Following Donald Trump’s dinner at Mar-A-Lago with Ye (formerly Kanye West) and white supremacist Nick Fuentes, novelist Michael Knight joins hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about the best and worst dinner parties in literature. They discuss the pressures of hosting, what makes someone a great guest, signature dishes, post-party regrets, and festive successes, as well as scenes in literature featuring all of these things. Knight also reads from a classic dinner party scene in his novella The Holiday Season.

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This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf.

Selected Readings:

Michael Knight

Others:

“The inside story of Trump’s explosive dinner with Ye and Nick Fuentes,” by Marc Caputo
The Days of Afrekete by Asali Solomon
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Leo Tolstoy
“The 8 best Festivus moments from ‘Seinfeld,’ ranked,” USA Today
“Curb Your Enthusiasm”: Bad Middling
Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee
Light Years by James Salter
Last Night by James Salter
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Dark Tower VII by Stephen King
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Jim Harrison
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Redwall series by Brian Jacques

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S8 Ep. 9: REBROADCAST: The Best and Worst Dinner Parties in Literature: Mar-A-Lago Edition, Featuring Michael Knight