Podcast Episodes

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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months ago

Katherine May on ENCHANTMENT: AWAKENING WONDER IN AN ANXIOUS AGE

"I'm so interested in the moment when the reader takes over … I wanted it to be a book that feels like I'm walking alongside the reader, learning as …

3 years, 4 months ago

Matthew Desmond on POVERTY, BY AMERICA

"Look at all the advances we've made in the last 50 years, look at the way that culture and medicine and technology and science have advanced since t…

3 years, 4 months ago

Poured Over Double Shot: Claire Jiménez and Elaine Hsieh Chou

Who gets to tell our stories? Two debut authors use their powerful voices to show strong female characters navigating family, race and colonialism wi…

3 years, 4 months ago

Poured Over Double Shot: Alice Winn and Madelaine Lucas

From the trenches of WWI to the coast of Australia, these two debut novels depict the ubiquity of coming of age, even when the circumstances are dras…

3 years, 4 months ago

Poured Over Double Shot: Jenny Jackson and Ann Napolitano

Family dynamics, for better or worse, are front and center in these two novels from two striking voices in fiction.

Jenny Jackson's debut, Pineapple…

3 years, 4 months ago

Jenny Odell on SAVING TIME: DISCOVERING A LIFE BEYOND THE CLOCK

"I'm also trying to make use of how innate I think curiosity is for people, because curiosity is kind of a way towards hope… it's in that direction."…

3 years, 4 months ago

Eleanor Catton on BIRNAM WOOD

"I'm interested in how deceptions can make you feel more of yourself or can unlock something in you that you didn't know you had."

Eleanor Catton, Bo…

3 years, 4 months ago