Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAysegül Savas, "The Anthropologists" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 132
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life here look like? What rituals will structu…
1 year, 11 months ago
A. J. Rodriguez, "Papel Picado," The Common Magazine (2024)
Episode 58
A. J. Rodriguez speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his story “Papel Picado,” which appears in The Common’s most recent issue. A.J. talks a…
1 year, 11 months ago
Naomi Westerman, "Happy Death Club: Essays on Death, Grief, and Bereavement Across Cultures" (404 Inklings, 2024)
Episode 256
Playwright Naomi Westerman was an anthropology graduate student studying death rituals around the world when her whole family died, turning the end o…
1 year, 11 months ago
"Alaska Quarterly Review" Magazine: A Discussion with Ronald Spatz
Episode 165
Ronald Spatz is the editor-in-chief and co-founding editor of Alaska Quarterly Review. A formal National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Mr. Spatz has…
1 year, 11 months ago
Christian J. Collier, "Greater Ghost" (Four Way Books, 2024)
Episode 145
In Christian Collier's debut poetry collection, Greater Ghost (Four Way Books, 2024), this extraordinary Black Southern poet precisely stitches the s…
1 year, 11 months ago
Kendra Sullivan, "Reps" (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024)
Episode 144
Kendra Sullivan's latest book of poetry, Reps (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024), cycles through a series of operational exercises that gradually enable he…
1 year, 11 months ago
Anthony Di Renzo, "Pasquinades: Essays from Rome's Famous Talking Statue" (Cayuga Lake Books, 2023)
Episode 131
Anthony Di Renzo's Pasquinades: Essays from Rome's Famous Talking Statue (Cayuga Lake Books, 2023) is the most audacious guide to Rome you will ever …
1 year, 11 months ago
"Prairie Schooner" Magazine: A Discussion with John Kuligowski and Zainab Omaki
Episode 23
John Kuligowski is a Nonfiction Assistant Editor at Prairie Schooner and also currently a PhD student in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincol…
1 year, 11 months ago
The "Massachusetts Review" Magazine: A Discussion with Jim Hicks and Shailja Patel
Episode 22
Jim Hicks is the Executive Editor of the Massachusetts Review, a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at UMass Amherst, and a translator of lite…
1 year, 11 months ago
Eve J. Chung, "Daughters of Shandong" (Berkley Books, 2024)
Episode 181
Daughters of Shandong (Berkley Books, 2024), the author’s first and based on the life of her grandmother, follows the fortunes of a mother and three …
1 year, 11 months ago