The 3 Best Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry Podcast Episodes
1) Lucy Ives : Life Is Everywhere
Novelist, short story writer, poet, and critic Lucy Ives’ new novel Life Is Everywhere has been heralded by some of our most formally inventive and playful writers today, from Jesse Ball to Alej...Show More
2) Cheston Knapp : Up Up Down Down
“Cheston Knapp’s Up Up, Down Down has the uncanny, welcome ability to make so-called mainstream or dominant culture—white, masculinist, Christian, frat boy, & so on—appear newly strange, & newly...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) Madeleine Thien : The Book of Records
The Book of Records is many things: a book of historical fiction and speculative fiction, a meditation on time and on space-time, on storytelling and truth, on memory and the imagination, a book that...Show More
4) Laynie Browne : Apprentice to a Breathing Hand
What does it mean to write toward or under the aura of another poet one admires, to write in homage, as a celebration of another? What happens to language when it hovers between two writers, between h...Show More
5) Martha Anne Toll : Duet for One
Today’s guest is writer and critic Martha Anne Toll. Through a discussion of her latest novel Duet for One we explore the perennial mystery of writing and art-making, namely how to render someth...Show More
6) Rob Macaisa Colgate : Hardly Creatures & My Love is Water
Today’s conversation with Rob Macaisa Colgate is about two books, his poetry collection Hardly Creatures and his verse drama My Love is Water. You could say these two books are approaching the s...Show More
7) Robert Macfarlane : Is a River Alive?
Don’t miss today’s conversation with Robert Macfarlane. A polyvocal deep dive into the mysteries of words and rivers, of speech acts as spells, whorls as worlds, of grammars of animacy, of...Show More
8) adrienne maree brown : Ancestors
With the arrival of Ancestors, the third and final book in adrienne maree brown’s Grievers Trilogy, we take the iconic frames she has created in her nonfiction work—emergent strategy, pleasure a...Show More
9) Leanne Betasamosake Simpson : Theory of Water
What would it mean for our writing, thinking, and living if we looked to land as pedagogy, or if we thought of theory as something embodied and kinetic? In Theory of Water Leanne Betasamosake Simpson ...Show More
10) Keetje Kuipers : Lonely Women Make Good Lovers
From the craft of writing sex in poetry to the virtues of failing publicly, today’s conversation with poet Keetje Kuipers is not to be missed. We explore everything from storytelling within poem...Show More