Summary: On this episode of The Lit Show, Benjamin Nugent discusses his debut novel, Good Kids. Nugent’s first book, a cultural memoir, is American Nerd: The Story of My People; Good Kids continues the project described in that subtitle. Here the “people” in question are bourgeois families in New England and the bright but compromised children they send into the world: indie rock also-rans in L.A.; budding first-world anarchists in Boston; good kids whose understanding of fidelity is complicated by their parents’ dalliances and divorces. Interview by Ben Mauk.
