Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPatti Smith on A BOOK OF DAYS
"I'm really driven by poetry. I'm really driven by language. But also, I'm driven by a desire to connect with the people. So I could have been a teac…
3 years, 6 months ago
Kevin Wilson on NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO PANIC
"It's hard to be funny, you can't really plan on — you don't know what will land with people…. absurdity just exists constantly in the world that we …
3 years, 6 months ago
Rabia Chaudry on FATTY FATTY BOOM BOOM: A MEMOIR OF FOOD, FAT, AND FAMILY
"I had never known what it was like to feel full. And I know that sounds like really odd, but because most people can — I would be with friends and a…
3 years, 6 months ago
Madeline Miller on GALATEA
"I always feel like as a reader, I always want to go in ready to be changed, ready to be transformed by what I'm reading, ready to be expanded. And t…
3 years, 6 months ago
Anand Giridharadas on THE PERSUADERS: AT THE FRONT LINES OF THE FIGHT FOR HEARTS, MINDS, AND DEMOCRACY
"More people than we realize are works in progress, are trying to figure out a way to think about the world… As Beyoncé said in her new album, they'r…
3 years, 6 months ago
N.K. Jemisin on THE WORLD WE MAKE
"…The idea just kind of spun itself into existence in my head, the world started to form almost immediately — when my creative brain kind of immediat…
3 years, 6 months ago
Louise Kennedy on TRESPASSES
"…It was at the end of an exhibition called The Art of The Troubles. And that had been a little controversial (as these things very often are in post…
3 years, 6 months ago
Marjorie Liu on THE NIGHT EATERS: SHE EATS THE NIGHT
"We don't know our parents, I mean, we think we do; you know, all of us have a practice of dealing with contained worlds. And that practice begins wi…
3 years, 6 months ago
Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan on MAD HONEY
"I was always writing, and I think it goes back to that Charlotte's Web thing when I had that experience of something taking me out of this world. It…
3 years, 6 months ago
Siddhartha Mukherjee on THE SONG OF THE CELL: AN EXPLORATION OF MEDICINE AND THE NEW HUMAN
"People write medical histories, people write personal case histories, I didn't want to do either. People write memoirs; I wanted to do all of them i…
3 years, 6 months ago