Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry cover image

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

Latest episodes

undefined
Mar 11, 2020 • 1h 46min

Jenny Offill : Weather

“Novelists don’t need to dream the end of the world anymore—they need to wake up to it. Jenny Offill is one of today’s few essential voices, because she writes about essential things, in sentences so clipped and glittering it’s as if they are all cut from one diamond.” –Jonathan Dee The post Jenny Offill : Weather appeared first on Tin House.
undefined
Mar 2, 2020 • 2h 9min

Lance Olsen : My Red Heaven

“Lance Olsen locates his porous, alluring, heartbreaking, and haunted narrative in Berlin on a day in 1927. Poised at a moment of such hope and doom, it is a ravishing meditation on history, on time, and on what it is to be alive.” —Carole Maso The post Lance Olsen : My Red Heaven appeared first on Tin House.
undefined
10 snips
Feb 21, 2020 • 37min

Tin House Live : “From First Draft to Plot” with Alexander Chee

Alexander Chee delivered this craft lecture, from “First Draft to Plot,” at the 2016 Tin House Summer Workshop. Chee is the author most recently of the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. The post Tin House Live : “From First Draft to Plot” with Alexander Chee appeared first on Tin House.
undefined
Feb 14, 2020 • 1h 50min

Garth Greenwell : Cleanness

“Garth Greenwell, whose first book is a masterpiece, amazingly has written a second book that is also a masterpiece. The great enterprise that Joyce and Lawrence began—to write with utter literal candor about sex, grounding one’s moral life and philosophical insight in what that candor reveals about us—finds fulfillment, a late apotheosis, in Greenwell’s work. Cleanness is the act of a master.” —Frank Bidart The post Garth Greenwell : Cleanness appeared first on Tin House.
undefined
Feb 3, 2020 • 1h 39min

Carmen Maria Machado : In the Dream House

“In the Dream House . . . confronts the issues of credibility, self-doubt, and disbelief that all too frequently arise when survivors of domestic abuse speak out. But the work also stands as an intervention explicitly aimed at the silences, erasures, and lacunae of the culture at large . . . Machado’s In the Dream House shows us that a narrative of lesbian domestic abuse can be her story told in precisely her way—a human story, full of artistry, candor, and grace.” —James W. Fuerst The post Carmen Maria Machado : In the Dream House appeared first on Tin House.
undefined
Jan 24, 2020 • 26min

Tin House Live : Jericho Brown on Suicide & Joy

Jericho Brown gave these two talks, on suicide, and on joy, at the 2016 Tin House Summer Workshop in Portland, Oregon.  His latest poetry collection The Tradition (Copper Canyon Press) was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award. The post Tin House Live : Jericho Brown on Suicide & Joy appeared first on Tin House.
undefined
Jan 13, 2020 • 1h 39min

E. J. Koh : The Magical Language of Others

“In The Magical Language of Others, E. J. Koh writes of the boundary between anonymity and naming, between absence and abandonment, between cruelty and safety for four generations of mothers and daughters, each speaking with an occupied heart and crossing narrative borders between Korea, Japan, and America. As a reader, you give yourself over to her narrative territory and the resetting of the borders of lineage, language, and lives lost.” —Shawn Wong The post E. J. Koh : The Magical Language of Others appeared first on Tin House.
undefined
Jan 6, 2020 • 1h 53min

Karthika Naïr : Until the Lions : Echoes from the Mahabharata

“In this retelling of the Mahabharata from the point of view of its hitherto minor female characters, Karthika Naïr uncovers a seminal feminist text. Until the Lions makes dazzling use of concrete verse and surreptitious rhyme to tell a story you think you know. By poem’s end you understand, with gratitude, that you know nothing and the old world has been made new. This is nervy and accomplished poetry. Listen.” —Jeet Thayil The post Karthika Naïr : Until the Lions : Echoes from the Mahabharata appeared first on Tin House.
undefined
Dec 16, 2019 • 1h 60min

CAConrad : Resurrect Extinct Vibration

“CAConrad always argues (from the inside of their poems) for a poetry of radical inclusivity while keeping a very queer shoulder to the wheel. Their kind of queerness strikes me as nonpolarizing, not intentionally but because of the fullness of their exposition, a kind of gigantism that seems to me to be most deeply informed by love, and a tenderness for the ravages and tumult of existence.” —Eileen Myles The post CAConrad : Resurrect Extinct Vibration appeared first on Tin House.
undefined
Dec 1, 2019 • 1h 43min

Daniel José Older : The Book of Lost Saints

“Older’s spellbinding novel is a fever dream full of magic and loss, wickedness and grace, faith and love, spirit and power.” —Marlon James;  “A lyrical, beautiful, devastating, literally haunting journey of assimilation, resistance, and family. Older just gets better and better.” —N.K. Jemisin The post Daniel José Older : The Book of Lost Saints appeared first on Tin House.

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app