Sheila Heti sits down with Sunny Yudkoff and ND host John Plotz to discuss her incredibly varied oeuvre. She does it all: stories, novels, alphabetized diary entries as well as a series of dialogues in the New Yorker with an AI named Alice. Drawing on her background in Jewish Studies, Sunny prompts Sheila to unpackContinue reading “6.6 Overtaken by Awe: Sheila Heti speaks with Sunny Yudkoff (JP)”
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6.5 Attention is Love: A Discussion with Lauren Groff and Laura McGrath (SW)
Just days before the release of her latest novel, The Vaster Wilds (Riverhead Books, 2023), three-time National Book Award Finalist and The New York Times-bestselling author Lauren Groff sat down to talk to critic Laura McGrath and host Sarah Wasserman. Although Groff admits that she wants “each subsequent book to destroy the one” that cameContinue reading “6.5 Attention is Love: A Discussion with Lauren Groff and Laura McGrath (SW)”
6.4 “We All Relate to Each Other’s Dystopias”: A Discussion with Shehan Karunatilaka and Sangeeta Ray (CH)
Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Norton, 2022), which won the Booker Prize in 2022, is a thriller that begins in the afterlife, an uproarious murder mystery set amid the tragedies of Sri Lanka’s long civil war. Its protagonist, a war photographer, has become a ghost with just seven moons to find hisContinue reading “6.4 “We All Relate to Each Other’s Dystopias”: A Discussion with Shehan Karunatilaka and Sangeeta Ray (CH)”
6.3 Narrative, Database, Archive: A Discussion with Tom Comitta and Deidre Lynch (AV)
12 tables; 300 novels, 1500 pages of nature description: This is how Tom Comitta created The Nature Book, a one-of-a-kind novel cut from 300 years of English literary tradition. It has no human characters, no original writing, and it is astoundingly good! Tom sits down with distinguished Harvard prof, Deidre Lynch and host Aarthi Vadde toContinue reading “6.3 Narrative, Database, Archive: A Discussion with Tom Comitta and Deidre Lynch (AV)”
6.2 What Would Undo the Maxim Gun? Magic: P. Djèlí Clark and andré carrington (RB)
Locus- and Nebula- award-winning author P. Djèlí Clark joins critic andré carrington (UC Riverside) and host Rebecca Ballard (FSU) for a conversation about the archives, methods, and cosmologies that inform his speculative fiction. Clark’s fiction blends fantasy and horror elements with richly drawn historical worlds that speak to his academic life as a historian. MostContinue reading “6.2 What Would Undo the Maxim Gun? Magic: P. Djèlí Clark and andré carrington (RB)”
6.1 Desolation Tries to Colonize You: Jeff VanderMeer and Alison Sperling (CH)
Our season of the weird starts off with a conversation between the writer The New Yorker called “the weird Thoreau”, Jeff VanderMeer, and a scholar of the modernist weird, Alison Sperling (FSU). With ND host Chris Holmes, Jeff and Alison delve into how the ugly politics of Lovecraft’s “old” weird gives rise to the stylistic panoply of theContinue reading “6.1 Desolation Tries to Colonize You: Jeff VanderMeer and Alison Sperling (CH)”
Season 6: Weirding Out with Kate Marshall
We kick off Season 6 with Kate Marshall, friend of the show and author of the forthcoming book Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century. Hosts and producers Chris Holmes and Emily Hyde ask Kate about the pulpy literary history of weird tales and learn how in the 21st-century weirdness emerges as both genre andContinue reading “Season 6: Weirding Out with Kate Marshall”
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