fiction/non/fiction

293 Episodes

1. S7 Ep. 8 Indigenous Imaginations: Native American Writers on Their Communities

   Published: 22/11/2023
2. S7 Ep. 7: American Precariat: Zeke Caligiuri on the Incarcerated Writers Who Edited An Anthology on Class

   Published: 16/11/2023
3. S7 Ep. 6: Jordan Peele’s Out There Screaming: Lesley Nneka Arimah on Why Black Horror Speaks to Us Now

   Published: 9/11/2023
4. S7 Ep. 5: Shir Alon and Joseph Farag On How Palestinian and Israeli Literature Has Handled the Ongoing Conflict

   Published: 2/11/2023
5. S7 Ep. 4: Writing Gentrification: Jonathan Lethem on Brooklyn Now and Then

   Published: 26/10/2023
6. S7 Ep. 3: Freeman’s: Conclusions: John Freeman and Omar El Akkad on a Literary Magazine’s Final Issue

   Published: 19/10/2023
7. S7 Ep. 2: The Return of #MeToo: Rebecca Makkai on New Allegations and the Progress of the Past Five Years

   Published: 12/10/2023
8. S7 Ep. 1: The AI Pirates: The Atlantic’s Alex Reisner on Books3, Copyright, and How Big Tech is Stealing Our Books

   Published: 5/10/2023
9. S6 Ep. 52: Librarians Against Book Bans: Brooklyn Public Library’s Leigh Hurwitz on Helping Young People Resist Censorship

   Published: 28/09/2023
10. S6 Ep. 51: Art Under Fire in Ukraine: Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko on How Artists Are Responding as the Fighting Drags on

    Published: 21/09/2023
11. S6 Ep. 50: The African Coups: Leila Aboulela on Why They Happen, and the Violence in Sudan

    Published: 14/09/2023
12. S6 Ep. 49: Georgia’s Fani Willis Takes on Trump: Maurice Carlos Ruffin on the History of Powerful Black Women Challenging the Establishment

    Published: 7/09/2023
13. S6 Ep. 48: Is Kansas the Future of Press Censorship?: Sherman Smith on the Police Raid at a Small-Town Newspaper

    Published: 31/08/2023
14. S6 Ep. 47: Lit Hub’s American Vacation: Novelist Julie Schumacher on How We Travel Now

    Published: 24/08/2023
15. S6 Ep. 46: How Progressives Win: Journalist Samuel G. Freedman on What Hubert Humphrey’s Fight for Civil Rights Can Teach Us Today

    Published: 17/08/2023
16. S6 Ep. 45: The Kids Are Not All Right: Celeste Ng on the GOP’s War on Children

    Published: 10/08/2023
17. S6 Ep. 44: The Summer of Love or Hate: Dawnie Walton on American Concert Culture

    Published: 3/08/2023
18. S6 Ep. 43: X Marks the Spot: Robin Sloan on Social Media After Twitter

    Published: 27/07/2023
19. S6 Ep. 42: SCOTUS vs. MFA: Jaswinder Bolina on How the End of Affirmative Action Will Affect Writing Program Admissions

    Published: 20/07/2023
20. S6 Ep. 41: Owner of a Lonely Heart: Beth Nguyen on Memoir, Mothering, and Refugeedom

    Published: 13/07/2023