Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFrancesca 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
Jane McGonigal on IMAGINABLE: HOW TO SEE THE FUTURE COMING AND FEEL READY FOR ANYTHING — EVEN THINGS THAT SEEM IMPOSSIBLE TODAY
"We should call no future unthinkable and no future unimaginable. We have to be willing to think about the hard things and ready ourselves for them, …
4 years, 6 months ago
John Cho on TROUBLEMAKER
"The original impulse to write a book for this age was knowing that this is a time of identity formation for me, curiosity about the outside world. A…
4 years, 6 months ago
Peter Swanson on NINE LIVES
"My book starts in my brain with me telling myself a story. And I choose not to write it down, as I'm thinking about it. Sometimes for months, someti…
4 years, 7 months ago
NoViolet Bulawayo on GLORY
"And within that time, I realized that the story needed to be about regular citizens. But because so much had been written, I found myself needing a …
4 years, 7 months ago
Lee Kravetz on THE LAST CONFESSIONS OF SYLVIA P.
"The thing that really sort of blew me away, one of the reasons why we have sort of the type of poetry that we have today and the type of literature …
4 years, 7 months ago
Hanif Abdurraqib on A LITTLE DEVIL IN AMERICA: NOTES IN PRAISE OF BLACK PERFORMANCE
"The book's title comes from Josephine Baker's speech at the March on Washington … she was speaking to a crowd that was younger, and maybe did not kn…
4 years, 7 months ago
Jeff Yang, Phil Yu & Philip Wang on RISE: A POP HISTORY OF ASIAN AMERICA FROM THE 90s TO NOW
"…A big part of this book is to have a more whole picture of our history here. It is the last 30 years, 90s to now, but we do devote a big chunk of t…
4 years, 7 months ago
Olivie Blake on THE ATLAS SIX
"If you want to create art, and you want to create art the way you want to, and it's just for you, that's fine. But if you want to have a writing car…
4 years, 7 months ago
Gal Beckerman on THE QUIET BEFORE: ON THE UNEXPECTED ORIGINS OF RADICAL IDEAS
"I'm writing about group creativity, which is not something we often do … what's interesting to me is what happens in the friction between people's m…
4 years, 7 months ago