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Author interviews with today's best writers — established & up-and-coming — in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Hosted by David Naimon, KBOO 90.7 FM, Portland, Oregon. --The Guardian's 10 Best Book Podcasts --Book Riot's 15 Outstanding Podcasts for Book Lovers --the most intense and awesome podcast I…

David Naimon, Tin House Books, KBOO 90.7FM


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    The Between the Covers podcast, hosted by David Naimon, is an exceptional literary interview podcast that captures the true essence of books and authors. Reminiscent of Bruce Springsteen in concert, Naimon's interviews meander through tangents and circles before reaching their conclusion, much like Springsteen's storytelling between songs. Although the questions may sometimes be unclear at the end, Naimon has a remarkable ability to turn his guests' words into pure gold.

    One of the best aspects of this podcast is its rich content and language. Naimon's extensive reading and research shines through in his deep and insightful questions. He goes beyond the standard banter, delving into the depths of each author's work and thought process. The conversations are both informative and pleasurable to listen to, as they not only focus on the content but also on the language chosen by the authors to express their thinking. Each episode brings new ways to appreciate literary conversation and reminds listeners why they love reading.

    Another standout feature is Naimon's series called "Crafting with Ursula," a loving homage to one of his favorite writers, Ursula K. Le Guin. The interviews in this series are meticulously curated, with each guest offering unique insights into Le Guin's work. Naimon engages sincerely with these writers, seeking to learn on behalf of the podcast audience. The result is a profound listening experience that showcases Naimon's masterful interviewing skills.

    Additionally, the long-form nature of these interviews allows for deeper conversations that go beyond surface-level discussions. Naimon's well-informed questions hold thoughtful twists that keep listeners engaged throughout. The podcast also introduces listeners to new poets through these interviews, making it a valuable resource for discovering fresh literary voices.

    On the downside, some may find it challenging to follow along with the meandering style of Naimon's interviews. The lack of structure can make it difficult to discern the main question or topic at times. However, for many listeners, this style adds to the charm of the podcast and enhances their appreciation for literary conversation.

    In conclusion, The Between the Covers podcast is a gold standard in literary interview podcasts. David Naimon's insightful questions and extensive research make each episode deep and insightful. Listeners can expect to be enthralled by the conversations and gain new perspectives on literature. Whether you are a writer or simply love literature, this podcast is an essential listen that will enrich your understanding of books and authors.



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    Madeleine Thien : The Book of Records

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2025 120:32


    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 impossibly conjures the lives and eras of the philosopher Baruch Spinoza, the Tang dynasty poet Du Fu and the political theorist […] The post Madeleine Thien : The Book of Records appeared first on Tin House.

    Leanne Betasamosake Simpson : Theory of Water

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2025 121:04


    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 takes us not only outside the academy, and away from our screens, but outside and into the world at large […] The post Leanne Betasamosake Simpson : Theory of Water appeared first on Tin House.

    Keetje Kuipers : Lonely Women Make Good Lovers

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2025 145:57


    From the craft of writing sex in poetry to the virtues of failing publicly, today's conversation with poet Keetje Kuipers is not to be missed. We explore everything from storytelling within poems to the dialectic between control and wildness; everything from queerness and wilderness to fantasy as a portal to truth on the page. Keetje's […] The post Keetje Kuipers : Lonely Women Make Good Lovers appeared first on Tin House.

    Patrycja Humienik : We Contain Landscapes

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2025 141:31


    What does it mean to risk rupture for rapture, on the page, and in one's life? Or for water to be one's method, mode or muse? Are inherited forms (of womanhood, of sexuality, of national identity) a gift or are their borders meant to be crossed and breached? Together we look at forms and norms […] The post Patrycja Humienik : We Contain Landscapes appeared first on Tin House.

    Torrey Peters : Stag Dance

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2025 138:27


    Four novellas, in four different genres—science fiction, horror, teen romance, and a western—Stag Dance not only interrogates genre, but gender through genre. Written over a ten year period, Torrey Peters' new book spans a decade when her own views and insights about gender were themselves changing. Placing these four novellas in conversation with each other […] The post Torrey Peters : Stag Dance appeared first on Tin House.

    Michelle de Kretser : Theory & Practice

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 122:36


    Today's guest, one of Australia's most celebrated and daring writers, Michelle de Kretser, discusses her latest uncategorizable book Theory & Practice (one she describes as 80% fiction, 15% essay and 5% memoir). Theory & Practice is a book that is wildly erudite and erotic at the same time, both an engrossing, immersive read and one that […] The post Michelle de Kretser : Theory & Practice appeared first on Tin House.

    Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2025 132:55


    In late October 2023, weeks into Israel's 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 of rubble, every building, one to the next, a hollow blown-out shell of itself. No people, no animals, the only sound […] The post Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This appeared first on Tin House.

    Hélène Cixous : Rêvoir

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2025 89:37


    Feminist and literary theorist, playwright, philosopher, memoirist and novelist Hélène Cixous returns to the show to discuss her latest genre-defying hybrid work of prose. Written during the first year of the pandemic, Rêvoir explores the effect of pandemic confinement on time, the effect of pandemic time on writing, and what plagues and confinement show us about […] The post Hélène Cixous : Rêvoir appeared first on Tin House.

    Aria Aber : Good Girl

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2025 130:57


    Poet Aria Aber's 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, of self-destruction and self-discovery, where 19 year old Nila navigates the irresolvable dialectics of being a […] The post Aria Aber : Good Girl appeared first on Tin House.

    Zahid Rafiq : The World With Its Mouth Open

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2025 124:14


    Today's guest Zahid Rafiq discusses his debut short story collection The World With Its Mouth Open, eleven remarkable stories set in modern-day Kashmir. Prior to writing fiction Rafiq was a journalist and we explore the ways the stories he tells now, and the stories he wrote then, differ and overlap, We look at how fiction can […] The post Zahid Rafiq : The World With Its Mouth Open appeared first on Tin House.

    Tin House Live : Denis Johnson : 2004

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2024 70:23


    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 his novella Train Dreams, then being interviewed by Chris Offutt, and finally, Denis, Chris and Charles D'Ambrosio performing the first act of […] The post Tin House Live : Denis Johnson : 2004 appeared first on Tin House.

    Rodrigo Fresán : Melvill

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2024 117:43


    How can a novel set during one brief moment near the end of Herman Melville's father's life, a moment lost to history and now fully overshadowed by his son's enduring literary legacy, become a portal to discuss the world entire? Melvill is a novel about reading and writing, about parenthood and legacy, about madness and memory, about […] The post Rodrigo Fresán : Melvill appeared first on Tin House.

    Dionne Brand : Salvage : Readings from the Wreck

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2024 131:03


    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 Brand's latest book of nonfiction Salvage: Readings from the Wreck returns to formative texts from her own reading life in order to model […] The post Dionne Brand : Salvage : Readings from the Wreck appeared first on Tin House.

    Danez Smith : Bluff

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2024 173:11


    Danez Smith's poetry is so many things, a poetry of resistance, of elegy, of joy, of care, of repair. Their poetry is Afrofuturist and Afropessimist. It's nature poetry, decolonial poetry, queer poetry, a poetry that is archival and documentary. And it is also a poetry that questions poetry itself and even more so, questions the […] The post Danez Smith : Bluff appeared first on Tin House.

    Kenzie Allen : Cloud Missives

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2024 153:17


    Today's 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, and on her notion of gaze within her work. We explore the fraught colonial history of these fields, and how, as an indigenous poet, she orients herself […] The post Kenzie Allen : Cloud Missives appeared first on Tin House.

    Tin House Live : Torrey Peters on Strategic Opacity

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2024 45:45


    Today's craft talk—by 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 don't make sense—from William Shakespeare to Elena Ferrante —and how, paradoxically, it is these very elements, the unexplainable ones, that can make a work of art great. […] The post Tin House Live : Torrey Peters on Strategic Opacity appeared first on Tin House.

    Jewish Currents Live : Dionne Brand & Adania Shibli in Conversation

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2024


    As part of Jewish Currents Live: A Day of Politics & Culture, I moderated a conversation between Adania Shibli and Dionne Brand this September in New York City. Both Dionne and Adania have been on the show individually, and part of why I was hoping to bring them together this way was because of just […] The post Jewish Currents Live : Dionne Brand & Adania Shibli in Conversation appeared first on Tin House.

    Isabella Hammad : Recognizing the Stranger : On Palestine and Narrative

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2024 116:17


    Today's conversation with Isabella Hammad is truly like no other on the show in its fourteen year history. The main text of her book is the speech she delivered for the Edward Said Memorial Lecture in September of 2023. A remarkable speech called “Recognizing the Stranger” which looks at the middle of narratives, at turning […] The post Isabella Hammad : Recognizing the Stranger : On Palestine and Narrative appeared first on Tin House.

