Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSusan Cain on BITTERSWEET: HOW SORROW AND LONGING MAKE US WHOLE
"Leonard Cohen is like my all-time favorite musician … I, all my life, have had this reaction to sad music, of not feeling sad at all when I listened…
4 years, 5 months ago
Douglas Stuart on YOUNG MUNGO
"I knew that after writing this sweeping family portrait that goes over about 40 years in the Bain family's history, that for my next novel, I wanted…
4 years, 6 months ago
Chloé Cooper Jones on EASY BEAUTY
"You know, beauty is such an interesting term. I think it's really important how vast and complex it is … we call people beautiful, I call my dog bea…
4 years, 6 months ago
Sara Nović on TRUE BIZ
"True Biz is an ASL idiom. It doesn't have one direct translation into English, but a few of the things that it could mean: seriously, literally. Rea…
4 years, 6 months ago
Grace D. Li on PORTRAIT OF A THIEF
"I really wrote it for me, I didn't think anything would come about — I wanted something that could bring me a bit of joy, where Asian American chara…
4 years, 6 months ago
Jennifer Egan on THE CANDY HOUSE
"In the end, all the good ideas and sort of fancy craft approaches get you absolutely nothing if there's no emotional content. That's what it is. I m…
4 years, 6 months ago
Emily St. John Mandel on SEA OF TRANQUILITY
"I love being immersed in the grand project of a novel. When I was a kid, I was drawn to books about secret worlds, like The Secret Garden, or The Li…
4 years, 6 months ago
Viet Thanh Nguyen on THE COMMITTED
"…Cynical as he is of the world that he encounters, he's also pretty cynical and critical of himself. And that manifests itself in that sense of humo…
4 years, 6 months ago
Maud Newton on ANCESTOR TROUBLE
"As you might imagine, over the years, many people heard stories about my family. And they said, Hey, why don't you write a memoir? I really wasn't …
4 years, 6 months ago
Francesca May on WILD AND WICKED THINGS
"They're not all villains and all heroes, I think a lot of people are very morally gray…" The atmospheric and haunting Wild and Wicked Things is a b…
4 years, 6 months ago