Ian Frazier in conversation with Carmela Ciuraru

The New Yorker's Ian Frazier lets a character he created for the "Shouts and Murmurs" column take center stage in The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days. In this novel, Frazier (Travels in Siberia, Coyote V. Acme) works his fictional mother just hard enough to get her drinking and stewing about her doings at the end of the day.