Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchChang-rae Lee : On Such A Full Sea
“The most striking dystopian novels sound an alarm, focus our attention and even change the language. The Handmaid’s Tale crystallized our fears abou…
12 years, 2 months ago
Gary Shteyngart : Little Failure
“Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Unputdownable in the day and…
12 years, 3 months ago
Veronica Gonzalez Peña : The Sad Passions
Told by six women in one family, Veronica Gonzalez Peña’s The Sad Passions captures the alertness, beauty, and terror of childhood lived in proximity…
12 years, 4 months ago
Kevin Sampsell : This Is Between Us
There may be no author more integral to the Portland literary scene than Kevin Sampsell. Kevin is not only the small press curator and events coordin…
12 years, 5 months ago
Lucy Corin : One Hundred Apocalypses
We seem to be in the midst of an upsurge in dystopian art and end times anxieties. If we as a culture don’t have a sense of impending doom, we do at …
12 years, 6 months ago
Jonathan Lethem : Dissident Gardens
Jonathan Lethem is a man of many lives. For one, because of his repeated return to New York as both setting and muse in novels such as Motherless Bro…
12 years, 7 months ago
Robert Boswell : Tumbledown
“When most of us think of today’s great American novel, we think of Franzen’s Freedom or Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad—sprawling stories that co…
12 years, 7 months ago
Jami Attenberg : The Middlesteins
For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splinterin…
12 years, 8 months ago
Matt Bell : In the House Upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods
Matt Bell’s novel is so unlike anything else you’ll read this year that people are struggling to describe just what it is. The Washington Post says i…
12 years, 9 months ago
NoViolet Bulawayo : We Need New Names
Born and raised in Zimbabwe, NoViolet Bulawayo earned her MFA at Cornell University where she was the recipient of the Truman Capote fellowship. In 2…
12 years, 10 months ago