Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBrian Broome on PUNCH ME UP TO THE GODS
"The most important thing is the reader. I tell my students, Look, if you're writing about yourself, it's great that you want to get your feelings ou…
4 years, 3 months ago
Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin on MY NAME IS JASON, MINE TOO
"For me, and perhaps for both of us, I think that our greatest sort of skill set is audacity. It's so funny the way people sort of negatively connote…
4 years, 3 months ago
Patrick Radden Keefe on ROGUES: TRUE STORIES OF GRIFTERS, KILLERS, REBELS AND CROOKS
"It's so painful to me to feel as though the very notion of objective truth or that journalism could be a vehicle for expressing a kind of objective …
4 years, 3 months ago
Ava Reid on JUNIPER & THORN
"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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months ago