fiction/non/fiction

S7 Ep. 20: ‘They Want What We Have’: Matt Gallagher on Supporting Ukrainians' Struggle for Liberation

Feb. 15, 2024

53:25

S7 Ep. 19: American Fiction: Jacinda Townsend and James Bernard Short on the Joy, Pathos, and Complexity of Black Experience in the Oscar-Nominated Film

Feb. 8, 2024

49:06

S7 Ep. 18: AWP 2024 Preview: Glenn North on Kansas City’s Jazz, Poetry, and Barbeque

Feb. 1, 2024

49:03

S7 Ep. 17: ‘What is History?’: Ed Park on Korea’s Past, Real and Imagined

Jan. 25, 2024

45:56

S7 Ep. 16: Former Biden Speechwriter Nate Rawlings on Claudine Gay, Neil Gorsuch, and the Politics of Plagiarism

Jan. 18, 2024

50:10

S7 Ep. 15: Bookstores Against Bans: Lauren Groff on Opening The Lynx in Florida

Jan. 11, 2024

42:13

S7 Ep. 14: Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and the Model Minority Myth: Prachi Gupta on the Rise of Indian American Presidential Candidates

Jan. 4, 2024

48:05

S7 Ep. 13: Holiday Archives: Danez Smith on Poetry, Blackness, and Friendship

Dec. 28, 2023

48:16

S7 Ep. 12: The Best Books Machine: Lydia Kiesling on Making the Lists—or Not

Dec. 21, 2023

49:17

S7 Ep. 11: The Free and the Freed: Tracy K. Smith on Liberty

Dec. 14, 2023

49:25

S7 Ep. 10: Chicago in Verse: Taylor Byas on Writing About Her Hometown

Dec. 7, 2023

47:08

S7 Ep. 9: American Farce: Timothy Schaffert on the Literary Parallels for the House GOP Clusterf**k

Nov. 30, 2023

47:23

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

Nov. 22, 2023

1:17:06

S7 Ep. 7: American Precariat: Zeke Caligiuri on the Incarcerated Writers Who Edited An Anthology on Class

Nov. 16, 2023

46:29

S7 Ep. 6: Jordan Peele’s Out There Screaming: Lesley Nneka Arimah on Why Black Horror Speaks to Us Now

Nov. 9, 2023

43:45

S7 Ep. 5: Shir Alon and Joseph Farag On How Palestinian and Israeli Literature Has Handled the Ongoing Conflict

Nov. 2, 2023

1:15:03

S7 Ep. 4: Writing Gentrification: Jonathan Lethem on Brooklyn Now and Then

Oct. 26, 2023

44:42

S7 Ep. 3: Freeman’s: Conclusions: John Freeman and Omar El Akkad on a Literary Magazine’s Final Issue

Oct. 19, 2023

55:29

S7 Ep. 2: The Return of #MeToo: Rebecca Makkai on New Allegations and the Progress of the Past Five Years

Oct. 12, 2023

50:14

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

Oct. 5, 2023

48:27

S6 Ep. 52: Librarians Against Book Bans: Brooklyn Public Library’s Leigh Hurwitz on Helping Young People Resist Censorship

Sept. 28, 2023

41:08

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

Sept. 21, 2023

48:17

S6 Ep. 50: The African Coups: Leila Aboulela on Why They Happen, and the Violence in Sudan

Sept. 14, 2023

40:21

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

Sept. 7, 2023

44:05

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

Aug. 31, 2023

46:20

S6 Ep. 47: Lit Hub’s American Vacation: Novelist Julie Schumacher on How We Travel Now

Aug. 24, 2023

48:21

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

Aug. 17, 2023

48:27

S6 Ep. 45: The Kids Are Not All Right: Celeste Ng on the GOP’s War on Children

Aug. 10, 2023

51:16

S6 Ep. 44: The Summer of Love or Hate: Dawnie Walton on American Concert Culture

Aug. 3, 2023

45:51

S6 Ep. 43: X Marks the Spot: Robin Sloan on Social Media After Twitter

July 27, 2023

52:10

S6 Ep. 42: SCOTUS vs. MFA: Jaswinder Bolina on How the End of Affirmative Action Will Affect Writing Program Admissions

July 20, 2023

1:02:41

S6 Ep. 41: Owner of a Lonely Heart: Beth Nguyen on Memoir, Mothering, and Refugeedom

July 13, 2023

45:16

S6 Ep. 40: In Memory of Cormac McCarthy: Oscar Villalon on an Iconic Writer’s Life, Work and Legacy

July 6, 2023

48:14

S6 Ep. 39: The Kids Are at Work: Jean Kwok On Recent Efforts to Loosen Child Labor Laws and Her Years as a Child Worker in New York

June 29, 2023

41:40

S6 Ep. 38: Everybody Hates Joe: Jacinda Townsend on Why Democrats Are Skeptical of President Biden—and What He Must Do To Win Them Back

June 22, 2023

46:01

S6 Ep. 37: Lights, Camera, White House: Matt Quirk on the Enduring Power of the West Wing in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Film

June 15, 2023

46:56

S6 Ep. 36: Time, Trump, and Trauma: Matt Bell Talks Living on a Political Mobius Strip

June 8, 2023

45:33

S6 Ep. 35: Cancel Club: Jane Roper on Online Shame, Responsibility, and Fame

June 1, 2023

46:02

S6 Ep. 34: Rising from the Ashes: Felix Salmon on the Debt Ceiling Crisis and the Surprising Resilience of the COVID Economy

May 25, 2023

41:15

S6 Ep. 33: The Stakes of the Writers’ Strike: Benjamin Percy on the WGA Walkout, Streaming, and the Survival of Screenwriting

May 18, 2023

43:33