Location:
United States
Genres:
Podcasts
Description:
Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.
Language:
English
Episodes
Elizabeth Wetmore: 'Valentine' (Part Two)
8/13/2020
Elizabeth Wetmore’s “Valentine” is an impressive demonstration of the power of the voices of women.
Duration:00:29:01
Elizabeth Wetmore: 'Valentine' (Part One)
8/6/2020
Elizabeth Wetmore discusses her debut novel, “Valentine,” and Southern conservatism that wants to steer clear of the uglier parts of life.
Duration:00:28:28
Margot Livesey: “The Boy in the Field”
7/30/2020
Life and story go hand in hand in Margot Livesey’s “The Boy in the Field.”
Duration:00:28:21
Daphne Merkin: “22 Minutes of Unconditional Love”
7/23/2020
Daphne Merkin discusses what normative means, the concept of a normal looking life, and her new novel, “22 Minutes of Unconditional Love”.
Duration:00:28:58
Zadie Smith: “On Beauty”
7/16/2020
From the archives: obliquely about Zadie Smith's "On Beauty", this intense, abstract conversation is about what a novel is.
Duration:00:29:01
Alex Halberstadt: "Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning"
7/9/2020
History, autobiography, travelogue—a hybrid form—"Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning", by Alex Halberst.
Duration:00:28:27
Scott Spencer: “An Ocean Without a Shore”
7/2/2020
Scott Spencer’s new novel, “An Ocean Without a Shore,” is about a life seeped in unfulfilled desires.
Duration:00:29:02
Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half
6/25/2020
Brit Bennett pushes questions of race and color to their extremes in her new novel, The Vanishing Half.
Duration:00:28:27
Horacio Castellanos Moya: Senselessness
6/18/2020
The co-producer of Bookworm, Shawn Michael Sullivan, was able to rebroadcast one of his favorite shows, between Michael Silverblatt and Horacio Castellanos Moya, regarding Senselessness.
Duration:00:29:28
Fowzia Karimi: Above Us the Milky Way
6/11/2020
Fowzia Karimi speaks about the art of the novel, and designing Above Us the Milky Way.
Duration:00:29:28
Mark Z. Danielewski: The Little Blue Kite
6/4/2020
Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Little Blue Kite is a generous and big-hearted children’s book about creating a spacious mind, with room for others.
Duration:00:29:28
Edited by André Naffis-Sahely The Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature
5/28/2020
Anthologist André Naffis-Sahely says he provided a historical perspective to The Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature.
Duration:00:28:27
Victoria Chang: Love, Love (Part Two)
5/21/2020
Victoria Chang discusses Love, Love, her children’s novel written in verse—poetry written for children.
Duration:00:29:27
Victoria Chang: Obit (Part One)
5/14/2020
Victoria Chang’s Obit is a poetry book about the impact of death on the living.
Duration:00:28:28
Benjamin Moser: Sontag: Her Life and Work
5/7/2020
Benjamin Moser recently won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography Sontag: Her Life and Work.
In this show from the archives, he talks about Susan Sontag‘s ideology: reading more books, going to more plays, traveling more, learning more, taking learning seriously, and taking culture seriously.
Duration:00:28:27
Daniel Kehlmann: Tyll
4/30/2020
Daniel Kehlmann describes his new novel, Tyll, as dark, frightening, and murky—in a good way.
Duration:00:28:28
Rob Doyle: Threshold
4/23/2020
Youthful nihilism, contradictory impulses, preferences and desires catch up with Rob Doyle in his explicitly autobiographical novel Threshold.
Duration:00:28:58
Ariana Reines: A Sand Book
4/16/2020
Ariana Reines discusses her A Sand Book poetry being centered around a theme of hiding: running away and trying to escape.
Duration:00:28:58
Charles North: Everything and Other Poems
4/9/2020
Charles North describes Everything and Other Poems as “messy poetry” without the formal demands of his earlier work.
Duration:00:29:02
Harry Dodge: My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing
4/2/2020
Harry Dodge’s My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing shifts its scale from the cosmos to viruses.
Duration:00:29:01