Lily Meyer

This week we visit with Lily Meyer in Washington, D.C. 

Lily Meyer is a translator, a critic, and the author of the novels The End of Romance (Viking, 2026) and Short War (Deep Vellum, 2024). She is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Her stories and translations can be found in The Dial, The Drift, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, and many other journals.

BUY AND READ THE END OF ROMANCE!

For more on Lily and her novels and translations: lilyjmeyer.com

Lily's Books on the Bed:

Enemies, A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Nemesis by Philip Roth

Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel

Lost in the City: Stories by Edward P. Jones

Soldados la Salamina by Javier Cercas

More Taste Than Time by Abby Mandel

 

Matt's Gifts for Lily:

The Longest Way to Eat a Melon by Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross

Skin Contact by Elisa Faison

The Serpent of Stars by Jean Giono