Essayist and fiction writer Tom Beller joins host Sam Graham-Felsen to discuss Philip Roth's very first book, Goodbye, Columbus.

Tom Beller was a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow and is a professor and Director of Creative Writing at Tulane University. He is the winner of the 2015 New York City Book Award, a Robert Silvers Grant for Works in Progress, and a 2021 ATLAS grant from the state of Louisiana. A long time contributor to the New Yorker and The New York Times, his novel, The Sleep-Over Artist, was a New York Times Notable Book, and a Los Angeles Times Best Book. He is also author of Seduction Theory: Stories, How To Be a Man: Essays, J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist, and Lost in the Game: A Book about Basketball. His memoir, Degas at the Gas Station: My Childhood, My Fatherhood, is forthcoming in the spring of 2025 from Duke University.