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Dan Kois is a writer, editor, and podcaster at Slate, where his work has been nominated for two National Magazine Awards and a Writers Guild Award. He's the author of How to Be a Family, a memoir of parenting around the world; The World Only Spins Forward (with Isaac Butler), an oral history of Tony Kushner's Angels in America; and Facing Future, a book of music criticism and biography. He lives with his family in Arlington, Virginia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kashana Cauley is a former Midtown antitrust lawyer and Brooklyn resident. She is a writer for the Fox comedy The Great North, a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and a GQ contributor. She's written for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and Pod Save America on HBO as well as The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Pitchfork, and Rolling Stone, and has published fiction in Esquire, Slate, Tin House, and The Chronicles of Now. She now lives in Los Angeles. Her first novel is called The Survivalists.Recommended Reading: Assembly by Natasha Brown Post-Traumatic by Chantal V. Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This conversation was live from the Miami Book Fair. See more programming from this year's festival at MiamiBookFair.com.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

This week on The Maris Review, Evette Dionne joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her debut book, Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul, out now from Ecco Press.Evette Dionne is a journalist, an editor, and a pop-culture critic. She is the National Book Award-nominated author of Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box, a middle- grade nonfiction book about Black women suffragists. A graduate of Bennett College, Dionne is based in Denver, where she works as the executive editor of YES! Media. Her debut is called Weightless.Recommended Reading:Drunk on Love by Jasmine Guillory • The Undead Truth of Us by Britney S. Lewis • Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Heather Radke is an essayist, journalist, and contributing editor and reporter at Radiolab, the Peabody Award­-winning program from WNYC. She has written for publications including The Believer, Longreads, and The Paris Review, and she teaches at Columbia University's creative writing MFA Program. Before becoming a writer, Heather worked as a curator at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in Chicago.Book recommendations: The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper Jones Let’s Talk About Love by Carl Wilson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanna Kadlec is a writer, astrologer, former lingerie boutique owner, and recovering academic. Her writing has appeared in ELLE, NYLON, O the Oprah Magazine, Allure, Catapult, Literary Hub, Autostraddle, and more. A born and bred Midwesterner, she now lives in Brooklyn. Heretic is her first book.Recommended Reading:Home Bound by Vanessa Bee • Virology by Joseph Osmundson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. She has also written for GQ, ESPN the Magazine, and many other publications. Fleishman Is in Trouble is her first novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Drnaso was born in 1989 in Palos Hills, Illinois. His debut, Beverly, received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Graphic Novel. His followup, the graphic novel Sabrina, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2018 and received nominations for the Booker Prize, the Eisner Award, the LD and LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize, the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. Sabrina has been published in fifteen countries. Drnaso lives in Chicago with his wife and their two cats.Recommended Reading:The Third Person by Emma Grove • Our Little Secret by Emily Carrington Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Lydia Millet joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new novel, Dinosaurs, out now from W.W. Norton.__________________________________Lydia Millet is the author of A Children’s Bible, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top 10 book of 2020, among other works of fiction. Her story collection Love in Infant Monkeys was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She lives in Tucson, Arizona. Her latest novel is called Dinosaurs.Recommended Reading:Wild New World by Dan Flores • Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

George Saunders is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven books, including A Swim in a Pond in the Rain; Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker Prize; Congratulations, by the Way; Tenth of December, and The Braindead Megaphone. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University. His newest story collection is called Liberation Day.Recommended Reading: The Storm Is Here by Luke Mogelson The Book of Night Women by Marlon James Insurrections by Rion Amilcar Scott White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices