Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTom Perrotta on TRACY FLICK CAN'T WIN
"Tracy never went away. So yes, you can say I'm bringing her back, but the culture kept her in circulation in a way that was really interesting to me…
4 years, 4 months ago
Katie Runde on THE SHORE
"I missed it so much. And definitely didn't get it or appreciate the specialness of it, or this particular beauty of it … until you have to show up a…
4 years, 4 months ago
David Levithan on BOY MEETS BOY
"I was very, very unintentionally smart in that I started it as a short story, I genuinely believed it was a short story, which was good, because if …
4 years, 4 months ago
Sarai Walker on THE CHERRY ROBBERS
"I didn't want it to be just a very overwhelming dark book. I mean, it has so much tragedy that I had to balance that I wanted to make it part of, yo…
4 years, 4 months ago
Steve Almond on ALL THE SECRETS OF THE WORLD
"And I had to actually give up and say, Okay, maybe I'll go to the grave not having written a novel, and I don't have to carry around shame about tha…
4 years, 4 months ago
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois
"I'm always coming back to Chicasetta, in the same way that Ernest Gaines always comes back to Bayonne parish. And William Faulkner always comes back…
4 years, 4 months ago
Akwaeke Emezi on YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY
"I had a dream about them. I have like these really cinematic dreams. And I woke up from this one. And I was like, this is a fantastic, messy little …
4 years, 4 months ago
Candice Millard on RIVER OF THE GODS
"…You have to have so much primary source material that you are drowning, you think you can never get through it all. That's the only way you get dia…
4 years, 4 months ago
Emma Straub on THIS TIME TOMORROW
"That was really what I wanted to get at. The relationships that you have with the people who you love so much, and who you're so close with that you…
4 years, 4 months ago
Selma Blair on MEAN BABY
"But then when I read that Raymond Carver said he didn't have the ability to write, you know, a full novel. He was a sprinter and I thought, Oh, mayb…
4 years, 5 months ago