• fiction/non/fiction

    S7 Ep. 49: Alissa Quart on J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy and the Dangerous Lie of American Bootstrap Narratives

    Nonfiction writer Alissa Quart joins co-hosts V V Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss how the American obsession with bootstrap narratives led to the publishing industry championing Hillbilly Elegy the...

    Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

    JTRB Shorts #8 - A quick look at what's new

    In this week's short Roxanne and Bill discuss books that they are excited about Buy the books from RJ Julia King A Life - Jonathan Eig Always Running - Luis...

    The Maris Review

    Episode 236: Tyriek White

    This week on The Maris Review Tyriek White joins Maris Kreizman to talk about his Center for Fiction First Novel prize-winning novel We Are A Haunting Tyriek White is a...

    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    O.O. Sangoyomi & Rita Woods

    This week O O Sangoyomi Masquerade and Rita Woods The Last Dreamwalker talk with host Drew Broussard about unearthing histories and making them reverberate blurring genre distinctions and the relationships...

    First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

    First Draft - Sebastian Barry

    Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in His plays include of Boss Grady s Boys The Steward of Christendom Our Lady of Sligo The Pride Parnell Street and Dallas Sweetman...

    Keen On

    Dumb devices, dumb bureaucrats and dumb entrepreneurs: Keith Teare on FTC chair Lina Khan, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and why the iPhone is on the brink of becoming radically more intelligent

    EPISODE In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare Keith explains what FTC chair Lina Khan and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried have in common...

    Emergence Magazine Podcast

    Memory, Praise, and Spirit – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

    This talk was a keynote given by Emergence executive editor and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee during a conference on spiritual ecology and peace building at St Ethelburga s Centre for...

    Behind the Mic with AudioFile Magazine

    DIVA 2.0 by Sheryl Lee Ralph, read by Sheryl Lee Ralph

    Actor and singer Sheryl Lee Ralph narrates her memoir and self-help guide with drama and feeling Host Jo Reed and AudioFile s Michele Cobb discuss this audiobook which is full...

    Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference

    Patrick Radden Keefe

    In this episode recorded live at the Sun Valley Writers Conference New Yorker Staff Writer Patrick Radden Keefe who has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the...

    Future Fables

    ‘The Eagle’s Daughters’ by Ellen van Neerven

    An Australian writer of Aboriginal Mununjali Yugambeh and Dutch heritage Ellen van Neerven has won various literary prizes for their works of fiction poetry drama and non-fiction Their fable invites...

    Literary Disco

    Revisiting George Saunders

    On today's episode we revisit a recent conversation with one favorite authors on the podcast George Saunders whose new story collection Liberation Day is out now This episode is brought...

    Thresholds

    Gina Chung

    For her last guest as guest-host Mira chats with former mentee Gina Chung about her debut novel Sea Change writing about the honest messy stuff and about learning to take...

    The NewberyTart Podcast

    S8 E2: The Westing Game

    In this episode, Marcy and Jennie discuss the 1979 Newbery Medal winner The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. 

    Unlikeable Female Characters

    Episode 100: Bitches on the Internet

    On this very special Unlikeable Female Characters Kristen Layne and Wendy say goodbye for now with a look back at their favorite episodes and what they ve learned in four...

    WMFA

    Enlarging People’s Perception of Sylvia Plath w. HEATHER CLARK

    Heather Clark is the author of Red Comet The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath a Pulitzer Prize finalist now out in paperback from Knopf She and Courtney...

    Storybound

    Elizabeth McCracken reads her short story, "It's Not You"

    Elizabeth McCracken reads her short story, "It's Not You," backed by an original Storybound remix with Moon Hound, and sound design and arrangement by Jude Brewer.

    So Many Damn Books

    215: Top Reads of 2023 with Sarah

    Into the Damn Library Sarah and Christopher go again to review their respective years on reading pull out the highlights and make plans for the year to come contribute https...

    Audiobook Break with AudioFile Magazine

    Audiobook Break Announcement

    Thank you for listening to AudioFile s Audiobook Break We hope you ve enjoyed getting to listen to wonderful audiobooks performed by talented narrators and thank you to the audiobook...

    Reading Women

    Ep. 122 | Farewell, Dear Listeners

    In Reading Women s final episode Kendra and a very special guest reminisce about episodes across Reading Women s six seasons Things MentionedTeam PageBooks Mentioned Plum Pudding Murder by Joanne...

    Writer Types

    Lee & Andrew Child, Wanda M. Morris, William Boyle & Goodbye

    Best selling authors Lee amp Andrew Child join Eric to talk about the latest Jack Reacher novel Better Off Dead Wanda M Morris discusses her debut novel All Her Little...

    Otherppl with Brad Listi

    841. Jasmin Iolani Hakes

    Jasmin 'Iolani Hakes is the author of the debut novel Hula available from HarperVia Hakes was born and raised in Hilo Hawai'i Her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles...

    Open Form

    Episode 52: Zakiya Dalila Harrison The Wiz

    Welcome to Open Form a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith Each week a different author chooses a movie a movie they love a movie they...

    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    A special announcement: it's The End...

    Our dearest podcast listeners - we have a special important message for you from our founder Damian Barr as we say a very fond but sad farewell to the Literary...

    Ursa Short Fiction

    Nana Nkweti: ‘I Always Knew I Was Going to Write Stories’

    On the Season One finale of Ursa Short Fiction co-hosts Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton talk to Nana Nkweti author of the acclaimed short story collection Walking on Cowrie Shells...

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