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

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

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,

Todays guest Zahid Rafiq discusses his debut short story collectionThe World With Its Mouth Open, eleven remarkable stories set in modern-day Kashmir. Prior to writing fiction Rafiq was a journalist

We started 2024 with an archival recording of Denis Johnson from the first ever Tin House Writers Workshop in 2003. That episode was a three-part episode: Denis Johnson reading from the manuscript of

How can a novel set during one brief moment near the end of Herman Melvilles fathers life, a moment lost to history and now fully overshadowed by his sons enduring literary legacy, become a portal

What does it mean that a life can not only be animated by books but destroyed by them? That a self can be not only made by reading, but unmade by it? Dionne Brands latest book of nonfiction Salvage:

Danez Smiths poetry is so many things, a poetry of resistance, of elegy, of joy, of care, of repair. Their poetry is Afrofuturist and Afropessimist. Its nature poetry, decolonial poetry, queer poetr

Todays conversation with Kenzie Allen, about her debut poetry collection Cloud Missives, is unusually wide-ranging. We look at the influence of archaeology, anthropology and cartography on her poetry

Todays craft talkby Torrey Peters on Strategic Opacity was recorded at the 2024 Tin House summer writers workshop. Peters explores the elements in works of fiction that actually dont make sense