Fiction/Non/Fiction Podcast
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Fiction/Non/Fiction Podcast
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Everything you see on the news has already been written about in literature.
With Literary Hub

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NEW EPISODE:
Poet and essayist Kathryn Nuernberger joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about her new collection of lyric essays, Held: Essays in Belonging, which is about symbiotic mutualisms and climate grief/joy.
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Kathryn Nuernberger on Mutualism, Climate, and Finding Family at the End of the World
Poet and essayist Kathryn Nuernberger joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about her new collection of lyric essays, Held: Essays in Belonging, which is about symbiotic mu…
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November 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Today is the 1st day of COP30, or the UN’s annual climate summit. Revisit Whitney Terrell & @sugi.bsky.social as they talk with @emilyraboteau.bsky.social as they discuss climate change & her book, Lessons for Survival; Mothering Against “the Apocalypse.”

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Countries are gathering for climate negotiations. Here's where the U.S. stands
Under President Trump, the U.S. has taken steps to roll back climate policies. Here are six significant changes.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
A federal judge permanently barred Trump from sending the National Guard to Portland. Revisit Whitney Terrell & @sugi.bsky.social in an interview with @rubenwrites.bsky.social as they discuss mass deportation efforts & his book There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven.
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‘Huge victory’ in Portland as judge’s final order bars Trump from sending national guard
Karin Immergut said earlier she ‘found no credible evidence’ that protests in Oregon city were out of control
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November 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The University of Virginia is the first public university to strike a deal with the Trump administration. Revisit Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social and their conversation with @meghanor.bsky.social on her NYT piece “The End of the University as We Know It”.

