Reading Writers

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Episodes: 38

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Writers Charlotte Shane and Jo Livingstone talk about what they’ve been reading and special guests join to enthuse about a significant or provocative book of their choice.

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Episode Date
A Businessless Person: William C. Anderson on Thich Nhat Hanh’s Zen Battles
Mar 11, 2026
Pain and Debasement: Rayne Fisher-Quann on Iris Owens' After Claude
Mar 04, 2026
Tree-Based Horror: Nicholas Russell on Algernon Blackwood’s The Wendigo and Other Stories
Feb 25, 2026
Tethered to Life: Maya Binyam on Joy Williams’ “The Excursion”
Feb 18, 2026
Deeply Heterosexual: Jamie Hood on Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook
Feb 04, 2026
Uncategorizable Interactions: Brittany Newell on Samuel R. Delany’s Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
Jan 28, 2026
Bookforum Live: Stephanie Wambugu on Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection
Jan 21, 2026
Moral Discord: Noah Kulwin on Ross Macdonald’s Black Money
Jan 14, 2026
Each Brick in This Wall: Hanif Abdurraqib on Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place
Jan 07, 2026
A Year in Reading
Dec 31, 2025
Stinking and Miserable: Clio Chang on Cheryl Strayed's Wild
Dec 17, 2025
A Certain Mistake: Jackie Ess on Tolstoy’s Resurrection
Dec 03, 2025
French Sicko: Annelise Ogaard on Gabrielle Wittkop’s Murder Most Serene
Nov 26, 2025
Metaphysically Blown Away: Torrey Peters on Zoë Schlanger’s The Light Eaters
Nov 19, 2025
Setting the House on Fire: Lauren Michele Jackson on Nettie Jones’ Fish Tales
Nov 12, 2025
First Draft of Reality: Rumaan Alam on Tina Brown’s The Vanity Fair Diaries.
Nov 05, 2025
Competing Fantasies: K. Austin Collins on Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts
Jan 01, 2025
Three Types of Loss: CharJo on Lorrie Moore and Scholastique Mukasonga
Dec 23, 2024
A Natural Affinity: Shon Faye on Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch
Dec 12, 2024
Inheriting the Inescapable: Lovia Gyarkye on Marie NDiaye’s Ladivine
Dec 06, 2024
Illegible Logic: CharJo on Paula Hawkins and Jacqueline Harpman
Nov 27, 2024
Bring A Pen: Emma Robinson on Dianne Brill’s Boobs, Boys, and High Heels
Nov 13, 2024
Just Open the Door and Go: Marlowe Granados on Margaret Drabble’s The Millstone
Nov 06, 2024
A Stranger Comes to Town: Matt Korvette on Joan Samson’s The Auctioneer
Oct 30, 2024
Disposing of the Bodies: CharJo on J.M. Coetzee
Oct 23, 2024
Sobbing on the Floor: Sarah Miller on Elizabeth Jane Howard's The Cazalet Chronicles
Oct 16, 2024
Dread and Fascination: Sarah Thankam Mathews on Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North
Oct 09, 2024
Up Ladder Lane: Anna Fitzpatrick on David Grann's The Wager
Oct 02, 2024
Father Son Romance: Merve Emre on Erich Segal's Love Story
Apr 24, 2024
Do It With Your Teeth: Daniel M. Lavery on The Prisoner of Zenda
Apr 18, 2024
Steamrolled: Hanna Phifer on Raven Leilani’s Luster
Apr 11, 2024
Metaphysical Vertigo: Nicolás Medina Mora on Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station
Apr 03, 2024
Completely Unconsoled: Tony Tulathimutte on Alasdair Gray’s 1982, Janine
Mar 27, 2024
No Caveats: Connie Wang on Sanmao’s Stories of the Sahara
Mar 13, 2024
Feelings and Vibes: Osita Nwanevu on Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas
Mar 07, 2024
So Bridget-Coded: Lydia Kiesling on Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim
Feb 28, 2024
A Sodden Mushroom of a Man: Iva Dixit on Annie Proulx's The Shipping News
Feb 21, 2024
But Did She Invent the Nose? Rachel Handler on Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend
Feb 07, 2024