Podcast Episodes

Bora Chung on YOUR UTOPIA

"The peril actually comes from us — our prejudice, our biases, and our conceived threats, not from artificial intelligence, so we need to reconsider …

2 years, 3 months ago

Lucy Sante on I HEARD HER CALL MY NAME

"You can write all the books you want — they are going to be very pretty, but if they don't tell the truth, comprehensively, it's just not worth the…

2 years, 3 months ago

Kelly Link on THE BOOK OF LOVE

"If you write about a person, you're writing about that person because they're special."

The Book of Love by Kelly Link combines fantastical elements…

2 years, 3 months ago

Kiley Reid on COME AND GET IT

"I am of the mind that a novel should not leave you with a thesis … I think a novel should reflect the deep parts of human behavior in such an accur…

2 years, 3 months ago

Sheila Heti on ALPHABETICAL DIARIES

"I'm interested in the limitations of the mind — like that your brain really does only go down so many paths, and then there's a million paths that …

2 years, 3 months ago

Kwame Alexander on THIS IS THE HONEY

"I feel like these poems tell stories in and of themselves. And perhaps as an entire collection, they tell a greater story. … We're human beings — …

2 years, 3 months ago

Dolly Alderton on GOOD MATERIAL

What can we do when our storybook romance ends? Good Material lets us laugh our way through the thick of heartbreak with sharp wit, the warmth of fr…

2 years, 3 months ago

Ruha Benjamin on IMAGINATION: A MANIFESTO

"My writing is always trying to open that up and to say — you can start here; you can start now." 

Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin remin…

2 years, 3 months ago

Kyle Chayka on FILTERWORLD: HOW ALGORITHMS FLATTENED CULTURE

Filterworld by Kyle Chayka investigates one of our most prevalent yet often unnoticed influences — the algorithms that shape our online experiences …

2 years, 3 months ago

Sabrina Imbler on HOW FAR THE LIGHT REACHES

"I really wanted to find connection with these creatures that I'll never meet…" 

Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Cre…

2 years, 3 months ago