Wed Jun 25 2025

For our final episode of Season 11, the author James Frey joins us to talk about his latest novel, “Next to Heaven,” a rollicking, raunchy, absurd-yet-not satire about the one percent of the one percent living in a fictional Connecticut town. Frey also reflects on the 20-plus years since publishing his first book, “A Million Little Pieces,” which blew up in controversy and became a soaring media spectacle; his long-term study of Taoism and how he tries to live according to the ways of the Tao as much as he can; his writing as a gateway to being as vulnerable, open, and bold as possible; and why love, for him, is the greatest drug there is.