Colleen Burners novella Sister Golden Calfis the story of two sisters on the road set in a world without men. Inspired, in part, by Vanessa Veselkas essay Green Screen: The Lack of Female Road Nar

Essayist and translator Kate Briggs first novel The Long Form is a book about, and happening within, the relationship between Helen and her infant daughter, Rose. What does making a novel baby-centri

Todays conversation with Lydia Davis about her latest story collection, Our Strangers,a collection of 143 stories, is a deep dive into storytelling. These stories, whether incredibly short or quite

Naomi Kleins new book, Doppelganger, is a departure for her. One some of her closest friends even cautioned her against. On the one hand, it is what weve come to expect from Klein, a brilliant frami

You could say that Matthew Zapruders Story of a Poem is about the revision of a poem, that it follows the life of one poem, from its first phrase to its final draft, and invites us, in the most mesme

Poet and host of the The Slowdown podcast Major Jackson joins us to talk about Razzle Dazzle, his collection of new and selected poems that captures two decades in the life of a poet. Last year Major

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,