Podcast Episodes

Asale Angel-Ajani on A COUNTRY YOU CAN LEAVE

"When you've been disappointed for that long in your life — what kind of people are you? What do you become?"

A Country You Can Leave, the debut nov…

3 years, 2 months ago

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ on A SPELL OF GOOD THINGS

"I'm one of those writers that … I think I know the story I want to write when I'm going in with a novel … but by the time I get into the middle of i…

3 years, 2 months ago

Rebecca Makkai on I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU

"It's a literary, feminist, boarding school murder mystery — everyone's favorite genre." 

I Have Some Questions for You is the thrilling and inventi…

3 years, 3 months ago

Kevin Jared Hosein on HUNGRY GHOSTS

"No one in this cast believes that they have a home — they have houses, but they don't have homes. They were born into this country, they were born i…

3 years, 3 months ago

Isabel Wilkerson on CASTE: THE ORIGINS OF OUR DISCONTENTS

"I wouldn't have written the book if I were not hopeful. I mean, the act of writing this book was a prayer for our country — it's making the case …

3 years, 3 months ago

Rachel Joyce on MAUREEN: A HAROLD FRY NOVEL

"Maureen's journey is about going to the dark — and when you go right into the dark, you then find the light and the kind of renewal — and of all of …

3 years, 3 months ago

Stephen Graham Jones on DON'T FEAR THE REAPER

"For us, horror stories are a long, dark, scary tunnel. You hear sounds you don't want to hear; you see things that are going to stick in your head. …

3 years, 3 months ago

Jessica George on MAAME

"That was only three years ago, where I read a protagonist I could relate to on a deeper level, for the first time. Subconsciously, it gave me the id…

3 years, 3 months ago

Poured Over Double Shot: Matthew Salesses and Kashana Cauley

These two novels explore the gulf between expectation and reality, ambition and opportunity, and what happens when life veers off from your carefully…

3 years, 3 months ago

Paul Harding on THIS OTHER EDEN

"I love finishing reading a book and thinking, I feel privileged to have read that, I feel dignified. I feel like that book sort of thought of me as …

3 years, 3 months ago