Join us for another delightful installment of Rogue Loon featuring Robert Jones, Jr., Marco Roth, Paula Bomer, Scott Cheshire, Michael Barron, with music by Will Chang.

Michael Barron, a former editor for New Directions and Melville House, is currently the Axinn Foundation fiction fellow at NYU's creative writing program. He is writing a novel titled U.S.S.A.

Scott Cheshire is the author of the novel High as the Horses' Bridles, a Best Book of 2014 pick at The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Salon, and Electric Literature. He lives in New York City.

Paula Bomer is the author of the novels Tante Eva and Nine Months, the story collections Inside Madeleine and Baby and Other Stories, as well as the essay collection Mystery and Mortality. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including New York Magazine, LA Review of Books, BOMB, Fiction, and The Mississippi Review.

Marco Roth was raised amid the vanished liberal culture of Manhattan’s Upper West Side. After studying comparative literature at Columbia and Yale, he helped found the magazine n+1, in 2004. Recipient of the 2011 Shattuck prize for literary criticism, he lives in Brooklyn. The Scientists is his first book.

Robert Jones, Jr., is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Prophets, which was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction. His writings have been featured in The New York Times, Essence, and The Paris Review, as well as the critically acclaimed anthologies Four Hundred Souls and The 1619 Project. He is the creator and curator of the social-justice, social-media community Son of Baldwin, which has over 300,000 followers across platforms.