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Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Oct 24, 2013 • 30min
Nicholson Baker: Traveling Sprinkler
Nicholson Baker, poet of small accuracies, shows us how if you assemble enough of these small accuracies, you've got a novel.

Oct 17, 2013 • 30min
Jonathan Lethem: Dissident Gardens
Jonathan Lethem’s latest chronicles a lost generation of Jewish socialists who lived in Queens in the mid-twentieth century.

Oct 10, 2013 • 30min
Alexander Maksik: A Marker to Measure Drift
An aristocratic Liberian woman is left bereft and exiled on a remote Aegean island during her country's second civil war…

Oct 3, 2013 • 30min
Rebecca Solnit: The Faraway Nearby
Part memoir, part literary criticism, part self-analysis, Rebecca Solnit's latest is an inter-genre meditation on the ways our lives are orchestrated by stories.

Sep 26, 2013 • 30min
Van Dyke Parks: Songs Cycled
Van Dyke Parks on his multifaceted career as a lyricist, composer, arranger, producer and instrumentalist, on the heels of his first studio album in nearly twenty years.

Sep 19, 2013 • 30min
Russ Kick: The Graphic Canon, Volume 3
This garden of literary and visual delights, edited by Russ Kick, wondrously illustrates the arc of 20th century literature by over 80 graphic artists.

Sep 12, 2013 • 29min
Mark Slouka: Brewster
Mark Slouka explores passion as an alternative to irony in the creation of dramatic, lyrical prose.

Sep 5, 2013 • 29min
Margaret Atwood: Maddaddam
Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam completes the dystopian trilogy that began with "Oryx and Crake" and "The Year of the Flood."

Aug 29, 2013 • 29min
Cathleen Schine: Fin and Lady
Cathleen Schine says that she – and her writing – survive by seeing the humor in her life.

Aug 22, 2013 • 30min
Peter Orner: Last Car over the Sagamore Bridge
Peter Orner says his poignantly distilled, often tiny short stories are attempts to "create silence on the page."


