Episode 33: Dean Bakopoulos
In Part 1 of Episode 33, award-winning author Dean Bakopoulos sits down for a virtual interview with award-winning writer Scott Semegran.
In Part 2 of Episode 33, Dean Bakopoulos reads a selection from Summerlong.
About Dean Bakopoulos
Dean Bakopoulos’ first novel, Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon, was a New York Times Notable Book; he co-wrote and co-produced the film adaptation, which debuted at the Los Angeles Film Festival and was a New York Times Critics’ Pick. His second novel, My American Unhappiness, was named one of the year’s best novels by The Chicago Tribune, and his third novel, Summerlong, was an independent bookstore bestseller and is now in development as a television series. The winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as NEA fellowships in both fiction (2006) and creative nonfiction (2016), Bakopoulos is writer-in-residence at Grinnell College and also teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program and at the University of Iowa. He divides his time between Iowa and Los Angeles with his wife and occasional writing partner, Alissa Nutting, and their three kids.
This episode was filmed remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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