


“Ultimately, if you’re a Sally Rooney fan, I think you’ll love this novel,” Taylor says. It is so clean, so pristine.” Like her two previous books, this one is fueled by the vexations of intimate relationships. That is the word I come to most often in describing her style.

Taylor recently reviewed her third novel, “Beautiful World, Where Are You.” On the podcast, he describes Rooney’s writing as an “intense, melancholic tractor beam.”“She has this really great, tactile metaphorical sense, but it’s never overworked,” he says. The novelist Brandon Taylor, who has generated his own buzz with his debut novel, “Real Life,” and a collection of stories, “Filthy Animals,” visits the podcast to discuss the much-discussed work of Sally Rooney.
