Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and been recipient of several awards including: the Ray Bradbury Award from the Los Angeles Times, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. His latest novel is called My Heart Is a Chainsaw. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rebecca Donner's essays, reportage and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Bookforum, Guernica, and The Believer. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days is her third and latest book; she is also the author of a novel, Sunset Terrace, and Burnout, a graphic novel about ecoterrorism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chibundu Onuzo was born in Lagos, Nigeria and lives in London. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and regular contributor to The Guardian, she is the winner of a Betty Trask Award. The author of Welcome to Lagos, Sankofa is her third novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hermione Hoby is the author of the novel Neon in Daylight, which was twice listed as a New York Times Editors? Choice. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper?s Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Times, and Frieze. Her latest novel is called Virtue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AMITAVA KUMAR is a writer and journalist. He was born in Ara, India, and grew up in the nearby town of Patna, famous for its corruption, crushing poverty, and delicious mangoes. Kumar is the author of the novel Immigrant, Montana, as well as several other books of nonfiction and fiction. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he is Professor of English on the Helen D. Lockwood Chair at Vassar College. His latest novel is called A Time Outside This Time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ash Davidson was born in Arcata, California, and attended the Iowa Writers? Workshop. Her work has been supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts and MacDowell. She lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, and her debut novel is called Damnation Spring. Recommended Reading: A Bitter Fog by Carol Van Strum The Last Stand by David Harris The Return of Faraz Ali by Aamina Ahmad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Miriam Toews is the author of seven previous bestselling novels, Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans, and Irma Voth, and one work of nonfiction, Swing Low: A Life. Her latest novel is called Fight Night. She lives in Toronto. Recommended Reading: Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife by Sam Savage Never Any End To Paris by Enrique Vila-Matas Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Phoebe Robinson is a stand-up comedian, writer, producer, and actress. She?s the cocreator and costar of the hit podcast and series of TV specials 2 Dope Queens. She's also a New York Times bestselling author whose latest essay collection is called Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes, and it?s the first book out from Tiny Reparations Books, Phoebe?s new imprint at Dutton/PRH. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including The Library Book, Rin Tin Tin, Saturday Night, and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award?winning film Adaptation. She lives with her family and her animals in Los Angeles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dave Eggers is the author of many books, among them The Circle? the companion to The Every? and also The Monk of Mokha, A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Museum of Rain. He is a cofounder of 826 National, a network of youth writing centers, and Voice of Witness, an oral history book series that illuminates the stories of those impacted by human rights crises.  Recommended Reading: Mi María: Surviving the Storm edited by Ricia Chansky and Marci Denesiuk Ivory Shoals by John Brandon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Melissa Broder is the author of the novels Milk Fed and The Pisces, the essay collection So Sad Today, and four poetry collections, selections from which are included in her new collection Superdoom. She is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry. She lives in Los Angeles.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do you hide a love affair when you?re two big-name Hollywood stars? True love is a new scripted podcast from Wondery that brings you stories of scandal, romance, and drama. In the new season, Abby and Erik are co-stars in a new blockbuster superhero franchise. The last thing either of their careers need is an on-set romance ? but they just can?t help themselves. Each season of True Love is passionate, scandalous, and inspired by a real-life love story. This is just a preview, but you can listen to the full episode at wondery.fm/TrueLoveSeason2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nichole Perkins is a writer from Nashville, Tennessee who examines the intersections of pop culture, race, sex, gender, and relationships. She?s a 2017 Audre Lorde Fellow at the inaugural Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat and a 2017 BuzzFeed Emerging Writers Fellow. Her debut essay collection is called Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be. Recommended Reading: Negotiations by Destiny O. Birdsong Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lauren Groff is a two-time National Book Award finalist and The New York Times?bestselling author of three novels, The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, and Fates and Furies, and the celebrated short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. Her latest novel is called Matrix. Recommended Reading: Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman Dear Memory by Victoria Chang How To Wrestle a Girl by Venita Blackburn Harrow by Joy Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maggie Nelson is the author of several books of poetry and prose, most recently the New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner The Argonauts. Her latest work of criticism is called On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint. Recommended Reading: The Force of Non-Violence by Judith Butler Good Will Come From the Sea by Christos Ikonomou On Violence and On Violence Against Women by Jacqueline Rose Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julia Turshen is the bestselling cookbook author of Small Victories, Feed the Resistance, and Now & Again. She hosts the IACP-nominated podcast 'Keep Calm and Cook On' and has written for many publications. She is the founder of Equity At The Table, an inclusive digital directory of women/non-binary individuals in food. