Hey, everybody. How are you? Welcome to The Other People Show. I'm Brad Listy in Los Angeles, and I'm very excited about today's episode. Jocelyn Nicole Johnson is the guest. Her debut collection of fiction, My Monticello, is available now from Henry Holt and Company.

My Monicello features five short stories and the title novella.

Perhaps you've heard of it.

It's been generating a lot of buzz.

Colson Whitehead calls My Monticello, quote,

a badass debut by any measure.

And Roxanne Gay calls it absolutely unforgettable.

This is another remarkable book,

and I'm so excited to have caught Jocelyn Nicole Johnson at this moment as she makes this incredible debut.

That conversation is coming up.

Today's episode is made possible by the feminist press, publisher of the debut novel, Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body by Megan Milks.

Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body by Megan Milks. Margaret and the mystery of the missing body reimagines 90s adolescence, mashing up

girl group series, choose your own adventures and chronicles of anorexia in a queer

and trans coming-of-age tale like no other.

Margaret and the mystery of the missing body is an interrogation of

girlhood and nostalgia, dysmorphia, and dysphoria. It's a debut novel that puzzles through

the weird, ever-evasive questions of growing up. Autostraddle calls it, quote, a delightfully weird

and very queer reimagining of 90s Y.A. nostalgia.

And booklist in a starred review calls it a totally accurate feeling account of the chaos

of growing up. That's Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body by Megan Milks,

available from the feminist press.

All right, so before we get going with today's conversation,

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