The Maris Review

Literary Hub has a new podcast! Hosted by LH podcasts editor Drew Broussard, this new weekly show goes behind the scenes at Lit Hub, diving deeper into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful in literary culture. Featuring appearances by Lit Hub staff, recurring columnists like Kristen Arnett and Maris Kreizman, and special guests talking about the news of the day and so much more. New episodes every Friday, wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Tyriek White joins Maris Kreizman to talk about his Center for Fiction First Novel prize-winning novel, We Are A Haunting. Tyriek White is a writer, musician, and educator from Brooklyn, NY. He has received fellowships from Callaloo and the New York State Writer's Institute, among other honors. He is currently the media director of Lampblack Literary Foundation, which seeks to provide mutual aid and various resources to Black writers across the diaspora. He holds a degree in Creative Writing & Africana Studies from Pitzer College and most recently earned an MFA from the University of Mississippi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Sarah Blakley-Cartwright joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Alice Sadie Celine, out now from Simon & Schuster. Sarah Blakley-Cartwright is the author of Red Riding Hood, a #1 New York Times bestseller published worldwide in 38 editions and fifteen languages. She is the editor of Hauser & Wirth's The Artist's Library for Ursula magazine. She is publishing director of the Chicago Review of Books, and associate editor of A Public Space. Her first novel for an adult audience is called Alice Sadie Celine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Naomi Alderman joins Maris Kreizman live at the Strand Bookstore in New York City to discuss The Future, out now from Simon & Schuster. Naomi Alderman is the bestselling author of The Power, which won the Women's Prize for Fiction, and was chosen as a book of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and was recommended as a book of the year by both Barack Obama and Bill Gates. As a novelist, Alderman has been mentored by Margaret Atwood via the Rolex Arts Initiative, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and her work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. As a video games designer, she was lead writer on the groundbreaking alternate reality game Perplex City, and is cocreator of the award-winning smartphone exercise adventure game Zombies, Run!, which has more than 10 million players. She is professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University. She lives in London. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Casey Plett joins Maris Kreizman to discuss On Community, out now from Biblioasis. Casey Plett is the author of A Dream of a Woman, Little Fish, and A Safe Girl to Love, the co-editor of Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy From Transgender Writers, and the publisher at LittlePuss Press. Her new book is the 8th book in the Field Notes series from Biblioasis, and it's called On Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, K-Ming Chang joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Organ Meats, out now from One World. K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman Fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the novel Bestiary, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her new novel is called Organ Meats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Ed Park joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Same Bed Different Dreams, out now from Random House. Ed Park is the author of the novels Personal Days and Same Bed Different Dreams. He is a founding editor of The Believer and has worked in newspapers, book publishing, and academia. His writing appears in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harper's, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. Born in Buffalo, he lives in Manhattan with his family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Stephanie Land joins Maris Kreizman to talk about her new book Class, out now from Atria Books. Stephanie Land is the author of the New York Times bestseller Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive, called “a testimony…worth listening to,” by The New York Times and inspiration for the Netflix series Maid. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and many other outlets. Her writing focuses on social and economic justice and parenting under the poverty line. She is a frequent speaker at colleges and national advocacy organizations. Find out more at @Stepville or Stepville.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Jesse David Fox joins Maris Kreizman to talk about Comedy Book, out now from FSG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Molly McGhee joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Jonathan Abernathy, You Are Kind, out now from Astra House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Justin Torres joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Blackouts, out now from FSG. Justin Torres is the author of We the Animals, which was translated into fifteen languages, and was adapted into a feature film. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Granta, Tin House, and The Washington Post. He lives in Los Angeles and is an associate professor of English at UCLA. His new novel, Blackouts, has made the shortlist for the National Book Award for Fiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Maris Kreizman chats with Safiya Sinclair about her debut memoir, How to Say Babylon, out now from 37Ink. Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the author of the poetry collection Cannibal, winner of a Whiting Writers' Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award in Literature, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry, and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, C Pam Zhang joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Land of Milk and Honey, out now from Riverhead. C Pam Zhang is the author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold, winner of a whole bunch of prizes and one of Barack Obama's favorite books of the year. