• After A Friend's Suicide, A Writer Inherits His Grieving Dog

  • Mar 28 2025
  • Length: 45 mins
  • Podcast

After A Friend's Suicide, A Writer Inherits His Grieving Dog

  • Summary

  • Sigrid Nunez's 2018 novel The Friend won the National Book Award. It's now a film, starring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, about a woman who inherits a dog after her friend's suicide. She spoke with Terry Gross about the book in 2019.

    Also, Justin Chang reviews the new French film thriller Misericordia.

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