Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMaurice Carlos Ruffin on THE AMERICAN DAUGHTERS
"If my mother and my grandma were in this book, how would they be? And what kind of love can I show them as a writer…"
The American Daughters by …
2 years, 5 months ago
Poured Over Double Shot: Katherine Arden and Yangsze Choo
Two historical novels with elements of fantasy and folklore will bring readers from the battlefields of World War One to the last years of the Qing …
2 years, 5 months ago
Andrés N. Ordorica on HOW WE NAMED THE STARS
"I describe this as a love story steeped in loss."
How We Named the Stars by Andrés N. Ordorica is a heartbreaking yet hopeful debut novel of fir…
2 years, 5 months ago
Phillip B. Williams on OURS
"To have freedom you have to give something up, to have love — to experience love as an action — there has to be something that you're willing to sa…
2 years, 5 months ago
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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 6 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, 6 months ago