Podcast Episodes

Maggie Smith on YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL

"I leave that book feeling less alone, because I've been welcomed into somebody else's humanity, and I feel like they've shared part of themselves wi…

3 years, 1 month ago

Victor LaValle on LONE WOMEN

"All of them, in my mind… were wrestling with the same question, which is — what do I do with either the burden of family or what do I do with the fo…

3 years, 1 month ago

Nick Medina on SISTERS OF THE LOST NATION

"You get to learn a bit about the social issue of Native women and girls going missing and that's really what I hope a lot of people will take away f…

3 years, 1 month ago

Curtis Sittenfeld on ROMANTIC COMEDY

"I can even still have my festively neurotic characters, but they can be working their way toward a happy ending, instead of working their way toward…

3 years, 1 month ago

Charles Frazier on THE TRACKERS

"I never start a book out with ideas. I always start a book out with people in places, and what could happen here."

Charles Frazier, author of Cold M…

3 years, 1 month ago

Nicole Chung on A LIVING REMEDY

"It was going to be a story about American instability, and precarity, and what happens when we aren't able to access the things that we need — and y…

3 years, 1 month ago

Gina Chung on SEA CHANGE

"Loneliness is such a universal experience for so many of us — and I do hope that the book is a balm for that and helps make readers feel less alone……

3 years, 1 month ago

Jeannette Walls on HANG THE MOON

"We all want the same thing; we want respect and security and to be loved — and that's what storytelling does, it connects the similarities that we h…

3 years, 1 month ago

Jacqueline Holland on THE GOD OF ENDINGS

"I live on art. I'm an art vampire, that's how I sustain myself." 

Jacqueline Holland's debut novel The God of Endings weaves together themes of moth…

3 years, 1 month ago

Rachel Heng on THE GREAT RECLAMATION

"As a kid, you don't know any of that. You're just like, wow, this sounds magical, like, how could this be the sea? How could this be land? How can t…

3 years, 1 month ago