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Poured Over is a show for readers who pore over details, obsess over sentences and ideas and stories and characters; readers who ask a lot of questions, just like Poured Over's host, Miwa Messer, a career bookseller who's always reading. Follow us here for surprising riffs, candid conversations, a few laughs, and lots of great book recommendations from big name authors and authors on their way to being big names. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional bonus episodes on Saturdays).
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- Yesterday45 min
Makenna Goodman on HELEN OF NOWHERE
Blending surrealism, satire and philosophical concepts, Booker Prize-longlisted Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman weaves a tale of beginnings following a disgraced professor who moves into a house where the presence of the previous owner lingers. Makenna joins us to talk about narrative form, stand-up comedy, and the dynamism of nature with cohost Jenna Seery. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Jenna Seery and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books: Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman Living the Good Life by Scott & Helen Nearing All Fours by Miranda July Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel The Power of Now by Eckart Tolle Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Friere The Summer Book by Tove Jansson The Moomin Series by Tove Jansson The Wall by Marlen Haushofer Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
- 3 days ago51 min
Claudia Rankine on TRIAGE
In Triage, acclaimed author and playwright Claudia Rankine uses prose, poetry and art images to challenge the ways we look at friendship and memory, action and obligation. Claudia joined us live from B&N Upper West Side to talk about narrative, lyric poetry, interiority, and broadening the collective we with host Miwa Messer. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books: Triage by Claudia Rankine Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine The White Card by Claudia Rankine Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space by Catherine Barnett Gaza in My Phone by Mazen Kerbaj William Kentridge: Milestones: At the Heart of Creation by William Kentridge Anarchitecture After Everything by Jack Halberstam Black Formations: Poetics of Refusal Within the African Diaspora by Melody Howse
- 5 days ago55 min
Jodi Picoult on HOLLOW BONES
In her latest novel, Hollow Bones, Jodi Picoult uses her powerful voice to craft a moving story about what we do to protect our loved ones when faced with the unexpected. Jodi joins us to talk about public health, private tragedy, motherhood, and gender gaps in healthcare with cohost Brenda Allison. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Brenda Allison and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books: Hollow Bones by Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak Into the Blue by Emma Brodie Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves Under Story by Chloe Benjamin TBR Featured Books: Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan
- 1 weeks ago54 min
Olga Ravn on THE WAX CHILD
Told from the perspective of a wax doll, Olga Ravn's The Wax Child is a chilling tale inspired by a real group of women accused of dark magic in seventeenth-century Denmark. Olga joins us to talk about her craft, the power of ritual, collective memory, creepy children, and contemporary Scandinavian literature with cohost Jenna Seery. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Jenna Seery and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books: The Wax Child by Olga Ravn The Employees by Olga Ravn alphabet by Inger Christensen The Condition of Secrecy: Selected Essays by Inger Christensen it by Inger Christensen How I Became a Nun by César Aira The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Dark Spring by Unica Zürn The Man of Jasmine and Other Texts by Unica Zürn The Trumpets of Jericho by Unica Zürn The Cinnamon Shops and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz The Wall by Marlen Haushofer Strega by Johanne Lykke Holm Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen Vilhelm's Room by Tove Ditlevsen The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen On the Calculation of Volume, Book I by Solvej Balle After the Sun by Jonas Eika Money to Burn by Asta Olivia Nordenhof Valerie: or, The Faculty of Dreams: Amendment to the Theory of Sexuality by Sara Stridberg
- 1 weeks ago44 min
Emily Wilson on CROSSING THE WINE-DARK SEA
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson takes readers on a tour through the ancient world for an entertaining examination of Greek and Roman literature and their impact on our modern world. Emily joins us to talk about the joys and challenges of interpreting antiquity, the stakes of poetic form and re-translating The Odyssey with cohost Jenna Seery. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Jenna Seery and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books: Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson The Iliad by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho, translated by Anne Carson The Oresteia by Aeschylus, translated by Robert Fagles Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, translated by Marin Hammond The Aeneid by Virgil, translated by Scott McGill & Susannah Wright The Poems of Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus, translated by Stephanie McCarter Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles, translated by Robert Fagles
- 1 weeks ago1h 2m
Marlon James on THE DISAPPEARERS
The Booker Prize–winning author Marlon James returns with The Disappearers, a deeply human story exploring queer life in Jamaica during the 1980s and 1990s. Marlon joined us live from Stony Brook University to talk about the consequences of violence, the loss of monoculture, Polari, post-colonial literature, and the X-Men with host Miwa Messer. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books: The Disappearers by Marlon James Book of Night Women by Marlon James Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Bringing Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Dracula by Bram Stoker The Spirit of Science Fiction by Robert Bolaño Beloved by Toni Morrison A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner Bleak House by Charles Dickens Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon A New World Order by Caryl Phillips The Correspondent by Virginia Evans The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie The Godfather by Mario Puzo <p
- 2 weeks ago57 min
Kai Bird on AMERICAN SCOUNDREL
Kai Bird follows his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer with a timely and meticulously researched true story of Roy Cohn — a friend of the famous, the right-hand man to Joseph McCarthy, mentor to a US President and a lawyer who showed no respect for the law. Kai joins us to talk about American Scoundrel, the McCarthy era, the politics of celebrity, and the cycles of American history with host Miwa Messer. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books: American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump by Kai Bird American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter by Kai Bird The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames by Kai Bird The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms by Kai Bird Crossing Mandelbaum Gate by Kai Bird The Chairman: John J McCloy & The Making of the American Establishment by Kai Bird G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage Mailer: His Life and Times by Peter Manso Ptown: Art, Sex, and Money on the Outer Cape by Peter Manso The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump Angels in America by Tony Kushner
- 2 weeks ago54 min
Charlotte McConaghy on WILD DARK SHORE
Gripping, visceral and taut, Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy is a complex story about survival, isolation and hope at the end of the world. Charlotte joins us to talk about family, nature, secrets, eco-pessimism and radical hope with cohost Brenda Allison. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Brenda Allison and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy Hollywood, Ending by John Green Land by Maggie O'Farrell Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash Up to the Light by Julia Armfield (out March 2027) The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David Wengrow
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Poured Over is a show for readers who pore over details, obsess over sentences and ideas and stories and characters; readers who ask a lot of questions, just like Poured Over's host, Miwa Messer, a career bookseller who's always reading. Follow us here for surprising riffs, candid conversations, a few laughs, and lots of great book recommendations from big name authors and authors on their way to being big names. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional bonus episodes on Saturdays).
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