    Tin House Live : Frank Bidart

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2024 70:19


    Today's episode is an archival recording of poet Frank Bidart from the 2008 Tin House Writers Workshop. It begins with an introduction by the poet Brenda Shaughnessy, followed by an extended poetry reading by Frank Bidart. After the reading is a not-to-be-missed substantive and remarkable craft interview of Frank by Brenda. They look at how […] The post Tin House Live : Frank Bidart appeared first on Tin House.

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    Nalo Hopkinson : Blackheart Man

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2024 110:34


    Todays' guest is Grand Master of science fiction and fantasy Nalo Hopkinson. Together we center her first novel in over a decade, the remarkable Blackheart Man, and look at what it means to not only write an alternate Caribbean history, but within that history conjure an entirely new culture, one with its own language, sexual […] The post Nalo Hopkinson : Blackheart Man appeared first on Tin House.

    Vajra Chandrasekera : Rakesfall

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2024 145:56


    Sri Lankan writer Vajra Chandrasekera's first novel, The Saint of Bright Doors, was shortlisted for or won nearly every major SFF award there is. Much of the buzz around this book circled the question:”what exactly is this?” Saints not only didn't fulfill the expected tropes of the genre, but seemed to be actively working against […] The post Vajra Chandrasekera : Rakesfall appeared first on Tin House.

    Carl Phillips : Scattered Snows, to the North

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2024


    Today's guest is one of the most singular and celebrated Anglophone poets writing today, Carl Phillips. We center his latest collection, Scattered Snows, to the North, his first since winning the 2023 Pulitzer prize in poetry. But we also use his three craft books written over the decades (in 2004, 2014 and 2023 respectively) to […] The post Carl Phillips : Scattered Snows, to the North appeared first on Tin House.

    Shze-Hui Tjoa : The Story Game

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2024 105:55 Transcription Available


    Today's guest, Shze-Hui Tjoa, has written a book that is remarkably unique. Is it an essay collection or a memoir? A detective story or a fantasy? A journey of self-individuation or an examination of power and control? Improbably it is all of these things, and perhaps more than any of them, it is the record […] The post Shze-Hui Tjoa : The Story Game appeared first on Tin House.

    Cecilia Vicuña : Deer Book

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2024 130:05


    Today's guest Chilean poet, performance artist, visual artist, activist, and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuña, joins us to discuss her latest work, Deer Book, or Libro Venado. A bilingual collection, with translations by the acclaimed poet and translator Daniel Borzutsky, Deer Book brings together nearly forty years of Vicuña's poetry and drawings surrounding the cosmologies and mythologies […] The post Cecilia Vicuña : Deer Book appeared first on Tin House.

    Lance Olsen : Absolute Away & Shrapnel

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2024 137:59


    Lance Olsen returns to Between the Covers to discuss his two new books, his uncategorizable multiverse fiction Absolute Away, and his new collection of philosophical essays and interviews on writing Shrapnel:Contemplations. Lance's latest novel engages with the life of Edith Metzger, an improbable footnote in two momentous events in history: 1)as  the woman in the […] The post Lance Olsen : Absolute Away & Shrapnel appeared first on Tin House.

    Amitav Ghosh : Smoke and Ashes

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2024 94:23


    For nearly twenty years Amitav Ghosh has been writing about opium and the opium trade, first in his fictional Ibis trilogy, and now in nonfiction with Smoke & Ashes. This is a story that brings together many of the preoccupying themes from Ghosh's career: the legacies of colonialism and extractive colonial economies, the intelligence of […] The post Amitav Ghosh : Smoke and Ashes appeared first on Tin House.

    Joyelle McSweeney : Death Styles

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2024 119:36


    Today's guest, poet, playwright, novelist, translator, publisher, editor and critic, Joyelle McSweeney discusses her latest poetry collection Death Styles. She talks about the juxtaposing of “death” and “style” and the seam to the underworld that opens when you do, about style as survival, about writing after and into death, about eyes that spill Art, and ears […] The post Joyelle McSweeney : Death Styles appeared first on Tin House.

    Danielle Dutton : Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2024 123:06


    One might ask, just what is Danielle Dutton's latest book, Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other? A collection of stories, a philosophical essay, a sequence of nested dreams and memories, an act of loving citation, a one-act play of silent animals, a meditation on the human in the more-than-human world, on the end of the world, on […] The post Danielle Dutton : Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other appeared first on Tin House.

