Stoner

What Hundreds of Focus Groups With Trump Voters Revealed

The Ezra Klein Show, 23 October 2026. The book comes up at 1 hr 9 min in. Said by Sarah Longwell.

Sarah Longwell names Stoner by John Williams her favorite recent read, noting it had apparently gone out of print but was reissued. She calls it "the best piece of fiction that I have read in a long time" and says it represents what fiction should be. The host corroborates, noting the book has come up frequently in his circles and that a new publisher picked it up and reissued it.

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