fiction/non/fiction

293 Episodes

1. S6 Ep. 1: Between Fiction and Autofiction: Elizabeth McCracken on Discussing Private Grief in Public

   Published: 10/6/2022
2. S5 Ep. 43: Forging Immigrant Identity in Florida: Jonathan Escoffery Talks About How Belonging Shifts Across Generations

   Published: 9/29/2022
3. S5 Ep. 42: Frenemies of the State: Yiyun Li on Complicated Friendships Real and Imagined

   Published: 9/22/2022
4. S5 Ep. 41: On Time and Meaning: Andrea Barrett on What the Past Tells Us about Today

   Published: 9/15/2022
5. S5 Ep. 40: Book the Vote: Rachel DeWoskin on Registering Voters (Right Now!) and the Connection Between Writing and Democracy

   Published: 9/8/2022
6. S5 Ep. 39: The Long Shadow of Colonialism: Nobel Prize Winner Abdulrazak Gurnah on German Conquest in East Africa and His Latest Novel, AFTERLIVES

   Published: 9/1/2022
7. S5 Ep. 38: Chinese Conquest and Two Sisters Who Rebelled: Phong Nguyen on Vietnam Then, Taiwan Today, and China’s Interests Abroad

   Published: 8/25/2022
8. S5 Ep. 37: Fascism Past and Present: Anthony Marra on What the Censorship of 1940s Hollywood and Italy Can Teach Us

   Published: 8/18/2022
9. S5 Ep. 36: Remembering Afghanistan’s Wars: Jamil Jan Kochai on Shifting Storytellers and Forms

   Published: 8/11/2022
10. S5 Ep. 35: The Fall of Boris Johnson: Margot Livesey on British Politics, the Brexit Blunder, and the Prime Minister’s Lies

    Published: 8/4/2022
11. S5 Ep. 34: The New Homeless: Emi Nietfeld on the Growing Number of Unhoused Americans

    Published: 7/28/2022
12. S5 Ep. 33: The Politics of Craft: Charles Baxter on How His Essays on Writing Respond to a Changing World

    Published: 7/21/2022
13. S5 Ep. 32: Happy Bastille Day: Will the Center Hold in France? Should It?

    Published: 7/14/2022
14. S5 Ep. 31: What Do Dems Do Now?: Thomas Frank on How the Left Can Counter a Rogue Supreme Court

    Published: 7/7/2022
15. S5 Ep. 30: The Literature of Star Wars: Van Lathan Jr. on How American Life Shapes and Is Shaped by a Galaxy Far, Far Away

    Published: 6/30/2022
16. S5 Ep. 29: ‘A War I Saw Unfolding Firsthand’: Héctor Tobar Reflects on the 30th Anniversary of the L.A. Riots

    Published: 6/23/2022
17. S5 Ep. 28: The Prose Version of That Blue Steel Look From Zoolander: V.V. Ganeshananthan Dishes on Blurbs, Jacket Copy, Cover Art, and All the Dark Arts of Publishing a Book

    Published: 6/16/2022
18. S5 Ep. 27: ‘Gun Violence Has Traumatized All of Us’: Amye Archer on the Long History of Mass Shootings

    Published: 6/9/2022
19. S5 Ep. 26: ‘Let Me Say It With All My Heart: This is Such Bullshit’: Shelly Oria and Kristen Arnett on the Reproductive Rights Crisis

    Published: 6/2/2022
20. S5 Ep. 25: A Change of Fortune: Sunila Galappatti on the #GotaGoHome Protests in Sri Lanka

    Published: 5/26/2022