Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMarlon 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, 5 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, 5 months ago
Heather McGhee on THE SUM OF US
"I wrote The Sum of Us in the hopes that people would read it together, that people from all walks of life, different backgrounds, whether they're co…
4 years, 5 months ago
Tara Westover on EDUCATED
"You know, when I wrote the book, I sort of thought it would resonate with a fairly narrow… I was writing it for people who are more or less like me,…
4 years, 5 months ago
Chuck Klosterman on THE NINETIES
"The Nineties were the last decade that we're ever going to talk about as a decade…" Chuck Klosterman has been challenging how we think, see and hear…
4 years, 5 months ago
Chang-rae Lee on MY YEAR ABROAD
"And fiction is all about obstacles. It's all about misapprehension, misunderstanding, lack of information, lack of connection, and the problems that…
4 years, 5 months ago
Lan Samantha Chang on THE FAMILY CHAO
"But I do feel like I was on a quest as a writer, for my work to get bigger. I just wanted it to contain a larger portion of the world than it starte…
4 years, 5 months ago
Dana Schwartz on ANATOMY: A LOVE STORY
"It's about people following their passions, and it's about falling in love for the first time whether that love is romantic, or with a professional …
4 years, 6 months ago
Wajahat Ali on GO BACK TO WHERE YOU COME FROM
"If you aren't writing your story in America, your story is being written for you. And if you're not telling your story, your story is being told to …
4 years, 6 months ago
Isabel Allende on VIOLETA
"I want my readers to be entertained. And if possible, to take a look at that period of that century that was so fascinating, a time of violence, and…
4 years, 6 months ago