He grows a handlebar mustache, ditches his signature gray suit, and disguises himself in the bolero-and-cowboy-hat costume of a true “Unitedstatesian”. Less roves across the “Mild Mild West,” through the South and to his mid-Atlantic birthplace, with an ever-changing posse of writerly characters and his trusty duo-a human-like black pug, Dolly, and a rusty camper van nicknamed Rosina. But nothing lasts: the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis has Less running away from his problems yet again as he accepts a series of literary gigs that send him on a zigzagging adventure across the US. “Go get lost somewhere, it always does you good.”įor Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady relationship with his partner, Freddy Pelu. In the follow-up to the “bedazzling, bewitching, and be-wonderful” ( NYTBR ) best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less: A Novel, the awkward and lovable Arthur Less returns in an unforgettable road trip across America.
We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review’s podcast in general. “You know, this certain kind of drenched experience and beauty - and the physical risks are very much footnotes.” “It’s all about this experience of beauty,” he told Paul. “Because I was the thing out of place, with terrible misperceptions about what was supposed to happen.”Īlso this week, we revisit the New Yorker staff writer William Finnegan’s 2015 podcast appearance, in which he discussed his memoir “Barbarian Days,” about his lifelong love of surfing.
(Greer’s new novel, “Less Is Lost,” continues Less’s adventures in the same comic vein, this time setting him loose across America.) When “Less” was published, in 2017, Greer visited the podcast and told the host Pamela Paul why he had decided to write comic fiction after five well-received but much more serious novels: “I found funny things happening all the time, and they were always my fault,” he said. This week’s segments first appeared in 20, respectively.Īndrew Sean Greer won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for his comic novel “Less,” about a down-on-his-luck novelist named Arthur Less who embarks on a round-the-world trip to forget his sorrows. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | How to Listenįor the next few months, we’re sharing some of our favorite conversations from the podcast’s archives.
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