As an artist, how does one dive into the wreck of an archive, a canon, a shared collective memory, a historyone filled with silenced voices, distorted accounts, erasures and elisionson behalf of tho

Set during the 17th century witch trials in Denmark, and relayed to us through the voice of a magically animated wax child of one of the accused, Olga Ravns new book, which creates something uncannil

Sharing a new podcast from Campside Media called Origin Stories, about the creative process and the craft of writing and reporting. Each episode drills down on a single work. What inspired it? How was

Ten years in the making, poet Rickey Laurentiis joins us to talk about her much-anticipated remarkable new collection Death of the First Idea.In the past decade, as Laurentiis has transitioned, her

What does it mean to write toward or under the aura of another poet one admires, to write in homage, as a celebration of another? What happens to language when it hovers between two writers, between h

Todays guest is writer and critic Martha Anne Toll. Through a discussion of her latest novel Duet for One we explore the perennial mystery of writing and art-making, namely how to render something th

Todays conversation with Rob Macaisa Colgate is about two books, his poetry collection Hardly Creatures and his verse drama My Love is Water.You could say these two books are approaching the same qu

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

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

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