Podcasts
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In conversation with Ariel Delgado Dixon Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for the novel A Visit from the Goon Squad , “a new classic of American fiction” ( Time ) that follows an aging punk rocker… more
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• Recorded Mar 24, 2022Hannah Tinti is the author of the bestselling novels The Good Thief and The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley and the short story collection Animal Crackers . A creative writing professor in New York University’s M.F.A. program, she is the… more
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Donna Leon is the author of the internationally bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery novels, the “endlessly enjoyable” long-established series of books that combines “deep thoughts about justice and vengeance and charming classical… more
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In conversation with Jason Freeman, editor and producer, author events Lee Kravetz ’s acclaimed nonfiction books include Supersurvivors: The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success and Strange Contagion: Inside the Surprising Science of… more
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In conversation with Cajetan Iheka, Associate Professor of Literature, Yale University, and author of African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics One of Nigeria’s most celebrated authors, Ben Okri is the author of many post-colonial… more
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In conversation with Sara Nović In Ariel Delgado Dixon ’s debut novel Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You , two sisters endure a childhood of deprivation in a decaying warehouse and in a wilderness camp where troubled teenage girls are sent as a last… more
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In conversation with Lise Funderburg The director of the M.F.A. Creative Writing program at Emerson College, Jabari Asim is the author of the novel Only the Strong , the story collection A Taste of Honey , and several works of nonfiction,… more
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In conversation with Geoffrey Dyer Tessa Hadley ’s many “strange, unsettling—eerily beautiful, discomfiting, stay-up-late-addictive, sometimes hair-raising” ( San Francisco Chronicle ) novels about the complexities of family relationships… more
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• Recorded Feb 15, 2022In conversation with Nell Irvin Painter Barbara Chase-Riboud’s watershed 1979 novel Sally Hemings told a fictionalized story based on the true account of the life of Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman with whom Thomas Jefferson had children. It… more
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• Recorded Feb 9, 2022Co-promoted with Asian Arts Initiative and Blue Stoop In conversation with Elizabeth McCracken A debut “work of gorgeous, enduring prose” ( The Washington Post ), Lan Samantha Chang ’s Hunger explored the lives of immigrant families haunted… more
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In conversation with Stanford Thompson, founder and executive director of Play On Philly A public and private school music educator for more than 20 years, Brendan Slocumb has performed on violin with the Washington Metropolitan Symphony, the… more
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In conversation with Liz Moore Co-sponsored by Blue Stoop A former reviews editor at Publishers Weekly , Jessamine Chan has published short stories in Tin House and Epoch . She has received residencies and fellowships from various… more
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In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition Bernardine Evaristo won the 2019 Man Booker Prize and the Dublin Literary Award for Girl, Woman, Other , “a breathtaking symphony of Black women’s voices” that… more
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In conversation with Andy Kahan, Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams, Jr. director of author events “A wrenching portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR), Hanya Yanagihara’s bestselling novel A Little Life is a story of tragedy and… more
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In conversation with Rabih Alameddine, National Book Award nominated author of An Unnecessary Woman , The Angel of History , The Hakawati , and most recently, The Wrong End of the Telescope . Somali-British author Nadifa Mohamed is the writer… more
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• Recorded Dec 7, 2021The most widely read woman female writer in Turkey and acclaimed worldwide for her work’s “vision, bravery and compassion” ( The New York Times Book Review ), Elif Shafak is the author of 12 bestselling novels, including The Bastard of… more
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In conversation with Carmen Maria Machado Rumaan Alam is the author of the New York Times instant bestseller Leave the World Behind , “a genuine thriller, a brilliant distillation of our anxious age, and a work of high literary merit” ( The… more
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• Recorded Nov 30, 2021In conversation with Michael Gorra, the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College and the editor of the Norton Critical Editions of As I Lay Dying, and The Sound and the Fury , and most recently The… more
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• Recorded Nov 23, 2021Rabih Alameddine was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award for An Unnecessary Woman , a “paean to the transformative power of reading” ( LA Review of Books ). His many other works include the novels The… more
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• Recorded Nov 10, 2021Uwem Akpan ’s Say You’re One of Them , “a startling debut collection” ( The New York Times ) of short stories was a Wall Street Journal #1 bestseller, the 2009 Oprah Book Club Selection, and was translated in to 12 languages. It was named to… more
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