Welcome to the FictionMatters Podcast; this is Books That Matter. In this series, I’ll speak with writers I admire to learn about their lives as readers and deep dive into a book that matters to them.
Today, I’m joined by Nora Lange. Nora’s debut novel Us Foolswas awarded the The Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction, named a best book of 2024 by The Boston Globe and NPR, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice pick. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, The Believer, BOMB, Hazlitt, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Brown University and is a fellow at USC’s Los Angeles Institute of the Humanities. She recently moved to Salt Lake City with her family.
In this episode, Nora and I discuss Rachel Cusk’s classic motherhood memoir, A Life’s Work as well as Nora’s new short story collection, Day Care, which published on April 7th Additionally, we both get a little personal about how motherhood has impacted our creative lives and Nora shares how her recent reads are all connecting back to her current work in progress.
Books and Links
* Day Care by Nora Lange
* When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
* Philip Roth: The Biography by Blake Bailey
* The Dry Heartby Natalia Ginzburg
* A Life’s Work by Rachel Cusk
* All Fours by Miranda July
* Live Flesh movie directed by Pedro Almodóvar
* How Pregnancy and Childrearing Alter Our Perception of Time and Aging (Lit Hub)
* The King’s English Bookshop
* Us Fools by Nora Lange
* Joan Didion
Connect with Nora
* Website
* Instagram
* Order Day Care
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