Welcome to the FictionMatters Podcast; this is Books That Matter. In this series, I’ll speak with writers I admire to learn about their lives as readers and deep dive into a book that matters to them.
Today, I’m joined by Nora Lange. Nora’s debut novel Us Fools was awarded the The Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction, named a best book of 2024 by The Boston Globe and NPR, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice pick. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, The Believer, BOMB, Hazlitt, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Brown University and is a fellow at USC’s Los Angeles Institute of the Humanities. She recently moved to Salt Lake City with her family.
In this episode, Nora and I discuss Rachel Cusk’s classic motherhood memoir, A Life’s Work as well as Nora’s new short story collection, Day Care, which published on April 7th Additionally, we both get a little personal about how motherhood has impacted our creative lives and Nora shares how her recent reads are all connecting back to her current work in progress.
Books and Links
Day Care by Nora Lange
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
Philip Roth: The Biography by Blake Bailey
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg
A Life’s Work by Rachel Cusk
All Fours by Miranda July
How Pregnancy and Childrearing Alter Our Perception of Time and Aging (Lit Hub)
Us Fools by Nora Lange
Connect with Nora
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