Podcast Episodes

Dr. Moiya McTier on THE MILKY WAY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF OUR GALAXY

"To me, science is the rigorous attempt at understanding the world around you. And most people think that that means you're in a lab wearing a coat, …

3 years, 11 months ago

Julian Barnes on ELIZABETH FINCH

"This is one of the great differences between journalism and literature, which I practice in. You write journalism in order for everything to be abso…

3 years, 11 months ago

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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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…

4 years 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…

4 years 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…

4 years 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…

4 years ago