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S8 Ep. 9: REBROADCAST: The Best and Worst Dinner Parties in Literature: Mar-A-Lago Edition, Featuring Michael Knight

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Following Donald Trump’s dinner at Mar-A-Lago with Ye (formerly Kanye West) and white supremacist Nick Fuentes, novelist Michael Knight joins hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about the best and worst dinner parties in literature. They discuss the pressures of hosting, what makes someone a great guest, signature dishes, post-party regrets, and festive successes, as well as scenes in literature featuring all of these things. Knight also reads from a classic dinner party scene in his novella The Holiday Season.

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This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf.

Selected Readings:

Michael Knight

  • The Typist
  • At Briarwood School for Girls
  • Divining Rod
  • Dogfight 
  • Goodnight, Nobody 
  • Eveningland
  • The Holiday Season

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    Others:

    • “The inside story of Trump’s explosive dinner with Ye and Nick Fuentes,” by Marc Caputo
    • The Days of Afrekete by Asali Solomon
    • To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
    • Leo Tolstoy
    • “The 8 best Festivus moments from ‘Seinfeld,’ ranked,” USA Today
    • “Curb Your Enthusiasm”: Bad Middling
    • Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee
    • Light Years by James Salter
    • Last Night by James Salter
    • Beloved by Toni Morrison
    • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
    • The Dark Tower VII by Stephen King
    • Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
    • The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang
    • The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
    • Jim Harrison
    • Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
    • Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
    • The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
    • Redwall series by Brian Jacques


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