The Artist's Statement Podcast
1) Jonathan Gleason: Feeling Less Alone
Jonathan Gleason joins us to talk about his debut essay collection Field Guide to Falling Ill. Drawing from personal experience, history, and medical science, Gleasonâs moving book explores âthe human...Show More
2) Nicky Gonzalez: Toes Lifting Off
Nicky Gonzalez joins us to discuss her Gothic debut novel, Mayra (2025, Random House), a story about two friends who reunite in a mysterious house in the Florida Everglades and uncover a hidden histor...Show More
3) Puloma Ghosh: It's No Longer Apple
Puloma Ghosh joins us to discuss her debut short story collection Mouth (2024, Astra House). We discuss her vision for the genre-crossing book, her creative process, and how she got interested in writ...Show More
4) Justin Torres: Inheriting Ghosts
2023 National Book Award for Fiction winner Justin Torres joins us to discuss his novels We The Animals (2011, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and Blackouts (2023, Farrar, Straus and Giroux). We talk about...Show More
5) K-Ming Chang: Language Denaturalized
Season 3, Episode 2, features K-Ming Chang. She is the author of debut novel Bestiary, short story collection Gods of Want, and her latest novel, Organ Meats, her third book in what she describes as m...Show More
6) Denton Loving: Building Monuments
Season 3, Episode 1, features poet Denton Loving. He is the author of two poetry collections, Crimes Against Birds, published by Main Street Rag in 2014, and his new book, Tamp, published by Mercer Un...Show More
7) Nicole Sealey: So Much To See
Season 2, Episode 3 brings you poet and inaugural Granum Foundation Prize winner, Nicole Sealey. We begin the discussion with Sealey's earlier works, The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named (Nor...Show More
8) Julie Otsuka: Swimming Through Memories
Season 2, Episode 2 features Julie Otsuka, best-selling author of When the Emperor Was Divine, The Buddha in the Attic, and her latest novel, The Swimmers. We discuss the inspiration and evolution of ...Show More
9) Ben Ehrenreich: The Shape of Time
Season 2 of The Artist's Statement opens with journalist, essayist, and novelist, Ben Ehrenreich, winner of a 2021 American Book Award for his non-fiction work Desert Notebooks: A Roadmap for the End ...Show More
10) Claire Vaye Watkins: Novel Forms
In Episode 10 of The Artist's Statement, we chat with Claire Vaye Watkins, author of three works of fiction, including her latest novel, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness (Riverhead, 2021). Watkins ...Show More