Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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Episodes
Danielle Dutton : Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
2h 3m · PublishedOne 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 […]
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Alexis Wright : Praiseworthy
1h 33m · PublishedToday’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 honor 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 […]
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Nam Le : 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem
2h 24m · PublishedOver 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 […]
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Anne de Marcken : It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over
2h 11m · PublishedWriter, 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 […]
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Canisia Lubrin : Code Noir
2h 26m · PublishedAward-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 […]
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Diana Khoi Nguyen : Root Fractures
2h 39m · PublishedToday’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 […]
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Álvaro Enrigue : You Dreamed of Empires
0s · PublishedToday’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 Hernán 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 […]
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Mathias Énard : The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild
1h 49m · PublishedIs 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 and 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, […]
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Tin House Live : Denis Johnson : 2003
1h 30m · PublishedWe 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 Johnson […]
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Elle Nash : Deliver Me
1h 47m · PublishedPerhaps 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 […]
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Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry has 289 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 432:27:18. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on July 29th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on April 23rd, 2024 02:13.