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

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


Latest Episodes

Olga Ravn : The Wax Child
September 29, 2025

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

Presenting Hysterical’s Dan Taberski on Origin Stories
September 25, 2025

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

Rickey Laurentiis : Death of the First Idea
September 08, 2025

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

Laynie Browne : Apprentice to a Breathing Hand
August 20, 2025

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

Martha Anne Toll : Duet for One
August 06, 2025

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

Rob Macaisa Colgate : Hardly Creatures & My Love is Water
July 19, 2025

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

Robert Macfarlane : Is a River Alive?
June 26, 2025

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
June 09, 2025

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
May 19, 2025

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
May 01, 2025

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