    Alexis Wright : Praiseworthy

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2024 93:29


    Today's guest is one of the most important and celebrated writers in Australia today, Alexis Wright. We look together at the ways Wright reshapes the novel form to accommodate aboriginal notions of story, of time, and of scale. To find a different sound and voice for the novel, one that is multiple and collective. both […] The post Alexis Wright : Praiseworthy appeared first on Tin House.

    Nam Le : 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2024 144:42


    Over the past fifteen years, Nam Le has published a book in each genre. Best known for his phenomenal 2009 debut story collection The Boat, he followed it with his 2019 debut nonfiction On David Malouf, and now, this year, his debut poetry collection 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem. What is remarkable about […] The post Nam Le : 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem appeared first on Tin House.

    Anne de Marcken : It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2024 131:00


    Writer, interdisciplinary artist, editor and publisher Anne de Marcken discusses her new book It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over. Winner of the Novel Prize, and thus published simultaneously in the U.S., U.K., and Australia, by New Directions, Fitzcarraldo Editions and Giramondo respectively, de Marcken's new book is a deeply philosophical and metaphysical, heartbreakingly funny […] The post Anne de Marcken : It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over appeared first on Tin House.

    Canisia Lubrin : Code Noir

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2024 146:53


    Award-winning poet Canisia Lubrin talks about her debut fiction, Code Noir. The fifty-nine stories in this collection are each prefaced by one of Louis XIV's fifty-nine “Black codes,” the rules of conduct in France and its colonies regarding slaves and slavery. And each of these codes, each of these edicts, is also engaged with, manipulated and […] The post Canisia Lubrin : Code Noir appeared first on Tin House.

    Diana Khoi Nguyen : Root Fractures

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2024 159:49


    Today's conversation, with poet and multimedia artist Diana Khoi Nguyen, is not to be missed. Both of her books, Ghost Of and Root Fractures engage with and are shaped by her brother's absence and the family silence surrounding it. Two years before his suicide, her brother quietly removed the family photos from their frames on […] The post Diana Khoi Nguyen : Root Fractures appeared first on Tin House.

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    Álvaro Enrigue : You Dreamed of Empires

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2024


    Today's conversation with Álvaro Enrigue about his latest novel, You Dreamed of Empires, translated by Natasha Wimmer, is set during the relatively undocumented first encounter between Moctezuma and Hernan Cortés. The novel dilates the knife's edge moment when the Aztec emperor invites the conquistador, with his small band of Spanish soldiers, into the palaces of […] The post Álvaro Enrigue : You Dreamed of Empires appeared first on Tin House.

    Mathias Énard : The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2024 109:05


    Is Mathias Énard's latest book formally influenced by the Buddhist Wheel of Time, by Jewish undertaker guilds, by François Rabelais's scatological and philosophical prose & linguistic wordplay, by Catholic altarpiece polyptych panel paintings, and by the scandalous diaries of a Polish anthropologist?  The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild is dedicated to les pensées sauvages, […] The post Mathias Énard : The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild appeared first on Tin House.

    Tin House Live : Denis Johnson : 2003

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2024 90:33


    We are kicking off the new year with a serious blast from the past. A recording from the very first Tin House writers workshop in the summer of 2003 with novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter, Denis Johnson. This three part episode includes a remarkable reading from Johnson's novella Train Dreams, an interview of […] The post Tin House Live : Denis Johnson : 2003 appeared first on Tin House.

    Elle Nash : Deliver Me

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2023 107:07


    Perhaps it is fitting that today's episode, with writer and founding editor of Witchcraft Magazine, Elle Nash, is launched on the shortest day of the year, the longest night of darkness. Nash's new novel Deliver Me explores the ways society tries to keep the light and the dark separate, to hide our unasked questions and […] The post Elle Nash : Deliver Me appeared first on Tin House.

    Naomi Klein : Doppelganger : Part Two

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2023 148:12


    Today's part two of the conversation with Naomi Klein about Doppelganger highlights the Jewish elements in the book, and looks at them through the lens of Palestine & Israel. We discuss Zionism, Marxism and the Jewish Labor Bund's notion of ‘hereness.” We look at the battles over the definition of  antisemitism and the ways accusations […] The post Naomi Klein : Doppelganger : Part Two appeared first on Tin House.