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her wife and pets, and her latest cookbook is Simply Julia: 110 Easy Recipes for Healthy Comfort Food. This episode is brought to you by Talkspace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MATTHEW SALESSES is the author of three novels, Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, The Hundred-Year Flood, and I?m Not Saying, I?m Just Saying, and a forthcoming essay collection. He was adopted from Korea and currently lives in Iowa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Megan Abbott is the award-winning author of ten novels, including Give Me Your Hand, You Will Know Me, The Fever, Dare Me, and The End of Everything. She is the co-creator and executive producer of USA's adaptation of Dare Me and was a staff writer on HBO's David Simon show The Deuce. Her latest novel is called The Turnout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Katie Kitamura's most recent novel, A Separation, was a finalist for the Premio Gregor von Rezzori and a New York Times Notable Book. It was named a best book of the year by over a dozen publications and translated into sixteen languages, and is being adapted for film. Her two previous novels, Gone to the Forest and The Longshot, were both finalists for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. A recipient of fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and Santa Maddalena Foundation, Katie has written for publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Granta, BOMB Magazine, Triple Canopy, and Frieze. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

KELSEY McKINNEY is a freelance features writer and cofounder of Defector Media. She previously worked as a staff writer at Vox, Fusion, and Deadspin. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, GQ, Cosmopolitan, and New York magazine, among other publications. Raised Evangelical in north Texas, she now lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and dog. God Spare the Girls is her first novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tahmima Anam is the recipient of a Commonwealth Writers Prize, an O. Henry Prize, and has been named one of Granta?s Best Young British Novelists. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. Born in Bangladesh, she now lives in London where she is on the board of ROLI, a music tech company founded by her husband. Her latest novel is called The Startup Wife. Today's sponsor is HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/marisreview14 and use code marisreview14 for up to 14 free meals plus free shipping! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers? Workshop, where she held a Dean?s Graduate Research Fellowship. She lives in Brooklyn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

KRISTEN RADTKE is the author of the graphic nonfiction book Imagine Wanting Only This. The recipient of a 2019 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, Radtke is the art director and deputy publisher of The Believer. Her new graphic book is called Seek You. This episode's sponsor: This episode is sponsored by: Scribd. Go to try.scribd.com/maris for a 60-day free trial. HelloFresh. Go to HelloFresh.com/marisreview12 and use code marisreview12 for 12 free meals, including free shipping! Talkspace: Get $100 off your first month with Talkspace. Visit talkspace.com and use promo code MARISREVIEW. Literati. Redeem your free trial at literati.com/marisreview. Indeed: At Indeed.com/maris, get a $75 credit. Offer valid through JUNE 30TH. Terms and conditions apply. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dana Spiotta is the author of Innocents and Others; Stone Arabia, A National Books Critics Circle Award finalist; and Eat the Document, a finalist for the National Book Award. Spiotta is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize for Literature. Her most recent novel is Wayward. She lives in Syracuse, New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rivka Galchen is the recipient of a William Saroyan International Prize for Fiction and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, among other distinctions. She writes regularly for The New Yorker, whose editors selected her for their list of 20 Under 40 American fiction writers in 2010. Her debut novel Atmospheric Disturbances (2008) and her story collection American Innovations were both New York Times Best Books of the Year. She has received an MD from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Galchen lives in New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joan Silber is the author of nine books of fiction. Her last book, Improvement, was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award and was listed as one of the year's best books by The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Newsday, The Seattle Times, and Kirkus Reviews. Her previous book, Fools, was long-listed for the National Book Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Other works include The Size of the World, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and Ideas of Heaven, finalist for the National Book Award and The Story Prize. She lives in New York, has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ashley C. Ford is a writer, host, and educator who lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with her husband, poet and fiction writer Kelly Stacy, and their chocolate lab Astro Renegade Ford-Stacy. Her debut memoir is called Somebody?s Daughter. This episode's sponsor: This episode is also presented by HelloFresh. Go to HelloFresh.com/marisreview12 and use code marisreview12 for 12 free meals, including free shipping! ?Talkspace: Get $100 off your first month with Talkspace. Visit talkspace.com and use promo code MARISREVIEW. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Katherine Heiny is the author of Standard Deviation and Single, Carefree, Mellow, and her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and many other magazines. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband and children, and is a former resident of London, The Hague, and Boyne City, Michigan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zakiya Dalila Harris spent nearly three years in editorial at Knopf/Doubleday before leaving to write her debut novel The Other Black Girl. Prior to working in publishing, Zakiya received her MFA in creative writing from The New School. