Melanie Rae Thon : As If Fire Could Hide Us

Danielle Dutton : Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other: One might ask, just what is Danielle Dutton’s latest book, Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other? A collection of stories, a philosophical essay, a sequence of nested dreams and memories, an act of loving citation, a one-act play of silent animals, by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

123 min listen

Alexis Wright : Praiseworthy: Today’s guest is one of the most important and celebrated writers in Australia today, Alexis Wright. We look together at the ways Wright reshapes the novel form to accommodate Aboriginal notions of story, of time, and of scale. by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

93 min listen

Nam Le : 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem: Over the past fifteen years, Nam Le has published a book in each genre. Best known for his phenomenal 2009 debut story collection The Boat, he followed it with his 2019 debut nonfiction On David Malouf, and now, this year, by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

145 min listen

Anne de Marcken : It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over: Writer, interdisciplinary artist, editor and publisher Anne de Marcken discusses her new book It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over. Winner of the Novel Prize, and thus published simultaneously in the U.S., U.K., and Australia, by New Directions, by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

131 min listen

Canisia Lubrin : Code Noir: Award-winning poet Canisia Lubrin talks about her debut fiction, Code Noir. The fifty-nine stories in this collection are each prefaced by one of Louis XIV’s fifty-nine “Black codes,” the rules of conduct in France and its colonies regarding slaves and... by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

147 min listen

Diana Khoi Nguyen : Root Fractures: Today’s conversation, with poet and multimedia artist Diana Khoi Nguyen, is not to be missed. Both of her books, Ghost Of and Root Fractures engage with and are shaped by her brother’s absence and the family silence surrounding it. by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

160 min listen

Álvaro Enrigue : You Dreamed of Empires: Today’s conversation with Álvaro Enrigue about his latest novel, You Dreamed of Empires, translated by Natasha Wimmer, is set during the relatively undocumented first encounter between Moctezuma and Hernan Cortés. by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

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Mathias Énard : The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild: Is Mathias Énard’s latest book formally influenced by the Buddhist Wheel of Time, by Jewish undertaker guilds, by François Rabelais’s scatological and philosophical prose & linguistic wordplay, by Catholic altarpiece polyptych panel paintings, by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

109 min listen

Tin House Live : Denis Johnson : 2003: We are kicking off the new year with a serious blast from the past. A recording from the very first Tin House writers workshop in the summer of 2003 with novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter, Denis Johnson. by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

91 min listen

Elle Nash : Deliver Me: Perhaps it is fitting that today’s episode, with writer and founding editor of Witchcraft Magazine, Elle Nash, is launched on the shortest day of the year, the longest night of darkness. Nash’s new novel Deliver Me explores the ways society tries to ke... by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

107 min listen

Naomi Klein : Doppelganger : Part Two: Today’s part two of the conversation with Naomi Klein about Doppelganger highlights the Jewish elements in the book, and looks at them through the lens of Palestine & Israel. We discuss Zionism, Marxism and the Jewish Labor Bund’s notion of ‘hereness. by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

148 min listen

Kate Zambreno & Sofia Samatar : Tone: In Kate Zambreno & Sofia Samatar’s Tone they construct a shared voice, that of the “Committee to Investigate the Atmosphere.” Yes, they do this to investigate tone, in the writings of everyone from Nella Larsen to Clarice Lispector, W.G. by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

150 min listen

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore : Touching the Art: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore returns to Between the Covers to talk about her remarkable new book, Touching the Art. A mixture of memoir, biography, criticism and social history, Touching the Art is above all a complicated love letter to Mattilda’s grand... by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

154 min listen

Bhanu Kapil : Incubation : A Space for Monsters: Bhanu Kapil’s postcolonial feminist road novel Incubation : A Space for Monsters has long been out-of-print. The book of hers that most engages with the mythos and reality of America, Incubation follows Laloo, a British woman of Indian descent, by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

154 min listen

Colleen Burner : Sister Golden Calf: Colleen Burner’s novella Sister Golden Calf is the story of two sisters on the road set in a world without men. Inspired, in part, by Vanessa Veselka’s essay “Green Screen: The Lack of Female Road Narratives and Why It Matters, by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

58 min listen

Kate Briggs : The Long Form: Essayist and translator Kate Briggs’ first novel The Long Form is a book about, and happening within, the relationship between Helen and her infant daughter Rose. What does making a novel baby-centric, not a novel about babies, by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

142 min listen

Lydia Davis : Our Strangers: Today’s conversation with Lydia Davis about her latest story collection Our Strangers, a collection of 143 stories, is a deep dive into storytelling. These stories, whether incredibly short or quite long, often eschew backstory, exposition, by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

118 min listen

Naomi Klein : Doppelganger: Naomi Klein’s new book Doppelganger is a departure for her. One some of her closest friends even cautioned her against. On the one hand, it is what we come to expect from Klein, a brilliant framing, through the coining of new language, by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

138 min listen

Tin House Live : Matthew Zapruder on Story of a Poem: You could say that Matthew Zapruder’s Story of a Poem is about the revision of a poem, that it follows the life of one poem, from its first phrase to its final draft, and invites us, in the most mesmerizing way, by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

68 min listen

Major Jackson : Razzle Dazzle: Poet and host of the The Slowdown podcast Major Jackson joins us to talk about Razzle Dazzle, his collection of new and selected poems that captures two decades in the life of a poet. Last year Major also released a book his selected prose, by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

154 min listen

JoAnna Novak : Contradiction Days: Five months pregnant, fearful of the future, and creatively blocked, JoAnna Novak becomes obsessed with the life, writings, and paintings of Agnes Martin. She fashions a three-week intensive writing regimen in northern New Mexico, by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

117 min listen

Jorie Graham : To 2040: Jorie Graham’s first appearance on the show in 2021, to discuss her collection Runaway, is one of the most relistened to episodes in the show’s history, a conversation that, with each revisitation, seems to reveal something new about how to will onesel... by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

180 min listen

Tin House Live : Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on Surrealism: Today’s craft talk, “Why So Surrealism” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, was recorded at the 2022 Tin House Summer Workshop. Prompted by a journalist who asked him to talk about how surrealistic and speculative conceits operated in and informed Black ficti... by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

41 min listen

Roger Reeves : Dark Days: Poet Roger Reeves calls the essays in his debut book of prose “fugitive essays.” And we explore what it means to write fugitively, to write into and from and toward fugitivity. If, as Fred Moten says, fugitivity is “a desire for and a spirit of escape ... by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

137 min listen

Isabella Hammad : Enter Ghost: Isabella Hammad’s latest book Enter Ghost is about a Palestinian theater group attempting to put on a production of Hamlet in the West Bank. The actors come from many different Palestinian experiences, one to the next. Some have Israeli citizenship. by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

105 min listen

Tin House Live : Max Porter on Shy: Even though each of Max Porter’s books is a stand-alone book, some have called Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Lanny and his latest, Shy, a “trilogy of boyhood,” a framing Max himself embraces. After a truly electrifying short reading from Shy, by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

74 min listen

Megan Fernandes : I Do Everything I’m Told: Spareness, economy, and distillation are often put forth as obvious virtues in poetry. But what if there were a politics undergirding this aesthetic preference? In today’s conversation with poet Megan Fernandes we look at questions of poetics and aesth... by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

120 min listen

Johanna Hedva : Your Love Is Not Good: What if you gave your fictional main character all of your own biographical details and family history but had them, at every point, choose “wrong”? At every point do the thing you yourself would be against? Johanna Hedva does just that, by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

167 min listen

Tin House Live : Katie Holten on The Language of Trees: In Early Medieval Ireland there was a language called Ogham that was sometimes referred to as the “Celtic Tree Alphabet'” because its letters each corresponded to and depicted a different tree. At one point Ireland, by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

52 min listen

Tin House Live: Richard Powers on The Overstory: Back in 2019, when Richard Powers was a guest on Between the Covers for The Overstory, we also appeared together that very same night, in conversation again. This time, an onstage ticketed event at Revolution Hall before a live audience. by Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

94 min listen

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