Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.
Friends of Michael
Sept. 20, 2023
56:27
Chapter 9: Grief and Loss
Sept. 13, 2023
41:36
Poetry
Sept. 8, 2023
36:06
The Story of America, Pt. 3
Aug. 30, 2023
35:24
The Story of America, Pt. 2
Aug. 23, 2023
33:26
The Story of America, Pt. 1
Aug. 16, 2023
38:18
The Confederacy of Bookworms
Aug. 9, 2023
29:32
The Nobel Laureates, Pt.2
Aug. 2, 2023
30:01
The Nobel Laureates, Pt.1
The Arc of Bookworm
July 26, 2023
30:02
Michelle Huneven: ‘Search’
May 12, 2022
Natalia Molina: ‘A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community’
May 5, 2022
Emily Skillings and John Yau: John Ashbery’s “Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works” (Re-air)
April 28, 2022
Rita Dove: “Playlist for the Apocalypse” (Re-air)
April 21, 2022
Robert Jones, Jr.: “The Prophets” (Re-air)
April 7, 2022
Paul Tran’s wildly impressive debut poetry book, ‘All the Flowers Kneeling’
March 31, 2022
Tobias Wolff on Harry Crews’ ‘A Childhood: The Biography of a Place’
March 24, 2022
Tao Lin’s ‘Leave Society’ shifts the author’s perspective to love and kindness
March 17, 2022
Zac Smith’s ‘Everything is Totally Fine,’ the book that reopened Tao Lin’s Muumuu House
March 10, 2022
Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half
March 3, 2022
Sarah Manguso’s ‘Very Cold People’ and life’s overwhelming small moments
Feb. 24, 2022
Sheila Heti: “Pure Colour”
Feb. 17, 2022
Tom Bissell: ‘Creative Types: and Other Stories’
Feb. 10, 2022
Tessa Hadley: “Free Love”
Feb. 3, 2022
Antoine Wilson: “Mouth to Mouth”
Jan. 27, 2022
John Keene: “Punks: New & Selected Poems” (The Song Cave)
Jan. 20, 2022
In Memory of Joan Didion: 'Blue Nights'
Jan. 13, 2022
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers: “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois” (Part 2)
Jan. 6, 2022
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers: “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois” (Part 1)
Dec. 30, 2021
Stephen Sondheim: Finishing the Hat
Dec. 23, 2021
30:00
Dave Eggers: “The Every” (Part 2)
Dec. 16, 2021
Dave Eggers: “The Every” (Part 1)
Dec. 9, 2021
Louise Erdrich: “The Sentence”
Dec. 2, 2021
Sandra Cisneros: “Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo”
Nov. 25, 2021
Diane Williams: “How High? – That High”
Nov. 18, 2021
Mary Gaitskill: “The Devil's Treasure”
Nov. 11, 2021
Teresa K. Miller with Carol Muske-Dukes “Borderline Fortune”
Nov. 4, 2021
Atsuro Riley: “Heard-Hoard”
Oct. 28, 2021
Jackie Kay: “Bessie Smith: A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend”
Oct. 21, 2021
Rabih Alameddine: “The Wrong End of the Telescope”
Oct. 7, 2021
Richard Powers: “Bewilderment”
Sept. 23, 2021
Dennis Cooper: “I Wished”
Sept. 16, 2021
Alice McDermott: “What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction”
Aug. 26, 2021
Richard Powers: The Overstory
Aug. 19, 2021
Ron and Russell Mael: “Annette”
Aug. 12, 2021
Rikki Ducornet: “Trafik”
Aug. 5, 2021
Yaa Gyasi: “Transcendent Kingdom” and “Homegoing” (Part 2)
July 29, 2021
Yaa Gyasi: “Transcendent Kingdom” and “Homegoing” (Part 1)
July 22, 2021
30:30
Jack Skelley: “Dennis Wilson and Charlie Manson”
July 15, 2021
Emily Skillings and John Yau: John Ashbery’s “Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works”
July 8, 2021
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