Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBen Parzybok : Sherwood Nation
In drought-stricken Portland, Oregon, a Robin Hood-esque water thief is caught on camera redistributing an illegal truckload of water to those in nee…
11 years, 7 months ago
Karen Russell : Sleep Donation
A crisis has swept America. Hundreds of thousands have lost the ability to sleep. Enter the Slumber Corps, an organization that urges healthy dreamer…
11 years, 8 months ago
Dinaw Mengestu : All Our Names
All Our Names is the story of two young men who come of age during an African revolution, drawn from the safe confines of the university campus into …
11 years, 9 months ago
Jo Walton : My Real Children
It’s 2015 and Patricia Cowan is very old. “Confused today,” read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know—what yea…
11 years, 10 months ago
Roxane Gay : An Untamed State
An Untamed State is a novel of privilege in the face of crushing poverty, and of the lawless anger that corrupt governments produce. It is the story …
11 years, 10 months ago
Leni Zumas & Luca Dipierro : A Wooden Leg
There is a long, if lesser known, history of fictions (and fictive illustrations) that invite reader participation, where the reader co-creates the s…
11 years, 11 months ago
Lorrie Moore : Bark
Harper’s Magazine may have said it best when describing today’s guest, Lorrie Moore: “Fifty years from now, it may well turn out that the work of ver…
12 years ago
Kyle Minor : Praying Drunk
The characters in Praying Drunk speak in tongues, torture their classmates, fall in love, hunt for immortality, abandon their children, keep machetes…
12 years ago
Helen Oyeyemi : Boy, Snow, Bird
In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty—the opposite of the life she’s…
12 years, 1 month ago
Gina Frangello: A Life In Men
The friendship between Mary and Nix has endured since childhood, a seemingly unbreakable bond, until the mid-1980s, when the two young women reunite …
12 years, 1 month ago