Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHua Hsu on STAY TRUE: A MEMOIR
"I think I figured a lot of things out literally as I was writing the book. I'm usually an obsessive methodical writer, or I have everything, if not …
3 years, 7 months ago
Laura Warrell on SWEET, SOFT, PLENTY RHYTHM
"I feel like very often when we have stories about womanizing characters, whether we piece those stories out, so we see each woman—individually or no…
3 years, 7 months ago
Hafizah Augustus Geter on THE BLACK PERIOD: ON PERSONHOOD, RACE, AND ORIGIN
"I did nothing but read the entire time I was writing this….literally every waking moment, I was doing some type of research and a lot of research I …
3 years, 7 months ago
Bobby Finger on THE OLD PLACE
"Ever since we left, when I was 13, it's a place that I think about constantly. I think about it in hypothetical terms. It's something that I just so…
3 years, 8 months ago
Andrew Sean Greer on LESS IS LOST
"I already had a kind of Don Quixote set up in mind. And so I was like, Wouldn't it be funny if Arthur was the sort of Sancho Panza in this? I'll jus…
3 years, 8 months ago
Saeed Jones on ALIVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD
"This book feels very much…drawing from the Black Saints: Whitney Houston, Paul Mooney, Little Richard, Luther Vandross, almost my own canon, my own …
3 years, 8 months ago
Abdulrazak Gurnah on AFTERLIVES
"Well, home is a complicated concept....So you've shaken me awake at three o'clock in the morning. Where's home? I'll say Zanzibar without hesitation…
3 years, 8 months ago
Ian McEwan on LESSONS
"I'm heading into my mid 70s and I really want to just get into a novel and live inside it. No sense of hurry. No deadline, no sense that anyone's wa…
3 years, 8 months ago
Jonathan Escoffery, Yiyun Li and Ling Ma on The Art of Fiction
"I start with the emotion. I don't know what the story is. I don't know who the characters are necessarily. I'm working on very little like, I'm thin…
3 years, 8 months ago
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton on ON THE ROOFTOP
"…In this particular book, I think I wanted to combat the feeling that we were already inundated with, and even the feelings that are attached to soc…
3 years, 8 months ago