Podcast Episodes

Mona Awad on ROUGE

"… this was a book about beauty, and I wanted it to be very honest." 

In Mona Awad's Rouge, gothic family-drama meets fairy tale (with a hint of horr…

2 years, 8 months ago

Emma Donoghue on LEARNED BY HEART

"My specialty is digging up obscure stories where there are just enough facts to really stimulate the imagination." 

Emma Donoghue's newest novel, Le…

2 years, 8 months ago

Maria Bamford on SURE, I'LL JOIN YOUR CULT: A MEMOIR OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND THE QUEST TO BELONG ANYWHERE

Maria Bamford's hilarious memoir Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and a Quest to Belong Anywhere blends the honesty and compass…

2 years, 8 months ago

Zadie Smith on THE FRAUD

"There's no higher version of historical fiction to me than that, the feeling of being transported."

Zadie Smith's The Fraud brings all the exciteme…

2 years, 8 months ago

Joanna Moorhead on SURREAL SPACES: THE LIFE AND ART OF LEONORA CARRINGTON

"I think that she would have given — to anyone who had been lucky enough to spend time with her — was just this thirst for curiosity." 

Surreal Spac…

2 years, 8 months ago

Isabel Cañas on VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE

"I've been asked, why do you blend genres so much? And the simple answer is that it's what I want to read."

Horror meets romance meets historical fic…

2 years, 8 months ago

Poured Over Double Shot: Angie Kim and John Manuel Arias

Angie Kim's Happiness Falls is a family drama with an unconventional cast of characters centered around a missing persons case. Kim joins us to talk…

2 years, 8 months ago

Alice Carrière on EVERYTHING/NOTHING/SOMEONE

"I wrote this very simply to stay alive." 

Alice Carrière's beautiful and intense memoir of her unconventional childhood, her mental health journe…

2 years, 8 months ago

Jill Lepore on THE DEADLINE

"Having that store of memories that history can be, if done well, is a really tremendous form of solace."

Jill Lepore, historian and author of These …

2 years, 8 months ago

Prachi Gupta on THEY CALLED US EXCEPTIONAL: AND OTHER LIES THAT RAISED US

"My book is really an attempt to change that conversation and begin to dismantle some of these pressures so that we don't have to be upheld to these …

2 years, 9 months ago