All Episodes

Saul Williams : Martyr Loser King

From the Archives : Zadie Smith : Grand Union

Molly Crabapple : Here Where We Live Is Our Country : The Story of the Jewish Bund

Lily Brooks-Dalton : Ruins

From the Archives : Ted Chiang : Exhalation

Jordy Rosenberg : Night Night Fawn

Joan Naviyuk Kane : with snow pouring southward past the window

From the Archives : Brandon Shimoda : The Grave on the Wall

Báyò Akómoláfé : Selah

Milkweed Live : Canisia Lubrin : The World After Rain

From the Archives : Jake Skeets : Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers

Sangamithra Iyer : Governing Bodies : A Memoir, A Confluence, A Watershed

Lily Dunn : Into Being : The Radical Craft of Memoir and Its Power to Transform

Randa Abdel-Fattah : Discipline

Jazmina Barrera : The Queen of Swords

Tin House Live : Caren Beilin : Sea Poison

Tin House Live: Stephen Hayes

Robin Coste Lewis : Archive of Desire

Diana Arterian : Agrippina the Younger & Smoke Drifts

Olga Ravn : The Wax Child

Rickey Laurentiis : Death of the First Idea

Laynie Browne : Apprentice to a Breathing Hand

Martha Anne Toll : Duet for One

Rob Macaisa Colgate : Hardly Creatures & My Love is Water

Robert Macfarlane : Is a River Alive?

adrienne maree brown : Ancestors

Madeleine Thien : The Book of Records

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson : Theory of Water

Keetje Kuipers : Lonely Women Make Good Lovers

Patrycja Humienik : We Contain Landscapes

Torrey Peters : Stag Dance

Michelle de Kretser : Theory & Practice

Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Hélène Cixous : Rêvoir

Aria Aber : Good Girl

Zahid Rafiq : The World With Its Mouth Open

Tin House Live : Denis Johnson : 2004

Rodrigo Fresán : Melvill

Dionne Brand : Salvage : Readings from the Wreck

Danez Smith : Bluff

Kenzie Allen : Cloud Missives

Tin House Live : Torrey Peters on Strategic Opacity

Jewish Currents Live : Dionne Brand & Adania Shibli in Conversation

Isabella Hammad : Recognizing the Stranger : On Palestine and Narrative

Tin House Live : Frank Bidart

Nalo Hopkinson : Blackheart Man

Vajra Chandrasekera : Rakesfall

Carl Phillips : Scattered Snows, to the North

Shze-Hui Tjoa : The Story Game

Cecilia Vicuña : Deer Book

Lance Olsen : Absolute Away & Shrapnel

Amitav Ghosh : Smoke and Ashes

Joyelle McSweeney : Death Styles

Danielle Dutton : Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other

Alexis Wright : Praiseworthy

Nam Le : 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem

Anne de Marcken : It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over

Canisia Lubrin : Code Noir

Diana Khoi Nguyen : Root Fractures

Álvaro Enrigue : You Dreamed of Empires

Mathias Énard : The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild

Tin House Live : Denis Johnson : 2003

Elle Nash : Deliver Me

Naomi Klein : Doppelganger : Part Two

Kate Zambreno & Sofia Samatar : Tone

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore : Touching the Art

Bhanu Kapil : Incubation : A Space for Monsters

Colleen Burner : Sister Golden Calf

Kate Briggs : The Long Form

Lydia Davis : Our Strangers

Naomi Klein : Doppelganger : Part One

Tin House Live : Matthew Zapruder on Story of a Poem

Major Jackson : Razzle Dazzle

JoAnna Novak : Contradiction Days

Jorie Graham : To 2040

Tin House Live : Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on Surrealism

Roger Reeves : Dark Days

Isabella Hammad : Enter Ghost

Tin House Live : Max Porter on Shy

Megan Fernandes : I Do Everything I’m Told

Johanna Hedva : Your Love Is Not Good

Tin House Live : Katie Holten on The Language of Trees

Tin House Live: Richard Powers on The Overstory

Melanie Rae Thon : As If Fire Could Hide Us

Christina Sharpe : Ordinary Notes

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o : The Language of Languages

