Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchT. Kingfisher on WHAT MOVES THE DEAD
"When you're writing a children's book, it shares much relation with horror, because it has to be usually very immediate and very visceral and grippi…
3 years, 10 months ago
Caleb Gayle on WE REFUSE TO FORGET: A TRUE STORY OF BLACK CREEKS, AMERICAN IDENTITY, AND POWER
"But there is joy in advocating for changing of the world for the better, for not allowing the world to tell you who you shall be, but rather reimagi…
3 years, 10 months ago
Chris Bohjalian on Telling Stories
"I decided to give myself the license to fail, and to write across gender, to write in the voice of a midwife's daughter. And if the book isn't worki…
3 years, 10 months ago
Ibram X. Kendi on HOW TO RAISE AN ANTIRACIST
"And so, too often, kids are raised to have empathy for people who look like them, or worship like them or act like them. And we're also taught to ha…
3 years, 10 months ago
Gabrielle Zevin on TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW
"I never thought I would be writing something where there would be a lot of intricate feelings around the game engine. But then if you think about so…
3 years, 10 months ago
Brian Broome on PUNCH ME UP TO THE GODS
"The most important thing is the reader. I tell my students, Look, if you're writing about yourself, it's great that you want to get your feelings ou…
3 years, 10 months ago
Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin on MY NAME IS JASON, MINE TOO
"For me, and perhaps for both of us, I think that our greatest sort of skill set is audacity. It's so funny the way people sort of negatively connote…
3 years, 10 months ago
Patrick Radden Keefe on ROGUES: TRUE STORIES OF GRIFTERS, KILLERS, REBELS AND CROOKS
"It's so painful to me to feel as though the very notion of objective truth or that journalism could be a vehicle for expressing a kind of objective …
3 years, 10 months ago
Ava Reid on JUNIPER & THORN
"So much classic fantasy exists in this sort of timeless state where, you know, whatever fantasy world it's set in has kind of always existed....I've…
3 years, 10 months ago
Ed Yong on AN IMMENSE WORLD
"I sort of figured that, having been interested in science from as long as I can remember, I would be a PhD student, and make a career for myself an…
3 years, 10 months ago