Harley Rustad talks about "Lost in the Valley of Death," and Jessamine Chan discusses "The School for Good Mothers."
Nov 14
Nicholas Boggs on Writing a James Baldwin Biography
<p>Nicholas Boggs’s “Baldwin: A Love Story,” is many things at once. It’s a comprehensive biography of James Baldwin. It’s a nimble excavation of Baldwin’s work, filled with astute literary analysis of his books and prose. And, most pressingly, it’s an argument for a new critical ... Show More
36m 28s
Nov 7
The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 Years Later
<p>On Nov. 10, 1975, during a calamitous storm, the Edmund Fitzgerald sunk below the waves of Lake Superior. All 29 men aboard went down with the vessel. With no survivors and no eyewitnesses, there’s always been a sense of mystery to what is arguably the most famous shipwreck in ... Show More
39m 33s
Mar 2024
#119 Nicolas Mathieu : « Je suis déjà tombé amoureux de personnes qui avaient des goûts qui m’humiliaient, c’est le problème des relations transclasses »
Le romancier, âgé de 45 ans, qui vient de sortir « Le Ciel Ouvert », une collection de textes initialement postés sur son compte Instagram, nous reçoit chez lui à Nancy.<br/><br/>Nicolas Mathieu évoque son enfance à Golbey dans les Vosges auprès d'un père électromécanicien p ... Show More
49m 59s
May 2024
Summon the Tiger: Minh Lê Blurs the Boundaries
"That barrier between what is “real” and what is not, when that's more fluid, I think it's that's where the fun of fiction comes in. Especially when you're writing for kids.” - Minh LêLife is full of barriers. Barriers between reality and the imagination, the spiritual and physic ... Show More
42m 5s
Apr 2022
Pádraig Ó Tuama — “This fantastic argument of being alive”
Pádraig Ó Tuama is a friend, teacher, and colleague to the work of On Being. But before that was true, Krista took a revelatory trip to meet him at his home in Northern Ireland, a place that has known sectarianism and violent fracture and has evolved, not to perfection, yet to ne ... Show More
49m 48s
Jun 2018
Andrew Solomon Re-Release (Originally Ep #50) The Atlas of Depression
This week on The One You Feed we have Andrew Solomon.
Andrew Solomon is a writer and lecturer on politics, culture and psychology.
Solomon’s recent book, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, published on November 13, 2012, won the National Book Criti ... Show More
45m 5s
May 2023
24. Hisham Matar on “Moving On” From Tragedy, Documenting Family Stories, and Connecting with Art
Hisham Matar on “Moving On” From Tragedy, Documenting Family Stories, and Connecting with Art⠀Hisham Matar is a Libyan American author and professor best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning memoir “The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between”. It’s gripping tale of Hisham ... Show More
2h 5m
Mar 2022
ZEYN JOUKHADAR | The Thirty Names of Night | Book Club
<p>Zeyn Joukhadar talked about his book ‘The Thirty Names of Night: A Novel’<strong>.</strong></p><p>Zeyn Joukhadar is the author of the novels The Map of Salt and Stars, 2018, and The Thirty Names of Night, 2020 and a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI). His wor ... Show More
27m 27s