Books, Beach, & Beyond
Books, Beach, & Beyond
Elin Hilderbrand, Tim Talks Books, N Magazine
Curtis Sittenfeld
51 minutes Posted Jul 8, 2025 at 11:00 pm.
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Elin and Tim welcome to the podcast Curtis Sittenfeld, the author of Prep, American Wife, and Show, Don’t Tell. They start with Curtis’s favorite books, her time at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where Elin and her compare stories, and then segue into her debut novel, “the boarding school book of boarding school books”, Prep. They discuss how much of it was inspired by Curtis’s own boarding school experience and compare and contrast it to Elin’s upcoming boarding school novel, The Academy, as wel...