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Trump administration announces settlement with UVA | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has reached a settlement with the University of Virginia, according to an announcement from the Department of Justice, marking the first public university to reach a deal with...
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November 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
NEW EPISODE: Translator @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about her award-winning translations of Nobel Prize winner László Krasznahorkai’s work.
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Ottilie Mulzet on Translating Hungarian Nobel Prize Winner László Krasznahorkai
Translator Ottilie Mulzet joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about her award-winning translations of Nobel Prize winner László Krasznahorkai’s work. Mulzet, who was born…
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November 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Fiction writer @maxdelsohn.bsky.social joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his debut short story collection, Crawl, intracommunity violence, and the Trump administration’s vicious assault on transgender Americans.
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Max Delsohn on the Importance of Portraying Trans Men
Fiction writer Max Delsohn joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his debut short story collection, Crawl, which features a number of transmasculine characters. Delsohn a…
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October 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Revisit @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell to hear their conversation with Vanity Fair’s journalist, Dan Adler, as they further breakdown his coverage highlighting new details on Maxwell’s involvement with the island and Epstein. lithub.com/vanity-fairs...
Vanity Fair’s Dan Adler on Jeffrey Epstein and What Ghislaine Maxwell Knows
Vanity Fair journalist Dan Adler joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his coverage of Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 of facilitating Jeffrey Epstein’s sex…
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October 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The USDA announced that food benefits, used by more than 41 million Americans, would not be issued on November 1st due to the ongoing shutdown. Listen to Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social w/ @lisquar3d.bsky.social on the danger of the bootstrap narrative. lithub.com/alissa-quart...
Alissa Quart on the Dangerous Lie of American Bootstrap Narratives
Nonfiction writer Alissa Quart joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss how the American obsession with “bootstrap narratives” led to the publishing industry championing Hi…
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October 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
NEW EPISODE: Graphic novelist @benpassmore.bsky.social joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his new graphic novel Black Arms To Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance.
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Ben Passmore on the History of Black Resistance
Graphic novelist Ben Passmore joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his new graphic novel Black Arms To Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance. Passmore explains the…
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October 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
New Yorker staff writer @jelaniya.bsky.social
joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his new essay collection, Three or More is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-2025.
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Jelani Cobb on Race, Politics, and the ‘Trayvon Martin Generation’
New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his new essay collection, Three or More is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-2025. Cobb re…
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October 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The relationship between American politics and the military is long and varied. Revisit Episode 21 from Season 2, where our hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social talk with novelist and Marine Elliot Ackerman and memoirist and Marine Anuradha Bhagwati! lithub.com/elliot-acker...
Elliot Ackerman and Anuradha Bhagwati on the Role of the Military in American Politics
In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, novelist Elliot Ackerman and memoirist Anuradha Bhagwati talk about how the military has—and hasn’t—changed during Donald Trump’s time as Command…
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October 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Black women have a long history of challenging the establishments of power. Revisit this conversation of our hosts @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell with author @mauricenow.bsky.social about his book, The American Daughters. Links in bio. lithub.com/maurice-carl... #fnfpod #lithubpod #writers
Maurice Carlos Ruffin on the History of Powerful Black Women Challenging the Establishment
Fiction writer Maurice Carlos Ruffin joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about the literary and historical antecedents to Fani Willis, the Georgia prosecutor who has file…
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October 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Acclaimed fiction writer and essayist Edwidge Danticat joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss her new essay collection We’re Alone. Danticat reflects on misinformation and xenophobic rhetoric in Trump's second term.
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Edwidge Danticat on Haiti and Trump, Past and Present
Acclaimed fiction writer and essayist Edwidge Danticat joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss her new essay collection We’re Alone. Danticat reflects on misinformation an…
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October 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
No back pay for federal workers? Listen as @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell discuss Trump's strategy to thwart Congressional spending with ProPublica reporter @mtredden.bsky.social en.bsky.social. Links in bio. lithub.com/molly-redden... #FNFpod #writingcommunity #lithub #writers #lithubpod
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October 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It’s Banned Book Week! A great opportunity to revisit a conversation between hosts Whitney Terrell and
@sugi.bsky.social
with Farah Jasmine Griffin about censoring the American canon and targeting Black writers. lithub.com/censoring-th... #writingcommunity #writers #FNFpod #lithub #lithubpod
Censoring the American Canon: Farah Jasmine Griffin on Book Bans Targeting Black Writers
Acclaimed writer and professor Farah Jasmine Griffin joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about why book bans so often target the power of Black literature. Griffin discus…
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October 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Fiction writer Yiming Ma joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and
@sugi.bsky.social to discuss his new novel These Memories Do Not Belong To Us and how terrifyingly easy it can be to live in a society in which censorship is the default.
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Yiming Ma on the Future of Censorship
Fiction writer Yiming Ma joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his new novel These Memories Do Not Belong To Us. Ma, who was born in Shanghai and visited China frequentl…
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October 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Journalist @calebgayle.bsky.social
joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social
to discuss his new book Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State.
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Caleb Gayle on Black Settlers in the American West
Journalist Caleb Gayle joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his new book Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State, which recounts the efforts of …
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September 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
NEW EPISODE: Writer
Omar El Akkad joins co-hosts
Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his recent nonfiction book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, which was just nominated for the National Book Award.
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Omar El Akkad on Gaza and Western Empire
Writer Omar El Akkad joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his recent nonfiction book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, which was just nominated for…
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September 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
NEW EPISODE: Novelist Jessica Francis Kane joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss her new novel Fonseca, which fictionalizes writer Penelope Fitzgerald’s 1952 trip to Mexico.
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#books #podcast
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Jessica Francis Kane on Penelope Fitzgerald in Mexico
Novelist Jessica Francis Kane joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss her new novel Fonseca, which fictionalizes writer Penelope Fitzgerald’s 1952 trip to Mexico. Kane tal…
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September 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
NEW EPISODE: Fiction writer and editor Patrick Ryan joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss
his debut novel, Buckeye, which traces two generations of two Midwestern families connected by a secret.
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#smalltown #Midwest #books
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Patrick Ryan on The Good Heart of Buckeye
Fiction writer and editor Patrick Ryan joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his debut novel, Buckeye, which traces two generations of two Midwestern families connected …
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September 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
NEW EPISODE: New York Times book critics
JenniferSzalai and @alexandrajacobs.bsky.social
join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss their recent article, “Love Jack Kerouac? Read These Great American Road Trip Books Next.”
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Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs on Great American Road Trip Books
New York Times book critics Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss their recent article, “Love Jack Kerouac? Read These Great American…
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August 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
NEW EPISODE: Biographer Nicholas Boggs joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his groundbreaking new book, Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of James Baldwin to be published in three decades.
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Nicholas Boggs on James Baldwin’s Love Stories
Biographer Nicholas Boggs joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his groundbreaking new book, Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of James Baldwin to be publ…
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August 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Journalist Will Bardenwerper joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his new book, Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America, which explores the consequences of MLB cutting 40 minor league teams.
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August 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
NEW EPISODE: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss her support of Higher Ground, a long-term residence for women recovering from addiction.
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Barbara Kingsolver on Supporting Appalachian Women Recovering from Addiction
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss her support of Higher Ground, a long-term residence for women recovering from ad…
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August 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
NEW EPISODE: Vanity Fair’s Dan Adler on Jeffrey #Epstein and What Ghislaine Maxwell Knows, in conversation with @sugi.bsky.social & Whit Terrell cc @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/vanity-fairs...
Vanity Fair’s Dan Adler on Jeffrey Epstein and What Ghislaine Maxwell Knows
Vanity Fair journalist Dan Adler joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his coverage of Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 of facilitating Jeffrey Epstein’s sex…
lithub.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM