Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchUrsula K. Le Guin : Words Are My Matter
“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken so…
9 years, 2 months ago
Susan DeFreitas : Hot Season
An outlaw activist on the run. A pipeline set to destroy a river. And 3 young women who must decide who to love, who to trust, & what to sacrifice fo…
9 years, 3 months ago
Solmaz Sharif : Look
In this virtuosic array of poems, lists, shards, & sequences, Sharif assembles fragmented narratives in the aftermath of war. Those repercussions ech…
9 years, 3 months ago
Sofia Samatar : The Winged Histories
“If you love stories but distrust them, if you love language & can also see how it is used as a tool or a weapon in the maintenance of status quo, th…
9 years, 4 months ago
Tyehimba Jess : Olio
“This 21st century hymnal of black evolutionary poetry, this almanac, this theatrical melange of miraculous meta-memory. Tyehimba Jess is inventive, …
9 years, 5 months ago
Eliot Weinberger : The Ghosts of Birds
A new collection from “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New York Times), The Ghosts of Birds offers 35 new essays by Eliot Weinberger. He ch…
9 years, 6 months ago
Pauls Toutonghi : Dog Gone
“You can’t write about dogs without writing about people. They chose long ago to be our good company in the adventure of being alive, and ever since …
9 years, 6 months ago
Monica Drake : The Folly of Loving Life
Following her acclaimed novels Clown Girl and The Stud Book, Monica Drake presents her long-awaited first collection of stories. “What can I say abou…
9 years, 7 months ago
Alexis Smith : Marrow Island
“A faltering journalist returns to an island abandoned after an earthquake released a toxic spill. That’s the beautifully wrought setting of this nov…
9 years, 7 months ago
Jesse Ball : How to Set a Fire and Why
Jesse Ball’s blistering novel tells the story of a teenage girl who has lost everything—and will burn anything. Lucia’s father is dead, her mother in…
9 years, 8 months ago