The Point Podcast
1) Selected Novels | Catherine Lacey on Evan S. Connell
On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to Catherine Lacey about Evan S. Connell’s Mrs. Bridge. Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal rate.
2) Selected Essays | Ellen Wayland-Smith on Siddhartha Mukherjee
On this episode of the podcast, Jess and Zach return to Selected Essays to talk to Ellen Wayland-Smith about Siddhartha Mukherjee’s “My Father’s Body, at Rest and in Motion,” published in the New York...Show More
3) Selected Novels | Bruce Holsinger on Stoner
On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to the novelist and English professor Bruce Holsinger about John Williams’s Stoner. Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the norm...Show More
4) Selected Novels | Joanne McNeil on J.G. Ballard
On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to the novelist and cultural critic Joanne McNeil about J.G. Ballard’s Concrete Island. Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the ...Show More
5) Selected Novels | Jessi Jezewska Stevens on Thomas Mann
On the third episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to the novelist and short story writer (and Point contributor) Jessi Jezewska Stevens about Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. Want more fro...Show More
6) Selected Novels | Adam Ehrlich Sachs on Gustave Flaubert
On the third episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to the novelist Adam Ehrlich Sachs about Flaubert’s final, unfinished novel, Bouvard and Pécuchet. Want more from The Point? Subscribe here...Show More
7) Selected Novels | Clare Sestanovich on Marilynne Robinson
On the second episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to Clare Sestanovich, writer and managing editor of the Drift, about Marilynne Robinson’s first novel, Housekeeping. Want more from The P...Show More
8) The decline of Aaron Rodgers (with Leif Weatherby)
On this episode of The Point podcast, Zach Fine takes a break from Selected Essays and Selected Novels to discuss another important, if less literary, topic: American football. Zach is joined by Leif ...Show More
9) Selected Novels | Lillian Fishman on Edith Wharton
On this episode—our very first!—of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to novelist (and writer of our 2024 advice column, Higher Gossip) Lillian Fishman about Edith Wharton’s novel Age of Innocence. W...Show More
10) Selected Essays | The n+1 Editors on the Intellectual Situation
On this bonus episode of Selected Essays, Jess and Zach talk to Dayna Tortorici and Mark Krotov about their new anthology of the best of n+1’s second decade, The Intellectual Situation.Craving more es...Show More