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 & otherwise), writing across gender, the Blake poem…

Author, critic and editor joins the show to celebrate the publication of her amazing book, (Siglio Press). We get into Niki de Saint Phalle’s word-paintings & what they tell us about the arts of revelation and concealment, Nicole’s shifting…

Cartoonist rejoins the show to talk about his brand-new graphic biography, (Drawn & Quarterly). We get into Putin’s postwar upbringing in Leningrad, his KGB career, the fall of the USSR, and how those key elements play into his strategy and…

Let’s pre-celebrate Valentine’s Day with a conversation with , author of the brand-new book, ! We get into how Scott defines RomComs, what inspired him to chronicle their history, what these movies say about audiences & audience expectations, the…

With Bianca Stigter’s documentary, , on the festival circuit, author and inadvertent historian joins the show to talk about his 2014 book (FSG), the vibrant Jewish life in prewar Polish Nasielsk, and all that was lost and all that he found • More…

With his new book (Yale University Press), legendary film critic & writer explores the intersection of disaster-as-entertainment and disaster-as-real-life. We get into how the imminent destruction from catastrophes like the pandemic, climate…

With his new book, , marketing entrepreneur (& longtime pal) explores what it really means to learn from your mistakes. We talk about the failures and missteps that helped him build a successful marketing & design agency in , what he learned…

Author, poet and translator returns to the show to explore her new memoir/meditation, (FSG). We talk about the uses and abuses of silence, the magic of herons, what it takes for the voiceless to find a voice, the nature of censorship (both external…

With his new book, (Bloomsbury), cartoonist recreates a lost world, bringing to life the true stories of Jewish youth in 1930s Lithuania, preserved in anonymous submissions for a contest. We talk about the circuitous, perilous history of the stories…