How do you collect two decades of short fiction into a coherent collection?

Novelist Joshua Ferris joins us to talk about his new story collection, The Dinner Party.

It's kind of weird because not only are you the author of these things, but at a certain

point you become the curator of them, and you cast a different eye, I think the writer's

eye is a different eye from the curator's eye, and you wonder just to that individual

was that wrote that story?

Our big tech companies, monopolies, and if so, why should that matter?

Jonathan Teplin will be here to talk about his new book, Move Fast and Break Things,

how Facebook, Google and Amazon cornered culture and undermined democracy.

I'm not worried about Beyonce or Adele or Taylor Swift, they can make millions off of touring,

but if the average musician who thought they could make money from their recordings can't

get any more, that's ultimately going to be deleterious to the society as a whole.

Alexander Alter will give us an update from the literary world, plus we'll talk about

what we and the wider world are reading.

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review, I'm Pamela Paul.

Joshua Ferris joins us now, his new book is called The Dinner Party and Other Stories,

Josh, thank you for being here.

Thanks for having me.

All right, so you have written three novels, and this is your first short story collection,

which doesn't seem to be the usual order of things.

Had you been sort of planning all along to collect your short fiction in a book?

I don't know if I was that canyabout it.

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