Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJavier Zamora on SOLITO
"That nine-year-old kid still follows me and is with me and is very much a part of me... And this is the hope for the book, not only for non-immigran…
3 years, 8 months ago
Mason Hereford on TURKEY AND THE WOLF: FLAVOR TRIPPIN' IN NEW ORLEANS
"I think about food constantly, but more so than anyone else it's the people I work with who are inspiring me now.... I'm always inspired by the peop…
3 years, 8 months ago
Jessie Burton on THE HOUSE OF FORTUNE
"I think it is a conversation I'm having with my younger self, who loved the idea of time travel, who loved the idea that these people perhaps not so…
3 years, 8 months ago
Sarah Addison Allen on OTHER BIRDS
"I think they grew out of the setting of this weird island, this odd place, this place of southern stories and ghosts and food and how they are misfi…
3 years, 8 months ago
Ada Limón on THE HURTING KIND
"I think it's really important to remember that poetry has always sort of existed in the moment. It's full of the life that we're living right now. I…
3 years, 8 months ago
R.F. Kuang on BABEL
"We're all constantly translating ourselves to the world—we all are trying to take the inevitable stuff that happens in our psyche, our fears, and ho…
3 years, 8 months ago
Beth Macy on RAISING LAZARUS: HOPE, JUSTICE AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICA'S OVERDOSE CRISIS
"And so, then I thought, Who do I most admire? Who taught me the most, and also, they're doing it for completely selfless reasons, right? And I thoug…
3 years, 8 months ago
Keith Corbin on CALIFORNIA SOUL: AN AMERICAN EPIC OF COOKING AND SURVIVAL
"But I had fun growing up, you know, kids Double Dutch and playing football in the front yard, trash can basketball, running around 40 deep into proj…
3 years, 9 months ago
Dr. Moiya McTier on THE MILKY WAY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF OUR GALAXY
"To me, science is the rigorous attempt at understanding the world around you. And most people think that that means you're in a lab wearing a coat, …
3 years, 9 months ago
Julian Barnes on ELIZABETH FINCH
"This is one of the great differences between journalism and literature, which I practice in. You write journalism in order for everything to be abso…
3 years, 9 months ago