The dazzling, drunken, dirty (in an elegant, literary way) debut by Chip Cheek, CAPE MAY, is the result of a feverish writing spree and a measured revision process. Old friends Chip and James discuss learning to let go, having fun at the desk, selecting the right words in sex scenes, discovering characters through their dialogue, and changing ice cream to sherbet. Then, super agent to Chip and many past guests, Katherine Fausset.
Chip Cheek
Chip and James discuss:
Pages: A Bookstore
Whitney Scharer
Sally Rooney
The Chunky Monkeys
Celeste Ng
Grace Talusan
Jenn De Leon
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Lizzie Stark
THE SECRET HISTORY by Donna Tartt
James Salter
THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD by Richard Yates
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S by Truman Capote
THE CALL OF CTHULHU by H.P. Lovecraft
Jeanne Leiby
Jim Butler
Gustave Flaubert
Jennifer Haigh
Katherine Fausset
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Katherine and James discuss:
Chip Cheek
The Muse & The Marketplace
Grub Street
Benjamin Percy
Colm Toibin
STATION ELEVEN by Emily St. John Mandel
THE THIRD HOTEL by Laura van den Berg
A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN: SELECTED STORIES by Lucia BerlinFarrar, Straus & Giroux