Episodes Search for episodes:Search 9.6 We Better Laugh About It: Álvaro Enrigue and Maia Gil’Adí 06/05/202506/05/2025 9.5 Who Owns These Tools?: Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde (SW) 05/22/202505/22/2025 9.4 “That In Between Time:” Fernanda Trías and Heather Cleary (MAT) 05/08/202505/08/2025 9.3 Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (JP) 04/24/202504/24/2025 9.2 Monstrous Dreaming: Lauren Beukes and Andrew Pepper (RB) 04/10/202504/10/2025 9.1 Novels are Like Elephants: Ken Liu and Rose Casey (SW) 03/27/202504/10/2025 9.0 Writing Against the System (EH, CH) 03/21/202503/21/2025 8.6 “I love a dialectical reader, and best is a dialectical reader who cries”: Jordy Rosenberg and Annie McClanahan (RB) 12/19/202412/19/2024 8.5 And Soon: Lydia Millet and Emily Hyde (JP) 12/05/202412/05/2024 8.4 All of Our Stories Were War Stories: Jamil Jan Kochai and Kalyan Nadiminti (AV) 11/21/202411/21/2024 8.3 Aspire to Magic but End Up With Madness: Adam Ehrlich Sachs speaks with Sunny Yudkoff (JP) 11/07/202411/07/2024 8.2 To gallop again and again into failure: Kaveh Akbar and Pardis Dabashi (SW) 10/25/202410/25/2024 8.1 Dirt Bag Novels: Lydia Kiesling in Conversation with Megan Ward (CH) 10/10/202410/10/2024 7.6 Escape Velocity: Sarah Manguso in Conversation with Tess McNulty (EH) 06/20/202406/20/2024 7.5 Machine, System, Code: Masande Ntshanga and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra (EH) 06/06/202406/11/2024 7.4 Not Prophecy but Inversion: Omar El Akkad and Min Hyoung Song (RB) 05/24/202405/24/2024 7.3 What do the PDFs say about this?: Brandon Taylor and Stephanie Insley Hershinow (CH) 05/09/202405/09/2024 7.2 You Write Because You Want to Feel Free: Katie Kitamura and Alexander Manshel (SW) 04/25/202404/25/2024 7.1 Etherized: Anne Enright in Conversation with Paige Reynolds (JP) 04/11/202404/11/2024 6.6 Overtaken by Awe: Sheila Heti speaks with Sunny Yudkoff (JP) 12/14/202312/14/2023 6.5 Attention is Love: A Discussion with Lauren Groff and Laura McGrath (SW) 11/30/202311/30/2023 6.4 “We All Relate to Each Other’s Dystopias”: A Discussion with Shehan Karunatilaka and Sangeeta Ray (CH) 11/16/202311/16/2023 6.3 Narrative, Database, Archive: A Discussion with Tom Comitta and Deidre Lynch (AV) 11/02/202311/02/2023 6.2 What Would Undo the Maxim Gun? Magic: P. Djèlí Clark and andré carrington (RB) 10/19/202310/20/2023 6.1 Desolation Tries to Colonize You: Jeff VanderMeer and Alison Sperling (CH) 10/05/202310/05/2023 Season 6: Weirding Out with Kate Marshall 09/21/202310/05/2023 5.6 A Forensic Level of Honesty: Aminatta Forna and Nicole Rizzuto (AV) 06/15/202306/15/2023 5.5 They’re Not Metaphorical Demons: Mariana Enriquez and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra (CH) 06/01/202306/01/2023 5.4 The Meat and Bones of Life: Erika T. Wurth with Leif Sorensen (RE) 05/18/202305/18/2023 5.3 It’s on The Illabus: A Discussion with Jean-Christophe Cloutier and John Jennings (SW) 05/04/202305/18/2023 5.2 Writing the Counter-book: Joshua Cohen with Eugene Sheppard (JP) 04/20/202304/20/2023 5.1 We Have This-ness, Y’all! Ocean Vuong and Amy E. Elkins (EH) 04/06/202304/06/2023 4.6 Translation is the closest way to read: Ann Goldstein and Saskia Ziolkowski (AV) 11/17/202211/17/2022 4.5A Bonus Episode: Jean-Baptiste Naudy Reads from Claude McKay’s “Amiable with Big Teeth” (English and French) 11/03/202211/03/2022 4.5 The Best Error You Can Make: Brent Hayes Edwards and Jean-Baptiste Naudy on Claude McKay (SW) 11/03/202211/04/2022 4.4 “A short, sharp punch to the face”: José Revueltas’ The Hole (El Apando) with Alia Trabucco Zerán and Sophie Hughes (CH) 10/20/202210/20/2022 4.3 Strange Beasts of Translation: Yan Ge and Jeremy Tiang in Conversation 10/06/202210/06/2022 4.2 Light and Sound: Boubacar Boris Diop with Sarah Quesada (AV) 09/22/202209/22/2022 4.1 “Sometimes I’m just a little disappointed in English”: Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell, and Kate Briggs tackle translation (JP) 09/08/202209/08/2022 Season 4: Transition and Translation 09/01/202209/22/2022 3.6 Why are you in bed? Why are you drinking? Colm Tóibín and Joseph Rezek in conversation (TM) 04/14/202204/14/2022 3.5 The Romance of Recovery: Ben Bateman talks to Shola von Reinhold (AV) 03/31/202203/31/2022 3.4 The Work of Inhabiting a Role: Charles Yu speaks to Chris Fan (JP) 03/17/202203/28/2022 3.3 In the Editing Room with Ruth Ozeki and Rebecca Evans (EH) 03/03/202203/03/2022 3.2 Promises Unkept: Damon Galgut with Andrew van