Podcast Episodes
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"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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month ago
Ottessa 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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month 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 …
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month 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 …
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month ago