Episodes

We Do Not Make Very Good Gods: Nature Critic Boyce Upholt on the Sinuous History of the Mississippi River

Observing Ann Garvin as an Author and a Human Being

Bob Wake & Diya Abbas, First-Place Fiction & Poetry Winners

Jane Rotunda and Jessica Calarco Preview the 2024 Wisconsin Book Festival

Novelist E.M. Tran on History, Humor, and a Superstitious Beauty Queen

Jennifer Kabat on the Importance of Solidarity in Unsettled Times

A Raw and Tangible Discussion on Grieving the Loss of a Partnership

Katharine Beutner talks about her Edna Ferber Award-winning novel Killingly

A Voice Both Austere and Intimate: Poet-Turned-Novelist Henry Wise on his Debut, Holy City

Robin and Joan Rolfs, Passionate About All Things Thomas Edison

Poet Nikki Wallschlaeger Talks Getting The Rhythm Right In “Hold Your Own”

Author and publisher Richard Sweitzer on his own terms

Author Richard Scott Larson discusses his new memoir, "The Long Hallway"

Just as a Serpent Sheds Its Skin: Priti Srivastava on Ecofeminism and Reincarnation in Storytelling

RACHEL WERNER AND HER MANY TALENTS

Author Beth Nguyen discusses her new memoir, "Owner of a Lonely Heart"

Poet Daniel Khalastchi on Wordplay, the Collision of Images, and White Whales

Angela Trudell Vasquez on Poetry in her Life

Madison Poet Cynthia Marie Hoffman On “Exploding Head”

Bending Granite Tells Tales Of Leading Organizational Change

Ann Garvin On Writing Her First Book At Age Fifty

Cynthia Simmons On The “Wrong Kind Of Paper”

Fragile Institutions: Shibani Mahtani And Timothy McLaughlin on the 2019 Protests in Hong Kong

Jacquelyn Mitchard On The Importance of Titles