Today we’re bringing you an interview with writer and editor Julie Buntin, the author of a great friendship novel, Marlena, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen outlets, including the Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews. Y’all, it’s really good. Julie is from northern Michigan, and her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Vogue, the New York Times Book Review, Guernica, and other publications. She has taught creative writing at New York University, Columbia University, and the Yale Writers’ Workshop, and is incoming asst prof in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, and a recent Ellen Levine Fund for Writers Award winner for her current novel-in-progress, and is editor-at-large for Catapult. You can find her at juliebuntin.com and on Twitter @juliebuntin.
We cover a lot of ground, serious and not-so-serious. From the impact of friendships and loss, to Golden Girls, Judy Blume, and Nicholas Cage, to the algorithm and how to run a writing workshop. We loved talking to Julie, and hope you enjoy listening.
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In this episode
- Elena Ferrante‘s Neapolitan quartet
- The Girls by Emma Cline
- Who Will Run the Frog Hospital by Lorrie Moore
- The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker
- Brewster by Mark Slouka
- Rebecca Dinerstein
- Among the 10,000 Things by Julia Pierpont
- Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- The Group by Mary McCarthy
- Rich and Pretty by Rumaan Alam
- Friendship by Emily Gould
- Golden Girls
- Friends
- 9 to 5
- Vampire’s Kiss
- The Joker
- How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell
- Catapult
- Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
- The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by D.G. Compton
- “Unsilencing the Writing Workshop” by Beth Nguyen
- Craft in the Real World (forthcoming 2021) by Matthew Salesses
- Iowa Writer’s Workshop
- Parasite
- Possession
- Goodnight, Mommy
- Big Mouth
- Fleabag