Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRochelle Potkar, "Bombay Hangovers" (Vishwakarma Publications, 2021)
Episode 266
The stories in Bombay Hangovers (Vishwakarma Publications, 2021) are laced with the grit, sleaze and dynamism of Bombay. They explore the nerve centr…
3 years, 11 months ago
Suhail Matar, "Granada," The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)
Episode 39
Palestinian writer Suhail Matar speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his story “Granada,” translated by Amika Fendi. The story appears in Th…
3 years, 11 months ago
Eda Gunaydin, "Root and Branch: Essays on Inheritance" (NewSouth, 2022)
Episode 80
Eda Gunaydin joins us today to talk about Root and Branch: Essays on Inheritance (NewSouth, 2022). Lots of themes: Turkey, Australia, Sydney, family,…
3 years, 11 months ago
Gish Jen, "Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories" (Knopf, 2022)
Episode 90
Fifty years ago, President Richard Nixon stepped off a plane in Beijing: a visit that changed the course of China, the U.S., the Cold war and the wor…
3 years, 11 months ago
84* Cixin Liu Talks About Science Fiction (JP, Pu Wang)
Episode 84
John and Pu Wang, a Brandeis professor of Chinese literature, spoke with science-fiction genius Cixin Liu back in 2019. His most celebrated works inc…
3 years, 11 months ago
Yussef El Guindi, "In a Clear Concise Arabic Tongue" (Broadway Play Publishing, 2021)
Episode 105
Yussef El Guindi's In a Clear Concise Arabic Tongue (Broadway Play Publishing, 2021) collects short plays and monologues from almost twenty years of …
3 years, 11 months ago
Julia Glass, "Vigil Harbor" (Pantheon, 2022)
Episode 46
Julia and I discuss her latest novel, Vigil Harbor, a story of the near future in which many of our current crises are amplified in terrifying yet r…
3 years, 11 months ago
Patricia Ricketts, "Speed of Dark" (She Writes Press, 2022)
Episode 265
Speed of Dark (She Writes Press, 2022) by Patricia Ricketts opens with a black man getting off Metra train in Northbrook, Illinois to search for some…
3 years, 11 months ago
Anne Louise Bannon, "Death of an Heiress" (Healcroft House, 2022)
Episode 144
Los Angeles in the 1870s is not the sprawling city we know today. A rapidly growing pueblo of perhaps 7,000 residents, it features vineyards and ranc…
3 years, 11 months ago
Vauhini Vara, "The Immortal King Rao: A Novel" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
Episode 89
King Rao–one of the protagonists from Vauhini Vara’s novel The Immortal King Rao (W. W. Norton & Company: 2022)—is like many of the tech founders we …
3 years, 11 months ago