Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNayereh Doosti, “The Little One” The Common magazine (Nov, 2023)
Episode 55
Nayereh Doosti speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her story “The Little One,” which appears in The Common’s most recent issue. Nayereh tal…
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John Wray, "Gone to the Wolves" (FSG, 2023)
Episode 393
Kip, Leslie, and Kira are outliers—even in the metal scene they love. In arch-conservative Gulf Coast Florida in the late 1980s, just listening to me…
2 years, 4 months ago
Tyler C. Gore, "My Life of Crime: Essays and Other Entertainments" (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2022)
Episode 182
In his debut essay collection, My Life of Crime (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2022), Tyler C. Gore brings readers on an awkward visit to a nude beach. A b…
2 years, 4 months ago
Marie-Helene Bertino, "Beautyland" (FSG, 2024)
Episode 121
At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Phi…
2 years, 4 months ago
Harry Turtledove, "Wages of Sin" (Caezik SF & Fantasy, 2024)
Episode 392
What if HIV started spreading in the early 1500s rather than the late 1900s? Without modern medicine, anybody who catches HIV is going to die. In Wag…
2 years, 4 months ago
Kate Quinn and Janie Chang, "The Phoenix Crown" (William Morrow, 2024)
Episode 175
Kate Quinn and Janie Chang are independently acclaimed authors of historical fiction, both of whom have previously appeared on this podcast channel. …
2 years, 4 months ago
"Michigan Quarterly Review" magazine
Episode 8
Chandrica Barua is the Nonfiction and Online Editor for MQR. A PhD candidate in the Department of English Language and Literature, her dissertation f…
2 years, 4 months ago
Mako Yoshikawa, "Secrets of the Sun: A Memoir" (Mad Creek Books, 2024)
Episode 391
Mako Yoshikawa's Secrets of the Sun: A Memoir (Mad Creek Books 2024) contains a host of essays about her difficult, brilliant father. Shoichi Yoshika…
2 years, 4 months ago
Sheila Heti Speaks About Awe with Sunny Yudkoff (JP)
Episode 123
In this fantastic recent episode from our colleagues at Novel Dialogue, Sheila Heti sits down with Sunny Yudkoff and John to discuss her incredibly v…
2 years, 4 months ago
Deborah Taffa, "Whiskey Tender: A Memoir" (Harper, 2024)
Episode 201
Today’s book is: Whiskey Tender: A Memoir (Harper, 2024), by Deborah Jackson Taffa, who was raised to believe that some sacrifices were necessary to …
2 years, 4 months ago