Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSteve Almond on ALL THE SECRETS OF THE WORLD
"And I had to actually give up and say, Okay, maybe I'll go to the grave not having written a novel, and I don't have to carry around shame about tha…
3 years, 11 months ago
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois
"I'm always coming back to Chicasetta, in the same way that Ernest Gaines always comes back to Bayonne parish. And William Faulkner always comes back…
3 years, 11 months ago
Akwaeke Emezi on YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY
"I had a dream about them. I have like these really cinematic dreams. And I woke up from this one. And I was like, this is a fantastic, messy little …
3 years, 11 months ago
Candice Millard on RIVER OF THE GODS
"…You have to have so much primary source material that you are drowning, you think you can never get through it all. That's the only way you get dia…
4 years ago
Emma Straub on THIS TIME TOMORROW
"That was really what I wanted to get at. The relationships that you have with the people who you love so much, and who you're so close with that you…
4 years ago
Selma Blair on MEAN BABY
"But then when I read that Raymond Carver said he didn't have the ability to write, you know, a full novel. He was a sprinter and I thought, Oh, mayb…
4 years ago
Alison Espach on NOTES ON YOUR SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE
"For me, part of the fun of coming-of-age novels, both reading and writing, is getting to have that adult perspective on these youthful moments and k…
4 years ago
Jennifer Weiner on THE SUMMER PLACE
"I was thinking about caretaking. And I was thinking about mothers because I lost my mom last year, but just the places that feel familiar and how th…
4 years ago
Heather Walter on MISRULE
"…It's like if Tim Burton decorated Versailles for Halloween…" Heather Walter's queer retelling of Sleeping Beauty kicked off with Malice, which we t…
4 years ago
Monica Ali on LOVE MARRIAGE
"For me, the novel form is the greatest expression because it has that room, that latitude to really explore for the full complexity of human existen…
4 years ago