Kashana Cauley reveals her unlikely inspiration for ‘The Payback’

Kashana Cauley, whose previous novel was the acclaimed “The Survivalists,” is the author of the “The Payback,” published this summer.

Cauley has written for TV shows such as “The Great North,” HBO’s “Pod Save America” and “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” and has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker and other outlets. Here, she talks about her new novel and the books that inspired her.