Ep. 2: Daniel Torday & Deena Drewis

James and Daniel Torday, author of The Last Flight of Poxl West, discuss working on second novels, getting the facts right, writing about World War II, magnetic people, and, of course, Carrot Top. Plus, Deena Drewis discusses publishing novellas at Nouvella Books. 

Dan and James Discuss: 

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 

Thucydides

N+1 

The Rumpus

Gay Talese

Wells Tower  

McSweeney's

Dan Shaughnessy

Will McDonough

Peter Gammons 

Elizabeth Kolbert 

Tim Junod 

Mary Karr

Jim Shepard 

The Martian by Andy Weir

David Foster Wallace 

John Jeremiah Sullivan 

Jay Kirk 

George Saunders 

Eric Rosenbloom 

Rebecca Curtis 

Adam Levin 

The Monkey Mind by Daniel Smith 

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 

"17 Things You Learn When You Interview Carrot Top" by Chris Jones 

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 

Philip Roth 

Captain Ahab 

Humbert Humbert 

Iago 

The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy by Masha Gessen 

Sam Lipsyte 

Lauren Goodwin Slaughter 

Laura Farmer 

Deena and James Discuss:

The Sensualist by Daniel Torday  

A Familiar Beast by Panio Gianopoulos

The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink 

Elena Ferrante 

One Day Soon Time Will Have No Place Left to Hide by Christian Kiefer

Zyzzyva

Glimmer Train

Five Chapters

Redivider

Pank

Hobart  

Ploughshares 

One Story 

How to Shake the Other Man by Derek Palacio 

Ciao, Suerte by Annie McGreevy

The Last Repatriate by Matthew Salesses 

Graywolf Press 

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