Charif Shanahan : Trace Evidence

Sabrina Orah Mark : Happily

Monica Youn : From From

Jai Chakrabarti : A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness

Mariana Enriquez : Our Share of Night

Gabrielle Bates : Judas Goat

Georgi Gospodinov : Time Shelter

Lucy Ives : Life Is Everywhere

Crafting with Ursula: Neil Gaiman on Word Magic & The Power of Telling Stories

Sawako Nakayasu : Pink Waves

Ama Codjoe : Bluest Nude

Crafting with Ursula : Gabrielle Bellot on The Power of Names & Naming

Hélène Cixous : Well-Kept Ruins

Billy-Ray Belcourt : A Minor Chorus

Crafting with Ursula : Maria Dahvana Headley on Feminist Translation & Classical Retellings

Dionne Brand : Nomenclature — New and Collected Poems

Elaine Castillo : How to Read Now

Crafting with Ursula : Lidia Yuknavitch on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Claire Schwartz : Civil Service

Morgan Talty : Night of the Living Rez

Crafting with Ursula : Julie Phillips on the Writing Mother

Daniel Mendelsohn : Three Rings — A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate

Vauhini Vara : The Immortal King Rao

Crafting with Ursula : William Alexander on Writing for Children

Hernan Diaz : Trust

Rae Armantrout : Finalists

Crafting with Ursula : Kim Stanley Robinson on Ambiguous Utopias

Courtney Maum — The Year of the Horses

Ada Limón : The Hurting Kind

Crafting with Ursula : adrienne maree brown on Social Justice & Science Fiction

Cristina Rivera Garza : New and Selected Stories

Caren Beilin : Revenge of the Scapegoat

Crafting with Ursula : Karen Joy Fowler on Experimental Women, Animals, Science & Story

Sheila Heti : Pure Colour

Alejandro Zambra : Chilean Poet

Crafting with Ursula : Isaac Yuen on Writing Nature & Nature Writing

Solmaz Sharif : Customs

Gabrielle Civil : the déjà vu

Crafting with Ursula : Molly Gloss on Writing the Clear, Clean Line

James Hannaham : Pilot Impostor

Rabih Alameddine : The Wrong End of the Telescope

Crafting with Ursula : Becky Chambers on Creating Aliens & Alien Cultures

Victoria Chang : Dear Memory

Valerie Mejer Caso : Edinburgh Notebook

Raymond Antrobus : All The Names Given & The Perseverance

Tice Cin : Keeping the House

Rosmarie Waldrop : The Nick of Time

Percival Everett : The Trees

Myriam J. A. Chancy : What Storm, What Thunder

Tin House Live : Negotiating the Love and Renouncing the Rest with Destiny O. Birdsong and Donika Kelly

Pádraig Ó Tuama : In the Shelter & Borders and Belonging

Adania Shibli : Minor Detail

Tin House Live : Writing On Your Own Terms with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Kaveh Akbar : Pilgrim Bell

Callum Angus : A Natural History of Transition

Douglas Kearney : Sho

Arthur Sze : The Glass Constellation : New & Collected Poems

Anakana Schofield : Bina

Doireann Ní Ghríofa : A Ghost in the Throat & To Star the Dark

Abdellah Taïa : A Country For Dying

Elissa Washuta : White Magic

Rikki Ducornet : Trafik

Jorie Graham : Runaway

Brandon Hobson : The Removed

Viet Thanh Nguyen : The Committed

Ross Gay : Be Holding

Teju Cole : Fernweh

Nnedi Okorafor : Remote Control

Vanessa Veselka : The Great Offshore Grounds

Tin House Live : Publishing, Power Structures & Creative Practice with Leni Zumas & Janice Lee

Natalie Diaz : Postcolonial Love Poem : Part Two

Alice Oswald : Nobody

Tin House Live : Writing Pop Culture with Shayla Lawson & Hanif Abdurraqib

Elisa Gabbert : The Unreality of Memory

Ayad Akhtar : Homeland Elegies

Natalie Diaz : Postcolonial Love Poem : Part One

Tin House Live : Getting Past the Gatekeepers with Mira Jacob & Kaitlyn Greenidge

