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Selected Novels | Catherine Lacey on Evan S. Connell Sep 04, 2025

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On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to Catherine Lacey about Evan S. Connell’s Mrs. Bridge.
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Selected Essays | Ellen Wayland-Smith on Siddhartha Mukherjee Aug 07, 2025

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On this episode of the podcast, Jess and Zach return to Selected Essays to talk to Ellen Wayland-Smith about Siddhartha Mukherjee’s “My Father’s Body, at Rest and in Motion,” published in the New Yorker in 2018.

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Selected Novels | Bruce Holsinger on Stoner Jul 03, 2025

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On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to the novelist and English professor Bruce Holsinger about John Williams’s Stoner.
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Selected Novels | Joanne McNeil on J.G. Ballard Jun 05, 2025

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On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to the novelist and cultural critic Joanne McNeil about J.G. Ballard’s Concrete Island.
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Selected Novels | Jessi Jezewska Stevens on Thomas Mann May 01, 2025

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On the fourth episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to the novelist and short story writer (and Point contributor) Jessi Jezewska Stevens about Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.
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Selected Novels | Adam Ehrlich Sachs on Gustave Flaubert Mar 27, 2025

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On the third episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to the novelist Adam Ehrlich Sachs about Flaubert’s final, unfinished novel, Bouvard and Pécuchet.
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Selected Novels | Clare Sestanovich on Marilynne Robinson Feb 27, 2025

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On the second episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to Clare Sestanovich, writer and managing editor of the Drift, about Marilynne Robinson’s first novel, Housekeeping.
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The decline of Aaron Rodgers (with Leif Weatherby) Feb 14, 2025

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On this episode of The Point podcast, Zach Fine takes a break from Selected Essays and Selected Novels to discuss another important, if less literary, topic: American football. Zach is joined by Leif Weatherby, the author of an essay just published this week in The Point about the career of Aaron Rodgers against the backdrop of U.S. empire in decline, as well as Point editors James Duesterberg and Julia Aizuss, to discuss this year’s Super Bowl, why Aaron Rodgers (and all quarterbacks) are so weird, and what drives a man into the realm of violence and conspiracy.

Relevant reading:

“Permanent Decline: The long, slow end of Aaron Rodgers, the American man, and U.S. empire,” by Leif Weatherby (The Point)
“Steroids, Baseball, America,” by Jon Baskin (The Point)
“Biggest Losers,” by Jon Baskin (The Point, Forms of Life)

Selected Novels | Lillian Fishman on Edith Wharton Jan 30, 2025

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On this episode—our very first!—of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to novelist (and writer of our 2024 advice column, Higher Gossip) Lillian Fishman about Edith Wharton’s novel Age of Innocence.
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Selected Essays | The n+1 Editors on the Intellectual Situation Oct 22, 2024

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On this bonus episode of Selected Essays, Jess and Zach talk to Dayna Tortorici and Mark Krotov about their new anthology of the best of n+1’s second decade, The Intellectual Situation.
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