Bonnie Garmus on Her Novel After Lessons in Chemistry

Podcast: Totally Booked with Zibby · Zibby Owens

Opublikowano: 2026-10-14

Bonnie Garmus joins Zibby Owens to talk about her new novel Peck & Peck, the story of recent graduate Batter Gray who struggles with what to do with his arts degree after college, only to find himself at a prestigious poetry quarterly in the midst of a secret war between two editors. Bonnie discusses why poetry continues to evade extinction, the themes of theft and dishonesty explored in this book, the plagiarism of AI in writing, the importance of reading, and why she doesn't outline her stories. She also talks about dealing with the...