Jenny Erpenbeck : Not a Novel : A Memoir in Pieces

Mary-Kim Arnold : The Fish & The Dove

Tin House Live : Queer Beatitudes with Brandon Taylor & Garth Greenwell

Jeannie Vanasco : Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl

Tin House Live : Bassey Ikpi & Melissa Febos on the Anatomy of Melancholy

Lauren Camp : Took House

Joe Sacco : Paying the Land

Lidia Yuknavitch : Verge

Tin House Live : Lacy M. Johnson On Likability

Philip Metres : Shrapnel Maps

Tin House Live : Lidia Yuknavitch on “Writing from the Deep Cut”

N.K. Jemisin : The City We Became

Nikky Finney : Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry

Tin House Live : Rebecca Makkai on The Ear of the Story

Fernanda Melchor : Hurricane Season

Hanif Abdurraqib : A Fortune For Your Disaster

Tin House Live : How to Write a Hoax Poem with Kevin Young

Rachel Zucker : SoundMachine

Tin House Live : Power & Audience, On Not Writing for White People with Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Tin House Live : On Dialogue with Dorothy Allison

Mark Haber : Reinhardt’s Garden

Jenny Offill : Weather

Lance Olsen : My Red Heaven

Tin House Live : “From First Draft to Plot” with Alexander Chee

Garth Greenwell : Cleanness

Carmen Maria Machado : In the Dream House

Tin House Live : Jericho Brown on Suicide & Joy

E. J. Koh : The Magical Language of Others

Karthika Naïr : Until the Lions : Echoes from the Mahabharata

CAConrad : Resurrect Extinct Vibration

Daniel José Older : The Book of Lost Saints

Jake Skeets : Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers

Tin House Live : On Writing Toward Joy : Garth Greenwell, Kelly Link & Justin Torres

Richard Powers : The Overstory

Zadie Smith : Grand Union

Tin House Live : Readings by Garth Greenwell, Michelle Tea, Kaveh Akbar

Rob Schlegel : In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps

Tin House Live : Revision Panel with R.O. Kwon, Karen Shepard, Danielle Evans, Jamel Brinkley

Xuan Juliana Wang : Home Remedies

Ayşe Papatya Bucak : The Trojan War Museum

Brandon Shimoda : The Grave on the Wall

Elvia Wilk : Oval

Max Porter : Lanny

Ted Chiang : Exhalation

Miriam Toews : Women Talking

Sophia Shalmiyev : Mother Winter

Morgan Parker : Magical Negro

Cristina Rivera Garza : The Taiga Syndrome

Lacy M. Johnson : The Reckonings

Christine Schutt : Pure Hollywood

Mitchell S. Jackson : Survival Math

Marlon James : Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore : Sketchtasy

