Interviews
Conversations
Emily Ogden and Dana Spiotta
Reckoning with middle age and complicity
Emily Ogden
and
Dana Spiotta
Conversations
Raising the Dead
Three writers on engaging and honoring their ghosts
Aricka Foreman,
Krista Franklin,
avery r. young
Conversations
Natalie Scenters-Zapico and Dana Levin
Two poets on writing and anxiety
Natalie Scenters-Zapico,
Dana Levin
Browse
Interviews
The Poetry of Attention
The possibilities of perception
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
and
Lacey Jones
June 21, 2021
Conversations
A Failed Book Club
How does one decide when to give up and stop reading?
Elif Batuman
and
Ama Codjoe
June 14, 2021
Conversations
Game Is Life
Basketball, poetry, and the NBA playoffs
Kaveh Akbar,
Vivian Lee,
Ben Purkert,
and
Nabila Lovelace
May 27, 2021
TYR Talks
James Merrill's Letters and Legacy
A conversation about the renowned poet's enduring influence
May 21, 2021
Conversations
Finding a Literary Inheritance
Four Korean American writers on jeong and the elusiveness of home
Alexander Chee,
Julia Cho,
Susan Choi,
and
Cathy Park Hong
December 1, 2020
Conversations
Signal and Noise
A dialogue on presencing Blackness
Aleshea Harris
and
Douglas Kearney
December 1, 2020
Conversations
The Body in Verse
A dialogue on literary somatics
Bhanu Kapil
and
Jonah Mixon-Webster
December 1, 2020
Conversations
The Merits of Imperfection
Why literature’s best is usually deeply flawed
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
and
Yiyun Li
December 1, 2020
Conversations
The Limits of Empathy
Two writers on the ethics of pen and paper
Namwali Serpell
and
Maria Tumarkin
December 1, 2020
Dan Chiasson on the Poetry of Reading and the Darkness of Endless Summer
How do you turn lived experience into words?
Maggie Millner
September 18, 2020