Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDouble Shot: Christina Sharpe and Ava Chin
These riveting works of nonfiction by two incredible women have powerful narratives on family, race, and the way we get to tell our stories.
Ordinary…
3 years, 3 months ago
David Grann on THE WAGER: A TALE OF SHIPWRECK, MUTINY AND MURDER
"We all shape our stories in some way, we all try to emerge as the hero of them…"
Author of Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann, takes on mutiny …
3 years, 3 months ago
Dennis Lehane on SMALL MERCIES
Dennis Lehane, prolific author for both the page and the screen, returns with Small Mercies, a thriller set against the time of desegregation of publ…
3 years, 3 months ago
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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago