Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSaeed Jones on ALIVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD
"This book feels very much…drawing from the Black Saints: Whitney Houston, Paul Mooney, Little Richard, Luther Vandross, almost my own canon, my own …
4 years, 1 month ago
Abdulrazak Gurnah on AFTERLIVES
"Well, home is a complicated concept....So you've shaken me awake at three o'clock in the morning. Where's home? I'll say Zanzibar without hesitation…
4 years, 1 month ago
Ian McEwan on LESSONS
"I'm heading into my mid 70s and I really want to just get into a novel and live inside it. No sense of hurry. No deadline, no sense that anyone's wa…
4 years, 1 month ago
Jonathan Escoffery, Yiyun Li and Ling Ma on The Art of Fiction
"I start with the emotion. I don't know what the story is. I don't know who the characters are necessarily. I'm working on very little like, I'm thin…
4 years, 1 month ago
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton on ON THE ROOFTOP
"…In this particular book, I think I wanted to combat the feeling that we were already inundated with, and even the feelings that are attached to soc…
4 years, 1 month ago
Javier Zamora on SOLITO
"That nine-year-old kid still follows me and is with me and is very much a part of me... And this is the hope for the book, not only for non-immigran…
4 years, 1 month ago
Mason Hereford on TURKEY AND THE WOLF: FLAVOR TRIPPIN' IN NEW ORLEANS
"I think about food constantly, but more so than anyone else it's the people I work with who are inspiring me now.... I'm always inspired by the peop…
4 years, 1 month ago
Jessie Burton on THE HOUSE OF FORTUNE
"I think it is a conversation I'm having with my younger self, who loved the idea of time travel, who loved the idea that these people perhaps not so…
4 years, 1 month ago
Sarah Addison Allen on OTHER BIRDS
"I think they grew out of the setting of this weird island, this odd place, this place of southern stories and ghosts and food and how they are misfi…
4 years, 1 month ago
Ada Limón on THE HURTING KIND
"I think it's really important to remember that poetry has always sort of existed in the moment. It's full of the life that we're living right now. I…
4 years, 1 month ago