Adam Popescu

Several kinds of novels in one, Edmund White’s “A Saint from Texas” is so good you might forget a novel can be this good.

On this day after Thanksgiving, Press Play rebroadcasts some favorite interviews from the last few months.

On this Christmas Eve, Press Play re-airs some favorite interviews of the year. Sopan Deb shares how his Indian heritage informs his standup comedy. The documentary “Mr. SOUL!”

Barbara Kingsolver discusses crossing genres of writing and her second book of poetry, “How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons).”

Charles Yu’s "Interior Chinatown" is a contemporary novel about dealing with the difficulty of being whoever you are.

Seventy-one-year-old Jorge Luis Borges as seen through the eyes of twenty-one-year-old Jay Parini in “Borges and Me: An Encounter.”

Roman Mars talks about LA, writing for print v. radio, and whether he secretly yearns to be a designer.

Life and story go hand in hand in Margot Livesey’s “The Boy in the Field.”

Brit Bennett pushes questions of race and color to their extremes in her new novel, The Vanishing Half.