Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSue Lynn Tan on HEART OF THE SUN WARRIOR
"They're rooted in our culture as well. And because of all that, I think they feel a little bit more real, even though they are fantastical magical r…
3 years, 8 months ago
Jerry Saltz on ART IS LIFE
"We are writing our stories to the world, as opposed to just reading the old stories. And somehow, some way accidentally, intentionally, desperately …
3 years, 8 months ago
Patti 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 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, 9 months ago