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First Draft: A Dialogue on WritingLori OstlundLori Ostlund is the author of After the Parade, which was a Barnes & Noble Discover pick and a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the Ferro-Grumley Award. Her story collection, The Bigness of the World, won the 2008 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the California Book Award for First Fiction, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award, and was a Lambda Finalist and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her third book is called Are You Happy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2025-06-231h 09
Beyond The ZeroAndrew Porter - THE IMAGINED LIFEhttps://www.andrewporterwriter.comGateway books /Authors Raymond Carver John Cheever Denis Johnson Elena Ferrante Marilynne Robinson Rachel Cusk Knausgaard Current Reads /Looking forward to Lori Ostlund - Are You Happy Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum - Elita Paul LisickyMarilynne Robinson - Housekeeping Collected Stories - Cheever The Coast of Chicago - Stuart DybekDenis Johnson...2025-05-1447 min
New ArrivalsViolence, humor overlap in lives of queer women in new Lori Ostlund collectionLori Ostlund lives in San Francisco. Her story collection "Are You Happy?" came out in May 2025. It's about the specter of violence that hangs over women in the queer community, but with humor.2025-05-1302 min
Books with BetsyEpisode 52 - My Entire Life is Words with Hannah GordonOn this episode, Hannah Gordon, a fellow CPS teacher and I discuss the importance of the library as a public service, how your reading life can turn around from what people expect of you as a child, and she brings some really great books to the show that haven’t been talked about yet.
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Book Talk and Signing for The Kat Bunglar with Tanima Kazi
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Are You Happy? By Lori Ostlund...2025-05-0559 minBooks with BetsyEpisode 51 - More Beautiful Thoughts with Christopher Hermelin of So Many Damn BooksOn this episode, Christopher Hermelin, host of the podcast So Many Damn Books and I discuss his life that revolves around books, our shared love for stories on the continuum of weird, and we both go on a bit of a tear about over-comped books. You can also hear me get totally sucked in by something Christopher recommends.
So Many Damn Books
The Roving Typist
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Are You Happy? By Lori Ostlund
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The 7am NovelistLori Ostlund & Anne Raeff on CompassionToday, we hear from writers and married couple Lori Ostlund and Anne Raeff and their work with the LGBTQI+ refugee organization, Rainbow Railroad, which also inspires their fiction and their writing process.Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for one week. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your favorite podcast platform.To find Ostlund and Raeff’s latest books as well as many other books by our authors, visit our Bookshop page.Want to join our January write-a-thon. Go here for more information: 7amnovelist.substack.co...2025-01-0936 min
GrottoPodPantser, Plotter, Poet with Lori Ostlund & Doug HendersonLori Ostlund, Doug Henderson, and T. K. Rex discuss hopeful fiction, metaphor, the Midwest, balancing humor and darkness, crafting characters who feel like real people, the Flannery O’Connor award, and a third addition to the pantser/plotter dichotomy: poet.Stuff we mentioned in the episode:Lori’s novella Just Another Familyflannery o’connor awardFlannery winner Iheoma NwachukwuRainbow Railroad2024-04-101h 06
Queer Words PodcastAnne Raeff & Lori OstlundWayne Goodman in conversation with Anne Raeff & Lori Ostlund, educators, award-winning authors, and proud parents2021-12-1426 min
BookSpeak NetworkMilford House Mysteries - Laury Egan Returns for an InterviewOn this episode, Sherry Knowlton and J.M West interview Laury Egan, a versatile and prolific writer, back for a second visit to Milford House Mysteries to talk about her new work of literary fiction, The Swimmer. Reviewer Lori Ostlund describes “The Swimmer in this words: "a psychotherapist with end-stage cancer contemplates the end of her life and marriage and her failures as a mother, while saving the life of a beautiful swimmer grieving over the death of his husband. Egan’s story is for anyone contemplating the meaning of death, life, and everything in between: fear, regret, desire, hope, acce...2021-05-1331 min
Milford House Mysteries - Laury Egan Returns for an InterviewOn this episode, Sherry Knowlton and J.M West interview Laury Egan, a versatile and prolific writer, back for a second visit to Milford House Mysteries to talk about her new work of literary fiction, The Swimmer. Reviewer Lori Ostlund describes “The Swimmer in this words: "a psychotherapist with end-stage cancer contemplates the end of her life and marriage and her failures as a mother, while saving the life of a beautiful swimmer grieving over the death of his husband. Egan’s story is for anyone contemplating the meaning of death, life, and everything in between: fear, regret, desire, hope, acce...2021-05-1331 min
Colorado Review PodcastNovember 2020 Podcast: Fall/Winter 2020 FeaturePodcast editor Daniel Schonning gives a glimpse of Josie Sigler Sibara’s “The German Woman,” selected by Lori Ostlund as winner of the 2020 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction, featured in the Fall/Winter 2020 issue of Colorado Review. Listen here!
