Rachel Khong is a journalist and author whose latest novel is Real Americans.

“It's about the ways in which we miss each other as human beings and can't fully communicate what it is like to be ourselves. … And I think that's what makes it so interesting to me, to work on a novel and to spend so much time trying to get down on the page what it feels like to be a human being who's alive. … I think the effort itself is what human relationships are.”

Show notes:

• rachelkhong.com
• 01:00 Real Americans (Knopf • 2024)
• 01:00 Goodbye, Vitamin (Picador • 2017)
• 01:00 Lucky Peach archive
• 01:00 "Would Limitlessness Make Us Better Writers?" (The Atlantic • Apr 2024)
• 01:00 "Dust to Dust" (Eater • May 2024)
• 05:00 "New Pornographers + Stars, 6/25 Prospect Park Summer Stage" (Village Voice • Jun 2005)
• 09:00 Same Bed Different Dreams (Ed Park • Random House • 2023)
• 12:00 "Inside My Days as a Content Bot" (Esquire • Apr 2024)
• 24:00 "The Rumpus Interview with Elizabeth Gilbert" (Rumpus • Oct 2012)
• 24:00 Eat Pray Love (Elizabeth Gilbert • Riverhead • 2007)
• 24:00 Elizabeth Gilbert's GQ archive
• 54:00 "The Great Pacific Oyster Trail" (Eater • Jun 2017)

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