Podcast Episodes

Will Schwalbe on WE SHOULD NOT BE FRIENDS: THE STORY OF A FRIENDSHIP

"How do you spot a 'we should not be friends' friendship? It's when someone shows you who they are, and you like it."

Will Schwalbe, author of The En…

3 years, 5 months ago

Eloghosa Osunde on VAGABONDS!

"Each time I wrote a story that belonged in this book… It held some pain. It held some love. It held some hope, some longing..." 

Eloghosa Osunde's d…

3 years, 5 months ago

Samantha Shannon on A DAY OF FALLEN NIGHT

"I feel like we're in a real golden age of fantasy that's exploring diversity from lots of different perspectives, and telling lots of stories that n…

3 years, 5 months ago

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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 months ago