Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOttessa Moshfegh on LAPVONA
"I wanted to write something that was going to take me away, literally and metaphorically, literally take me away from sitting with my feelings about…
3 years, 11 months ago
Geraldine Brooks on HORSE
"You know, Marlon James said something once, he said, if you're going to write about the enslaved, and you're not going to write about the resilience…
3 years, 11 months ago
Sloane Crosley on CULT CLASSIC
"...A part of the point of the book was to not shy away from what we shy away from in real life. And one of the things we shy away from in real life …
3 years, 11 months ago
Hannah Whitten on FOR THE THRONE
"And when you give people the option to kind of live inside the head of a different character … if you're doing your job, and you make it a character…
3 years, 11 months ago
Corban Addison on WASTELANDS: THE TRUE STORY OF FARM COUNTRY ON TRIAL
"It was the people really, that convinced me that this was a story not just worth telling, but needed to be told, and needed to be told the right way…
3 years, 11 months ago
Leila Mottley on NIGHTCRAWLING
"I really wanted to depict the ways that young Black girls are made adults by a culture that sees us as that. And I wanted to show the way that that …
3 years, 11 months ago
Tom Perrotta on TRACY FLICK CAN'T WIN
"Tracy never went away. So yes, you can say I'm bringing her back, but the culture kept her in circulation in a way that was really interesting to me…
3 years, 11 months ago
Katie Runde on THE SHORE
"I missed it so much. And definitely didn't get it or appreciate the specialness of it, or this particular beauty of it … until you have to show up a…
3 years, 11 months ago
David Levithan on BOY MEETS BOY
"I was very, very unintentionally smart in that I started it as a short story, I genuinely believed it was a short story, which was good, because if …
3 years, 11 months ago
Sarai Walker on THE CHERRY ROBBERS
"I didn't want it to be just a very overwhelming dark book. I mean, it has so much tragedy that I had to balance that I wanted to make it part of, yo…
3 years, 11 months ago