Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRebecca Makkai, "I Have Some Questions for You" (Viking, 2023)
Episode 86
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past--the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely…
3 years, 2 months ago
Sassan Tabatabai: Poetry, Observation, and Form
Episode 102
"For me, there is something so solid and comforting in stone" says Sassan Tabatabai in our conversation, and in his poem "Firestones" the words roll,…
3 years, 2 months ago
S. L. Wisenberg, "The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
Episode 318
Today I talked to S. L. Wisenberg about her book The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home (U Massachusetts Press, 2023).
As a child, S. L. Wisenbe…
3 years, 2 months ago
G. P. Gottlieb, "Charred: A Whipped and Sipped Mystery" (DX Varos, 2023)
Episode 316
In Charred, the third of G. P. Gottlieb’s Whipped and Sipped Mysteries, her heroine, Alene Baron, has a lot on her mind. Chicago is in lockdown, a re…
3 years, 2 months ago
Jonan Pilet, "Nomad, Nomad" (Bound to Brew, 2021)
Episode 24
In his debut short story collection, Nomad, Nomad (Bound to Brew, 2021), Jonan Pilet explores the lives of Mongols and expats looking for a sense of …
3 years, 2 months ago
Ronald Niezen, "The Memory Seeker" (Black Rose Writing, 2023)
Episode 47
The Memory Seeker is a novel that, drawing upon Professor Ronald Niezen's background in researching human rights, takes on the experiences of war vio…
3 years, 2 months ago
Sarah Fawn Montgomery, "Halfway from Home: Essays" (Split/Lip Press, 2022)
Episode 317
Today I interview Sarah Fawn Montgomery about her new collection of essays, Halfway from Home (Split Lip Press, 2022). These essays explore, in nuanc…
3 years, 2 months ago
Rasheed Newson, "My Government Means to Kill Me: A Novel" (Flatiron Books, 2023)
Episode 85
Earl "Trey" Singleton III arrives in New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, at 17, he is…
3 years, 2 months ago
Zeno Sworder, "My Strange Shrinking Parents" (Thames & Hudson, 2023)
Episode 128
When the two immigrant parents in Zeno Sworder’s latest illustrated book go to the baker asking for a cake for their son, the baker asks for somethin…
3 years, 2 months ago
Leslye Penelope, "The Monsters We Defy" (Redhook, 2022)
Episode 152
Leslye Penelope’s latest novel, The Monsters We Defy (Redhook, 2022), takes readers to a version of 1920s Washington D.C. where bootleggers, powerful…
3 years, 2 months ago