Listen Up! March 2022 on Poured Over

Our booksellers looooove reading about all things dark academia, and we can’t wait for everyone to hear our interview with Tik Tok Queen Olivie Blake, who joins us on the show to talk about her pageturner Atlas Six.

Snap! Intimate, Indispensable and In Progess. Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now from Jeff Yang, Phil Yu and Philip Wang. We talk to the guys about where they’re (really) from, Vincent Chin, and more.

We go down, out and underground in 1980s Paris with one of our favorite writers, Viet Thanh Nguyen and our nameless narrator of The Committed (now in paperback), the sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Sympathizer.

Poet, cultural critic, Carnegie Medal winner, and McArthur Genius Grant recipient Hanif Abdurraqib joins us to celebrate the paperback publication of A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance, a finalist for the National Book Award.

Sylvia Plath and The Bell Jar are endlessly fascinating and heartbreaking for so many of us; Lee Kravetz joins us to talk about his new novel, The Last Confessions of Sylvia P. (Think The Hours by Michael Cunningham or The Paris Wife by Paula McLain.)

We can’t shake the voices we heard when we first read NoViolet Bulwayo’s stunning debut, We Need New Names, and we can’t wait to talk to her about her new novel, Glory. (Jason Reynolds thinks this book is “genius” and we agree.)

Peter Swanson’s Eight Perfect Murders zigs when you think it’s going to zag, and it’s one of our favorite Monthly Picks so far—we’re talking to him about murder and more when he joins us to discuss his latest book, Nine Lives.

We already know that actor John Cho has range – and now he’s adding Middle Grade author to his list of talents. He’s on the show talking about Troublemaker (cowritten with Sarah Suk), the Korean American experience and more.

We’ll talk about how to face whatever the future has in store for us and more with Jane McGonigal (Reality is Broken) when we dive into her new book, Imaginable, which can teach us to be more fearless, resilient and bold.

The Great War is over, but Wild and Wicked Things are afoot in Francesca May’s lush and fantastical story of magic, murder and romance set in England. (And consider yourself warned: there might be some talk about how not to kill one’s houseplants.)

Have you ever looked around the dinner table and wondered, How did we get here? DNA is wild stuff and sometime so is family. Maud Newton starts with her genealogy as she goes looking for the truth about her All-American family (and herself) in Ancestor Trouble.

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