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and a New York Public Library Cullman Fellow. Her new novel is called Land of Milk and Honey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Maris Kreizman talks to Aparna Nancherla about her new memoir, Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Imposter Syndrome, out now from Viking. Aparna Nancherla is an LA-based comedian whose stand-up has been seen on late-night TV, HBO, Netflix, Comedy Central, and the occasional meme. Aparna also wrote for and appeared on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, and has contributed multiple op-eds to The New York Times.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of The Maris Review, Maris Kreizman talks with Kristi Coulter about her new book Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career, out now from MCD/FSG. Kristi Coulter is the author of Nothing Good Can Come from This. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan, she lives in Seattle, Washington. Her new memoir is called Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career (about her 12 years at Amazon) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, John Manuel Arias joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Where There Was Fire, out now from Flatiron Books. John Manuel Arias is a queer, Costa Rican American poet and writer. He is a Canto Mundo fellow & alumnus of the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop. He has lived in Washington D.C., Brooklyn, New York, and in San José, Costa Rica with his grandmother and four ghosts. Where There Was Fire is his debut novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Myriam Gurba joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Creep, out now from Avid Reader Press. Myriam Gurba is a writer and artist. She is the author of the true-crime memoir Mean, a New York Times Editors' Choice. O, the Oprah Magazine, ranked Mean as one of the best LGBTQ books of all time. She lives in Long Beach, California, and her new essay collection is called CREEP: Accusations and Confessions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Hilary Leichter joins Maris to talk about her new novel Terrace Story, out now from Ecco. Hilary Leichter is the author of Temporary, which was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and was longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her writing has appeared in Harper's, the New Yorker, and the New York Times. She teaches at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her new novel is called Terrace Story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of The Maris Review, Maris talks with Jenn Shapland about her new essay collection Thin Skin, out now from Pantheon. Jenn Shapland's first book, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle Award. Shapland has a PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin and she works as an archivist for a visual artist. Her new essay collection is called Thin Skin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Edan Lepucki joins Maris to discuss Time's Mouth, out now from Counterpoint. Edan Lepucki is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels California and Woman No. 17, as well as the editor of Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them. Her nonfiction has been published in The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Esquire, and The Cut, among other publications. She lives in Los Angeles with her family. Her latest novel is called Time's Mouth, an intergenerational epic involving time travel.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Maris talks with Elizabeth Acevedo about her new book Family Lore, out from Ecco. Elizabeth Acevedo is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Poet X, which won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. She is also the author of With the Fire on High and Clap When You Land. She is a National Poetry Slam Champion, and resides in Washington, DC with her loves. Her debut novel for an adult audience is called Family Lore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Maris talks with Jamel Brinkley about Witness, his new short story collection, out now from FSG. Jamel Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories, which won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Story Prize, the John Leonard Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. He was raised in the Bronx and in Brooklyn, New York, and currently teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His new story collection is called Witness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Maris talks with Donovan X. Ramsey about his new book, When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era, out now from One World Books. Donovan X. Ramsey is a journalist, author, and voice on issues of race, politics, and patterns of power in America. His reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, GQ, WSJ, Ebony, and Essence. He has been a staff reporter at the Los Angeles Times, NewsOne, and theGrio and has served as an editor at The Marshall Project and Complex. Ramsey holds a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor's degree in psychology from Morehouse College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Maris talks with Sarah Rose Etter about her new book Ripe, out now from Scribner. Sarah Rose Etter is the author of the chapbook Tongue Party and The Book of X, winner of a Shirley Jackson Award for best novel. Her work has appeared in Time, Guernica, BOMB, the Bennington Review, The Cut, VICE, and elsewhere. She has been awarded residences at the Jack Kerouac House, the Disquiet International program in Portugal, and the Gullkistan in Iceland. She earned her BA in English from Pennsylvania State University and her MFA in fiction from Rosemont College. She lives in Los Angeles. For more info, visit SarahRoseEtter.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Ruth Madievsky joins Maris Kreizman to discuss All Night Pharmacy, out now from Catapult. Ruth Madievsky's debut novel, All-Night Pharmacy, is out now from Catapult. She is also the author of a poetry collection, Emergency Brake (Tavern Books, 2016). Her writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Harper's Bazaar, Guernica, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She is a founding member of the Cheburashka Collective, a community of women and nonbinary writers whose identity has been shaped by immigration from the Soviet Union to the U.S. Originally from Moldova, she lives in L.A., where she works as an HIV and primary care pharmacist. @ruthmadievsky. www.ruthmadievsky.