Contemporary literature podcast

AAWW Radio by Asian American Writers’ Workshop

From the website: “AAWW Radiofeatures curated audio from current and past literary events with authors like Maxine Hong Kingston, Roxane Gay, Amitav Ghosh, and Hanya Yanagihara at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, a national nonprofit dedicated to the idea that Asian American stories deserve to be told.
AAWW has got it all: from avant-garde poe.

Banging Book Club by Hannah Witton, Lucy Moon, and Leena Norms

Banging Book Clubdescribes its hosts as “the baddest bitches in the sex book genre who want to take you along for the ride.” Every month, they get together to discuss a book on gender and sex from light-hearted book reviews (spoiler-free!) to tackling intersectional feminism and how white women can do better while highlighting the best bits and rev.

Between The Covers by David Naimon

David Naimon hosts Portland-based podcast Between the Covers, engaging in thought-provoking interviews with a wide range of contemporary authors from Pulitzer Prize–winners like Colson Whitehead to emerging novelists like Eunsong Kim.
Burning House Press praised David as a host who “engages deeply with each writer’s work and always gives his listen.

Book Fight by Tom Mcallister, and Mike Ingram

“The Book Fight podcast is, in a nutshell, writers talking about books.
Books we love.
Books we hate.
Books that inspire us, baffle us, infuriate us.
These are the conversations writers have at the bar, which is to say they’re both unflinchingly honest and open to tangents, misdirection, general silliness.
Each episode starts with a particular book.

Fiction/Non/Fiction by Lit Hub

Hosted by writers V.V.
Ganeshananthanand Whitney Terrell, fiction/non/fiction “interprets current events through the lens of literature and features conversations with writers of all stripes, from novelists and poets to journalists and essayists.” Episodes feature nuanced and in-depth discussions on wide-ranging contemporary affairs from censorship.

Freedom, Books, Flowers & The Moon by The Times Literary Supplement

Hosted by the editors of the Times Literary Supplement and “inspired by Oscar Wilde’s question, “With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?” theTLSbrings a wide-ranging “esoteric yet solid” weekly podcast on books and ideas.” In the latest episode, the hosts and their guests expounded on everything from “the unrequited love.

KCRW’s Bookworm by Michael Silverblatt

“A must for the serious reader, Bookwormshowcases writers of fiction and poetry — the established, new or emerging — all interviewed with insight and precision by the show’s host and guiding spirit, Michael Silverblatt” who provides “intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.”

Literary Disco by Rider Strong, Julia Pistell, and Tod Goldberg

Hosted by “three good friends who also happen to be huge book nerds,” Rider, Julia, and Tod read books, stories, and essays and engage in heated arguments about them.
From nonfiction books about food culture to classic children’s books, no genre is off limits.
Hello Giggles called Literary Disco“smart, thoughtful, hilarious, and sometimes ridiculou.

The Guardian Books by Claire Armitstead, Richard Lea, and Sian Cain

Featuring authors like Penelope Lively, Stephen Fry, and Neil Gaiman with topics from “poetry for the mind and gastronomy for the belly” to “the future of literary fiction,” The Guardian Books is a weekly podcast presented by the Guardian book editors who delve into “the world of books, poetry and great writing”.
Featuring incisive interviews with .

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