Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMurasaki Yamada, "Talk to My Back" (Drawn & Quarterly, 2022)
Episode 96
Manga historian Ryan Holmberg introduces the influential alternative manga artist Murasaki Yamada (1948-2009) to English readers through a scholarly …
3 years, 9 months ago
Olga Melnyk, "Ship Life: Seven Months of Voluntary Slavery" (2022)
Episode 177
Ship Life: Seven Months of Voluntary Slavery (2022) is written in the form of a diary of a Ukrainian girl who worked as a bar server on an American c…
3 years, 9 months ago
Light and Sound: Boubacar Boris Diop with Sarah Quesada
Episode 27
Boubacar Boris Diop is the author of Murambi: The Book of Bones, (Indiana UP, 2016; translated by Fiona McLaughlin), an unforgettable novel of the Rw…
3 years, 9 months ago
Andrew Sean Greer, "Less Is Lost" (Little Brown, 2022)
Episode 56
Andrew Sean Greer is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of six works of fiction, including the bestsellers The Confessions of Max Tivoli and Less. Gre…
3 years, 9 months ago
Martha Anne Toll, "Three Muses" (Regal House Publishing, 2022)
Episode 282
In Three Muses (Regal House Publishing, 2022) by Martha Toll, John Curtin survives the Holocaust by singing for the entertainment of the kommendant w…
3 years, 9 months ago
Chris Belcher, "Pretty Baby: A Memoir" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
Episode 42
"The dominatrix is the id of American femininity. She says the words that we all wish we could say when we find ourselves frozen in the presence of m…
3 years, 9 months ago
Courtney Zoffness, "Spilt Milk" (McSweeney's, 2021)
Episode 55
Courtney Zoffness is the author of Spilt Milk, out now with McSweeney’s, and forthcoming in paperback in September 2022. Spilt Milk was named a best …
3 years, 9 months ago
89* Charles Yu with Chris Fan: The Work of Inhabiting a Role (Novel Dialogue Crossover, JP)
Episode 89
Charles Yu won the 2020 National Book Award for Interior Chinatown but some of us became fans a decade earlier, with How to Live Safely in a Science …
3 years, 9 months ago
David Crow, "The Pale-Faced Lie: A True Story" (Sandra Jonas Publishing, 2019)
Episode 221
A violent ex-con forces his son to commit crimes in this unforgettable memoir about family and survival.
Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, …
3 years, 9 months ago
Vauhini Vara, "The Immortal King Rao" (Norton, 2022)
Episode 54
Vauhini Vara was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, as a child of Indian immigrants, and grew up there and in Oklahoma and the Seattle suburbs. Her debut …
3 years, 9 months ago