About

Third Person Limited is a podcast about books and culture with hosts Nathan Pensky and Mason Stockstill, two writers living in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles. Our chats include book reviews, author interviews, semi-insightful cultural analysis, snack discourse, complaining, very funny jokes, and also less funny jokes.

Nathan Pensky

Nathan Pensky is a writer and adjunct professor at Duquesne University and University of Pittsburgh. He has published writing in The A.V. Club, The Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeney's, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Electric Literature, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Boston Globe, and many others. He has published two novellas with indie presses, and his first academic book Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds will be published with Edinburgh University Press in 2026. You can learn more about his writing here.

Mason Stockstill

A “marketing and communications professional” in Los Angeles, Mason is the author of several unpublished novels and far more press releases. As a journalist, his work won some awards and was translated into some languages. He is a sucker for crime fiction and can occasionally be found on Bluesky. His son and wife are not yet sick of this podcast, but there is still time.