Alicia Jo Rabins : Fruit Geode

Genevieve Hudson : Pretend We Live Here

Jeffrey Yang : Hey Marfa

Chaya Bhuvaneswar : White Dancing Elephants

Layli Long Soldier : Whereas

Diane Williams: The Collected Stories of Diane Williams

R.O. Kwon : The Incendiaries

Tommy Pico : Junk

Dubravka Ugrešić : Fox & American Fictionary

Anna Moschovakis : Eleanor or The Rejection of the Progress of Love

Dao Strom : You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else

Catherine Lacey : Certain American States

Forrest Gander : Be With

Chelsea Hodson : Tonight I’m Someone Else

Molly Crabapple : Brothers of the Gun – A Memoir of the Syrian War

Sheila Heti : Motherhood

Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi : Call Me Zebra

Jen Bervin : Silk Poems

Cheston Knapp : Up Up Down Down

John Keene : Counternarratives, Playland, and Grind

Vi Khi Nao : Umbilical Hospital & A Brief Alphabet of Torture

Micheline Aharonian Marcom : The Brick House

Terese Marie Mailhot : Heart Berries

Carmen Maria Machado : Her Body and Other Parties

Eunsong Kim : Gospel of Regicide

Leni Zumas : Red Clocks

David Biespiel : The Education of a Young Poet

Rae Armantrout : Partly – New & Selected Poems

Eileen Myles : Afterglow

Celeste Ng : Little Fires Everywhere

Peter Rock : Spells

Safiya Sinclair : Cannibal

Matthew Zapruder : Why Poetry

Yanara Friedland : Uncountry

Mary Ruefle : My Private Property

Yuri Herrera : Kingdom Cons

Gregory Pardlo : Digest

Dani Shapiro : Hourglass

Jeff Vandermeer : Borne

Thalia Field : Experimental Animals

Sallie Tisdale : Violation

Morgan Parker : There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé

Melissa Febos : Abandon Me

Ursula K. Le Guin : Words Are My Matter

Susan DeFreitas : Hot Season

Solmaz Sharif : Look

Sofia Samatar : The Winged Histories

Tyehimba Jess : Olio

Eliot Weinberger : The Ghosts of Birds

Pauls Toutonghi : Dog Gone

Monica Drake : The Folly of Loving Life

Alexis Smith : Marrow Island

Jesse Ball : How to Set a Fire and Why

Rikki Ducornet : Brightfellow

Lina Meruane : Seeing Red

Rob Spillman : All Tomorrow’s Parties

Brian Blanchfield : Proxies

Idra Novey : Ways to Disappear

Ursula K. Le Guin : Late in the Day

Brian Evenson : A Collapse of Horses

Laila Lalami : The Moor’s Account

Lacy M. Johnson : The Other Side

Keith Lee Morris : Travelers Rest

Mary Gaitskill : The Mare

Valeria Luiselli : The Story of My Teeth

Amelia Gray : Gutshot

Ursula K. Le Guin : Steering The Craft

Liz Prato : Baby’s On Fire

David Biespiel : A Long High Whistle

Rebecca Makkai : Music For Wartime

Maggie Nelson : The Argonauts

Lidia Yuknavitch : The Small Backs of Children

Mary Ruefle : An Incarnation of the Now

Neal Stephenson : Seveneves

Viet Thanh Nguyen : The Sympathizer

Sarah Manguso : Ongoingness

Kelly Link : Get in Trouble

Sarah Gerard : Binary Star

Miranda July : The First Bad Man

Leslie Jamison : The Empathy Exams

Claudia Rankine : Citizen

William Gibson : The Peripheral

David Mitchell : The Bone Clocks

Ben Parzybok : Sherwood Nation

Karen Russell : Sleep Donation

Dinaw Mengestu : All Our Names

Jo Walton : My Real Children

Roxane Gay : An Untamed State

Leni Zumas & Luca Dipierro : A Wooden Leg

Lorrie Moore : Bark

Kyle Minor : Praying Drunk

Helen Oyeyemi : Boy, Snow, Bird

Gina Frangello: A Life In Men

Chang-rae Lee : On Such A Full Sea

Gary Shteyngart : Little Failure

Veronica Gonzalez Peña : The Sad Passions

Kevin Sampsell : This Is Between Us

Lucy Corin : One Hundred Apocalypses

Jonathan Lethem : Dissident Gardens

Robert Boswell : Tumbledown

Jami Attenberg : The Middlesteins

Matt Bell : In the House Upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods

NoViolet Bulawayo : We Need New Names

Lenore Zion : Stupid Children

Benjamin Percy : Red Moon

Karen Russell : Vampires in the Lemon Grove

Monica Drake : The Stud Book

Sam Lipsyte : The Fun Parts

George Saunders : Tenth of December

Chris Kraus : Summer of Hate

Alexis Smith : Glaciers

Jess Walter : Beautiful Ruins

Junot Diaz : This Is How You Lose Her

Sheila Heti : How Should A Person Be?

Karen Thompson Walker : The Age of Miracles

Vanessa Veselka : Zazen

Adam Levin : Hot Pink

Jon Raymond : Rain Dragon

Nathan Englander : What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

Ben Marcus : The Flame Alphabet

Colson Whitehead : Zone One

Justin Torres : We The Animals

China Miéville : Embassytown

Scott Sparling : Wire to Wire

Anthony Doerr : Memory Wall

Nicole Krauss : Great House