Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAnusha Rao and Suhas Mahesh, "How to Love in Sanskrit" (HarperCollins, 2024)
Episode 332
How to Love in Sanskrit (HarperCollins, 2024) is an invitation to Sanskrit love poetry, bringing together verses and short prose pieces by celebrated…
2 years, 5 months ago
David Corbett, "The Truth Against the World" (Square Tire Books, 2023)
Episode 407
The Truth Against the World (Square Tire Books, 2023) is a brilliant literary fantasy about a divided, dystopian America on the verge of war. Shane, …
2 years, 5 months ago
Hilary White, "Holes" (MA Bibliotheque, 2024)
Episode 252
Holes splices forms of fiction and nonfiction. The narrator, a researcher of limits at an unidentified university, figures her entanglement with an u…
2 years, 5 months ago
Eliza Chan, "Fathomfolk" (Orbit, 2024)
Episode 80
Eliza Chan’s debut novel Fathomfolk (Orbit, 2024) takes place in the semi-submerged city of Tiankawi, where humans and fathomfolk - a collection of p…
2 years, 5 months ago
Ryan Kenedy, "The Blameless" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
Episode 406
In Ryan Kenedy’s debut novel, The Blameless (University of Wisconsin Press 2023 ) we meet Virginia, an exhausted adjunct professor and divorced mothe…
2 years, 5 months ago
Andriy Sodomora, "The Tears and Smiles of Things: Stories, Sketches, Meditations" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
Episode 36
Inspired by Virgil’s exquisitely ambivalent phrase “sunt lacrimae rerum” (there are tears of/for/in things), Andriy Sodomora, the Ukrainian “voice” o…
2 years, 5 months ago
Gretchen Felker-Martin, "Cuckoo" (Tor Nightfire, 2024)
Episode 405
Today I talked to Gretchen Felker-Martin about Cuckoo (Tor Nightfire, 2024).
From Gretchen Felker-Martin, the acclaimed author of Manhunt, comes a vic…
2 years, 5 months ago
Hiromi Ito, "Tree Spirits Grass Spirits" (Nightboat Books, 2023)
Episode 150
A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito--part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential…
2 years, 6 months ago
Sasha Vasilyuk, "Your Presence Is Mandatory" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 404
Ukraine, 2007. Yefim Shulman, husband, grandfather and war veteran, was beloved by his family and his coworkers. But in the days after his death, his…
2 years, 6 months ago
"Oxford American" Magazine: A Discussion with Danielle Amir Jackson
Episode 16
Danielle Amir Jackson is a Memphis-born writer and critic, and the editor-in-chief of the Oxford American. Her work has appeared in the New York Time…
2 years, 6 months ago