Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchYanara Friedland : Uncountry
“As a descendent of Chantal Akerman and Unica Zürn—among others—Yanara Friedland reimagines the origin myth. Friedland’s permeable pages allow the re…
8 years, 8 months ago
Mary Ruefle : My Private Property
“Mary Ruefle’s careful, measured sentences sound as if they were written by a thousand-year-old person who is still genuinely curious about the world…
8 years, 9 months ago
Yuri Herrera : Kingdom Cons
In the court of the King, everyone knows their place. But as the Artist wins hearts & egos with his ballads, uncomfortable truths emerge that shake t…
8 years, 9 months ago
Gregory Pardlo : Digest
“[Gregory Pardlo] explores what is American, what is African American, what is the Other, what is city, what is suburban, what is personal & what is …
8 years, 10 months ago
Dani Shapiro : Hourglass
What are the forces that shape our most elemental bonds? How do we make lifelong commitments in the face of identities that are continuously shifting…
8 years, 10 months ago
Jeff Vandermeer : Borne
“Here is the story about biotech that VanderMeer wants to tell, a vision of the nonhuman not as one fixed thing, one fixed destiny, but as either pea…
8 years, 11 months ago
Thalia Field : Experimental Animals
“Thalia Field has now composed what very well might be her life’s work—a tragic, comical, & utterly fascinating tale of a marriage that vividly encap…
9 years ago
Sallie Tisdale : Violation
“That Sallie Tisdale’s a treasure comes as no secret to lovers of the essay, and yet this happy gathering that spans the decades is revelatory, a fas…
9 years ago
Morgan Parker : There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
Morgan Parker uses political & pop-cultural references as a framework to explore 21st century black American womanhood & its complexities: performanc…
9 years, 1 month ago
Melissa Febos : Abandon Me
“Abandon Me is, in many ways, a story about how a woman’s body & the body of literature hold memory. In other ways, Abandon Me is a story about stori…
9 years, 1 month ago