Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchImani Perry on SOUTH TO AMERICA
"…I read every day. Reading feels like part of my identity…[it] feels essential as a writer to be reading always." Imani Perry is the acclaimed autho…
4 years, 6 months ago
John Darnielle on DEVIL HOUSE
"…Try reading it out loud. That's what I do. I read the whole book out loud, seven or eight times…four or five times… before it ever goes to edit. I …
4 years, 6 months ago
Weike Wang on JOAN IS OKAY
"…So much of American media is, As long as we have each other, it doesn't matter what happens, we're going to be fine. I don't always think that's tr…
4 years, 6 months ago
Bernardine Evaristo on MANIFESTO: ON NEVER GIVING UP
"Well, this is the thing about being an overnight success after forty years." Bernardine Evaristo made history when Girl, Woman, Other won the 2019 B…
4 years, 6 months ago
Jami Attenberg on I CAME ALL THIS WAY TO MEET YOU: WRITING MY WAY HOME
"I think bookstores are really magical places, and not to be too idealistic about it, I really think that they're so important, they're cornerstones …
4 years, 6 months ago
Anna Malaika Tubbs on THE THREE MOTHERS
"This is not just for us to say, 'How interesting' now we know three more people, it's for us to say, 'What can we do now that we know their stories?…
4 years, 6 months ago
Hanya Yanagihara on TO PARADISE
"And when you are lucky enough as a writer to have your book be found, and then have it be a source of someone's passion, someone who is not normally…
4 years, 6 months ago
Xochitl Gonzalez on OLGA DIES DREAMING
"You know, there's something that we don't talk about, which I think is like the underside of success and ambition, which is that for every step that…
4 years, 6 months ago
Jessamine Chan on THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS
"One thing that I was interested in doing is making literal the surveillance that parents feel every day, because there is the sense that you're bein…
4 years, 6 months ago
Noah Hawley on ANTHEM
"I describe it as a fantasy novel about the real world we live in, or a realistic novel about the fantasy world we live in." Anthem is Noah Hawley's …
4 years, 6 months ago