Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKaveh Akbar on MARTYR!
"I hope that when there is laughter, it's laughter made wise by having known real grief — and when there is grief, it is made wise by having known r…
2 years, 3 months ago
Poured Over Double Shot: Marie-Helene Bertino and Claire Oshetsky
Marie-Helene Bertino's Beautyland gives insight into the human experience through the eyes of a young woman (who may or may not be an extraterrestri…
2 years, 4 months ago
Jericho Brown on HOW WE DO IT
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill is edited by Jericho Brown and contains diverse and expansive essays and other works on th…
2 years, 4 months ago
Dan Kois on VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES
Vintage Contemporaries by Dan Kois is a fiction debut that blends a coming-of-age story with the themes of lasting friendship and what it takes to b…
2 years, 4 months ago
Bonnie Jo Campbell on THE WATERS
Bonnie Jo Campbell's The Waters follows the interwoven and often complicated lives of a family of women inhabiting an island in a Michigan swamp. Ca…
2 years, 4 months ago
Hisham Matar on MY FRIENDS
"I think it is a moment where we are thinking a lot about our relationship to the places and the societies that we have … wanting to create deeper c…
2 years, 4 months ago
Kayla Min Andrews on THE FETISHIST by Katherine Min
The Fetishist by Katherine Min is a darkly humorous and provocative novel of love, revenge, and identity published after her death in 2019. Min's da…
2 years, 4 months ago
Julie Myerson on NONFICTION: A NOVEL
Julie Myerson's newest novel Nonfiction is intricate and raw, featuring themes of motherhood, addiction and what it means to write. Myerson joins us…
2 years, 4 months ago
Ashley Flowers & Alex Kiester on ALL GOOD PEOPLE HERE
"People always asked 'what made you want to write fiction?' And I'm like, this isn't a departure. I feel like this is me going back to how it actual…
2 years, 4 months ago
Vanessa Chan on THE STORM WE MADE
"Our ancestors, our grandparents, love us by not speaking…"
The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan follows one family in 1945 Malaya as they face th…
2 years, 4 months ago