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Sarah Viren joins Maris Kreizman to discuss To Name the Bigger Lie, out now from Scribner. Sarah Viren is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and author of the essay collection, Mine, a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. She was a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and teaches in the creative writing program at Arizona State University. Her new book is called To Name the Bigger Lie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Tania James joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Loot, out now from Knopf. Tania James is the author of the novels The Tusk That Did the Damage and Atlas of Unknowns and the short story collection Aerogrammes. She lives in Washington, D.C. Her latest novel is called Loot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Keziah Weir joins Maris Kreizman live at P&T Knitwear in New York City to discuss The Mythmakers, out now from Simon & Schuster. Keziah Weir is a Senior Editor at Vanity Fair. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Elle, Esquire, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She grew up in California and British Columbia, and currently lives in Maine with her husband and dog. Her debut novel is called The Mythmakers.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Mattie Lubchansky joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Boys Weekend, out now from Pantheon. Mattie Lubchansky is a cartoonist and illustrator and the Associate Editor of Ignatz award-winning magazine and website. They live in beautiful Queens, NY, with their spouse, and their new graphic novel is called Boys Weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, S. A. Cosby joins Maris Kreizman to discuss All the Sinners Bleed, out now from Flatiron Books. S. A. Cosby is an Anthony Award-winning writer from Southeastern Virginia. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Razorblade Tears and Blacktop Wasteland, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was a New York Times Notable Book, and was named a best book of the year by NPR, The Guardian, and Library Journal, among others. When not writing, he is an avid hiker and chess player. His latest novel is called All the Sinners Bleed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Maureen Ryan joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood, out now from Mariner Books. Maureen Ryan is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and has covered the entertainment industry as a critic and reporter for three decades. She has written for Entertainment Weekly, the New York Times, Salon, GQ, Vulture, the Chicago Tribune, and more. Prior to joining Vanity Fair, Ryan served as the chief television critic for Variety and the Huffington Post. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Rita Chang-Eppig joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea, out May 30 from Bloomsbury. Rita Chang-Eppig received her MFA from NYU. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, The Santa Monica Review, The Rumpus, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Best American Short Stories 2021 (selected by Jesmyn Ward), and elsewhere. She lives in California. Her debut novel is called Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Samantha Irby joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new book, Quietly Hostile, out now from Vintage Books. Samantha Irby is a humorist and essayist and the author of three previous essay collections. Her latest is called Quietly Hostile. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Christina Sharpe joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new book, Ordinary Notes, out now from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Christina Sharpe is Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University in Toronto. She is the author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, and her new one is called Ordinary Notes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Jaime Green joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new book, The Possibility of Life, out now from Hanover Square Press. Jaime Green is a science writer, essayist, editor, and teacher, and she is series editor of The Best American Science and Nature Writing. She received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia, and her writing has appeared in Slate, Popular Science, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and son. Her new book is called The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Claire Dederer joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her latest book, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma, out now from Knopf. Claire Dederer is the author of Love and Trouble, and the New York Times best-selling memoir Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Poses. A book critic, essayist, and reporter, Dederer is a longtime contributor to The New York Times and has also written for The Atlantic, Vogue, Slate, The Nation, and New York magazine. She lives near Seattle with her family. Her latest book is called Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Victor Lavalle joins Maris Kreizman to discuss his latest novel, Lone Women, out now from One World. Victor LaValle is the author of seven works of fiction: four novels, two novellas, and a collection of short stories. His novels have been included in best-of-the-year lists by The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Nation, and Publishers Weekly, among others. He lives in the Bronx with his wife and kids and teaches at Columbia University. His latest novel is called Lone Women. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Mar joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new book, Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy, out now from Penguin Press. Alex Mar is the author of Witches of America, which was a New York Times Notable Book and Editors' Pick. She has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Feature Writing, and she is the director of the feature-length documentary American Mystic. She lives in the Hudson Valley and New York City. Her latest book is called Seventy Times Seven. