In Defense of the Comic Novel: Andrew Sean Greer Talks “Less is Lost”

In Defense of the Comic Novel: Andrew Sean Greer Talks “Less is Lost”

Arthur Less is a novelist—a “minor American novelist,” to be precise. He’s a man whose biggest talent seems to be taking a problem and making it five times worse. And he’s the hero of Andrew Sean Greer’s novel “Less,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, an especially rare feat for a comic novel.

Andrew Sean Greer is now out with a sequel, “Less Is Lost,” which takes Arthur on a road trip across the U.S. He talks with the staff writer Parul Sehgal.

Plus, for thirty years, the poet Ellen Bass has taken the same walk almost every day, on West Cliff Drive, a road along the ocean in Santa Cruz, California. Friends and family have teased her for being stuck in her ways, so she wrote the poem “Ode to Repetition,” about taking the same walk, listening to the same songs, and doing the same daily tasks, as life marches toward its end. (This segment originally aired May 26, 2017.)

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Episode 27: Who Will Care for Our Parents, and the Election According to Teens

Episode 27: Who Will Care for Our Parents, and the Election According to Teens

In this week’s episode, the activist Ai-jen Poo envisions a happier, more affordable alternative to nursing homes, and we meet a home health aide who’s formed a remarkable bond of friendship with her ...

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Episode 26: Syrian War Crimes, Country Music, and a Central Park Salad

Episode 26: Syrian War Crimes, Country Music, and a Central Park Salad

On this week’s show, Ben Taub shares his reporting on a group that’s gathering top-secret documents tying Bashar al-Assad’s regime to mass torture and killings, and David Remnick talks with a war-crim...

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Episode 25:  The Ballad of a Trump Fan, and the Little Mermaid Gets Dumped

Episode 25: The Ballad of a Trump Fan, and the Little Mermaid Gets Dumped

This week, we look into the lives and careers of two giants of soul—Aretha Franklin and the late James Brown. From the campaign trail, Michael Friedman’s musical ode to a South Carolinian Trump suppor...

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Episode 24:  Larry David, Amy Poehler, and Randy Newman

Episode 24: Larry David, Amy Poehler, and Randy Newman

This week, three highlights from The New Yorker Festival: Larry David explains why he envies his sociopathic alter ego on “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” Amy Poehler describes the joys of doing comedy while n...

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Episode 23: The Birth of Instagram, and Tunisia’s Jihadis

Episode 23: The Birth of Instagram, and Tunisia’s Jihadis

This week: Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger talks about how Instagram took over the world; the New Yorker’s cartoon editor, Bob Mankoff, shares his three favorite jokes; and George Packer reports fro...

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Episode 22: Nate Silver on Trump Versus Cruz, and Roz Chast’s Horses

Episode 22: Nate Silver on Trump Versus Cruz, and Roz Chast’s Horses

This week: Three great political minds talk to David Remnick about the 2016 election, Roz Chast is visited by a young cartoonist who is following in her footsteps, and Hilton Als sits down with Cynthi...

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Episode 21: Julia Louis-Dreyfus on the Presidential Race, and Malcolm Gladwell on School Shootings

Episode 21: Julia Louis-Dreyfus on the Presidential Race, and Malcolm Gladwell on School Shootings

This week: Julia Louis-Dreyfus says that, in light of the 2016 Presidential race, “Veep” is now like a “sombre” documentary; Malcolm Gladwell looks at the subculture behind post-Columbine school shoot...

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Episode 20: G.P.S. for Drunks, and Coming Home to Serbia

Episode 20: G.P.S. for Drunks, and Coming Home to Serbia

This week: A Manhattan bartender, prizefighter, and onetime bank robber returns to his ancestral mansion in Serbia; Michael Friedman brings us a new song written from the campaign trail; and a devasta...

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