On the first episode of Late Night Lit in 2025, Late Night supervising producer Sarah Jenks-Daly first chats with Nicole Avant, a former U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas and author of the bestselling memoir Think You'll Be Happy. Then, she speaks to Percival Everett, author of James and the winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction. Plus, Seth's mom Hilary Meyers shares her favorite reads of 2024. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Seth takes a closer look at the Republican Party taking orders from their new leader Elon Musk, who is demanding that the GOP shut down the government until Donald Trump takes office in January. Then, John Mulaney and Simon Rich discuss their shared trauma of working for Seth, reminisce on the first time they met and share some of the Saturday Night Live sketch ideas they pitched while working on the show. Plus, exclusively for this podcast, John and Simon keep the conversation going backstage at Studio 8G. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.