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A biweekly podcast featuring in-depth conversations with artists and curators from a variety of disciplines.
The poems in Abbie Kiefer's debut collection, Certain Shelter , are, in my reading, about aftermath. They are about grief and loss, whether...
The paintings in Marisa DeLuca's series Spectre document the changing urban landscape of the city she lives in—Oceanside, California—mournin...
In the wake of this year's election, I found myself feeling a lot of things, but most of all that what sustains us through difficult times i...
Perry Janes's debut poetry collection, Find Me When You're Ready , follows its speaker from childhood in Detroit to young adulthood in Los A...
Writer Sarah Gailey returns to the show for a discussion about their new novella, Have You Eaten? This serialized story follows four young q...
In the opening poem of Rachel Edelman's debut collection, Dear Memphis , the speaker returns to their home city after a long time away, trav...
Writer, editor, and podcaster Jennifer Baker's debut YA novel, Forgive Me Not , imagines a near-future America in which the juvenile crimina...
Writer Rachel Lyon returns to the show to discuss her latest novel, Fruit of the Dead , a contemporary retelling of the Persephone myth in w...
Introducing Hey, It's Me ! I'm happy to announce a new podcast from me and my friend Rachel Zucker, Hey, It's Me! Here's the first episode a...
For this KTCO Book Club conversation, poet Amorak Huey joins me to discuss Layli Long Soldier's 2017 poetry collection, Whereas . In our con...
For this KTCO Book Club conversation, I'm joined by writer and group facilitator Martha Crawford for a discussion about Ingrid Rojas Contrer...
Writer and friend José Pablo Iriarte returns to the show to discuss their debut middle-grade novel, Benny Ramirez and the Nearly Departed ....
Sarah Rose Etter is a writer based in Los Angeles, CA. In Sarah's latest novel, Ripe , a young woman is trapped in a dream-job-turned-corpor...
For this KTCO "Book" Club conversation, writer Maggie Tokuda-Hall returns to the show to talk about the game Baldur's Gate 3 . In our conver...
Olatunde Osinaike is a poet based in Atlanta, GA. In his debut full-length poetry collection, Tender Headed , Olatunde explores Black mascul...
For this KTCO Book Club conversation, poet and podcaster Rachel Zucker returns to the show to discuss Eugenia Leigh's poetry collection Bian...
Gerardo Sámano Córdova is a writer and artist from Mexico City. In his debut novel, Monstrilio , Gerardo draws from both horror and literary...
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is a writer based in the Bronx, NY. In his debut novel, Chain-Gang All-Stars , Nana presents us with a dystopian fu...
Rachel Zucker is a writer, podcast, and teacher based in New York and Maine. Her latest book, The Poetics of Wrongness , is a collection of...
For our latest KTCO Book Club episode, writer Sarah Gailey joins us for a discussion of H. A. Clarke's YA novels The Scapegracers and The Sc...
Dayna Patterson is a poet, photographer, and textile artist based in the Pacific Northwest. The poems in her latest collection, O Lady, Spea...
Joshua Burton is a poet and educator based in Houston, TX. The poems in Joshua's debut collection, Grace Engine , ask what grace means in a...
For our latest KTCO Book Club episode, media critic Mel Thomas joins us for a conversation about Holly Black's YA fantasy novel The Cruel Pr...
Gabrielle Bates is a poet based in Seattle, WA. Throughout Gabrielle's debut collection, Judas Goat , there is a feeling of quiet, that the...
Abby Minor is a writer based in central Pennsylvania. In her debut book of poems, As I Said: A Dissent , Abby combines the historical narrat...
Molly Spencer is a poet based in Michigan. The poems in her collections In the House and Hinge engage with chronic illness, divorce, domesti...
Luther Hughes is a poet based in Seattle, WA. The poems in Luther's debut collection, A Shiver in the Leaves , are tender, erotic, vulnerabl...
André Ramos-Woodard is a photographic artist originally from Texas and Tennessee. In their series BLACK SNAFU , André combines photographs c...
Amanda Marchand is a Canadian, New York-based photographer. Amanda's Lumen Notebook series is a body of elegant and strikingly beautiful ima...
Fatemeh Baigmoradi is a photographic artist originally from Iran. In her series It's Hard to Kill , Fatemeh works with archival family photo...
Sarah Hollowell is a writer based in Indiana. Sarah's debut novel, A Dark and Starless Forest , is a YA contemporary fantasy story centered...
Ayesha Raees is a poet and hybrid artist based in New York, Miami, and Lahore. In her debut book of poetry, Coining a Wishing Tower , she ex...
Anahid Nersessian is a professor and critic based in Los Angeles, CA. In her latest book, Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse , Anahid takes t...
For this installment of the KTCO Book Club, writer and podcaster Maggie Tokuda-Hall joins us to discuss Susanna Clark's 2020 novel Piranesi...
There's a way in which the end of a serious relationship can shake your entire concept of yourself, and through your grief you have to find...
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is a writer based in London, UK. Rowan's second novel, Starling Days , is a beautiful story about the complex love bet...
Farrah Karapetian is an artist based in California. Known for her large-scale photograms, Farrah's wide-ranging practice incorporates sculpt...
Tucson-based photographer Ken Rosenthal's work has always stuck in my mind for both its striking visual style and the way that he uses image...
For this installment of the KTCO Book Club, poet and podcaster Gabrielle Bates joins me for a conversation about Brigit Pegeen Kelly's 1994...
Kary Wayson is a poet based in Seattle, WA. The poems Kary's latest collection, The Slip , are wonderfully slippery in both form and feeling...
My friend Paula Riff passed away recently, after having been ill with cancer for two years. Paula was a wonderful, kind, generous, and enthu...
For this installment of the KTCO Book Club, writer Wm Henry Morris joins me for a conversation about Sofia Samatar's 2017 story collection T...
Kazim Ali is a writer based in San Diego, CA. Kazim's latest poetry collection, The Voice of Sheila Chandra , uses sound to explode meaning...
Rizzhel Mae Javier is a photographer and installation artist based in San Diego, CA. I first met Rizzhel when we were both participating in...
José Olivarez is a poet living and working in Chicago, Illinois, and is also co-host of one of my all-time favorite podcasts, The Poetry God...
Esmé Weijun Wang's debut novel The Border of Paradise was one of my favorite books of 2016. A multigenerational epic centered on an interrac...
Jordanna Kalman is a fine art photographer who lives and works in New York. Jordanna's work explores loneliness, femininity and individualit...
For this installment of the KTCO Book Club, I'm joined by writer Alyssa Harad for a conversation about Tove Jansson's 1982 novel The True De...
Maggie Smith is a poet and essayist based in Bexley, Ohio. Maggie's new book Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change was born out...
In the inaugural KTCO Book Club episode I'm joined by writer and podcaster David Naimon, host of the literary podcast Between the Covers . F...