Bill welcomes novelist Joan Frank back to the show. Joan's two most recent books are WHERE YOU'RE ALL GOING: FOUR NOVELLAS, which won the Mary McCarthy Prize, and TRY TO GET LOST: ESSAYS ON TRAVEL AND PLACE, which won the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize. Joan's 2017 novel, ALL THE NEWS I NEED, won the Juniper Prize for the Novel.Her collected essays about the writing life, BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO: A WRITING LIFE, won the ForeWord Reviews Silver Book of the Year Award. She also reviews literary fiction and nonfiction for The Washington Post. She lives in Northern California. Her new novel, THE OUTLOOK FOR EARTHLINGS, has been described as "An elegant elegy."