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Skylight Books Podcast SeriesLINDSAY HUNTER READS FROM HER NOVEL EAT ONLY WHEN YOU'RE HUNGRY WITH ROXANE GAY
A father searches for his addict son while grappling with his own choices as a parent (and as a user of sorts)
Achingly funny and full of feeling, Eat Only When You’re Hungry follows fifty-eight-year-old Greg as he searches for his son, GJ, an addict who has been missing for three weeks. Greg is bored, demoralized, obese, and as dubious of GJ’s desire to be found as he is of his own motivation to go looking. Almost on a whim, Greg embarks on a road trip to central Florida—a noble search for his son, or so he...2018-04-241h 12Skylight Books Podcast SeriesLINDSAY HUNTER READS FROM HER NOVEL EAT ONLY WHEN YOU'RE HUNGRY WITH ROXANE GAYEat Only When You're Hungry (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
A father searches for his addict son while grappling with his own choices as a parent (and as a user of sorts)
Achingly funny and full of feeling, Eat Only When You’re Hungry follows fifty-eight-year-old Greg as he searches for his son, GJ, an addict who has been missing for three weeks. Greg is bored, demoralized, obese, and as dubious of GJ’s desire to be found as he is of his own motivation to go looking. Almost on a whim, Greg embarks on a road trip to...2017-08-141h 12
All the Books!New Releases for July 26, 2016This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Unseen World, Good as Gone, Gemini, and more new releases.This episode was sponsored by Every Library, You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott, and ThirdLove.Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit...2016-07-2635 min
Litquake's Lit CastLori Ostlund and Amelia Gray: Litquake's Lit Cast Episode 65Lit Cast presents this live recording which features California fiction writers Lori Ostlund and Amelia Gray at our Off the Richter Scale series. This conversation, titled “Our Strange Skin,” ranges from readings to discussions about love, cages, and the freakishness of the human body. Recorded live at Z Below during the 2015 Litquake festival in San Francisco. https://www.facebook.com/litquake/ https://twitter.com/Litquake2016-02-241h 10
All the Books!New Releases for Feb. 16, 2016This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss And After Many Days, The Silence of the Sea, The Widow, and more new releases.This episode was sponsored by Third Love and The Daylight Marriage by Heidi Pitlor.Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For a complete list of books discussed in this e...2016-02-1631 min
Unwind and Relax With the Magic of Free AudiobookAfter the Parade Audiobook by Lori OstlundListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 315352
Title: After the Parade
Author: Lori Ostlund
Narrator: Sean Runnette
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12:07:40
Language: English
Release date: 09-22-15
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age, LGBTQ+
Summary:
From Flannery O'Connor and Rona Jaffe Award winner Lori Ostlund, a deeply moving and beautiful debut novel about a man who leaves his longtime partner in New Mexico for a new life in San Francisco, launching him on a tragicomic road trip and deep into the mysteries of his own Midwestern childhood.
Sensitive, big-hearted and achingly self-conscious, forty-year-old...2015-09-2212h 07