The interconnected stories in YOU MAY SEE A STRANGER took Paula Whyman over a decade to compile. She gives James some advice for writing sex scenes and explains how she writes with such honesty. Then, Daniel Menaker tells James about deciding to represent Paula’s book, editing Alice Munro’s stories, his career at Random House, and what made his time at The New Yorker so special. And somewhere a dog barks. Quite frequently.
Paula and James discuss:
Yaddo
THE BREAST by Philip Roth
PLOUGHSHARES
THE HUDSON REVIEW
American University
VIRGIN FICTION (anthology)
WORLD VIEW
Porter Square Books
Joanna Rakoff
Philip Roth
T.C. Boyle
Martin Amis
Jamie Quatro
Alyssa Nutting
OLIVE KITTERIDGE by Elizabeth Strout
McSWEENEY’S
Jane Austen
Oliver Sacks
Daniel Menaker
Sewanee Writers’ Conference
Mike Levine
ONE STORY
Hannah Tinti
Marie-Helene Bertino
Maribeth Batcha
Billy Goldstein
James and Daniel discuss:
The New Yorker
Paula Whyman
Alice Munro
“Royal Beatings” by Alice Munro
Richard Avedon
Michael Chabon
LIVES OF MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS by Sheila Munro
Daniel Halpern
Tim Duggan
Roger Angell
Charles McGrath
William Maxwell
MY MISTAKE by Daniel Menaker
Matthew Klam
SUNY Stonybrook
Tina Brown
Harold Evans
Bill Buford
Robert Gottlieb
William Shawn
Michael Cunningham
Susan Minot
David Foster Wallace
Antonya Nelson
David Remnick
Alberto Vitale
“Wenlock Edge” by Alice Munro