Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLee Kravetz on THE LAST CONFESSIONS OF SYLVIA P.
"The thing that really sort of blew me away, one of the reasons why we have sort of the type of poetry that we have today and the type of literature …
4 years, 2 months ago
Hanif Abdurraqib on A LITTLE DEVIL IN AMERICA: NOTES IN PRAISE OF BLACK PERFORMANCE
"The book's title comes from Josephine Baker's speech at the March on Washington … she was speaking to a crowd that was younger, and maybe did not kn…
4 years, 2 months ago
Jeff Yang, Phil Yu & Philip Wang on RISE: A POP HISTORY OF ASIAN AMERICA FROM THE 90s TO NOW
"…A big part of this book is to have a more whole picture of our history here. It is the last 30 years, 90s to now, but we do devote a big chunk of t…
4 years, 2 months ago
Olivie Blake on THE ATLAS SIX
"If you want to create art, and you want to create art the way you want to, and it's just for you, that's fine. But if you want to have a writing car…
4 years, 2 months ago
Gal Beckerman on THE QUIET BEFORE: ON THE UNEXPECTED ORIGINS OF RADICAL IDEAS
"I'm writing about group creativity, which is not something we often do … what's interesting to me is what happens in the friction between people's m…
4 years, 2 months ago
Julie Otsuka on THE SWIMMERS
"I sketched out some of these pool scenes a long, long time ago, maybe 15 years ago, but just you know, a few paragraphs. And then I don't know, I pu…
4 years, 2 months ago
Debbie Millman on WHY DESIGN MATTERS
"It's a great question. And no one has ever asked me that question. I think it's taught me about how to construct the arc of a narrative." We've lear…
4 years, 2 months ago
Erik Larson on THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE
"Believe me, there probably was not a day that went by where I didn't say to myself, What on earth am I doing? And why did I take this on? Early on i…
4 years, 3 months ago
Marlon James on MOON WITCH, SPIDER KING
"There's a reason why all our old stories are fantastical and mythological, and why our fairy tales are so old. Because I think there is something in…
4 years, 3 months ago
Sarah J. Maas on HOUSE OF SKY AND BREATH
"...It means the world to me to witness any kind of massive scale love of books." Sarah J. Maas knows how to build worlds that readers never want to …
4 years, 3 months ago