Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCrafting with Ursula : Maria Dahvana Headley on Feminist Translation & Classical Retellings
One of Le Guin’s lesser known but lifelong practices was that of a translator. Her translations of the first Latin American Nobel Prize Laureate in l…
3 years, 6 months ago
Dionne Brand : Nomenclature — New and Collected Poems
Today’s guest Dionne Brand, to borrow the words of John Keene, “is without question one of the major living poets in the English language.” Kamau Bra…
3 years, 7 months ago
Elaine Castillo : How to Read Now
“White supremacy makes for terrible readers” says today’s guest Elaine Castillo, arguing that we are all overeducated in a set of fundamentally terri…
3 years, 7 months ago
Crafting with Ursula : Lidia Yuknavitch on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Today’s conversation is about one of Ursula K. Le Guin’s most iconic and influential essays: The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, an essay that deserve…
3 years, 7 months ago
Claire Schwartz : Civil Service
Claire Schwartz’ poetry collection Civil Service looks at the ways ordinary, everyday actions uphold and sustain state violence, the ways civility ca…
3 years, 8 months ago
Morgan Talty : Night of the Living Rez
Morgan Talty’s collection of linked short stories is set on the Penobscot Reservation on Indian Island in Maine. But Morgan is quick to point out tha…
3 years, 8 months ago
Crafting with Ursula : Julie Phillips on the Writing Mother
Ursula K. Le Guin’s biographer, Julie Phillips, joins “Crafting with Ursula” to talk about the writing mother, how Le Guin’s embrace of both writing …
3 years, 8 months ago
Daniel Mendelsohn : Three Rings — A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate
Daniel Mendelsohn’s latest book you could say is about digression and about ring composition, a form of storytelling with digression at its heart. An…
3 years, 9 months ago
Vauhini Vara : The Immortal King Rao
The Immortal King Rao is somehow three narratives in one, a historical novel set within a Dalit community in 1950s India, a near-future tech dystopia…
3 years, 9 months ago
Crafting with Ursula : William Alexander on Writing for Children
“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by them,” says Ursula K. Le Guin. “From within.” This is just one of many quotes that arise…
3 years, 9 months ago