Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchViet Thanh Nguyen : The Committed
Today’s guest, Viet Thanh Nguyen, returns to Between the Covers after six years to discuss The Committed, his much-anticipated follow-up to the Pulit…
5 years, 2 months ago
Ross Gay : Be Holding
Today’s Between the Covers conversation is with the poet Ross Gay about Be Holding, his book-length poem that emerges from a sustained meditation on …
5 years, 2 months ago
Teju Cole : Fernweh
Today’s guest is writer, photographer, critic, and curator Teju Cole. In this extended conversation, we use Cole’s latest photo book Fernweh as a len…
5 years, 3 months ago
Nnedi Okorafor : Remote Control
Today’s episode is with one of today’s great writers of science fiction and fantasy, Nnedi Okorafor. Using her new novella Remote Control (Tor Books)…
5 years, 3 months ago
Vanessa Veselka : The Great Offshore Grounds
Vanessa Veselka returns to Between the Covers, eight years after her first appearance, to discuss her new novel The Great Offshore Grounds. Longliste…
5 years, 4 months ago
Tin House Live : Publishing, Power Structures & Creative Practice with Leni Zumas & Janice Lee
This Tin House Live conversation between Leni Zumas and Janice Lee, “Publishing, Power Structures, and Creative Practice,” was recorded at the summer…
5 years, 4 months ago
Natalie Diaz : Postcolonial Love Poem : Part Two
Today’s episode of Between the Covers is a first for the show, a return to and extension of a recent episode with Natalie Diaz. Today’s ‘part two’ d…
5 years, 4 months ago
Alice Oswald : Nobody
Today’s episode of Between the Covers is a conversation with poet and classicist Alice Oswald. Widely considered one of our great living poets, Oswal…
5 years, 5 months ago
Tin House Live : Writing Pop Culture with Shayla Lawson & Hanif Abdurraqib
Join poet-essayists Hanif Abdurraqib & Shayla Lawson for an extended conversation on writing pop culture (and so much more). This conversation was r…
5 years, 5 months ago
Elisa Gabbert : The Unreality of Memory
“Amid impending disasters too vast even to be perceived, what can we do―cognitively, morally, and practically? Gabbert, a tenacious researcher and a …
5 years, 5 months ago