Podcasts
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In conversation with Laura McGrath, Assistant Professor of English at Temple University “Among our greatest contemporary writers” ( The Miami Herald ), Claire Messud is the author of The Emperor’s Children , a cutting portrait of life among… more
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“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 novels The Master, The… more
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Praised for her “darkly funny and painfully sharp” ( Los Angeles Times ) fiction, Lydia Millet is the author of the novel A Children’s Bible , shortlisted for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top 10 book of 2020; the story… more
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Barbara Gohn Day Memorial Lecture In conversation with Rebeca L. Hey-Colón, Professor of Latinx Studies, Temple University Awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Obama in 2013, poet, essayist, and fiction writer Julia Alvarez is renowned… more
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“A fountain of observations” ( The Boston Globe ), Sloane Crosley is the author of three New York Times bestselling essay collections, How Did You Get This Number, Look Alive Out There, and I Was Told There’d Be Cake , which was a finalist… more
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• Recorded Mar 27, 2024 Explicit ContentIn conversation with Airea Dee Matthews Hanif Abdurraqib is the author of A Little Devil in America , a sweeping look at Black music, art, and culture that won the Carnegie Medal and the Gordon Burns Prize and was a finalist for the National… more
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In conversation with Lexy Bloom “A delicious new Gilded Age family drama—almost a satire—set in the leafy enclaves of Brooklyn Heights” ( Vogue ), Jenny Jackson’s Pineapple Street tells the story of three women navigating the shoals of… more
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In conversation with Airea Dee Matthews Referred to by Nick Cave as “exquisitely crafted fire bombs of incandescent rage,” Nam Le ’s 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem is a debut collection of verse that both honors and shatters the tropes… more
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• Recorded Mar 13, 2024 Explicit ContentIn conversation with Shantrelle Lewis Morgan Parker won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Magical Negro , a poetry collection that ponders the nuances of Black American womanhood. She is also the author of the young adult novel Who… more
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• Recorded Mar 11, 2024 Explicit Content“Packed with richly imagined characters and vivacious prose” ( Esquire ), Xochitl Gonzalez ’s debut novel Olga Dies Dreaming tells a tale of family secrets, Latinx politics in a gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood, and romance set against the… more
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In conversation with Tailinh Agoyo Tommy Orange is the author of There There , a novel of “pure soaring beauty” ( The New York Times ) that tells the story of 12 interconnected Native Americans living in Oakland, California. A… more
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• Recorded Feb 22, 2024In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6abc Action News morning edition. Co-promoted by the American Constitution Society The Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences Division, Professor of Sociology & African American Studies at… more
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In conversation with Zoe Sivak Maura Cheeks is the author of Acts of Forgiveness , a debut novel that imagines a contemporary moment in which our government has approved reparations for Black Americans—but only if they can prove they are the… more
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In conversation with Airea D. Matthews Phillip B. Williams is the author of two acclaimed poetry collections, Thief in the Interior , which won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a Lambda Literary Award; and Mutiny , which was a finalist for… more
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In conversation with Bill Marimow “Perhaps the finest reporter in America” ( The Miami Herald ), Calvin Trillin has written more than 400 nonfiction and comic articles for The New Yorker since 1963. His book include U.S. Journal and … more
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• Recorded Feb 12, 2024In conversation with Ellen Yin A New York Times bestselling children’s author and illustrator, Grace Lin earned the Newbery Honor for Where the Mountain Meets the Moon , the Theodor Geisel Honor for Ling and Ting , and the Caldecott Honor… more
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In conversation with novelist and musician Wesley Stace Paul Lynch won the 2023 Booker Prize for Prophet Song , a “brilliant, haunting” and “crucial book for our current times ( The Guardian ) that tells the dystopian but plausible tale of a… more
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In conversation with Niela Orr A “hilarious, uncomfortable and compulsively readable story about race and class” ( TIME ), Kiley Reid ’s novel Such a Fun Age tells the story of a young Black babysitter and her well-intentioned but misguided… more
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Susan Muaddi Darraj won the 2016 American Book Award, the 2016 Arab American Book Award, and was a finalist for the Palestine Book Award for A Curious Land , a collection of linked stories that follows the denizens of a Palestinian West Bank… more
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• Recorded Nov 16, 2023Sigrid Nunez won the 2018 National Book Award for The Friend , a “beautiful” novel “crammed with a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love” ( The Wall Street Journal ) in which a woman is forced to adopt her deceased best friend’s Great… more
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