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Back to SearchTorrey Peters : Stag Dance
Four novellas, in four different genres—science fiction, horror, teen romance, and a western—Stag Dance not only interrogates genre, but gender throu…
1 year, 1 month ago
Michelle de Kretser : Theory & Practice
Today’s guest, one of Australia’s most celebrated and daring writers, Michelle de Kretser, discusses her latest uncategorizable book Theory & Practic…
1 year, 1 month ago
Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
In late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man. This video sho…
1 year, 2 months ago
Hélène Cixous : Rêvoir
Feminist and literary theorist, playwright, philosopher, memoirist and novelist Hélène Cixous returns to the show to discuss her latest genre-defying…
1 year, 3 months ago
Aria Aber : Good Girl
Poet Aria Aber’s debut novel Good Girl , set in the club scene of Berlin, is a book brimming over with sex and drugs and music, true. But really at i…
1 year, 3 months ago
Zahid Rafiq : The World With Its Mouth Open
Today’s guest Zahid Rafiq discusses his debut short story collection The World With Its Mouth Open, eleven remarkable stories set in modern-day Kashm…
1 year, 4 months ago
Tin House Live : Denis Johnson : 2004
We started 2024 with an archival recording of Denis Johnson from the first ever Tin House Writers Workshop in 2003. That episode was a three-part epi…
1 year, 4 months ago
Rodrigo Fresán : Melvill
How can a novel set during one brief moment near the end of Herman Melville’s father’s life, a moment lost to history and now fully overshadowed by h…
1 year, 4 months ago
Dionne Brand : Salvage : Readings from the Wreck
What does it mean that a life can not only be animated by books but destroyed by them? That a self can be not only made by reading, but unmade by it?…
1 year, 5 months ago
Danez Smith : Bluff
Danez Smith’s poetry is so many things, a poetry of resistance, of elegy, of joy, of care, of repair. Their poetry is Afrofuturist and Afropessimist.…
1 year, 5 months ago