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
Todayâs guest, Bulgarian novelist, storyteller, poet, essayist, and more, Georgi Gospodinov, is the perfect writer to bring in the new year. Gospodinov is a writer obsessed with beginnings and endings, with time, history, imagination, and memory.
Novelist, short story writer, poet, and critic Lucy Ivesâ new novel Life Is Everywhere has been heralded by some of our most formally inventive and playful writers today, from Jesse Ball to Alejandro Zambra to Percival Everett.
Who better to talk about the unique power of telling stories than one of our great contemporary storytellers, Neil Gaiman? One deep way Neil Gaiman and Ursula K. Le Guin are kindred spirits is how they both share an abiding interest in the strange,
Of Sawako Nakayasuâs many literary endeavorsâpoetry, translation, performance artâit is hard to know where one begins and another ends. They each seem to not only be talking to each other but Sawakoâs work also blurs the boundaries between them,
âOn Seeing and Being Seenâ is the title of an Ama Codjoe poem but it could just as easily be a description of her debut collection Bluest Nude as a whole. Bluest Nude is a book that engages with ways of seeing,
Writer and editor Gabrielle Bellot joins Crafting with Ursula to discuss the power of names and naming across Le Guinâs work. From the very beginning, with Ged in Earthsea, a boy-wizard who is named in three very different ways,
Todayâs guest is poet, novelist, playwright, feminist theorist, literary critic, and philosopher Hélène Cixous. Perhaps best known for her iconic 1976 essay âThe Laugh of the Medusa,â Cixous thought for much of her writing life that she would never wri…
Poet Billy-Ray Belcourt has already transformed the memoir form, remaking itâstrange, fresh, and new, in A History of My Brief Body. He does something similarly unexpected with his first novel, A Minor Chorus. Deeply aware of the history of the novel,
One of Le Guinâs lesser known but lifelong practices was that of a translator. Her translations of the first Latin American Nobel Prize Laureate in literature (and the only Latin American woman to receive the award), Gabriela Mistral,
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