Episode description
“I start with the emotion. I don't know what the story is. I don't know who the characters are necessarily. I'm working on very little like, I'm thinking, ‘oh, well, the way this light looks through a window’, or something — very few details here and there. But I don't know what happens in this story.” Join three amazing authors talking about their three fabulous fall reads: If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery, The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li and Bliss Montage by Ling Ma. The authors speak with Poured Over's host, Miwa Messer, about the balance between humor and dread, how they start a project, some of their favorite writers & more.
Featured Books (Episode)
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
Severance by Ling Ma
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Moshin Hamid
Passing by Nella Larsen
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty
Moby Dick by Herman Mellville
Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls
The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara by Frank O’Hara
Featured Books (TBR Topoff):
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
Artist in the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised By Wolves by Karen Russell
Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.
A full transcript of this episode is available here.