Brick Podcast

by Brick magazine

A podcast from Brick magazine featuring interviews with writers, poets, artists, and storytellers featured in the journal’s pages. Hear what moves Brick’s contributors to create, what fuels their practice, and what they can’t stop thinking about. Hosted and produced by Sarah Melton.

Episodes

Episode 10: Robert Bringhurst reads “Life Poem” from Brick 111

13m · Published 23 Oct 17:26

Robert Bringhurst reads “Life Poem,” In memoriam Stan Dragland, from Brick 111. With an introduction by Brick publisher, Laurie Graham. . . .

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Episode 9: Karen Benning, Jesse Nathan, Kaiama L. Glover, and Omar El Akkad Read from Brick 111

9m · Published 21 Aug 21:07

In this episode, contributors read excerpts from their pieces that appear in Brick 111. Karen Benning reads from “A Little Globule of Silver,” an essay that explores her relationship to the element lithium, both a basic ingredient of our planet . . .

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Writer to Writer: David Chariandy and Cason Sharpe

53m · Published 06 Dec 17:45

We end our three-part series, Writer to Writer , with a conversation between Brick issue 106 contributor Cason Sharpe and novelist and Brick editor David Chariandy, which covers topics as wide-ranging as mentorship among generations of BIPOC writers in . . .

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Writer to Writer: Erica Violet Lee and Canisia Lubrin

32m · Published 06 Dec 16:58

In the second episode of our three-part series Writer to Writer , poet and Brick issue 107 contributor Erica Violet Lee speaks with poet, professor, and author of The Dyzgraphxst Canisia Lubrin on writing against colonialism and capitalism, accepting . . .

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Writer to Writer: Troy Sebastian and Eleanor Wachtel

25m · Published 06 Dec 15:58

The first episode in our special, three-part Writer to Writer series has writer Troy Sebastian turning the tables on the host of CBC’s Writers and Company and long-time Brick contributor Eleanor Wachtel in an interview about how she got . . .

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Episode 8: Sharon Olds

27m · Published 03 Aug 14:56

Brick publisher Laurie Graham speaks with poet Sharon Olds to discuss everything from Olds’ strict religious upbringing to looming environmental catastrophe. They consider how even the most difficult or seemingly private things about us has the capacity for poetry. . . .

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Episode 7: Souvankham Thammavongsa

36m · Published 14 Jun 15:23

In this episode of Brick Podcast, Souvankham Thammavongsa pushes back against being underestimated. She discusses her new short story collection How to Pronounce Knife , her Randy Travis fandom, and giving Little Red Riding Hood a brand new ending. . . .

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Episode 6: Amitava Kumar

23m · Published 05 May 17:22

Brick editor Liz Johnston in conversation with Amitava Kumar to consider the nature of memory, the interplay of fact and fiction, and the power (and limitations) of the written word. This interview was conducted pre-pandemic, so no social distancing was . . .

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Episode 5: Karen Solie

18m · Published 29 Feb 18:52

In this episode of Brick Podcast, Neve Dickson interviews Karen Solie. Solie reads a poem from her newest book, The Caiplie Caves, which was featured in Brick 103, and discusses what drew her to write about the caves and the . . .

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Episode 4: Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Launch

1h 21m · Published 02 May 08:44

This episode of Brick Podcast features Saidiya Hartman’s Toronto book launch for Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments , Hartman’s latest book, examining the revolution of Black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth . . .

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Brick Podcast has 16 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 8:19:12. 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 22nd, 2024 01:11.