Novelist. Newest is The Good Lieutenant @fsgbooks. Prof. @UMKansasCity. Co-host fiction/non/fiction podcast @Lithub @fnftalk
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7 Jun 2017
The Good LT published a year ago today. Still grateful for this @charlesfinch review & all who got behind this book. theguardian.com/books/2016/j…
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My dad died a year ago today. I keep this on my desk—one of the last gifts he gave me, when he couldn’t really write any more. It’s a duck call he used, mostly comically, when we hunted. He tried so hard to write what he wanted to say. Love you Dad. I miss you. ❤️
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Jun 11
NEW EPISODE: Novelist Ben Fountain joins co-hosts @Wsterrell and @V_V_G to discuss his new book, Rasputin Swims the Potomac, a satire set in the not-to-distant future where the fictional President seeks an unprecedented third term.
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NEW EPISODE: Historian Sarah Pearsall joins co-hosts Jennifer Maritza McCauley and @Wsterrell to discuss her new book, Freedom Round the Globe: a World History of the American Revolution.
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Wrote about two of my favorite albums of 2026 so far, from Bill Orcutt and Tomeka Reid, for the big Spin midyear list.
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These used to be around $5 at Costco. Anybody else noticing the insane tomato prices?
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May 28
NEW EPISODE: Music critic Barry Walters joins co-hosts @Wsterrell and Christian Barter to discuss his new book, Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music 1969-2000.
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May 21
NEW EPISODE: Christian B. Miller joins co-hosts @Wsterrell and Jennifer Maritza McCauley to discuss his newest work of nonfiction, The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World.
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"when you're 'charismatic' they let you get away with it."
FOX now in paperback this very day.
subtly more blood-splattered paperback cover than the original.
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May 19
My AI story generating machine.
May 18
Well, this is a first: a ChatGPT-generated story won a prestigious literary prize (The Commonwealth Prize).
"Not X, not Y, but Z" sentences everywhere, the "hums" trope, and plenty of other obvious markers of AI writing.
A major milestone for AI, at any rate...
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May 14
NEW EPISODE: Writer Rebecca Lehmann joins co-hosts @Wsterrell and @V_V_G to discuss her debut novel, The Beheading Game, a work of speculative historical fiction about Anne Boleyn's post-beheading quest for revenge.
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NEW EPISODE: Veteran war correspondent and Kirkus Prize winner Scott Anderson joins co-hosts @Wsterrell and Jennifer Maritza McCauley to discuss his new nonfiction book King of Kings, a history of the Iranian Revolution.
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Trump threatening Iran for weeks
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Love it that the co-host of my fav sports talk show in KC is also the best political commentator in town. Put him on the op-ed page @KCStar! (Or on second thought just let him cook.)
Just over 10% of Americans live in poverty. About 14 million children don’t consistently get enough food to be healthy. Roughly 600,000 Americans go bankrupt every year because they can’t pay their medical bills. But we’re gonna chip in $1 billion for security for a ballroom none of us are ever gonna be in.
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Apr 30
NEW EPISODE: Acclaimed novelist @liamcallanan joins co-hosts @V_V_G and @Wsterrell to discuss American-born Pope Leo XIV’s recent conflicts with the Trump administration.
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Apr 28
Space guitar? 🎸 Or Guitastronaut? 👨🏻🚀 Listen to the entire interview w/ @Cmdr_Hadfield at the link in bio 🎧
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Apr 24
These trucks are ridiculously stupid. They have blind spots the size of Texas. They're inefficient, expensive, dumb luxury vehicles.
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Apr 23
NEW EPISODE: Writer and scholar Caroline Bicks joins co-hosts Jennifer Maritza McCauley and @V_V_G to discuss her time in King’s archives, an experience which resulted in her new book Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King.
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Apr 22
New stadium will be on one of my longtime jogging/bike routes. Crazy to imagine this—but good!
Apr 22
Interesting that Our Lady of Sorrows Parish on the NW corner of 26th and Gillham will remain.
It will certainly be an artistic feature of the new stadium.
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