Podcasts
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59 mins • Recorded Nov 6, 2017Posted 7 years agoWatch the video here . “One of the finest poets of our time” ( Ebony ), Nikki Giovanni is the author of nearly 30 books, including the collections Acolytes; Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgment; Those Who Ride the Night Winds ; and Quilting… more
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63 mins • Recorded Sep 12, 2017Posted 7 years agoWatch the video here . With a career spanning four decades, 26 studio albums, and untold scores of concerts, Loudon Wainwright III is one of the world’s most loved singer-songwriters. A prolific actor in a variety of television and film roles,… more
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Posted 7 years agoWatch the video here . Patricia Lockwood, “The Poet Laureate of Twitter” (unofficial), is the author of 2014’s groundbreaking Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals , a book of obscene, angry, funny verse that “is unforgettable, literally: once… more
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Posted 7 years agoWatch the video here . Yaa Gyasi’s breakout debut novel Homegoing , a multigenerational tale that “brims with compassion” ( NPR Books ), follows two half-sisters on opposite sides of the 18th-century Ghanaian slave trade and their descendants. It… more
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Posted 7 years agoWatch the video here . “His generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated, contradictory power” ( Los Angeles Times ), Colm Tóibín is the author of an impressive list of novels, short stories, essays, plays, poetry, and criticism. His… more
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63 mins • Recorded Mar 9, 2017Posted 7 years agoWatch the video here . “One of his generation’s most inventive and gifted writers” ( New York Times ), Mohsin Hamid is the author of Moth Smoke , a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist; the novel The… more
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Posted 9 years agoA “brilliant chronicler of the American Indian experience” ( Reader’s Digest ), Louise Erdrich revisits the beloved and familiar Ojibwe reservation of her North Dakota childhood—illuminating the mythical and magical in the detail of the… more
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Posted 9 years agoWith “an outsize life to match her outsize talent” ( New York Times ), Edna O’Brien is the author of a score of novels, short story collections, biographies, and poetry collections. Due to frank female voices and daring sexual scenes, her first… more
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Posted 9 years agoKnown as the “punk poet laureate” for her unique fusion of rock, poetry, and visual arts, Patti Smith won the 2010 National Book Award for Just Kids , a “moving portrait of the artist as a young woman” ( Los Angeles Times ). Her 1975 debut album… more
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Posted 9 years agoThe popular and critically acclaimed author of more than 40 books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays, Margaret Atwood is perhaps best known for the dystopian The Handmaid’s Tale , winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Her other novels… more
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122 mins • Recorded Oct 15, 2015Posted 9 years ago“One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time” ( Wired ), Adrian Tomine has a cult following for a variety of his acclaimed work. Perhaps best known for his long-running semiautobiographical comic book series Optic Nerve , he has also… more
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Posted 10 years ago“A gifted, even poetic writer” ( New York Times ), Beth Kephart is the author of 18 books across a wide range of genres, most notably the memoir. The award-winning Handling the Truth offers a thoughtful meditation on the questions that lie at the… more
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Posted 10 years ago“Grounded in ethnic identity, fueled by collective pride, yet irreducibly individual” ( New York Times ), Juan Felipe Herrera is the virtuosic first Mexican American U.S. Poet Laureate. The son of migrant farm workers, his writing is strongly… more
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117 mins • Recorded Jun 8, 2015Posted 10 years agoIn addition to being the President and Publisher of major publishing house Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Jonathan Galassi is the author of the acclaimed poetry collections Left-Handed , North Street , and Morning Run , and is also a poetry critic… more
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113 mins • Recorded May 4, 2015Posted 10 years agoA poet of “extraordinary range and ambition” ( New York Times Book Review) , Tracy K. Smith is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book of poetry Life on Mars . Her other poetry collections include Duende, winner of the James Laughlin Award,… more
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105 mins • Recorded Apr 20, 2015 Explicit ContentPosted 10 years agoThis podcast contains explicit content. Terrance Hayes won the National Book Award for the 2010 poetry collection Lighthead . Praised for their elegantly evocative imagery and formal versatility, his other collections include Wind in a Box , Hip… more
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97 mins • Recorded Mar 24, 2015Posted 10 years agoMarisa de Los Santos is the New York Times bestselling author of Belong to Me , Love Walked In , and Falling Together , as well as the middle grade novel Saving Lucas Biggs , co-written with her husband David Teague, and the poetry collection… more
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95 mins • Recorded Nov 10, 2014Posted 10 years agoIn 2013, Patricia Lockwood’s poem “Rape Joke,” first printed on the website The Awl, went viral. A “satirical work that nonetheless brings your heart up under your ears” ( New York Times ), the poem “reawakened a generation’s interest in poetry”… more
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Posted 10 years agoWith an impressive body of poetry, essays, and criticism, feminist writer Katha Pollitt brings “a lively wit and considerable erudition” ( Publishers Weekly ) to a variety of political and social issues, including reproductive rights, racism, and… more
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64 mins • Recorded Oct 14, 2014Posted 10 years agoPulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley is the author of more than a dozen “smart, irreverent, and wickedly tender” ( The Boston Globe ) novels, including Ten Days in the Hills , Moo , and A Thousand Acres . She is also the author of a short story… more
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