Author interviews with today's best writers — established & up-and-coming — in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Hosted by David Naimon, Tin House & KBOO 90.7 FM, Portland, Oregon. --The Guardian's 10 Best Book Podcasts --Book Riot's 15 Outstanding Podcasts for Book Lovers --the most intense and awesome podcast I've ever been a part of–Gary Shteyngart
Melanie Rae Thonâs latest book, As If Fire Could Hide Us, is described not as a novel with three chapters, nor as a collection of three stories, but as âa love song in three movements.â What does it mean to see a story as song,
There may be no writer, no thinker, who has shaped my conversations on the show more than Christina Sharpe. Whether her work is explicitly part of a conversation (in episodes with Ross Gay, Solmaz Sharif, Natalie Diaz, and Dionne Brand,
Todayâs guest, novelist, storyteller, essayist, playwright, scholar, translator, and perennial front-runner for the Nobel Prize in Literature NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiongâo, is an iconic figure in postcolonial thought. His latest book, The Language of Languages,
Early in poet Charif Shanahanâs latest collection, Trace Evidence, we encounter the lines: âI want to âtell you what for me it has been like. // To speak at all / I must occupy a position // In a system whose positions / I appear not to occupy.
Todayâs guest is poet, storyteller, and now essayist Sabrina Orah Mark. Her latest book, Happily: A Personal Historyâwith Fairy Tales, is an intriguing blend of two radically different forms, memoir and fairy tale. Much as fairy tales are feral,
In todayâs conversation with poet Monica Youn we explore what it means to write from a poetics of difference rather than of authenticity, a poetics of deracination rather than identity. Younâs latest poetry collection From From engages with the history…
Todayâs conversation with novelist and story writer Jai Chakrabarti is unusually wide-ranging, touching on everything from classical Indian aesthetics to Jewish ritual, from poetry to cognitive science, from Tagoreâs plays to Buberâs philosophy,
Todayâs guest, Argentinian novelist, short story writer, and journalist Mariana Enriquez has been called the queen of Latin American gothic horror. She is in the vanguard of a generation of Latin American women writers breaking new ground in the horror…
Todayâs conversation is with poet, visual artist, editor, and podcast host Gabrielle Bates. The poems in Batesâ debut poetry collection Judas Goat feel both personal and mythic, violent and tender, human and much more than human,
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