Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPoured Over: David Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon From Page to Screen
"And so we wouldn't be here without Natalie Portman, which isn't a sentence I was expecting to say this evening. But if you ever watched this, Natali…
4 years, 7 months ago
Mary Beard on TWELVE CAESARS
"And imagine what did it feel like to think this was new? Their life, all kinds of different images as time goes on, and people in the Renaissance an…
4 years, 7 months ago
Juhea Kim on BEASTS OF A LITTLE LAND
"I went running in Fort Tryon Park in the northern reaches of Manhattan. And it was snowing. And during that run, I had this vision of a hunter lost …
4 years, 7 months ago
Michelle Zauner on CRYING IN H-MART
"But at the end of the day, so many people have lost a loved one. This story is about mothers and daughters. It's about parents and children. It's ab…
4 years, 7 months ago
Rachel Smythe on LORE OLYMPUS
"Making connections with people has often been quite difficult for me, you know, this can be really isolating, but it's so incredible to make this bo…
4 years, 7 months ago
Brené Brown on ATLAS OF THE HEART
"We're going to have to learn to be cartographers in our own lives." Brené Brown is the author of five number one New York Times bestsellers, includi…
4 years, 8 months ago
Louise Penny on THE MADNESS OF CROWDS
"I'm constantly surprised by the books. Because I think about books a lot before I start writing them, I don't write structure and a formal outline. …
4 years, 8 months ago
Jung Yun on O BEAUTIFUL
"…And I had arrived at McDowell, with about 200 pages in the summer of 2018…And the great thing about these writing retreats is that they give you a …
4 years, 8 months ago
T.J. Klune on UNDER THE WHISPERING DOOR
"I love bookstores, with all of my heart for everything that they've done for me and my stories, but it is the booksellers that are at the front putt…
4 years, 8 months ago
Nikole Hannah-Jones on THE 1619 PROJECT
"But we all want to see ourselves in a story of our country. And we call this a new origin story, not the origin story for reason. There are many ori…
4 years, 8 months ago