What Are You Reading? feat. Jayne Anne Phillips

From Gays Reading by Jason Blitman

April 24, 2026 · 38 min · Episode 197

About this episode

Jason Blitman interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jayne Anne Phillips about her reading habits and her upcoming memoir-in-essays.

In this episode of  What Are You Reading? , Jason sits down with Pulitzer Prize–winning author  Jayne Anne Phillips  to discuss books she's been reading and her highly anticipated memoir-in-essays,  Small Town Girls , which Oprah named her #1 most anticipated read of the year. Jayne Anne Phillips  is the author of  Black Tickets, Machine Dreams, Fast Lanes, Shelter, MotherKind, Lark and Termite, Quiet Dell,  and  Night Watch,  which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. Her work has been a finalist once for the National Book Award and twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, Howard, Bunting, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Boston and New York. Sign up for the Gays Reading Book Club  HERE SUBSTACK! MERCH! WATCH! CONTACT! hello@gaysreading.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Jason Blitman

Guest: Jayne Anne Phillips

Topics covered

books
memoir
literature
Pulitzer Prize
author interview

Keywords

Jayne Anne Phillips
Small Town Girls
Pulitzer Prize
memoir
books

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: American Academy of Arts and Letters

Books & works: Small Town Girls, Black Tickets, Machine Dreams, Fast Lanes, Shelter, MotherKind, Lark and Termite, Quiet Dell, Night Watch

Places: Boston, New York