Five months pregnant, fearful of the future, and creatively blocked, JoAnna Novak becomes obsessed with the life, writings, and paintings of Agnes Martin. She fashions a three-week intensive writing r

Jorie Grahams first appearance on the show in 2021, to discuss her collection Runaway, is one of the most relistened to episodes in the shows history, a conversation that, with each revisitation, se

Todays craft talk, Why So Surrealism by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, was recorded at the 2022 Tin House Summer Workshop. Prompted by a journalist who asked him to talk about how surrealistic and specu

Poet Roger Reeves calls the essays in his debut book of prose fugitive essays. And we explore what it means to write fugitively, to write into and from and toward fugitivity. If, as Fred Moten says,

Isabella Hammads latest book Enter Ghost is about a Palestinian theater group attempting to put on a production of Hamlet in the West Bank. The actors come from many different Palestinian experiences

Even though each of Max Porters books is a stand-alone book, some have called Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, Lanny, and his latest, Shy, a trilogy of boyhood, a framing Max himself embraces. Aft

Spareness, economy, and distillation are often put forth as obvious virtues in poetry. But what if there were a politics undergirding this aesthetic preference? In todays conversation with poet Megan

What if you gave your fictional main character all of your own biographical details and family history but had them, at every point, choose wrong? At every point do the thing you yourself would be a

In Early Medieval Ireland there was a language called Ogham that was sometimes referred to as the Celtic Tree Alphabet' because its letters each corresponded to and depicted a different tree. At one

Back in 2019, when Richard Powers was a guest on Between the Covers for The Overstory, we also appeared together that very same night, in conversation again. This time, an onstage ticketed event at Re