Author Tony Tulathimutte talks with Nirica Srinivasan about the mosaic of interconnected short stories focused on the "underrated sorrows of rejection" in his new collection, Rejection
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Sarah Ghazal Ali discusses THEOPHANIES
Sarah Ghazal Ali in conversation with Isabelle Sakelaris about her vivid debut poetry collection, Theophanies
SACRED MONSTER ~ Chloë Cassens discusses JEAN COCTEAU
Chloë Cassens represents the Severin Wunderman Collection, the largest collection of works by iconoclastic French artist Jean Cocteau. In this podcast interview with Logan Royce Beitmen, Cassens discusses Cocteau’s massive cultural influence & her efforts to increase awareness about his life and legacy.
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Julia Hannafin
Author Julia Hannafin in conversation with Nirica Srinivasan about their debut novel Cascade
Fascism, queerness, & the making of modern sports: MICHAEL WATERS discusses his book THE OTHER OLYMPIANS
Author Michael Waters discusses his book The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports, a very detailed look at the long history of gender identity and testing in sports and many of the major athletes and officials involved in the controversies
CINDY JUYOUNG OK on WARD TOWARD
Poet Cindy Juyoung Ok in conversation with Isabelle Sakelaris about her collection Ward Toward
Ben Shattuck discusses THE HISTORY OF SOUND: STORIES
Author Ben Shattuck talks in-depth with Nirica Srinivasan about his new book The History of Sound: Stories, which features a fantastically unique structure: each story has a companion story, which contains a revelation about the previous, paired story
Silence as an architect of experience in THE HEARING TEST
Nirica Srinivasan reviews Eliza Barry Callahan’s novel The Hearing Test
Gemma Rolls-Bentley discusses QUEER ART: FROM CANVAS TO CLUB, AND THE SPACES BETWEEN
Gemma Rolls-Bentley talks about her new book Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between & the ways it considers queer art within the context of the current moment
Memory, identity, & synchronicities: Elisa Gabbert's ANY PERSON IS THE ONLY SELF
Writer, poet, and essayist Elisa Gabbert talks in-depth with Nirica Srinivasan about her new essay collection Any Person Is the Only Self
Pushing against the limits of possibility: R.O. KWON discusses EXHIBIT
In a perceptive and revelatory interview with Nirica Srinivasan, author R.O. Kwon explores the intricacies of her newly released novel, Exhibit
The persuasive intuitions of ANNE CARSON
Poet, essayist, professor of Classics, and translator Anne Carson discusses her new book of poetic prose pieces and images, Wrong Norma
MARY JO BANG isn't lost in translation
Isabelle Sakelaris talks with award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang about her recent collection, A Film in Which I Play Everyone
The tensions between drifting & survival in AMBER CARON'S stories
Amber Caron talks with Nirica Srinivasan about her striking new short story collection Call Up the Waters
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Lande Yoosuf
Lande Yoosuf is a writer, director, and producer. In this interview, she discusses her unusual approach of turning her short film, Second Generation Wedding, into a full-length screenplay, then adapting that screenplay into her novel, Ko-Foe: The Story of a Nigerian, Muslim Family in the New York Diaspora
Why CHRISTOPHER BREAN MURRAY lies to tell truths
Poet Christopher Brean Murray talks about his collection, Black Observatory, & he discusses his intuitive methods of fabrication & questioning to discover truths in his works
Novelist LYDIA KIESLING talks about class, power, politics, & desire
Author Lydia Kiesling talks about the elements of class, power, politics, & desire in her new novel Mobility
LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ discusses her literary life at the wheel
Prolific author Lynne Sharon Schwartz discusses her latest publication, My Life at the Wheel, a book of personal essays that she considers a memoir in collage form
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ aja monet
A full recording of our recent online edition interview between poet, lyricist, writer, and community organizer aja monet and Logan Royce Beitmen
Why aja monet's poems do what they do
Poet, writer, lyricist, & community organizer aja monet speaks about her Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album for her debut when the poems do what they do, those who’ve inspired her, what moves her to action, & why literature liberates