Now What? podcast
An intimate conversation with podcast host Carole Zimmer.
2026-07-23, Carole Zimmer
An intimate conversation with podcast host Carole Zimmer.
Scott Simon speaks to Siri about her new book.
Derived from the Old English widewe, the word has roots in Sanskrit’s vidhua – to be empty or separated.
Kitty Grady talks to Siri about "the cognitive splintering that followed the death of her husband."
An intimate conversation with podcast host Carole Zimmer.
"The highlight of the day was, without doubt, Siri Hustvedt."
Siri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, three collections of essays, a work of non-fiction, and six novels, including the international bestsellers What I Loved and The Summer Without Men. Her most recent novel The Blazing World was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and won The Los Angeles Book Prize for fiction. In 2012 she was awarded the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University and is a lecturer in psychiatry at Weil Cornell Medical College in New York. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.