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

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


Latest Episodes

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

Keetje Kuipers : Lonely Women Make Good Lovers
April 19, 2025

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
April 05, 2025

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
March 09, 2025

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
February 21, 2025

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
February 01, 2025

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
January 14, 2025

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,

Zahid Rafiq : The World With Its Mouth Open
January 01, 2025

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

Tin House Live : Denis Johnson : 2004
December 24, 2024

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