Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHeather Walter on MISRULE
"…It's like if Tim Burton decorated Versailles for Halloween…" Heather Walter's queer retelling of Sleeping Beauty kicked off with Malice, which we t…
4 years, 2 months ago
Monica Ali on LOVE MARRIAGE
"For me, the novel form is the greatest expression because it has that room, that latitude to really explore for the full complexity of human existen…
4 years, 2 months ago
Hernan Diaz on TRUST
"And the title, of course, has this double meaning, the financial meaning of trust, and let's call it, emotional meaning of trust … To what extent ca…
4 years, 2 months ago
Vaishnavi Patel on KAIKEYI
"I grew up hearing The Ramayana over lunch. My grandma would tell me little bits and pieces to me and my younger sister, she would tell us little bit…
4 years, 2 months ago
Viola Davis on FINDING ME
"And so then, I felt like that's when I had to go back to the beginning of telling my story of sort of rediscovering the young Viola, who definitely …
4 years, 3 months ago
Bonnie Garmus on LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY
"And I think it's just overall her humanity and her recognition of what other people could accomplish. If you just say the right things, if you creat…
4 years, 3 months ago
Margo Jefferson on CONSTRUCTING A NERVOUS SYSTEM
"I didn't want that more traditional kind of arc of childhood to a certain stance of wisdom or resignation or triumph. I wanted—partly because I felt…
4 years, 3 months ago
Nghi Vo on THE CHOSEN AND THE BEAUTIFUL
"There's an intense pleasure in viewing the flaws of the people around you and saying, I'm not a part of that, even if maybe at the beginning you wan…
4 years, 3 months ago
Susan Cain on BITTERSWEET: HOW SORROW AND LONGING MAKE US WHOLE
"Leonard Cohen is like my all-time favorite musician … I, all my life, have had this reaction to sad music, of not feeling sad at all when I listened…
4 years, 3 months ago
Douglas Stuart on YOUNG MUNGO
"I knew that after writing this sweeping family portrait that goes over about 40 years in the Bain family's history, that for my next novel, I wanted…
4 years, 3 months ago