Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPoured Over Double Shot: Bryan Washington and Curtis Chin
Family Meal by Bryan Washington features the importance of food, friends and connection with a cast of characters working through the transitions in…
2 years, 9 months ago
Jean Kwok on THE LEFTOVER WOMAN
"I want people to read it with joy, just for the story. But I do hope that they'll pick up something else along the way about … deeper things."
The …
2 years, 9 months ago
Justin Torres on BLACKOUTS
"I wanted it to feel like stepping off the world..."
Blackouts by Justin Torres explores love, loss and the stories we leave behind with inventive a…
2 years, 9 months ago
Pauls Toutonghi on THE REFUGEE OCEAN
Our October Discover Pick is The Refugee Ocean by Pauls Toutonghi, featuring musical prose and interwoven stories that cross generations and countri…
2 years, 9 months ago
Safiya Sinclair on HOW TO SAY BABYLON
"Language doesn't just exist on the page … It's about how you embody it."
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair is a poetic memoir about growing up…
2 years, 10 months ago
Poured Over Double Shot: Jonathan Lethem and Benjamín Labatut
Jonathan Lethem's Brooklyn Crime Novel brings readers to New York in the 70s and the cast of characters it contains. Lethem joins us to talk about c…
2 years, 10 months ago
V.E. Schwab on THE FRAGILE THREADS OF POWER
"My biggest goal was to convert people who said they don't like fantasy."
V.E. Schwab's Shades of Magic series has enchanted us with wit, wonder and …
2 years, 10 months ago
Ayana Mathis on THE UNSETTLED
The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis follows a family through generations from small town Alabama to Philadelphia in the 80s as they struggle, succeed and …
2 years, 10 months ago
C Pam Zhang on LAND OF MILK AND HONEY
"It really illuminates these questions of privilege and pleasure, and what kind of joy we can look forward to in the human experience as things conti…
2 years, 10 months ago
Lauren Groff on THE VASTER WILDS
"This book is the most personal because it is what I feel about the world itself."
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff is a beautiful and propulsive su…
2 years, 10 months ago