I can't believe I'm saying this, but today we are joined by two legends: Cillian Murphy and Max Porter. Cillian and Max have collaborated as co-curators of the Sounds From A Safe Harbour Festival in Cork, Ireland, as well as the theatre adaptation of Max’s book Grief Is The Thing With Feathers. The book is a hybrid of prose and poetry about a crow visiting a ... Show More
Oct 8
Fredrik Backman: My Friends
Recorded at Gothenburg Book Fair, I interviewed Swedish ICON Fredrik Backman about his newest book, My Friends -- a book that almost never was. Fredrik Backman is the author of EIGHT bestselling novels, including the Beartown trilogy, Anxious People, and A Man Called Ove. Thumbna ... Show More
45m 32s
Oct 4
Book Club: Yasmin Zaher - The Coin
The Coin marks the arrival of a striking new voice to the literary landscape. Yasmin Zaher’s irreverent debut is as shocking as it is stunning, as bonkers as it is beautiful. The Dylan Thomas Prize winning novel is full of big ideas, but without ever moralising, as our unnamed na ... Show More
48m 6s
Aug 2024
Book Club: 'My Brilliant Friend,' by Elena Ferrante
This July, The New York Times Book Review published a list of The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. The top choice was “My Brilliant Friend,” by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein.The book is the first novel in Ferrante’s so-called Neapolitan quartet, which tracks the ... Show More
50m 56s
Nov 2024
Top 10 Books So Far || ١٠ كتب حبيتهم ٢٠٢٤
In this episode, I’m sharing my top 10 books from this year so far. With one month left in the year, will I update this list? Well, who knows?
Here’s the list of books:
Nightbitch by Rachel YoderSaving Noah by Lucinda BerrySmall Things Like These by Claire KeeganThe Mustache by ... Show More
33m 3s
Dec 2024
The 10 Best Books of 2024
Don't let anyone tell you differently — end of year list time is a wonderful time, indeed. And, as we do every December, we are ready to discuss the 10 best books of the year. Host Gilbert Cruz gathers the editors of the New York Times Book Review to discuss the most exciting fic ... Show More
1h 18m
Dec 2024
Sheila Heti on Jenny Holzer, Berthe Morisot, Margaux Williamson, and more
Welcome to the FINALE of Season 12! I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is the acclaimed writer, Sheila Heti.
Born in 1976 in Toronto, where she lives today, Heti is the author of eleven books, from novels to novellas, short stories and children’s books. Most ... Show More
33m 37s