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in Guernica and The Rumpus. She lives in Brooklyn. Today's Sponsors: Scribd. Go to try.scribd.com/maris for a 60-day free trial. Literati. Redeem your free trial at literati.com/marisreview. Aurate. For 15% off your first Aurate purchase, go to AurateNewYork.com/marisreview and use promo code marisreview. Realm. Starring Emmy award-winning actress Tatiana Maslany, Realm presents the official continuation of the hit TV series Orphan Black. Listen to Orphan Black: The Next Chapter, available wherever you get your podcasts. Get 20% off your first order when you go to AncientNutrition.com and enter promo code MARIS at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Paul and Daisy Soros fellow, Sanjena Sathian is a 2019 graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has worked as a reporter in Mumbai and San Francisco, with nonfiction bylines for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Food & Wine, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, and more. Her debut novel is called Gold Diggers. This episode's sponsor: Aurate. For 15% off your first Aurate purchase, go to AurateNewYork.com/marisreview and use promo code marisreview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elizabeth McCracken is the author of seven books, including The Souvenir Museum, Bowlaway, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, and The Giant?s House (a National Book Award finalist and one of my favorite novels of all time). Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, won three Pushcart Prizes, a National Magazine Award, and an O. Henry Prize. She has served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers? Workshop and currently holds the James Michener Chair for Fiction at the University of Texas at Austin. This Episode's Sponsors: Talkspace: Get $100 off your first month with Talkspace. Visit talkspace.com and use promo code MARISREVIEW. Indeed: At Indeed.com/maris, get a $75 credit. Offer valid through JUNE 30TH. Terms and conditions apply. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller, The Nest, which is currently in development as a limited series by AMC Studios. She lives in Los Angeles with her family. This episode's sponsor: This episode is presented by Ancient Nutrition. Get 20% off your first order when you go to AncientNutrition.com and enter promo code MARIS at checkout. This episode is also presented by HelloFresh. Go to HelloFresh.com/marisreview12 and use code marisreview12 for 12 free meals, including free shipping! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maggie Shipstead is the New York Times best-selling author of the novels Astonish Me and Seating Arrangements and the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, and the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Recommended Reading: The Signature of Things by Elizabeth Gilbert Life After Life by Kate Atkinson Pachinko by Min-Jin Lee A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki Veronica by Mary Gaitskill This Episode's Sponsor: This episode is presented by Storyworth. Give your mom the most meaningful gift this Mother?s Day with StoryWorth. Get started right away with no shipping required by going to Storyworth.com/maris. You?ll get $10 off your first purchase! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gabriela Garcia is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award and a Steinbeck Fellowship from San Jose State University. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Best American Poetry, Tin House, Zyzzyva, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. She received an MFA in fiction from Purdue and lives in the Bay Area. Of Women and Salt is her first novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over the course of 99 episodes, The Maris Review has featured casual yet intimate conversations with authors like Susan Choi, George Saunders, Raven Leilani, and David Sedaris. For the 100th episode celebration, host Maris Kreizman is joined by a few of her very favorites -- Alexander Chee, Morgan Parker, and Emma Straub -- to talk about reading as both a writer and a part of a literary community. We?ll converse online and take questions from the audience. The only way this night could be more fun is if we could all get a drink together afterward. ?Alexander Chee is the best-selling author of the novels The Queen of the Night and Edinburgh, and the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic, and an editor at large at Virginia Quarterly Review. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays 2016, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, T Magazine, Slate, Vulture, among others. He is winner of a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship. He is an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College. Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On?; and the poetry collections Other People?s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, and Magical Negro, which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. Parker?s debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One World. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and has been hailed by The New York Times as ?a dynamic craftsperson? of ?considerable consequence to American poetry.? Emma Straub is the New York Times-bestselling author of three novels The Vacationers, Modern Lovers, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, and the short story collection Other People We Married. Her books have been published in twenty countries. Her latest novel is called All Adults Here. She and her husband own Books Are Magic, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn, New York. This episode's sponsor: This episode is presented by Ancient Nutrition. Get 20% off your first order when you go to AncientNutrition.com and enter promo code MARIS at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart and two essay collections: Abandon Me and her latest is Girlhood. She is an associate professor at the University of Iowa, where she teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Amy Solomon and Aparna Nancherla join Maris Kreizman to discuss the anthology Notes from the Bathroom Line: Humor, Art, and Low-Grade Panic from 150 of the Funniest Women in Comedy?which Amy edited, and Aparna contributed to?out now from Harper Design. ?Amy Solomon is a producer on HBO?s Silicon Valley and Barry. She currently runs Alec Berg?s production company, where she develops content for film and television. She is the editor of Notes from the Bathroom Line. Aparna Nancherla is a comedian and general silly billy. Her sense of humor is dry, existential, and absurd, with notes of uncalled-for whimsy. Think, a wine you didn?t order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jo Ann Beard is the author of the groundbreaking collection of autobiographical essays, The Boys of My Youth and Festival Days and the novel, In Zanesville. