Podcast Episodes

Poured Over Double Shot: Tracey Rose Peyton and Parini Shroff

Our January Discover and B&N Book Club picks have lots in common: both are debut novels with indelible characters and an unforgettable story, both ar…

3 years, 7 months ago

Poured Over: All the Pretty Books and Beautiful Things

We're closing out 2022 with something new: A Poured Over Double Shot with host Miwa Messer. 

Cormac McCarthy doesn't really do interviews — If you wa…

3 years, 7 months ago

Maggie O'Farrell on THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT

"They have traveled for most of the day using what little daylight the season offers leaving Ferrara Dawn and riding out to what he had told her was …

3 years, 7 months ago

Alison L. Strayer and Dan Simon on Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux

"It is an amazing, amazing translation experience….But it took a long time to get to the point where the language started moving because you have to …

3 years, 7 months ago

Jane Smiley on A DANGEROUS BUSINESS

"One of my favorite places to take a little walk around is the public cemetery, which is on a little hill that overlooks the bay. And you know, if yo…

3 years, 7 months ago

Lauren Graham on HAVE I TOLD YOU THIS ALREADY?: STORIES I DON'T WANT TO FORGET TO REMEMBER

"Storytelling can just be you understanding yourself, but it turns into something else when it's a shared piece — so much of anything in life is prac…

3 years, 8 months ago

Nick Hornby on DICKENS AND PRINCE: A PARTICULAR KIND OF GENIUS

"I loved it more than everybody. And afterwards, I thought for the first time, whatever I do, I've got to get as close to that as I can. Not the nois…

3 years, 8 months ago

Matthew Quick on WE ARE THE LIGHT

"I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood. And you know, nobody was expected to be a novelist — that was not a thing, that was not a choice in my neig…

3 years, 8 months ago

Adam Hochschild on AMERICAN MIDNIGHT: THE GREAT WAR, A VIOLENT PEACE, AND DEMOCRACY'S FORGOTTEN CRISIS

"One of the ways you can get into my cast of characters is by leaving a very detailed written record. Because that's what we historians have to work …

3 years, 8 months ago

Erika T. Wurth on WHITE HORSE

"When I was a kid, I was super, super geeky, it was so nerdy. And all I read was dragon books, or ghost books, or elf books…someone tried to give me …

3 years, 8 months ago