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Lydia Millet, "Dinosaurs" (Norton, 2022)
Episode 63

Lydia Millet, "Dinosaurs" (Norton, 2022)

An interview with Lydia Millet

New Books in Literary Studies

November 7, 202235m 41s

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Show Notes

Today I talked to Lydia Millet about her new novel Dinosaurs (Norton, 2022).

Lydia Millet has written more than a dozen novels and story collections. Her novel A Children's Bible was a New York Times "Best 10 Books of 2020" selection and shortlisted for the National Book Award. In 2019 her story collection Fight No More received an Award of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and her collection Love in Infant Monkeys was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010. She also writes essays, opinion pieces, book reviews, and other ephemera and has worked as an editor and staff writer at the Center for Biological Diversity since 1999. She lives in the desert outside Tucson with her family.

Recommendations:

  • Dan Flores, American Serengeti
  • Dan Flores, Wild New World



Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro as World Literature, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers.

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