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Essays, and other magazines and anthologies. She teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College.  Recommended Reading: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen Orientation by Daniel Orozco Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jessica Winter is an editor at The New Yorker and the author of the novel Break in Case of Emergency. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Bookforum, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elon Green has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The Columbia Journalism Review, and appears in the true-crime anthology Unspeakable Acts. He has been an editor at Longform since 2011. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Naima Coster is the author of What's Mine and Yours and Halsey Street, and a finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, as well as degrees from Fordham University and Yale. She has taught writing for over a decade, in community settings, youth programs, and universities. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anakana Schofield is an award-winning Irish-Canadian writer of fiction, essays, and literary criticism. Her previous novels are Malarky (2012) and Martin John (2015). The UK edition of Bina was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020, and the US edition was just recently published. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Patricia Lockwood joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her book, No One Is Talking About This, out now from Riverhead. Patricia Lockwood was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana and raised in all the worst cities of the Midwest. She is the author of two poetry collections, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black and Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, a New York Times Notable Book, and the memoir Priestdaddy, which was named one of the ten best books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review. Lockwood?s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and the London Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor. This episode is brought to you by Literati Kids. Save 25% off your next two orders at literati.com/marisreview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rebecca Carroll is host of the podcast Come Through with Rebecca Carroll, and former cultural critic at WNYC. Her writing has been published widely, and she is the author of several interview-based books about race and blackness in America, including Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son. Her new memoir is called Surviving the White Gaze. This episode is brought to you by Literati Kids. Save 25% off your next two orders at literati.com/marisreview Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Brandon Hobson is the author of the novel, The Removed, as well as Where the Dead Sit Talking, which was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award and winner of the Reading the West Award. He received his PhD in English/creative writing from Oklahoma State University. His fiction has won a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in such places as McSweeney?s, Conjunctions, NOON, and elsewhere. Hobson is an assistant professor of creative writing at New Mexico State University and also teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christopher Bonanos is city editor at New York magazine, where he covers arts and culture and urban affairs. He is the author of Instant: The Story of Polaroid and Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous, and he is the editor of Encyclopedia of New York by the editors of New York magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Torrey Peters is the author of the novellas Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker, which are available for free on her website. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and an MA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth. She grew up in Chicago and now lives in Brooklyn and her debut novel is called Detransition, Baby. This episode is brought to you by Betterhelp. Save 10% your first month by going to betterhelp.com/maris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MATEO ASKARIPOUR was a 2018 Rhode Island Writers Colony writer-in-residence, and his writing has appeared in Entrepreneur, Lit Hub, Catapult, The Rumpus, Medium, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn. Black Buck is his debut novel.  Recommended Reading: How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang The Spook Who Sat By the Door by Sam Greenlee Portnoy?s Complaint by Philip Roth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

George Saunders is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Man Booker Prize; Congratulations, by the way; Tenth of December, a finalist for the National Book Award; The Braindead Megaphone; and the critically acclaimed short story collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, and In Persuasion Nation. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University. Recommended Reading: Opening Heaven?s Door by Patricia Pearson Seven Lessons in Physics by Carlo Rovelli Seven and a Half Lessons on the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett Thank you to Betterhelp for sponsoring this episode. Save 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/maris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kate Zambreno is the author of several acclaimed books including Screen Tests, Heroines, and Green Girl. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The Virginia Quartlerly Review, and elsewhere. She teaches in the writing programs at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices