All Episodes
Project Narrative — 55 episodes
Episode 55: Jim Phelan & Jonathan Culler — Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever”
Episode 54: Jim Phelan & Alison Booth — Grace Paley’s “A Conversation with My Father”
Episode 53: Jim Phelan & Maria Mäkelä — Julio Cortázar’s “Axolotl”
Episode 52: Jim Phelan & Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen — Omar El Akkad’s “Factory Air”
Episode 51: Jim Phelan & Nikki Grimes — excerpts from Nikki Grimes’s Ordinary Hazards
Episode 50: Jim Phelan & Rhona Trauvitch — Ken Liu’s “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species”
Episode 49: Jim Phelan & Jan Alber — Robert Olen Butler’s “Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot”
Episode 48: Jim Phelan & Catherine Belling — Susan Onthank Mates’s “Laundry”
Episode 47: Jim Phelan & Marta Figlerowicz — Chapter 1 of D.O. Fagunwa’s Forest of a Thousand Daemons, “The Author Meets Akara-Ogun”
Episode 46: Jim Phelan & Gary Weissman — Shalom Auslander’s “Smite the Heathens, Charlie Brown”
Episode 45: Jim Phelan & Kent Puckett — Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Episode 44: Jim Phelan & Kelly Marsh — Caryl Phillips’s “Growing Pains”
Episode 43: Jim Phelan & Stefan Iversen — OpenAI’s “AI, Metafiction, and Grief”
Episode 42: Jim Phelan and Daniel Punday — Charles Yu’s “Problems for Self-Study”
Episode 41: Jim Phelan & David Richter — Katherine Anne Porter’s “Theft”
Episode 40: Jim Phelan & Robert Caserio — Elizabeth Bowen’s “I Hear You Say So”
Episode 39: Jim Phelan & Eyal Segal — Sholem Aleichem’s “Baranovich Station”
Episode 38: Jim Phelan & Amy Elias — Lemony Snicket’s “The Lump of Coal”
Episode 37: Jim Phelan & Aaron Oforlea — James Baldwin’s “Going to Meet the Man”
Episode 36: Jim Phelan & Suzanne Keen — John Cheever’s “The Death of Justina”
Episode 35: Jim Phelan & Christopher González — Junot Díaz’s “The Books of Losing You”
Episode 34: Jim Phelan & Dorothee Birke — Ali Smith’s “Text for the Day”
Episode 33: Jim Phelan & Brian McAllister — Juliana Spahr’s “Gentle Now Don’t Add to Heartache”
Episode 32: Jim Phelan & Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan — Katherine Mansfield’s “The Fly”
Episode 31: Jim Phelan & Jakob Lothe — Nadine Gordimer’s “Is There Nowhere Else We Can Meet?”
Episode 30: Jim Phelan & Brian Richardson — Ilse Aichinger’s “Mirror Story”
Episode 29: Jim Phelan & Dorothy Hale — Chapter I of Henry James’s The Ambassadors
Episode 28: Jim Phelan & Matt Seybold — Chapter XVIII of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn
Episode 27: Jim Phelan & Sarah Copland — Bernardine Evaristo’s “ohtakemehomelord.com”
Episode 26: Jim Phelan & Lindsay Holmgren — Ursula Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
Episode 25: Jim Phelan & Rita Charon — George Saunders’ “Puppy”
Episode 24: Jim Phelan & Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen — Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Episode 23: Jim Phelan & Susan Lanser — Sayed Kashua’s “Herzl Disappears at Midnight”
Episode 22: Jim Phelan & Erin James — Rachel Carson’s “A Fable for Tomorrow” from Silent Spring
Episode 21: Jim Phelan & Yoon Sun Lee — Excerpt from Maxine Hong Kingston’s “No Name Woman”
Episode 20: Jim Phelan & Paul Dawson — The Proliferation of the Term Narrative in Public Discourse
Episode 19: Jim Phelan & Marco Caracciolo — Charles Yu’s “Systems”
Episode 18: Amy Shuman & Mary Hufford — Tending Sensibility through Narrative
Episode 17: Jim Phelan & Faye Halpern — Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat”
Episode 16: Jim Phelan & Amanpal Garcha — Salman Rushdie’s “The Firebird’s Nest”
Episode 15: Jim Phelan & Simone Drake — Scotia Brown’s Oral Narratives of Everyday Racism
Episode 14: Jim Phelan & Jared Gardner — Chris Gethard’s “Career Suicide”
Episode 13: Jim Phelan & Sarah Iles Johnston — The Myth of Arachne and Athena
Episode 12: Jim Phelan & Leigh Gilmore — “Neck” by Maggie O’Farrell
Episode 11: Jim Phelan & Frederick Aldama — “The Continuity of Parks” by Julio Cortázar
Episode 10: Jim Phelan & Ashley Hope Pérez — “Report on Heaven and Hell” by Silvina Ocampo
Episode 9: Jim Phelan & Sean O’Sullivan — “Black Box” by Jennifer Egan
Episode 8: Jim Phelan & Brian McHale — “Chicxulub” by By T. C. Boyle
Episode 7: Julia Watson & Jim Phelan — Alice’s Walker’s “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self”
Episode 6: Karen Winstead & Jim Phelan — Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur
Episode 5: Amy Shuman & Jim Phelan — Narratives of Waiting
Episode 4: Angus Fletcher & Jim Phelan — Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried”
Episode 3: Robyn Warhol & Jim Phelan — Zadie Smith’s “The Waiter’s Wife”
Episode 2: Brian McHale & Jim Phelan – Stories with Holes
Episode 1: Katra Byram & Jim Phelan — A Conversation about “Hinter uns, mein Land”