Podcast Episodes

Jana Casale on HOW TO FALL OUT OF LOVE MADLY

"To me, the thing as a writer that you should always be working towards is like, how can I make this just be delicious for the reader?"

Jana Casale h…

3 years, 9 months ago

Jasmine Guillory on Writing Characters We Love

"All three of the books that I have written during the pandemic have really been my way of going into another world and finding a place where none of…

3 years, 9 months ago

Tess Gunty on THE RABBIT HUTCH

"To write a young woman who refuses to define herself by anything other than her activism, her mind, her curiosity, that was just a delight, and she …

3 years, 9 months ago

Ryka Aoki on LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS

"But when I write, that's when I feel I can take part in society, I can contribute to ideas, and to teach and to share, and to say, I love you to soc…

3 years, 9 months ago

Anthony Marra on MERCURY PICTURES PRESENTS

"There's just so much rich material in Hollywood during the 1940s—which is where much of the book is set—there is just sort of an endless rabbit hole…

3 years, 9 months ago

Eleanor Brown on ANY OTHER FAMILY

"I just had so many questions about adoption and motherhood. And you know, you've read my books, you know that I'm very interested in what makes a fa…

3 years, 9 months ago

Eric Kim on KOREAN AMERICAN: FOOD THAT TASTES LIKE HOME

"What's really interesting about taste memory is it's not that you're trying to necessarily replicate the dish exactly as it was, I think you're actu…

3 years, 9 months ago

Alice Elliott Dark on FELLOWSHIP POINT

"One thing I really have learned—or at least for myself about writing—is never to explain why a person is the way they are, just to make a dramatic c…

3 years, 10 months ago

Isaac Fitzgerald on DIRTBAG, MASSACHUSETTS

"I wish I could tell you that I went to a cabin and wrote it perfectly and got it in on time, and it just flowed out of me. But really, the truth of …

3 years, 10 months ago

Becky Chambers on A PRAYER FOR THE CROWN-SHY

"The primary intent of these books is to take a break... have something you can just curl up with for an afternoon. This is a book that is not going …

3 years, 10 months ago