Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEleanor Brown on ANY OTHER FAMILY
"I just had so many questions about adoption and motherhood. And you know, you've read my books, you know that I'm very interested in what makes a fa…
4 years, 2 months ago
Eric Kim on KOREAN AMERICAN: FOOD THAT TASTES LIKE HOME
"What's really interesting about taste memory is it's not that you're trying to necessarily replicate the dish exactly as it was, I think you're actu…
4 years, 2 months ago
Alice Elliott Dark on FELLOWSHIP POINT
"One thing I really have learned—or at least for myself about writing—is never to explain why a person is the way they are, just to make a dramatic c…
4 years, 2 months ago
Isaac Fitzgerald on DIRTBAG, MASSACHUSETTS
"I wish I could tell you that I went to a cabin and wrote it perfectly and got it in on time, and it just flowed out of me. But really, the truth of …
4 years, 2 months ago
Becky Chambers on A PRAYER FOR THE CROWN-SHY
"The primary intent of these books is to take a break... have something you can just curl up with for an afternoon. This is a book that is not going …
4 years, 3 months ago
T. Kingfisher on WHAT MOVES THE DEAD
"When you're writing a children's book, it shares much relation with horror, because it has to be usually very immediate and very visceral and grippi…
4 years, 3 months ago
Caleb Gayle on WE REFUSE TO FORGET: A TRUE STORY OF BLACK CREEKS, AMERICAN IDENTITY, AND POWER
"But there is joy in advocating for changing of the world for the better, for not allowing the world to tell you who you shall be, but rather reimagi…
4 years, 3 months ago
Chris Bohjalian on Telling Stories
"I decided to give myself the license to fail, and to write across gender, to write in the voice of a midwife's daughter. And if the book isn't worki…
4 years, 3 months ago
Ibram X. Kendi on HOW TO RAISE AN ANTIRACIST
"And so, too often, kids are raised to have empathy for people who look like them, or worship like them or act like them. And we're also taught to ha…
4 years, 3 months ago
Gabrielle Zevin on TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW
"I never thought I would be writing something where there would be a lot of intricate feelings around the game engine. But then if you think about so…
4 years, 3 months ago