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nicole Chung joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new book, A Living Remedy, out now from Ecco Press. Nicole Chung is the author of the national bestseller All You Can Ever Know, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, a semifinalist for the PEN Open Book Award, and an Indies Choice Honor Book. She is currently a contributing writer at The Atlantic, and her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, GQ, Time, The Guardian, Slate, and Vulture. Her new book is called A Living Remedy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Idra Novey joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new novel, Take What You Need, out now from Viking. Idra Novey is the award-winning author of the novels Ways to Disappear and Those Who Knew. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages and she's written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. She teaches fiction at Princeton University and in the MFA Program at New York University. Her latest novel is called Take What You Need. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Catherine Lacey joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new novel, Biography of X, out now from FSG. Catherine Lacey is the author of the novels Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers, and Pew, and of the short-story collection Certain American States. Born in Mississippi, she is based in Chicago, Illinois. Her latest novel is called Biography of X. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jenny Jackson joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her debut novel, Pineapple Street, out now from Pamela Dorman Books. Jenny Jackson is a vice president and executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. A graduate of Williams College and the Columbia Publishing Course, she lives in Brooklyn Heights with her family. Pineapple Street is her first novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jennifer Wright joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her latest book, Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist, out now from Hachette. Jennifer Wright is the author of several pop history books, including It Ended Badly and Get Well Soon (winner of Audible's "Best History Book of 2017"). She lives in Los Angeles with her husband—fellow writer Daniel Kibblesmith—and their daughter. Her latest book is called Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Schulman joins Maris Kreizman to discuss his new book, Oscar Wars, out now from Harper. Michael Schulman is a writer living in New York City. His first book, Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep, about the actress's artistic coming-of-age in the 1970s, was a New York Times bestseller. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His new book is called Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rebecca Makkai joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new novel, I Have Some Questions for You, out now from Viking. Rebecca Makkai's last novel, The Great Believers, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her other books are the novels The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House, and the collection Music for Wartime. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca is on the MFA faculties of the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe and Northwestern University, and is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago. Her latest book is called I Have Some Questions for You. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Malcolm Harris joins Maris Kreizman to discuss his new book, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, out now from Little Brown and Co. Malcolm Harris is a freelance writer and the author of Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials and Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since the End of History. He was born in Santa Cruz, CA and graduated from the University of Maryland. His new book is called Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new novel, A Spell of Good Things, out now from Knopf. AYỌ̀BÁMI ADÉBÁYỌ̀ was born in Lagos, Nigeria. Her debut novel, Stay with Me, has been translated into twenty languages. Longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award, Stay with Me was a New York Times, Guardian, Chicago Tribune, and NPR Best Book of the Year. Her new novel is called A Spell of Good Things. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Sabrina Imbler joins Maris Kreizman to discuss their new essay collection, How Far the Light Reaches, out now from Little Brown. Sabrina Imbler is a writer and science journalist living in Brooklyn. Their first chapbook, Dyke (geology), was published by Black Lawrence Press. Their essays and reporting have appeared in various publications, including the New York Times, the Atlantic, Catapult, and Sierra, among others. Their debut essay collection is called How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aubrey Gordon joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new book, “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People, out now from Beacon Press. Aubrey Gordon writes under the pseudonym of "Your Fat Friend," illuminating the experiences of fat people and urging greater compassion for people of all sizes. Her work has reached millions of readers and has been translated into nineteen languages. She is co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and a columnist with SELF magazine. She lives in the Northwest, where she works as a writer and organizer. Her new book is called "You Just Need to Lose Weight": And 19 Other Myths about Fat People. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on The Maris Review, Monica Heisey joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her debut novel, Really Good, Actually, out now from William Morrow. Monica Heisey is a comedian and writer from Toronto. She has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vogue, Elle, The Guardian, Glamour, New York magazine, and VICE, among others. She has written for television shows like Schitt's Creek, Workin' Moms, Baroness von Sketch Show, and more. She currently lives in London. Really Good, Actually is her first novel. Author photo credit: Harry Livingstone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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