    Kate Zambreno & Sofia Samatar : Tone

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2023 150:10


    In Kate Zambreno & Sofia Samatar's Tone they construct a shared voice, that of the “Committee to Investigate the Atmosphere.” Yes, they do this to investigate tone, in the writings of everyone from Nella Larsen to Clarice Lispector, W.G. Sebald to Franz Kafka, Renee Gladman to Bhanu Kapil. But in chasing the ever-elusive notion of tone, […] The post Kate Zambreno & Sofia Samatar : Tone appeared first on Tin House.

    Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore : Touching the Art

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2023 154:18


    Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore returns to Between the Covers to talk about her remarkable new book, Touching the Art. A mixture of memoir, biography, criticism and social history, Touching the Art is above all a complicated love letter to Mattilda's grandmother, abstract artist Gladys Goldstein. Through an exploration of Mattilda's love for Gladys' art, Touching the Art becomes […] The post Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore : Touching the Art appeared first on Tin House.

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    Bhanu Kapil : Incubation : A Space for Monsters

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2023 154:20


    Bhanu Kapil's postcolonial feminist road novel Incubation : A Space for Monsters has long been out-of-print. The book of hers that most engages with the mythos and reality of America, Incubation follows Laloo, a British woman of Indian descent, who arrives in the U.S. to give birth to a monster. This fictional story parallels Bhanu's own […] The post Bhanu Kapil : Incubation : A Space for Monsters appeared first on Tin House.

    Colleen Burner : Sister Golden Calf

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2023 57:35


    Colleen Burner's novella Sister Golden Calf is the story of two sisters on the road set in a world without men. Inspired, in part, by Vanessa Veselka's essay “Green Screen: The Lack of Female Road Narratives and Why It Matters,” Sister Golden Calf by its very existence interrogates the road novel tradition it now becomes a part […] The post Colleen Burner : Sister Golden Calf appeared first on Tin House.

    Kate Briggs : The Long Form

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2023 141:51


    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-centric, not a novel about babies, but where the baby is a main character, a vital actor that shapes the story that unfolds, that […] The post Kate Briggs : The Long Form appeared first on Tin House.

    Lydia Davis : Our Strangers

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2023 118:06


    Today's 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 long, often eschew backstory, exposition, context, or psychological interiority. Sometimes they even comment on other stories within the collection, or revise themselves, becoming something else entirely. […] The post Lydia Davis : Our Strangers appeared first on Tin House.

    Naomi Klein : Doppelganger

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2023 138:24


    Naomi Klein's 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 we come to expect from Klein, a brilliant framing, through the coining of new language, of our current political moment. And yet Doppelganger is decidedly more personal, more vulnerable, […] The post Naomi Klein : Doppelganger appeared first on Tin House.

    Tin House Live : Matthew Zapruder on Story of a Poem

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2023 67:50


    You could say that Matthew Zapruder's 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 mesmerizing way, behind the curtain of the creative process of composition. And you wouldn't be wrong. […] The post Tin House Live : Matthew Zapruder on Story of a Poem appeared first on Tin House.

    Major Jackson : Razzle Dazzle

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2023 153:52


    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 also released a book his selected prose, A Beat Beyond, his meditations on poetry and its relation to […] The post Major Jackson : Razzle Dazzle appeared first on Tin House.

    JoAnna Novak : Contradiction Days

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2023 116:58


    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 regimen in northern New Mexico, where Martin lived and painted (and where Novak writes this book we discuss today). The structure of this retreat is inspired […] The post JoAnna Novak : Contradiction Days appeared first on Tin House.

    Jorie Graham : To 2040

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2023 180:28


    Jorie Graham's first appearance on the show in 2021, to discuss her collection Runaway, is one of the most relistened to episodes in the show's history, a conversation that, with each revisitation, seems to reveal something new about how to will oneself into presence as an artist and as a human. And it is a […] The post Jorie Graham : To 2040 appeared first on Tin House.

    Tin House Live : Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on Surrealism

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2023 41:02


    Today's 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 speculative conceits operated in and informed Black fiction, in this craft talk Adjei-Brenyah looks at the tropes of surrealist and speculative fiction within […] The post Tin House Live : Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on Surrealism appeared first on Tin House.

    Roger Reeves : Dark Days

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2023 136:44


    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, fugitivity is “a desire for and a spirit of escape and transgression of the proper and the proposed. . […] The post Roger Reeves : Dark Days appeared first on Tin House.

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