Poured Over

After the global sensation Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus delivers a charming and funny novel about a young man searching for his place in the world in Peck & Peck. When he stumbles into a job at an unconventional New York City poetry journal, Batter Gray discovers the transformative power of language and a community he never knew he needed. Bonnie joined us live in New York to talk about her dog Friday, the magic of poetry, and the future of the arts with host Miwa Messer. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books & Poets: Peck & Peck by Bonnie Garmus Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant Robert Lowell Sylvia Plath Jericho Brown Aimee Nezhukumatathil Jorie Graham Geraldine Brooks Langston Hughes Claudia Rankine Edgar Allen Poe Charles Bukowski A. A. Milne Phillip Larkin

In Look What the Cat Dragged In by Jason Rekulak, after agreeing to pet sit, a cartoonist becomes haunted by violent nightmares and starts to find disturbing imagery in her art. Jason joins us to talk about demonic possession, viral videos, collaborating with Doogie Horner and Will Staehle on the book's illustrations, and more with cohost Chris Gillespie. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Chris Gillespie and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books: Look What the Cat Dragged In by Jason Rekulak Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak Smile by Raina Telgemeier Baby-Sitters Club Graphix Series The Adventures of Invisible Boy by Doogie Horner Bleak House by Charles Dickens The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters Cujo by Stephen King Dead Zone by Stephen King Christine by Stephen King Carrie by Stephen King The Shining by Stephen King The Green Mile by Stephen King Jaws by Peter Benchley Pet Semetary by Stephen King Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix

The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Deesha Philyaw is a scandalous, messy satire about a pageant for the wives of megachurch pastors, following Scharisse Freeman, a church "First Lady" who gets caught between childhood secrets and her public image. Deesha joined us live at B&N City Center in Philadelphia to talk about creating humor on the page, obedience, faith, and her skepticism of forgiveness with host Miwa Messer. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Phillyaw The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Deesha Philyaw The Sellout by Paul Beatty The Prophets by Robert Jones

Every Story is a Love Story by Imbolo Mbue is a smart and tender exploration of grief following a man who meets the person responsible for his wife's fatal car accident. Imbolo joins us to talk about faith, community, regret, and forgiveness with cohost Brenda Allison. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Brenda Allison and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books: Every Story is a Love Story by Imbolo Mbue Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundathi Roy Monkey Boy by Francisco Goldman The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland The Laughter by Sonora Jha

The acclaimed, bestselling author of Pachinko, Min Jin Lee returns with American Hagwon, a modern classic about ambition and love, family and finding home. Min Jin joined us live at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church to talk about education and ambition, the 19th century social novel, compressed modernity, and trying to be a good person in an anxious world with host Miwa Messer. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books: American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee Middlemarch by George Eliot Can You Forgive Her? By Anthony Trollope Bleak House by Charles Dickens The Risk of Compressed Modernity by Chang Kyung-Sup Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author, Ayad Akhtar joins us to talk about craft, the campus novel, autofiction, and his latest book, The Radiance, with host Miwa Messer. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books: The Radiance by Ayad Akhtar Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar Junk by Ayad Akhtar McNeal by Ayad Akhtar The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar Poor Folk and Other Early Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky Fifty-Two Stories by Anton Chekhov The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy Herzog by Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow Seize the Day by Saul Bellow Ravelstein by Saul Bellow The Republic of Plato translated by Allan Bloom The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia Antiquities and Other Stories by Cynthia Ozick Nature and Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Hawthorne's Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser The American Canon by Harold Bloom The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation by Harold Bloom The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford The Complete Odes and Epodes by Horace

Beloved storyteller John Green returns with a tender love story set against the underbelly of the entertainment industry as two actors balance their rising fame with their complicated feelings in Hollywood, Ending. John joins us to talk about the social internet, the attention economy, Andy Warhol, having fun writing, and the world's largest ball of paint with cohost Brenda Allison. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Brenda Allison and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books: Hollywood, Ending by John Green Looking for Alaska by John Green The Fault in Our Stars by John Green The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green Turtles All the Way Down by John Green The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen Beloved by Toni Morrison Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Canon by Paige Lewis Some of Us May Never Die by Robin Wasserman (coming soon) The visual artists mentioned are Joan Mitchell, Agnes Martin, Kerry James Marshall, and Andy Warhol.

