Brian Bouldrey on his new novel, "The Good Pornographer"

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Wondering about the art on the cover of Brian Bouldrey’s new novel, The Good Pornographer?

Wait till you hear about the fragrance!

As for the cocktail, we forgot to discuss that — but here’s a picture and recipe:

Two parts passion fruit juice, one part elderflower gin and a dash of roses lime juice

I had so much fun talking to Brian’s Substack today.

Big thanks to novelist Polly Dugan for being our warm-up act while Brian and I were still synchronizing our watches.

Flannery O’Connor and James Baldwin were among the writers who came up in conversation…