In this week’s episode of the Missouri Review’s Soundbooth Podcast, we talk to Joanna Luloff about her new book, writing process, and career. Luloff, 2006 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prizewinner for “Let Them Ask,” is also the author of The Beach at Galle Road: Stories from Sri Lanka (Algonquin, 2012) and Remind Me Again What Happened (Algonquin, 2018). Luloff talked with TMR intern Skyler Rossi about audience, the process of submitting and the unconventional way she was notified about being published in TMR. You can listen to the interview here. 

“In an interview, the fiction writer Mavis Gallant once described waking from an anesthetic after surgery, so groggy she knew only two things: that she was a writer and that she was from Quebec. This anecdote returned to me while reading Joanna Luloff’s sly, slow burn of a novel, Remind Me Again What Happened, in which Claire, a globetrotting journalist in her thirties, contracts a virus that wipes out wide swaths of her memory. Who are we to ourselves, and what remains of a self, without our memories?” Read the full review here.

“Reporting a story in India, Claire is bitten by a mosquito and winds up with encephalitis.  Her husband, Charlie, and best friend, Rachel, take her home to Vermont where Claire tries to cope not only with physical problems but also with fragmented memory loss….” Read the full review here.