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Episode 414
For the next few months, we’re sharing some of our favorite conversations from the podcast’s archives. This one was originally published on June 2, 2…
3 years, 8 months ago
John Lithgow on “Drama” and Maggie O'Farrell on “Hamnet”
Episode 413
For the next few months, we’re sharing some of our favorite conversations from the podcast’s archives. This week’s segments first appeared in 2011 an…
3 years, 9 months ago
Robert Caro on His Career
Episode 412
For the next few months, we're sharing some of our favorite conversations from the podcast's archives. This one was originally published on April 19,…
3 years, 9 months ago
Roaring Through Paris With ‘Kiki Man Ray’
Episode 411
Mark Braude’s new biography, “Kiki Man Ray,” visits a place of perennial interest — Left Bank Paris in the 1920s — through the life of the singer, mo…
3 years, 9 months ago
Poems in Practice and in Theory
Episode 410
Elisa Gabbert, the Book Review's On Poetry columnist, visits the podcast this week to discuss writing about poetry and her own forthcoming collection…
3 years, 9 months ago
Chaos Among Spies After the Berlin Wall Crumbles
Episode 409
Dan Fesperman’s 13th thriller, “Winter Work,” is set just after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Stasi, East Germany’s brutal Cold War intelligence s…
3 years, 10 months ago
Diana Goetsch on ‘This Body I Wore’
Episode 408
The acclaimed poet Diana Goetsch has now published “This Body I Wore,” which our reviewer, Manuel Betancourt, called an “achingly beautiful memoir” a…
3 years, 10 months ago
‘Son of Elsewhere’ Recounts Life as a Young Immigrant
Episode 407
In “Son of Elsewhere,” Elamin Abdelmahmoud writes about growing up in Canada after moving there from Sudan when he was 12. On this week’s podcast, he…
3 years, 10 months ago
Alice Elliott Dark on ‘Fellowship Point’
Episode 406
In Alice Elliott Dark’s second novel, “Fellowship Point,” Agnes Lee and Polly Wister have been friends for about 80 years. Their intertwined families…
3 years, 10 months ago
A Novel About Brilliant Young Game Designers
Episode 405
Gabrielle Zevin’s new novel, “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,” is set in the world of video game design, and follows two friends named Sadie an…
3 years, 10 months ago