Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchChelsea Hodson : Tonight I’m Someone Else
“Hodson’s essays have such a sexy drama to them—and ultimately it’s the romance of just getting through life; the passion that comes from being a who…
7 years, 9 months ago
Molly Crabapple : Brothers of the Gun – A Memoir of the Syrian War
“From the anarchy, torment, and despair of the Syrian war, Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple have drawn a book of startling emotional power and intel…
7 years, 10 months ago
Sheila Heti : Motherhood
“This book is going to change how we think about life and women forever; like ancient Greek philosopher level of describing reality in a way that cre…
7 years, 11 months ago
Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi : Call Me Zebra
“Not many authors are compared to Borges, Cervantes, and Kathy Acker all in one breath, but that is exactly what we’re dealing with here: Azareen Van…
7 years, 11 months ago
Jen Bervin : Silk Poems
“Jen Bervin’s work—all of it—engages the eye, the hand, the ear, and the mind. Her artistry is vast and inclusive, by finesse and intelligence, by cu…
8 years ago
Cheston Knapp : Up Up Down Down
“Cheston Knapp’s Up Up, Down Down has the uncanny, welcome ability to make so-called mainstream or dominant culture—white, masculinist, Christian, fr…
8 years ago
John Keene : Counternarratives, Playland, and Grind
“In Counternarratives, John Keene undertakes a kind of literary counterarchaeology, a series of fictions that challenge our notion of what constitute…
8 years, 1 month ago
Vi Khi Nao : Umbilical Hospital & A Brief Alphabet of Torture
“These pieces are elaborate piecework—perforated, whip stitched, and distressed field-dressed dissections of language. Tortured? Maybe. But lusciousl…
8 years, 1 month ago
Micheline Aharonian Marcom : The Brick House
Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s The Brick House is a place where people dream of love and loneliness, of the world’s beauty, and of ongoing environmenta…
8 years, 2 months ago
Terese Marie Mailhot : Heart Berries
“Heart Berries by Terese Mailhot is an astounding memoir in essays. Here is a wound. Here is need, naked and unapologetic. Here is a mountain woman, …
8 years, 2 months ago