Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFrancis Stevens, "The Heads of Cerberus and Other Stories" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 426
When three people in Philadelphia inhale dust developed by a scientist who has discovered parallel universes, they are transported into an interdimen…
1 year, 9 months ago
Hannan Hever, "Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War: Essays on Philology and Responsibility" (Brill, 2019)
Episode 550
Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War: Essays on Philology and Responsibility (Brill, 2019) is the first book-length study that examines the conspicuous…
1 year, 9 months ago
Lisa Fletcher and Elizabeth Leane, "Space, Place, and Bestsellers: Moving Books" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 70
From airport bookstores to deckchairs, as audiobooks downloaded by commuters, and on Kindles and other portable devices, twenty-first century bestsel…
1 year, 9 months ago
Etherized: Anne Enright in a Novel Dialogue Conversation (Paige Reynolds, JP)
Episode 134
Anne Enright, writer, critic, Booker winner, kindly made time back in 2023 for Irish literature maven Paige Reynolds and for John Plotz in his role a…
1 year, 9 months ago
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)
Episode 476
We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-c…
1 year, 9 months ago
Zrinka Stahuljak, "Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 316
In Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature (University of Chicago Press, 2024), Dr. Zrinka Stahuljak challenges schol…
1 year, 9 months ago
Wendy Ugolini, "Wales in England, 1914-1945: A Social, Cultural, and Military History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 132
At the beginning of the twentieth century, for many English men and women of Welsh origin the idea of being in some part 'Welsh' reaffirmed their own…
1 year, 9 months ago
Rachel Kushner, "Creation Lake" (Scribner, 2024)
Episode 141
Creation Lake (Scribner, 2024) is a novel about a secret agent, a thirty-four-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics, bold opinions, and clean b…
1 year, 9 months ago
Before and After the Book Deal
Episode 230
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about publishing but were too afraid to ask.
Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer’s Guide to Finishing, Publ…
1 year, 9 months ago
Lesbian Poetry in the Philippines
Episode 100
Lesbian poetry as a form of socio-political praxis in the Philippine context. This episode’s guest argues that lesbian writing – by lesbians and abou…
1 year, 9 months ago