Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchChaya Bhuvaneswar : White Dancing Elephants
“Bhuvaneswar is unflinching about the lives of those for whom identity is a constant battle & the act of being is an unavoidable challenge, but she d…
7 years, 4 months ago
Layli Long Soldier : Whereas
“Long Soldier reminds readers of their physical and linguistic bodies as they are returned to language through their mouths and eyes and tongues acro…
7 years, 5 months ago
Diane Williams: The Collected Stories of Diane Williams
“Williams’s short precise, & emphatic sentences build a strange society whose denizens are not quite familiar to us & not quite comfortable with thei…
7 years, 5 months ago
R.O. Kwon : The Incendiaries
“Every explosive requires a fuse. That’s R. O. Kwon’s novel, a straight, slow-burning fuse. To read her novel is to follow an inexorable flame coming…
7 years, 6 months ago
Tommy Pico : Junk
“Reading Tommy Pico’s Junk I kept thinking of Heather McHugh’s pronouncement that the main discipline of poetry is “to keep finding life strange.” Pi…
7 years, 6 months ago
Dubravka Ugrešić : Fox & American Fictionary
Dubravka Ugrešić is considered one of Europe’s most distinctive novelists and essayists. She is the 2016 winner of Neustadt International Prize for …
7 years, 7 months ago
Anna Moschovakis : Eleanor or The Rejection of the Progress of Love
“Anna Moschovakis takes the reader straight to the terrifying edge: that moment where one ages out of youthfulness & begins to flutter in the debris …
7 years, 7 months ago
Dao Strom : You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else
In Dao Strom’s collection of poetic fragments, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else, translated by Ly Thuy Nguyen as Mình sẽ luôn là người …
7 years, 8 months ago
Catherine Lacey : Certain American States
“Lacey captures with eerie precision the strangeness of being a person in the world, living alongside other human beings with unknowable thoughts and…
7 years, 8 months ago
Forrest Gander : Be With
“Forrest Gander’s life partner, the poet C.D. Wright, died suddenly a little more than two years ago, and this book is one result or record of the af…
7 years, 9 months ago