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The Sewanee Review


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    Maria Zoccola

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2025


    In which Maria Zoccola sweetens the pill.

    Maria Zoccola

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025


    In which Maria Zoccola sweetens the pill.

    Tyriek White

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2025


    In which Tyriek White confronts his literary ghosts.

    Adam Ross

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2025


    In which Adam Ross taps the aquarium glass.

    Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2024


    In which Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah swings through the truth, not at it.

    Cindy Juyoung Ok

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2024


    In which Cindy Juyoung Ok speaks across the rupture.

    John Jeremiah Sullivan II

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2024


    In which John Jeremiah Sullivan pities the monster.

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    Joy Priest

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2024


    In which Joy Priest maps a life made in letters.

    Patricia Smith

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2024


    In which Patricia Smith writes against silence.

    John Jeremiah Sullivan

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2024


    In which John Jeremiah Sullivan lays the golden egg.

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    Justin Taylor

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2024


    In which Justin Taylor follows the breadcrumbs.

    Sigrid Nunez

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2024


    In which Sigrid Nunez catalogues her literary present and past.

    Elliot Ackerman

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2024


    In which Elliot Ackerman grapples with the military-industrial complex.

    Gabrielle Bates

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2023


    In which Gabrielle Bates writes into the darkness.

    Jennifer Habel and Chris Bachelder

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2023


    In which a day's work is never done.

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    Christopher Spaide

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2023


    In which Christopher Spaide waxes critical.

    Garrett Hongo

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2023


    In which Garrett Hongo writes toward a better America.

    CJ Hauser

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2023


    In which CJ Hauser writes to the heart.

    Joanna Pearson

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2023


    In which Joanna Pearson does not fear the ghosts in the attic.

    Matthew Baker

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2023


    In which Matthew Baker cherishes corporeal existence.

    Jay Parini

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2023


    In which Jay Parini recounts the fictions and realities of his Borgesian adventure.

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    Kirmen Uribe

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2022


    In which Kirmen Uribe and his writing witness a changing world.

    Alice McDermott

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2022


    In which Alice McDermott knows her way around a novel.

    Gwen E. Kirby

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2022


    In which Gwen E. Kirby talks sexist tropes, angry women, and radioactive cockroaches.

    Matthew Olzmann

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2022


    In which Matthew Olzmann casts his poems into the stars and into the sea.

    Vievee Francis

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2022


    In which Vievee Francis looks toward the light.

    Phillip B. Williams

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2022


    In which Phillip B. Williams writes with anger and preserves with love.

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    Michael Knight

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2022


    In which Michael Knight finds magic.

    Brandon Taylor

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2022


    In which Brandon Taylor surveys his Hot Freud Summer.

    Lauren Groff

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2022


    In which novelist Lauren Groff talks utopia, twelfth-century feminine desire, and the ghost of Hildegard von Bingen.

    Elena Passarello

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2021


    In which Elena Passarello gives Aesop a run for his money.

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    Sidik Fofana

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2021


    In which editor-at-large Sidik Fofana discusses MFA culture, slow writing, and teaching high school, as well as his stories “The Okiedoke” and “The Rent Manual,” which were originally published in the Sewanee Review.

    Danielle Evans

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2021


    In which Danielle Evans discusses characterological framework, the coincidence of unintentional motif, and the underpinnings of a successful short story.

    Katie Kitamura

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2021


    In which editor-at-large Brandon Taylor interviews Katie Kitamura, author of *A Separation* and *Intimacies*. In this episode, Kitamura considers how her work explores the inner landscapes of the self.

    Nikky Finney

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2021


    In which poet Nikky Finney begins with love.

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    Lisa Taddeo

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2021


    In which Lisa Taddeo, author of the *New York Times* bestseller *Three Women* and the novel *Animal*, talks about the mundane cruelty of male indifference, the deferral of female desire, and power dynamics in heterosexual relationships that elide female agency, favoring narratives of absolute victimhood.

    Ross Gay

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2021


    In which Ross Gay, poet of Be Holding; Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; and author of the New York Times Bestselling collection of essays The Book of Delights, discusses “Joy as the rightful subject of our literary concerns or inquiry.”

    Caki Wilkinson

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2021


    In which Caki Wilkinson personifies hope and muses, “Hope is a character and things are not going well for her. I was thinking about Emily Dickinson, like what is the 2020 version of Emily Dickinson's ‘Hope is the thing with feathers?'. Definitely not a bird.”

    Rebecca Wolff

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2021


    In which Rebecca Wolff, poet and editor of Fence magazine, discusses the sparse structure of her writing life, her editorship of Fence, and the kinetic tension between stanzas and space on the page: “I think the space is just as present but maybe not more. It's a place full of hope, it's a place where I am hoping that the reader will allow themselves to make connections that I am not willing to make for them.”

    Graham Barnhart

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2021


    In which Graham Barnhart, poet and US Army veteran, discusses the paradox of being an army medic—“You carry a rifle and an aid bag full of medical supplies to treat the people you're potentially expected to shoot”; and the capacity of poetry to contain that paradox without limiting it: “How do I communicate what feels like a personal experience without ignoring the violence and oppression of the machine I'm a part of that allowed me to receive that experience, even providing medical care as a way of pursuing the war?”

    Jennifer Habel

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2020


    In which the poet Jennifer Habel, author of The Book of Jane discusses the process of reexamining traditionally female forms of artistry and how that exercise animates her own craft.

    Chris Bachelder

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2020


    In which editor Adam Ross interviews novelist Chris Bachelder about his thoughts on patient writing, and Bachelder reads an excerpt from his novel The Throwback Special.

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    Erin McGraw

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2020


    In which Erin McGraw, a former teacher at the University of Cincinnati and Ohio State as well as a prolific author with three novels and four collections of short stories, entreats aspiring writers: “Forgive yourself.”

    Paul Muldoon

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2020


    In which Pulitzer prizewinning poet Paul Muldoon confronts himself. “Ok Paul get a grip. Face reality this is what you do, and it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do,” says he. “It is as reasonable a thing to do as to be a philosopher or a psychiatrist or a pulmonary specialist. Just get over yourself. It's not about you. You are a poet.”

    Edgar Kunz & Anders Carlson-Wee

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2020


    In which poets Edgar Kunz, the author of *Tap Out*, and Anders Carlson-Wee, the author of *The Low Passions*, consider influence and camaraderie—the ways in which their friendship has shaped their writing practices and their first books.

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    Anna Lena Phillips Bell

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2020


    In which Anna Lena Phillips Bell—author of the poetry collection Ornament and editor of Ecotone—considers the ways poetry helps us map the natural world and how “art is not a frivolous pursuit.”

    Margaret Renkl

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2020


    In which Margaret Renkl—the author of Late Migrations and a contributing writer for the New York Times—wonders if the arc of the universe still bends towards justice.

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    Stephanie Danler

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2020


    In which editor Adam Ross interviews bestselling author Stephanie Danler about her upcoming memoir Stray. In this episode, Danler discusses the differences between writing fiction and memoir and gives the listener a behind-the-scenes look into how a book gets refined in its final stages of editing

    Melissa Febos

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2020


    In which Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me, dubs writing "psychological alchemy" and recites a poem by Mary Oliver.

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    Garth Greenwell

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2020


    In which editor Adam Ross interviews Garth Greenwell, the author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You. In this episode, Greenwell is crowned King of MFA Programs and decrees mandatory reading in a second language and deeply in translated works.

    The Sewanee Review Podcast - Trailer

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2019


    In which Adam Ross, editor of the Sewanee Review, introduces the Sewanee Review Podcast for readers and storytellers.

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