Episode 485 – Kathe Koja
rejoins the show to celebrate the launch of her new project, (Meerkat Press)! We talk about how Dark Factory combines with to create a new world,...
Episode 484 – Julie Phillips
Author & biographer joins the show to celebrate her amazing new book, (WW Norton). We get into the tensions of being a mother & having a life...
Episode 483 – Celia Paul
Painter Celia Paul rejoins the show for the US debut of her new book, (NYRB). We talk about how Celia found herself through corresponding with the late artist...
Episode 482 – John Crowley
Legendary author John Crowley rejoins the show to celebrate his new novel, (Tor Books), as well as his just-before-the-pandemic collections, and . We get into the career-long...
Episode 481 – Anneli Furmark
Swedish cartoonist (okay: serietecknare) joins the show to celebrate the publication of her wonderful graphic novel (Drawn & Quarterly, tr. Hanna Strömberg). We get into her evolution...
Episode 480 – Nicholas Delbanco
Author & MFA teacher rejoins the show to celebrate (Yale University Press). We get into the notion of literary greatness, the immense craft and revision involved in...
Episode 479 – Sebastian Smee
Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic joins the show to talk about his career and the notions of artistic rivalry, influence and love, and how they came together in his...
Episode 478 – Rebecca Mead
joins the show to celebrate her amazing new memoir, (Knopf)! We talk about the adventure of making a midlife leap — her departure from NYC after 30 years...
Episode 477 – Anna Della Subin
With her fantastic new book, (Metropolitan Books), explores how deification has been used for liberation and oppression. We talk religion, rationalism, colonialism, oppression, and mythmaking, and the...
Episode 476 – David Sipress
New Yorker staff cartoonist joins the show to celebrate his new book, (Mariner Books)! We get into the instant gratification of cartooning vs. the joy of writing...
Episode 475 – Mark Prins
Author joins the show to celebrate his debut novel, (WW Norton), a fantastic, Highsmith-ian novel of Oxford intrigue. We talk classics, poetry (Latin & otherwise), metamorphoses (Ovidian...
Episode 486 – Charlie Porter
Fashion critic, journalist and author joins the show to celebrate the US publication of (WW Norton). We talk about the Agnes Martin photo that inspired the book,...