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Today’s classic episode from the archives with Zadie Smith was recorded in 2019 at the studios of KBOO community radio to discuss her...
One of the elements that makes Molly Crabapple’s latest book so remarkable is, not only the remarkable stories it unearths and retells...
Lily Brooks-Dalton’s Ruins is both a cleverly plotted page-turner, and an emotionally engaging, character-driven novel with an unforge...
Excited to share this classic episode from the archives with one of the great short storytellers of our time, Ted Chiang. This conversation...
Today’s conversation with Jordy Rosenberg is many things but at its heart it explores the question of what it means to write revolutio...
When Cynthia Cruz describes Joan Naviyuk Kane’s latest collection as a series of poems that “both shows and enacts how a self is...
Today’s episode is a classic from the archives, a conversation from 2019 with Brandon Shimoda about his book The Grave on the Wall. Wh...
What if we were to take seriously that we, as humans, aren’t the sole authors of our world, that there are other intelligences at play...
Canisia Lubrin returns to Between the Covers for a live conversation in downtown Portland, at Powell’s Bookstore, about her latest poe...
Today’s episode is a classic from the archives, a conversation from 2019 with current Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets about hi...
“When I tell you a story about my body, I cannot separate it from a story about water. And a story about water is also a story about f...
In Into Being Lily Dunn explores the ways in which writing one’s life has the potential to transform it; how writing, if done well, ca...
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s new novel Discipline is set in Sydney, Australia in 2021 during Ramadan. Discipline follows two Palestinians ther...
Jorge Luis Borges called her the “Tolstoy of Mexico” and César Aira the “greatest novelist of the 20th century,” so...
Caren Beilin’s first appearance on the show, in 2022 to discuss her book Revenge of the Scapegoat , was so unforgettable, and spurred...
Painter Stephen Hayes latest exhibition, “Elegy,” consists of twelve abstract paintings that engage with the genocide in Gaza. O...
Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C.P. Cavafy began as a collaborative multidisciplinary project between the poet Robin Coste Lewi...
As an artist, how does one dive into the wreck of an archive, a canon, a shared collective memory, a history—one filled with silenced voices...
Set during the 17th century witch trials in Denmark, and relayed to us through the voice of a magically animated wax child of one of the acc...
Ten years in the making, poet Rickey Laurentiis joins us to talk about her much-anticipated remarkable new collection Death of the First Ide...
What does it mean to write toward or under the aura of another poet one admires, to write in homage, as a celebration of another? What happe...
Today’s guest is writer and critic Martha Anne Toll. Through a discussion of her latest novel Duet for One we explore the perennial my...
Today’s conversation with Rob Macaisa Colgate is about two books, his poetry collection Hardly Creatures and his verse drama My Love i...
Don’t miss today’s conversation with Robert Macfarlane. A polyvocal deep dive into the mysteries of words and rivers, of speech...
With the arrival of Ancestors, the third and final book in adrienne maree brown’s Grievers Trilogy, we take the iconic frames she has...
The Book of Records is many things: a book of historical fiction and speculative fiction, a meditation on time and on space-time, on storyte...
What would it mean for our writing, thinking, and living if we looked to land as pedagogy, or if we thought of theory as something embodied...
From the craft of writing sex in poetry to the virtues of failing publicly, today’s conversation with poet Keetje Kuipers is not to be...
What does it mean to risk rupture for rapture, on the page, and in one’s life? Or for water to be one’s method, mode or muse? Ar...
Four novellas, in four different genres—science fiction, horror, teen romance, and a western— Stag Dance not only interrogates genre, but ge...
Today’s guest, one of Australia’s most celebrated and daring writers, Michelle de Kretser, discusses her latest uncategorizable...
In late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man....
Feminist and literary theorist, playwright, philosopher, memoirist and novelist Hélène Cixous returns to the show to discuss her latest genr...
Poet Aria Aber’s debut novel Good Girl , set in the club scene of Berlin, is a book brimming over with sex and drugs and music, true....
Today’s guest Zahid Rafiq discusses his debut short story collection The World With Its Mouth Open , eleven remarkable stories set in...
We started 2024 with an archival recording of Denis Johnson from the first ever Tin House Writers Workshop in 2003. That episode was a three...
How can a novel set during one brief moment near the end of Herman Melville’s father’s life, a moment lost to history and now fu...
What does it mean that a life can not only be animated by books but destroyed by them? That a self can be not only made by reading, but unma...
Danez Smith’s poetry is so many things, a poetry of resistance, of elegy, of joy, of care, of repair. Their poetry is Afrofuturist and...
Today’s conversation with Kenzie Allen, about her debut poetry collection Cloud Missives , is unusually wide-ranging. We look at the i...
Today’s craft talk—by Torrey Peters on “Strategic Opacity”— was recorded at the 2024 Tin House summer writers workshop. Pe...
As part of Jewish Currents Live: A Day of Politics & Culture , I moderated a conversation between Adania Shibli and Dionne Brand this Septem...
Today’s conversation with Isabella Hammad is truly like no other on the show in its fourteen year history. The main text of her book i...
Today’s episode is an archival recording of poet Frank Bidart from the 2008 Tin House Writers Workshop. It begins with an introduction...
Todays’ guest is Grand Master of science fiction and fantasy Nalo Hopkinson. Together we center her first novel in over a decade, the...
Sri Lankan writer Vajra Chandrasekera’s first novel, The Saint of Bright Doors , was shortlisted for or won nearly every major SFF awa...
Today’s guest is one of the most singular and celebrated Anglophone poets writing today, Carl Phillips. We center his latest collectio...
Today’s guest, Shze-Hui Tjoa, has written a book that is remarkably unique. Is it an essay collection or a memoir? A detective story o...
Today’s guest Chilean poet, performance artist, visual artist, activist, and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuña, joins us to discuss her latest...
Lance Olsen returns to Between the Covers to discuss his two new books, his uncategorizable multiverse fiction Absolute Away, and his new co...