First Draft - Allegra Goodman

About this episode

Allegra Goodman discusses her writing journey and her latest novel, 'This is Not About Us'.

Allegra Goodman is the author of Isola, Sam, Intuition, The Cookbook Collector, Paradise Park, and Kaaterskill Falls (a National Book Award finalist). Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Commentary, and Ploughshares and has been anthologized in The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. Her new novel is This is Not About Us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Mitzi Rapkin

Guest: Allegra Goodman

Topics covered

• fiction
• writing
• literature
• novels
• author interview

Keywords

• Allegra Goodman
• This is Not About Us
• fiction
• novels
• writing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The New Yorker, Commentary, Ploughshares, The O. Henry Awards, Best American Short Stories

Books & works: Isola, Sam, Intuition, The Cookbook Collector, Paradise Park, Kaaterskill Falls, This is Not About Us

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