Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNeal Stephenson : Seveneves
A catastrophic event renders the Earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devi…
10 years, 11 months ago
Viet Thanh Nguyen : The Sympathizer
It is April 1975 and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted c…
11 years ago
Sarah Manguso : Ongoingness
In Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for 25 years. “I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that…
11 years, 1 month ago
Kelly Link : Get in Trouble
Kelly Link has been hailed by Michael Chabon as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” and by Neil Gaiman as “a national treasure.” Link…
11 years, 1 month ago
Sarah Gerard : Binary Star
The language of the stars is the language of the body. Like a star, the anorexic burns fuel that isn’t replenished; she is held together by her own g…
11 years, 2 months ago
Miranda July : The First Bad Man
Here is Cheryl, a tightly-wound, vulnerable woman who lives alone, with a perpetual lump in her throat. She is haunted by a baby boy she met when she…
11 years, 3 months ago
Leslie Jamison : The Empathy Exams
Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison’s visceral and rev…
11 years, 4 months ago
Claudia Rankine : Citizen
Claudia Rankine, chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, speaks about her much-awaited follow-up to her groundbreaking work Don’t Let Me Be Lone…
11 years, 5 months ago
William Gibson : The Peripheral
Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran’s benefits, for the neural d…
11 years, 5 months ago
David Mitchell : The Bone Clocks
“No one, clearly, has ever told Mitchell that the novel is dead. He writes with a furious intensity and slapped-awake vitality, with a delight in lan…
11 years, 7 months ago