Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJohanna Hedva : Your Love Is Not Good
What if you gave your fictional main character all of your own biographical details and family history but had them, at every point, choose “wrong”? …
2 years, 10 months ago
Tin House Live : Katie Holten on The Language of Trees
In Early Medieval Ireland there was a language called Ogham that was sometimes referred to as the “Celtic Tree Alphabet'” because its letters each co…
2 years, 11 months ago
Tin House Live: Richard Powers on The Overstory
Back in 2019, when Richard Powers was a guest on Between the Covers for The Overstory, we also appeared together that very same night, in conversatio…
2 years, 11 months ago
Melanie Rae Thon : As If Fire Could Hide Us
Melanie Rae Thon’s latest book, As If Fire Could Hide Us, is described not as a novel with three chapters, nor as a collection of three stories, but …
2 years, 11 months ago
Christina Sharpe : Ordinary Notes
There may be no writer, no thinker, who has shaped my conversations on the show more than Christina Sharpe. Whether her work is explicitly part of a …
3 years ago
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o : The Language of Languages
Today’s guest, novelist, storyteller, essayist, playwright, scholar, translator, and perennial front-runner for the Nobel Prize in Literature Ngũgĩ w…
3 years ago
Charif Shanahan : Trace Evidence
Early in poet Charif Shanahan’s latest collection, Trace Evidence, we encounter the lines: “I want to tell you what for me it has been like. // To s…
3 years, 1 month ago
Sabrina Orah Mark : Happily
Today’s guest is poet, storyteller, and now essayist Sabrina Orah Mark. Her latest book, Happily: A Personal History—with Fairy Tales, is an intrigui…
3 years, 1 month ago
Monica Youn : From From
In today’s conversation with poet Monica Youn we explore what it means to write from a poetics of difference rather than of authenticity, a poetics o…
3 years, 1 month ago
Jai Chakrabarti : A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness
Today’s conversation with novelist and story writer Jai Chakrabarti is unusually wide-ranging, touching on everything from classical Indian aesthetic…
3 years, 2 months ago