James and Daniel Torday, author of The Last Flight of Poxl West, discuss working on second novels, getting the facts right, writing about World War II, magnetic people, and, of course, Carrot Top. Plus, Deena Drewis discusses publishing novellas at Nouvella Books.

Dan and James Discuss:

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Thucydides

N+1

The Rumpus

Gay Talese

Wells Tower

McSweeney's

Dan Shaughnessy

Will McDonough

Peter Gammons

Elizabeth Kolbert

Tim Junod

Mary Karr

Jim Shepard

The Martian by Andy Weir

David Foster Wallace

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Jay Kirk

George Saunders

Eric Rosenbloom

Rebecca Curtis

Adam Levin

The Monkey Mind by Daniel Smith

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

"17 Things You Learn When You Interview Carrot Top" by Chris Jones

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Philip Roth

Captain Ahab

Humbert Humbert

Iago

The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy by Masha Gessen

Sam Lipsyte

Lauren Goodwin Slaughter

Laura Farmer

Deena and James Discuss:

The Sensualist by Daniel Torday

A Familiar Beast by Panio Gianopoulos

The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink

Elena Ferrante

One Day Soon Time Will Have No Place Left to Hide by Christian Kiefer

Zyzzyva

Glimmer Train

Five Chapters

Redivider

Pank

Hobart

Ploughshares

One Story

How to Shake the Other Man by Derek Palacio

Ciao, Suerte by Annie McGreevy

The Last Repatriate by Matthew Salesses

Graywolf Press

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