der Vlies (CH) 02/17/202202/28/2022 3.1 On Being Unmoored: Chang-rae Lee Charts Fiction with Anne Anlin Cheng (SW) 02/03/202202/28/2022 2.7 The Novel of Revolutionary Ideas: Viet Thanh Nguyen and Colleen Lye (AV) 12/16/202112/16/2021 2.6 Dreaming or Thinking: Cristina Rivera Garza with Kate Marshall and Dominique Vargas (AV) 12/02/202112/20/2021 2.5 Stitching the Past to the Present: Caryl Phillips speaks with Corina Stan (JP) 11/11/202111/11/2021 2.4 In Medias Res: Kamila Shamsie and Ankhi Mukherjee (AV) 10/28/2021 2.3 Because I Couldn’t Be a Dancer: Sigrid Nunez and Tara Menon (JP) 10/14/202110/14/2021 2.2 Adaptation: Tom Perrotta and Mark Wollaeger Go from Page to Screen (AV) 09/30/202110/10/2021 2.1 Fiction as Streaming, Genre as Portal: Jennifer Egan and Ivan Kreilkamp (JP) 09/16/202110/10/2021 1.9 Season Wrap: Aarthi and John Reflect and Ruminate 04/29/202109/04/2021 1.8 The Novel is like a Stack of Yurts: George Saunders talks with Michael Johnston (AV) 04/22/202108/01/2021 1.7 Helen Garner is Hacking at the Adverbs (Elizabeth McMahon, JP) 04/15/202108/01/2021 1.6 Military Sci-Fi Minus the Misogyny: Kameron Hurley with Gerry Canavan (AV) 04/08/202108/01/2021 1.5 Getting Into Other Worlds: James Robertson with Penny Fielding (JP) 04/01/202108/01/2021 1.4 Feral Fiction: Catherine Lacey and Martin Puchner (JP) 03/25/202108/01/2021 1.3 Oh, The Places You’ll Go: Madhuri Vijay talks to Ulka Anjaria (AV) 03/18/202108/01/2021 1.2x Bonus: Orhan Pamuk reads and glosses the end of Snow 03/12/202108/01/2021 1.2 That Demonic Novelistic Impulse: Orhan Pamuk with Bruce Robbins (JP) 03/11/202109/22/2021 1.1 Do Great Novels Set the Standard or Challenge it? Kelly Rich and Teju Cole (AV) 03/01/202108/01/2021 1.0 Introducing a New Podcast: Novel Dialogue with Aarthi Vadde and John Plotz 03/01/202108/01/2021 Share: Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
9.3 Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (JP) 04/24/202504/24/2025
8.6 “I love a dialectical reader, and best is a dialectical reader who cries”: Jordy Rosenberg and Annie McClanahan (RB) 12/19/202412/19/2024
8.4 All of Our Stories Were War Stories: Jamil Jan Kochai and Kalyan Nadiminti (AV) 11/21/202411/21/2024
8.3 Aspire to Magic but End Up With Madness: Adam Ehrlich Sachs speaks with Sunny Yudkoff (JP) 11/07/202411/07/2024
7.3 What do the PDFs say about this?: Brandon Taylor and Stephanie Insley Hershinow (CH) 05/09/202405/09/2024
7.2 You Write Because You Want to Feel Free: Katie Kitamura and Alexander Manshel (SW) 04/25/202404/25/2024
6.4 “We All Relate to Each Other’s Dystopias”: A Discussion with Shehan Karunatilaka and Sangeeta Ray (CH) 11/16/202311/16/2023
6.3 Narrative, Database, Archive: A Discussion with Tom Comitta and Deidre Lynch (AV) 11/02/202311/02/2023
6.2 What Would Undo the Maxim Gun? Magic: P. Djèlí Clark and andré carrington (RB) 10/19/202310/20/2023
5.5 They’re Not Metaphorical Demons: Mariana Enriquez and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra (CH) 06/01/202306/01/2023
5.3 It’s on The Illabus: A Discussion with Jean-Christophe Cloutier and John Jennings (SW) 05/04/202305/18/2023
4.6 Translation is the closest way to read: Ann Goldstein and Saskia Ziolkowski (AV) 11/17/202211/17/2022
4.5A Bonus Episode: Jean-Baptiste Naudy Reads from Claude McKay’s “Amiable with Big Teeth” (English and French) 11/03/202211/03/2022
4.5 The Best Error You Can Make: Brent Hayes Edwards and Jean-Baptiste Naudy on Claude McKay (SW) 11/03/202211/04/2022
4.4 “A short, sharp punch to the face”: José Revueltas’ The Hole (El Apando) with Alia Trabucco Zerán and Sophie Hughes (CH) 10/20/202210/20/2022
4.1 “Sometimes I’m just a little disappointed in English”: Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell, and Kate Briggs tackle translation (JP) 09/08/202209/08/2022
3.6 Why are you in bed? Why are you drinking? Colm Tóibín and Joseph Rezek in conversation (TM) 04/14/202204/14/2022
2.6 Dreaming or Thinking: Cristina Rivera Garza with Kate Marshall and Dominique Vargas (AV) 12/02/202112/20/2021
2.5 Stitching the Past to the Present: Caryl Phillips speaks with Corina Stan (JP) 11/11/202111/11/2021
2.1 Fiction as Streaming, Genre as Portal: Jennifer Egan and Ivan Kreilkamp (JP) 09/16/202110/10/2021
1.8 The Novel is like a Stack of Yurts: George Saunders talks with Michael Johnston (AV) 04/22/202108/01/2021
1.1 Do Great Novels Set the Standard or Challenge it? Kelly Rich and Teju Cole (AV) 03/01/202108/01/2021
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