Dan Kois

Dan Kois is a writer, editor, and podcaster at Slate , where his work has been nominated for two National Magazine Awards and a Writers Guild Award. He's the author of the novel Vintage Contemporaries; a memoir, How to Be a Family ; and the nonfiction works The World Only Spins Forward (with Isaac Butler), an oral history of Tony Kushner's Angels in America , which was a 2019 Stonewall Honor Book; and Facing Future , a book of music criticism and biography. He is a frequent guest and host of...See more

Dan Kois is a writer, editor, and podcaster at Slate , where his work has been nominated for two National Magazine Awards and a Writers Guild Award. He's the author of the novel Vintage Contemporaries; a memoir, How to Be a Family ; and the nonfiction works The World Only Spins Forward (with Isaac Butler), an oral history of Tony Kushner's Angels in America , which was a 2019 Stonewall Honor Book; and Facing Future , a book of music criticism and biography. He is a frequent guest and host of Slate 's Culture Gabfest podcast, was a founding host of Slate 's Mom and Dad Are Fighting podcast, and hosts The Martin Chronicles , a podcast about Martin Amis. He lives with his family in Virginia. See less