Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan on MAD HONEY
"I was always writing, and I think it goes back to that Charlotte's Web thing when I had that experience of something taking me out of this world. It…
3 years, 9 months ago
Siddhartha Mukherjee on THE SONG OF THE CELL: AN EXPLORATION OF MEDICINE AND THE NEW HUMAN
"People write medical histories, people write personal case histories, I didn't want to do either. People write memoirs; I wanted to do all of them i…
3 years, 9 months ago
Ross Gay on INCITING JOY
"We were doing all of this for people we did not know and could not imagine. And as is the case, too, like, when you're planting trees, you hope that…
3 years, 9 months ago
Nicholas Dawidoff on THE OTHER SIDE OF PROSPECT: A STORY OF VIOLENCE, INJUSTICE, AND THE AMERICAN CITY
"When I came back, I was thinking about how to tell the story. And I wanted to meet people who, in one way or another, resembled the young people who…
3 years, 9 months ago
George Saunders on LIBERATION DAY
"By making a certain voice, then I'm going to force myself to do new things in that story. The voice is for me, very measured and realistic and regul…
3 years, 9 months ago
Lydia Millet on DINOSAURS: A NOVEL
"There's kind of an aspect of melancholy that I love as a reader… But I can't write a book that I wouldn't want to read… Although I am interested in …
3 years, 9 months ago
Constance Wu on MAKING A SCENE
"I was always in a play, always in rehearsals. And if I wasn't in a play, I was counting the hours 'til I could be in a play. Because it was the firs…
3 years, 9 months ago
Sequoia Nagamatsu on HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK
"I think the knee-jerk reaction to pandemic literature — that I think a lot of readers might have as well, I don't want to read that because it's goi…
3 years, 9 months ago
Morgan Talty on NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ
"I want to tell stories. I hate the whole, don't tell, show mantra because it's not true—it has its like moments like, you know, when the reader fini…
3 years, 9 months ago
Celeste Ng on OUR MISSING HEARTS
"He thinks of himself as a character in a fairy tale in a way who's going on a quest. And there's so many stories like that about a character who's g…
3 years, 9 months ago