Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRikki Ducornet : Brightfellow
A feral boy comes of age on a campus decadent with starched sheets, sweating cocktails, & homemade jams. Stub is the cause of that missing sweater, t…
9 years, 9 months ago
Lina Meruane : Seeing Red
This powerful autobiographical novel describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke, leaving …
9 years, 10 months ago
Rob Spillman : All Tomorrow’s Parties
“Truly exceptional memoirs have to do something more than recount a good origin story: they have to test the author’s youthful understanding of the w…
9 years, 10 months ago
Brian Blanchfield : Proxies
“Into what some are calling a new golden age of creative nonfiction lands Brian Blanchfield’s Proxies, which singlehandedly raises the bar for what’s…
9 years, 11 months ago
Idra Novey : Ways to Disappear
“Idra Novey, an acclaimed poet & translator of Spanish & Portuguese literature, has written a debut novel that’s a fast-paced, beguilingly playful, n…
9 years, 11 months ago
Ursula K. Le Guin : Late in the Day
Late in the Day, Ursula K. Le Guin’s new collection of poems (2010–2014) seeks meaning in an ever-connected world, giving voice to objects that may n…
10 years ago
Brian Evenson : A Collapse of Horses
A stuffed bear’s heart beats with the rhythm of a dead baby; Reno keeps receding to the east no matter how far you drive; and in a mine on another pl…
10 years, 1 month ago
Laila Lalami : The Moor’s Account
In this stunning work of historical fiction, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the 1st black explorer of America, a Moroccan slave whose…
10 years, 1 month ago
Lacy M. Johnson : The Other Side
“[Lacy M. Johnson’s] powerfully moving and brilliantly structured memoir, The Other Side, asks, ‘How is it possible to reclaim the body after devasta…
10 years, 2 months ago
Keith Lee Morris : Travelers Rest
“It won’t take long—a page, maybe two—before you feel wondrously disquieted by Keith Lee Morris’s Travelers Rest. The novel traps its characters in t…
10 years, 3 months ago