Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSheila Heti : How Should A Person Be?
Is How Should a Person Be? a novel, a memoir, a self-help manual, or a book of philosophy? It is all of these things and more. Host David Naimon tal…
13 years, 8 months ago
Karen Thompson Walker : The Age of Miracles
On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation …
13 years, 9 months ago
Vanessa Veselka : Zazen
A war has either started or is about to; bombs are going off in the city, but people seem strangely disengaged. Della’s activist friends seem more co…
13 years, 10 months ago
Adam Levin : Hot Pink
Adam Levin’s debut novel, The Instructions, published by McSweeney’s in 2010, arrived with a lot of buzz. An inventive, experimental book of over 100…
13 years, 10 months ago
Jon Raymond : Rain Dragon
Host David Naimon talks with Portland author, Jon Raymond, about his new novel Rain Dragon. Raymond is the author of the novel The Half-Life, and th…
13 years, 11 months ago
Nathan Englander : What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Englander burst on the literary scene in 1999 with For The Relief of Unbearable Urges, a story collection that earned him the PEN/Faulkner Malamud Aw…
14 years, 1 month ago
Ben Marcus : The Flame Alphabet
What if the words your children spoke to you actually made you sick? Physically sick. And what if the children themselves relished in this newfound p…
14 years, 2 months ago
Colson Whitehead : Zone One
Host David Naimon speaks with award-winning writer Colson Whitehead about his new novel Zone One, described as a “wry take on the post-apocalyptic ho…
14 years, 4 months ago
Justin Torres : We The Animals
Host David Naimon interviews debut novelist Justin Torres. His book, We the Animals, has been heralded for its beautiful, concentrated prose. NPR lik…
14 years, 5 months ago
China Miéville : Embassytown
Science fiction and fantasy writer China Miéville has won nearly every award in the genre and has caught the attention of mainstream publications fro…
14 years, 9 months ago