In an Ep308 clip, @jeffpearlman.bsky.social talks about his philosophy of deep, layered research, and expectations for writerly research.

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In an Ep305 clip, @lesbrains.bsky.social‬⁩ talks about the power of renaming, as her book so brilliantly interrogates colonial land grabs and revisionist and erased histories.

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In an Ep300 clip, ⁦‪Nathan Thrall talks about how his book as a primer on the Gaza/Israeli conflict not starting on October 7 and how the ghettos Palestinians live in are instructive.

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In this Ep296 clip, Ursula Villarreal-Moura talks about how using an epistolary format unlocked new paths and profundity for her stirring, subtly beautiful Like Happiness.

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In an Ep295 clip, master chronicler & storyteller Wright Thompson discusses the interconnectedness of the world & the need to "go back across the ocean" to truly understand all that led to Emmett Till's horrific murder.

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In an Ep290 clip, Adnan Virk‬⁩ talks about having the freedom to riff in his book's chapter, while also having material for even more essays, and maybe another book.🤞

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In this Episode 289 clip, @jahmalmayfield.bsky.social⁩ describes the dynamic opening of his thoughtful and action-packed novel.

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In an Ep290 clip, ⁦Adnan Virk‬⁩ talks about the atmosphere and iconic announcement at the 2017 Academy Awards.

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In this Episode 288 clip, @camilleuadams.bsky.social‬⁩ reflects on ideas of vulnerability and shame, as rendered in her inventive, unique, profound How to be Unmothered: A Trinidadian Memoir.

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In an Ep287 clip, @jordanharper.bsky.social‬⁩ talks about an important sense of realism and the "visceral" that informed his writing of She Rides Shotgun-simply a master work.

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In an Ep287 clip, ⁦‪Jordan Harper‬⁩ talks about how the opening for She Rides Shotgun is what his friend and fellow standout writer @blacktopkid.bsky.social calls "Old Testament Writing."

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It's Opening Day for She Rides Shotgun! In this Ep287 clip, the masterful Jordan Harper‬⁩ discusses what it's like to see his book on the big screen.

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Congrats to Hannah Pittard for her witty, eccentric, profound novel! In an Ep287 clip, she discusses the book as fiction & how one of her dynamic characters comes from her sister as muse.

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In an Ep284 clip, Vanessa Saunders‬⁩ discusses connections between misogyny, humor, and speculative fiction.

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