Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

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Robert Macfarlane : Is a River Alive?
Dont miss todays conversation with Robert Macfarlane. A polyvocal deep dive into the mysteries of words and rivers, of speech acts as spells, whorls as worlds, of grammars of animacy, of what it mea
adrienne maree brown : Ancestors
With the arrival of Ancestors, the third and final book in adrienne maree browns Grievers Trilogy, we take the iconic frames she has created in her nonfiction workemergent strategy, pleasure activis
Madeleine Thien : The Book of Records
The Book of Records is many things: a book of historical fiction and speculative fiction, a meditation on time and on space-time, on storytelling and truth, on memory and the imagination, a book that
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson : Theory of Water
What would it mean for our writing, thinking, and living if we looked to land as pedagogy, or if we thought of theory as something embodied and kinetic? In Theory of Water Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Keetje Kuipers : Lonely Women Make Good Lovers
From the craft of writing sex in poetry to the virtues of failing publicly, todays conversation with poet Keetje Kuipers is not to be missed. We explore everything from storytelling within poems to t
Patrycja Humienik : We Contain Landscapes
What does it mean to risk rupture for rapture, on the page, and in ones life? Or for water to be ones method, mode or muse? Are inherited forms (of womanhood, of sexuality, of national identity) a g
Michelle de Kretser : Theory & Practice
Todays guest, one of Australias most celebrated and daring writers, Michelle de Kretser, discusses her latest uncategorizable book Theory & Practice(one she describes as 80% fiction, 15% essay and
Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
In late October 2023, weeks into Israels bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man. This video showed a lifeless moonscape with endless empty streets
Hélène Cixous : Rêvoir
Feminist and literary theorist, playwright, philosopher, memoirist and novelist Hlne Cixous returns to the show to discuss her latest genre-defying hybrid work of prose. Written during the first yea
Aria Aber : Good Girl
Poet Aria Abers debut novel Good Girl, set in the club scene of Berlin, is a book brimming over with sex and drugs and music, true. But really at its heart it is a book of self-making and unmaking,