fiction/non/fiction

293 Episodes

1. S4 Ep. 12: WTF, Texas?: Lacy M. Johnson and Natalia Sylvester on Surviving the Recent Storm and Unraveling the Whitewashed Myth of Texas

   Published: 11/03/2021
2. S4 Ep. 11: COVID Doesn't Know Boundaries: Uzodinma Iweala, Bindu Shajan Perappadan and Suhasini Raj on How African Countries and India Have Handled COVID-19

   Published: 25/02/2021
3. S4 Ep. 10: 'A Certain Kind of Hunger': Chang-rae Lee on Writing About Connection While We're Worlds Apart

   Published: 11/02/2021
4. S4 Ep. 9: Making Good: Tracy K. Smith and Kawai Strong Washburn On Biden's Debts to His Base (Especially Black Women)

   Published: 28/01/2021
5. S4 Ep. 8: Our Lies: Jenny Offill and James Plath on Conspiracy Theories in History and Literature

   Published: 14/01/2021
6. S4 Ep. 7: The Facts of Life: Claire Messud and Brendan O'Meara on Creative Nonfiction in an Era of 'Fake News'

   Published: 31/12/2020
7. S4 Ep. 6: Hope on the Horizon: Charles Baxter and Mike Alberti on Despair and Renewal in Fiction

   Published: 17/12/2020
8. S4 Ep. 5: Disability in America: Molly McCully Brown and Rebekah Taussig On Living and Writing Thirty Years After the Americans with Disabilities Act

   Published: 03/12/2020
9. S4 Ep. 4: Life After Trump: Jess Walter and Jerald Walker on the Aftermath of Election 2020

   Published: 19/11/2020
10. S4 Ep. 3: Monsters for President: Maria Dahvana Headley on Modern Myth-Making

    Published: 05/11/2020
11. S4 Ep. 2: We're in a Scary Movie, and It's Called 2020: emily m. danforth and Laura van den Berg Discuss Literary Horror and Our Upcoming Election

    Published: 22/10/2020
12. S4 Ep. 1: Fifteen Years After Katrina: Kristina Kay Robinson and Tom Piazza Discuss How the Hurricane Shaped Our Past and Predicted Our Future

    Published: 08/10/2020
13. S3 Ep. 26: The Past Is Never Dead: Maurice Carlos Ruffin and Michael Gorra on the 'New South' and Whether Faulkner Still Belongs There

    Published: 24/09/2020
14. S3 Ep. 25: No Innocents Abroad: Scott Anderson and Andrew Altschul on the CIA and U.S. Provocateurs in Foreign Politics

    Published: 10/09/2020
15. S3 Ep. 24: Summer Books Extravaganza: Margot Livesey and Jaswinder Bolinda on Beach Reading When the Beach is Closed

    Published: 27/08/2020
16. S3 Ep. 23: We've Been Here Before: Kaitlyn Greenidge and Russell Banks on the Past and Present of Protest and White Backlash

    Published: 13/08/2020
17. S3 Ep. 22: The Unpopular Tale of Populism: Thomas Frank on the Real History of an American Mass Movement

    Published: 30/07/2020
18. S3 Ep. 21: Breaking the Mold: Christopher Buckley and Sara Paretsky on Reinventing Genre

    Published: 16/07/2020
19. S3 Ep. 20: Aiming to Heal When There Is No Cure: Daniela Lamas and C. Dale Young on Doctoring and Our Pandemic Future

    Published: 02/07/2020
20. S3 Ep. 19: Black Stories Matter: Terrion Williamson and Jabari Asim on Narrative During the George Floyd Protests

    Published: 18/06/2020