12/13/2023 0 Comments Fully booked![]() ![]() It was also the first-and last-time I sang a Dishwalla song on tape. This marked the first time we talked pure poetry on the podcast. 3), a stunning, visceral poetry collection contending with embodiment, legibility, profanity, and praise. Kaveh Akbar (Episode 228): In August, Akbar told us all his thoughts on God in the poems of Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf, Aug. The concerns of Patel’s bold work are essential topics: settler colonialism, its relation to higher education, how education activism works, and the role of love in transforming systems of oppression. Leigh Patel (Episode 226): Academic and activist Patel joined me in late July to discuss No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education (Basic Books, July 20), and I have carried the joy of this conversation forward ever since. We talked about the proximity of both narratives to the violence of the conflict in Sri Lanka, philosophy, and much more. A companion to his critically acclaimed 2016 debut, The Story of a Brief Marriage, A Passage North poignantly contends with the violence of the Sri Lankan civil war from a spatial and temporal remove. In a delightful conversation, we discussed Bertino’s relationship to Parakeet one year later, weddings in literature, and the wily word frisson.Īnuk Arudpragasam (Episode 223): In the span of a week, we went from one of my favorite novels of 2020 to one of my favorite novels of 2021: Arudpragasam’s A Passage North (Hogarth, July 13). ![]() And so the unspoken rule of only interviewing authors for a hardcover release (or paperback original) was broken. Marie-Helene Bertino (Episode 222): I loved Parakeet so damn much when I read it at the end of 2020, it made me miserable we’d missed the opportunity to feature author Bertino on its pub date. I enjoyed learning more about why she chose to structure the book as a series of student presentations on Native history, her professional background in federal Indian law and policy, and her working relationship with illustrator Frané Lessac. Traci Sorell (Episode 215): Not a week goes by that I don’t think of Sorell’s We Are Still Here! Native American Truths Everyone Should Know (Charlesbridge, April 20), a gorgeous, informative picture book that makes Native history, law, and policy utterly compelling. We chatted about metaphor and imagery in her stunning collection Girlhood (Bloomsbury, March 30), along with such topics as enthusiastic consent, cuddle parties, and writing as a restorative process, Melissa Febos (Episode 209): It was a pleasure to co-host Fully Booked with my colleague Johanna Zwirner for the first time in March, when we interviewed Melissa Febos, one of my favorite lyric essayists. The chat went many exciting and unexpected places, including a meditation on “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” He was a lovely, down-to-earth conversation partner. In March, Ishiguro and I discussed his latest novel, Klara and the Sun (Knopf, March 2), a provocative look at a disturbing near future that marked a return to dystopian ground for the Nobel laureate. Kazuo Ishiguro (Episode 204): As soon as we stopped rolling tape, this interview shot straight into the pantheon of my personal favorites. 12), a guided tour of seven stories by Chekhov, Gogol, Tolstoy, and Turgenev by the beloved author and longtime professor. George Saunders (Episode 198): What better way to kick off another strange and delightful year in podcasting than in conversation with George Saunders? In January, we spoke about A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life (Random House, Jan. If you haven’t had a chance to listen in yet, here are eight great episodes to get you started: ![]() Long story short, you can teach an old podcast new tricks-and the result was a banner year for Fully Booked. And in August, a poet discussed an actual poetry collection (as opposed to fiction/nonfiction). A June episode celebrated a paperback launch (as opposed to hardcover). This was a year of firsts for the Fully Booked podcast: In March, we welcomed a Nobel laureate. ![]()
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