In Triage, acclaimed author and playwright Claudia Rankine uses prose, poetry and art images to challenge the ways we look at friendship and memory, action and obligation. Claudia joined us live from B&N Upper West Side to talk about narrative, lyric poetry, interiority, and broadening the collective we with host Miwa Messer. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books: Triage by Claudia Rankine Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine The White Card by Claudia Rankine Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space by Catherine Barnett Gaza in My Phone by Mazen Kerbaj William Kentridge: Milestones: At the Heart of Creation by William Kentridge Anarchitecture After Everything by Jack Halberstam Black Formations: Poetics of Refusal Within the African Diaspora by Melody Howse

Told from the perspective of a wax doll, Olga Ravn's The Wax Child is a chilling tale inspired by a real group of women accused of dark magic in seventeenth-century Denmark. Olga joins us to talk about her craft, the power of ritual, collective memory, creepy children, and contemporary Scandinavian literature with cohost Jenna Seery. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Jenna Seery and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books: The Wax Child by Olga Ravn The Employees by Olga Ravn alphabet by Inger Christensen The Condition of Secrecy: Selected Essays by Inger Christensen it by Inger Christensen How I Became a Nun by CĂŠsar Aira The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Dark Spring by Unica ZĂźrn The Man of Jasmine and Other Texts by Unica ZĂźrn The Trumpets of Jericho by Unica ZĂźrn The Cinnamon Shops and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz The Wall by Marlen Haushofer Strega by Johanne Lykke Holm Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen Vilhelm's Room by Tove Ditlevsen The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen On the Calculation of Volume, Book I by Solvej Balle After the Sun by Jonas Eika Money to Burn by Asta Olivia Nordenhof Valerie: or, The Faculty of Dreams: Amendment to the Theory of Sexuality by Sara Stridberg

The Booker Prize–winning author Marlon James returns with The Disappearers, a deeply human story exploring queer life in Jamaica during the 1980s and 1990s. Marlon joined us live from Stony Brook University to talk about the consequences of violence, the loss of monoculture, Polari, post-colonial literature, and the X-Men with host Miwa Messer. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books: The Disappearers by Marlon James Book of Night Women by Marlon James Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James  A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Bringing Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Dracula by Bram Stoker The Spirit of Science Fiction by Robert Bolaùo Beloved by Toni Morrison A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner Bleak House by Charles Dickens Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontÍ Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontÍ A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon A New World Order by Caryl Phillips The Correspondent by Virginia Evans The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie The Godfather by Mario Puzo In the Hand of Dante by Nick Toches Nocturnes for the King of Naples by Edmund White Money by Martin Amis Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedon Tar Baby by Toni Morrison Moderation by Elaine Castillo James by Percival Everett Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Lord of the Flies by William Golding X Men Comics Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf The Waves by Virginia Woolf Ulysses by James Joyce The Odyssey by Homer

Gripping, visceral and taut, Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy is a complex story about survival, isolation and hope at the end of the world. Charlotte joins us to talk about family, nature, secrets, eco-pessimism and radical hope with cohost Brenda Allison. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Brenda Allison and mixed by Harry Liang.                    New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy Hollywood, Ending by John Green Land by Maggie O'Farrell Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash Up to the Light by Julia Armfield (out March 2027) The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David Wengrow

The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore explores technology's impact on human community and self-government, and what the future holds. Jill Lepore joins us to talk about AI, citizenship, personal data, the public sphere, local newspapers and touching grass with cohost Jenna Seery. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Jenna Seery and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books: The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore If/Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells The Wild Robot by Peter Brown The Wind and the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Crocodilopolis by John Manuel Arias is a riveting meditation on legacy, myth and masculinity which follows brothers locked in a power struggle after a dark family secret threatens their once-powerful political dynasty. John joins us to talk about the anxiety of a sophomore novel, sibling rivalry, global mythology, and tropical plants with cohost Isabelle McConville. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Isabelle McConville and mixed by Harry Liang.                    New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.  Featured Books: Crocodilopolis by John Manuel Arias One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Mårquez Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Sula by Toni Morrison Beloved by Toni Morrison The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende Lonely Crowds by Stephanie Wambugu Blindness by JosÊ Saramago The Grand Paloma Resort by Cleyvis Natera Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov  TBR Featured Books: Crocodilopolis by John Manuel Arias Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras Swamplandia! by Karen Russell