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Nathan Hill on 'Wellness'

If you’ve listened to Marginalia for a while, you’ll remember our conversation with Nathan Hill, for his debut novel, The Nix. In a review for NPR, Jason Sheehan predicted this about Hill: “He's gonna be famous. This is just the start.”

Now Nathan Hill has penned a sophomore novel titled Wellness, which follows Jack and Elizabeth from their early pre-internet meeting through years into their marriage, as the central tension in the novel seems to be the friction between stability and change: in a marriage, in a neighborhood, even in one's self. I recently spoke with Nathan Hill about this and so much more.

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Wellness by Nathan Hill was published by Knopf.

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Beth Golay is KMUW's Director of Marketing and Digital Content. She is the host of the KMUW podcast Marginalia, co-host with Suzanne Perez of the Books & Whatnot podcast, creator of the podcast You're Saying It Wrong, creator of KMUW's daily news podcast Wichita's Early Edition, and NPR StoryLab Workshop team member on the award-winning podcast My Fellow Kansans.