I talk with Rumaan Alam about his novel, Leave the World Behind, promiscuous reading, the fallacy of writing from “your roots”, why there is no autofiction of black women’s experience, and the genius of J.M. Coetzee.

Episode 12: Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation

Apr 23rd, 2021 1h 6m

In which we interview debut novelist, Miranda Popkey

Episode 11: Gina Nutt, Called to the Void

Mar 28th, 2021 57m 32s

In which we interview Gina Nutt and recommend Real Life by Brandon Taylor

Episode 10: Live with Lauren Oyler

Mar 16th, 2021 1h 7m

My conversation with Lauren Oyler, author of Fake Accounts

Episode 9: The Cruelty of School (Ellie Eaton)

Feb 28th, 2021 1h 2m

In which we interview Ellie Eaton, author of The Divines, and discuss the campus novel and the power and cruelty of teenagers.

Poetry and the Language of Proper Burials

Dec 21st, 2020 1h 22m

In which we interview poet Valzhyna Mort about her newest collection, Music for the Dead and Resurrected

Episode 7: Fascism and Its Afterlives

Nov 1st, 2020 2m 2s

In which we interview Alia Trabucco Zerán, author of The Remainder, and Professor Carl Fischer, author of Queering the Chilean Way.

Episode 6: Late Late Summer Reading

Aug 24th, 2020 1h 7m

In which we interview Edan Lepucki, the author of California and Woman No. 17, and discuss the blockbuster debut novel, Luster.

Episode 5: Kevin Wilson and Summer Reading II

Aug 1st, 2020 1h 10m

In which we interview Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here, and give recommendations for late summer reading.

Episode 4: Summer Reading Part I

Jun 24th, 2020 1h 29m

In which we interview Bob Proehl, author of A Hundred InThousand Worlds and The Nobody People, and Miller Susen, author, director, and Educational Director at LiveArts.

Distraction

May 24th, 2020 56m 46s

In which we discuss nannying children who catch fire, and interview Alexandra Chang about her debut novel, Days of Distraction

The Last Bookstore

May 3rd, 2020 51m 16s

In which we recommend The Glass Hotel, interview the general manager of Buffalo Street Books, Lisa Swayze, and discuss the sub-genre, the paranoid campus novel.

Stay Home and Read!

May 28th, 2019 48m 12s

An interview with Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten Thousand Saints and The Twelve-Mile Straight. We recommend Optic Nerve by Maria Gainza, and three quarantine books.

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