Nazli Koca [Guest host: Jeff Alessandrelli]
Guest host Jeff Alessandrelli talks with Nazli Koca about growing up in Turkey, finding a writing community in Berlin, developing a life through writing, coming to the US for an MFA, writing her debut novel THE APPLICANT (Grove Atlantic, 2023), using the diary form, fictionalizing the autobiographical, the novel's release at the time of the earthquake in Turkey, and more.