Podcast Episodes

Nick Medina on SISTERS OF THE LOST NATION

"You get to learn a bit about the social issue of Native women and girls going missing and that's really what I hope a lot of people will take away f…

3 years, 6 months ago

Curtis Sittenfeld on ROMANTIC COMEDY

"I can even still have my festively neurotic characters, but they can be working their way toward a happy ending, instead of working their way toward…

3 years, 6 months ago

Charles Frazier on THE TRACKERS

"I never start a book out with ideas. I always start a book out with people in places, and what could happen here."

Charles Frazier, author of Cold M…

3 years, 6 months ago

Nicole Chung on A LIVING REMEDY

"It was going to be a story about American instability, and precarity, and what happens when we aren't able to access the things that we need — and y…

3 years, 6 months ago

Gina Chung on SEA CHANGE

"Loneliness is such a universal experience for so many of us — and I do hope that the book is a balm for that and helps make readers feel less alone……

3 years, 6 months ago

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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 7 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, 7 months ago