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Today’s guest Zahid Rafiq discusses his debut short story collection The World With Its Mouth Open, eleven remarkable stories set in modern-day Kashmir. Prior to writing fiction Rafiq was a journalis…
Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Tin House Live : Denis Johnson : 2004
We started 2024 with an archival recording of Denis Johnson from the first ever Tin House Writers Workshop in 2003. That episode was a three-part episode: Denis Johnson reading from the manuscript of…
Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Rodrigo Fresán : Melvill
How can a novel set during one brief moment near the end of Herman Melville’s father’s life, a moment lost to history and now fully overshadowed by his son’s enduring literary legacy, become a portal…
Published on 11 months, 1 week ago
Dionne Brand : Salvage : Readings from the Wreck
What does it mean that a life can not only be animated by books but destroyed by them? That a self can be not only made by reading, but unmade by it? Dionne Brand’s latest book of nonfiction Salvage:…
Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Danez Smith : Bluff
Danez Smith’s poetry is so many things, a poetry of resistance, of elegy, of joy, of care, of repair. Their poetry is Afrofuturist and Afropessimist. It’s nature poetry, decolonial poetry, queer poet…
Published on 1 year ago
Kenzie Allen : Cloud Missives
Today’s conversation with Kenzie Allen, about her debut poetry collection Cloud Missives, is unusually wide-ranging. We look at the influence of archaeology, anthropology and cartography on her poetr…
Published on 1 year ago
Tin House Live : Torrey Peters on Strategic Opacity
Today’s craft talk—by Torrey Peters on “Strategic Opacity”— was recorded at the 2024 Tin House summer writers workshop. Peters explores the elements in works of fiction that actually don’t make sense…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Jewish Currents Live : Dionne Brand & Adania Shibli in Conversation
As part of Jewish Currents Live: A Day of Politics & Culture, I moderated a conversation between Adania Shibli and Dionne Brand this September in New York City. Both Dionne and Adania have been on th…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Isabella Hammad : Recognizing the Stranger : On Palestine and Narrative
Today’s conversation with Isabella Hammad is truly like no other on the show in its fourteen year history. The main text of her book is the speech she delivered for the Edward Said Memorial Lecture i…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Tin House Live : Frank Bidart
Today’s episode is an archival recording of poet Frank Bidart from the 2008 Tin House Writers Workshop. It begins with an introduction by the poet Brenda Shaughnessy, followed by an extended poetry r…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago