Podcast Episodes

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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 months ago

Adrian McKinty on THE DETECTIVE UP LATE

The Detective Up Late is the newest installment in the Sean Duffy series by Adrian McKinty following a detective solving his final case in Northern …

2 years, 11 months ago

Kai Bird on AMERICAN PROMETHEUS: THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

"Dr. Oppenheimer, Dr. Oppenheimer. I've been waiting decades to meet you!"

The inspiration for the new movie Oppenheimer, Kai Bird's incredible biogr…

2 years, 11 months ago

Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché on PROPHET

What happens to reality when nostalgia and memory become weaponized? Part speculative thriller, part queer romance, all page-turning excitement and i…

2 years, 11 months ago

Poured Over Double Shot: Esmeralda Santiago and Elizabeth Acevedo

Las Madres follows a group of mothers and daughters between Puerto Rico and the U.S. as they face challenges of health, natural disaster and family …

2 years, 11 months ago

James McBride on THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE

"People who love books, we're the last line of reason and discourse…"

National Book Award winner James McBride's newest novel, The Heaven & Earth Gro…

2 years, 11 months ago

Poured Over Double Shot: Khashayar J. Khabushani and Jamel Brinkley

I Will Greet the Sun Again by Khashayar J. Khabushani is the story of a young Iranian American boy growing up in the San Fernando Valley with his br…

3 years ago