically divided town, while moving between the ordinary world and mystical experience.Published today by Simon & Schuster, The Radiance has been named among the most antic
Hallie Shepherd Isn’t Afraid of the Dark (opens the original)
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Hello friends,I had the pleasure of interviewing screenwriter, actress, and producer Hallie Shepherd twice—below, and on my podcast—about her electric debut novel Call Off the Dark, published today by HarperCollins.Shepherd’s dramatic and cinematic instincts are evident in this genre-bending gothic thriller/love story about a grieving young widow who
Lynne Sharon Schwartz on Meeting Yourself as a Stranger (opens the original)
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Greetings, friends. Today I welcome to Writers at the Well Lynne Sharon Schwartz, celebrated author of thirty books of fiction, essays, and poetry, including her novels Leaving Brooklyn, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and Rough Strife, a finalist for the National Book Award. She has published two memoirs, Ruined by Reading and <a href="https://www.count
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