Podcast Episodes

McSweeney’s 25th Anniversary Extravaganza

Meg Wolitzer presents stories celebrating a quarter century of clever, funny, playful, weird, and literary writing, in print and online, showcased by…

11 months, 1 week ago

Perfectly Unmatched

Host Meg Wolitzer presents perfect mismatches. In “The Man and the Moose” by Ben Loory, performed by Michael Cerveris, a man’s best bud has antlers. …

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Come Out Swinging

Meg Wolitzer presents three works about squabbles between people who love one another most.  Jenny Allen’s “In the Car” chronicles the European road …

11 months, 3 weeks ago

Too Hot For Radio: Roxane Gay "Requiem for a Glass Heart"

This story was read as a part of a live show hosted by the great Judy Blume, on the subject of banned books, something she personally knows about. Th…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

Classics from The New Yorker

Meg Wolitzerpresents three stories featured in the  anthology A Century of Fiction in the New Yorker.The magazine celebrates its 100th birthday, and …

11 months, 4 weeks ago

Reading Between the Lines

Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about the things she loves most: books and words and why they matter. In Ben Loory’s “The Book,” a contrarian volum…

1 year ago

Sizzling Summer Travels

Host Meg Wolitzer presents a quartet of summer stories.  Umberto Eco endures trial by mini bar in “How to Travel with a Salmon,” read by Jin Hah.  A …

1 year ago

Sleight of Hand

Meg Wolitzer presents stories that take the idea of “the magic of fiction” literally—or literarily. The British writer Penelope Lively offers up a tr…

1 year ago

Bonus: A.M. Homes interviews Margaret Atwood

As part of our live event with Margaret Atwood, host A.M. Homes interviewed her from the stage at Symphony Space.  Here is that interview.

Hosted by …

1 year, 1 month ago

Too Hot For Radio: Rachel B. Glaser "Ira and the Whale"

Rachel B. Glaser has been recognized as one of Granta Magazine's Best Young American Novelists, and her work has been showcased in prestigious public…

1 year, 1 month ago