Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSequoia Nagamatsu on HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK
"I think the knee-jerk reaction to pandemic literature — that I think a lot of readers might have as well, I don't want to read that because it's goi…
4 years ago
Morgan Talty on NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ
"I want to tell stories. I hate the whole, don't tell, show mantra because it's not true—it has its like moments like, you know, when the reader fini…
4 years ago
Celeste Ng on OUR MISSING HEARTS
"He thinks of himself as a character in a fairy tale in a way who's going on a quest. And there's so many stories like that about a character who's g…
4 years ago
Jess Kidd on THE NIGHT SHIP
"I want to escape into these like incredible, immersive situations, really. But I think I try and balance this kind of creation of a world or this wo…
4 years ago
Sarah Thankam Mathews on ALL THIS COULD BE DIFFERENT
"So you know, something that is a big part of my project…is actually this idea that we deserve pleasure. I think that pleasure and care, these are an…
4 years ago
Hua Hsu on STAY TRUE: A MEMOIR
"I think I figured a lot of things out literally as I was writing the book. I'm usually an obsessive methodical writer, or I have everything, if not …
4 years ago
Laura Warrell on SWEET, SOFT, PLENTY RHYTHM
"I feel like very often when we have stories about womanizing characters, whether we piece those stories out, so we see each woman—individually or no…
4 years ago
Hafizah Augustus Geter on THE BLACK PERIOD: ON PERSONHOOD, RACE, AND ORIGIN
"I did nothing but read the entire time I was writing this….literally every waking moment, I was doing some type of research and a lot of research I …
4 years ago
Bobby Finger on THE OLD PLACE
"Ever since we left, when I was 13, it's a place that I think about constantly. I think about it in hypothetical terms. It's something that I just so…
4 years ago
Andrew Sean Greer on LESS IS LOST
"I already had a kind of Don Quixote set up in mind. And so I was like, Wouldn't it be funny if Arthur was the sort of Sancho Panza in this? I'll jus…
4 years ago