S8 Ep. 40: Dina Nayeri on Iranian Life Under Attack
Prize-winning Iranian American author Dina Nayeri joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss the complicated reality of survival on the ground during Israel’s recent bombing of ...
3 Jul 202547min
S8 Ep. 39: Ernesto Londoño on the Personal Cost of Minnesota’s Political Killings
New York Times reporter Ernesto Londoño joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss the recent murder of Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman, which has made headlines ...
26 Jun 202545min
S8 Ep. 38: Geoff Dyer on His New Memoir, Homework
Writer Geoff Dyer joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his new memoir Homework, which covers Dyer’s working-class youth in England during the 1960s and ’70s. He recollects...
20 Jun 202546min
S8 Ep. 37: Jess Walter on the American Family Unplugged
Fiction writer Jess Walter joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his new novel So Far Gone, in which a former environmental reporter living off the grid is jolted back onto...
12 Jun 202540min
S8 Ep. 36: Susan Choi on Flashlight
Acclaimed fiction writer Susan Choi joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss her new novel, Flashlight. Choi talks about the opening incident, in which a girl goes for a walk ...
5 Jun 202541min
S8 Ep. 35: Paul Elie on Art, Faith, and Sex in 1980s America–and the New Pope
Nonfiction writer Paul Elie joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his new book The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s and Pope Leo XIV. Elie compare...
29 Mai 202543min
S8 Ep. 34: Julia Elliott on Small-Town Voters and Trump’s Tariff Trap
Fiction writer Julia Elliott joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V Ganeshananthan to talk about why President Trump’s tariff policy appeals to voters in small towns in the Midwest and South, which ha...
22 Mai 202558min
S8 Ep. 33: Mirza Waheed on India, Pakistan, and the Literature of Partition
Novelist and journalist Mirza Waheed joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V Ganeshananthan to talk about brewing tensions between two nuclear powers: India and Pakistan. Waheed, who was born in Kashmi...
15 Mai 202555min
