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Interviews · 84 episodes

Between the Lines

Long-form conversations with living authors.

Hosted by Imani Osei

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Craft · 52 episodes

The First Draft

How great books get made, page by page.

Hosted by Priya Anand

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Essays · 121 episodes

Marginal Notes

Short essays read aloud, with the ink still wet.

Hosted by Marcus Feye

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Reviews · 200 episodes

The Shelf

A weekly round-up of what the world is reading.

Hosted by Cora Lindqvist

Latest episodes

  • Between the Lines·Mar 4·58 min

    Naming the Unnameable: On Grief and Fiction

    A conversation about writing loss without flinching, and the small rooms our characters carry with them.

  • The First Draft·Mar 1·41 min

    The Sentence That Started It All

    We trace four beloved novels back to their opening lines and the years spent getting them right.

  • Marginal Notes·Feb 27·17 min

    On Rereading

    A short essay on the books that change because we have changed.

  • The Shelf·Feb 24·33 min

    What the World Read in February

    From Lagos to Lisbon, the titles readers could not put down this month.