Today’s guest, Percival Everett, author of twenty-one novels, four short story collections, six collections of poetry and a children’s book, has also been a horse and mule trainer, a jazz guitarist, a fly fisherman, a rehabilitator of mandolins, and an abstract painter. He is, however, best known for his “gleefully unhinged” (New York Times) hard-to-categorize […] The post Percival Everett : The Trees appeared first on Tin House.

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

Percival Everett : The Trees

Haitian-Canadian-American writer Myriam Chancy is an acclaimed novelist but she is also a literary scholar who studies, among other things, storytelling. As a scholar instrumental in inaugurating Haitian women’s studies as a contemporary field of specialization, and one who has argued that much of Haitian women’s literature should be viewed through the lens of the […] The post Myriam J. A. Chancy : What Storm, What Thunder appeared first on Tin House.

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

“Negotiating the Love and Renouncing the Rest,” today’s Tin House Live conversation between poets Destiny O. Birdsong & Donika Kelly, was recorded at the 2021 Tin House Summer Writers Workshop. Among many other things, they ask what it would mean to center yourself in your own work, in your own story. How would that look, […] The post Tin House Live : Negotiating the Love and Renouncing the Rest with Destiny O. Birdsong and Donika Kelly appeared first on Tin House.

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

Irish theologian, storyteller, poet, conflict mediator, and host of the podcast Poetry Unbound Pádraig Ó Tuama joins David to discuss the role of both narrative storytelling and poetry in relationship to encountering ‘the other.’ How can the stories we tell about ourselves prevent us from seeing who we are, from being open to accountability and change, […] The post Pádraig Ó Tuama : In the Shelter & Borders and Belonging appeared first on Tin House.

Pádraig Ó Tuama : In the Shelter & Borders and Belonging

The latest book by Palestinian novelist Adania Shibli, Minor Detail, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature, and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. Shibli talks about what it means that she doesn’t write about Palestine but rather from Palestine. And why for her, as a writer, so many of the […] The post Adania Shibli : Minor Detail appeared first on Tin House.

Adania Shibli : Minor Detail

Originally delivered at the 2021 Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s electrifying talk “Writing On Your Own Terms” explores what it means to write against the canonical imperative, to write against the world as it is, to instead write on your own terms, toward community, and specifically toward the community of people who […] The post Tin House Live : Writing On Your Own Terms with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore appeared first on Tin House.

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

Today’s guest, poet Kaveh Akbar, discusses his latest poetry collection Pilgrim Bell. Given that Akbar once suggested that syntax was identity, how do the changes in Akbar’s own poetry, from his first collection to now, reflect changes in himself as a person? Akbar talks about the ways in which poetry can be a spiritual technology, […] The post Kaveh Akbar : Pilgrim Bell appeared first on Tin House.

Kaveh Akbar : Pilgrim Bell

Callum Angus’s A Natural History of Transition is described as a collection of short stories “that disrupts the notion that trans people can only have one transformation.” Angus talks about trans narratives, both the ones most commonly seen in the culture at large, and his notion of transness, not as a journey between two static […] The post Callum Angus : A Natural History of Transition appeared first on Tin House.

Callum Angus : A Natural History of Transition

Today’s episode with poet Douglas Kearney is about his latest book of poetry Sho, and the poetry-performance album (with Haitian sound artist Val Jeanty) Fodder.   Throughout Kearney’s career he has engaged with the tension between the stage and the page, the eye and the ear, the word and the body, all as a means to […] The post Douglas Kearney : Sho appeared first on Tin House.

Douglas Kearney : Sho

Arthur Sze, winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry for Sight Lines, joins David Naimon to discuss his latest book, The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems. Together they step back to take in a half century of Arthur’s work, not only how it has changed and why, tracking the growth of a […] The post Arthur Sze : The Glass Constellation : New & Collected Poems appeared first on Tin House.

Arthur Sze : The Glass Constellation : New & Collected Poems

Today’s guest, Irish-Canadian writer Anakana Schofield, joins us to talk about her latest novel Bina, winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year.  Bina was also shortlisted for the 2020 Goldsmith Prize, awarded to fiction that pushes the boundaries of form (in the spirit of  Walter Benjamin who said “All great works of literature […] The post Anakana Schofield : Bina appeared first on Tin House.

Anakana Schofield : Bina

Irish poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa joins us to talk about her latest poetry collection, To Star the Dark, and her prose debut, A Ghost in the Throat, a debut that has captured the imaginations (and all the awards) in Ireland and the UK and is just out now in North America. A Ghost in the […] The post Doireann Ní Ghríofa : A Ghost in the Throat & To Star the Dark appeared first on Tin House.

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

Today’s guest, Moroccan writer and filmmaker Abdellah Taïa discusses his most recent novel A Country For Dying translated by Emma Ramadan and winner of the 2021 PEN Translation Award. We talk about voice in relation to self, story in relation to truth, writing in one’s second language, particularly a language imposed by colonization, about making that […] The post Abdellah Taïa : A Country For Dying appeared first on Tin House.

Abdellah Taïa : A Country For Dying

Today’s episode of Between the Covers is with writer Elissa Washuta about White Magic, her new memoir in essays just out from Tin House. Elissa Washuta’s body of work, and White Magic is no exception, is deeply engaged with form, particularly in relationship to the telling of our own true stories. How do we find […] The post Elissa Washuta : White Magic appeared first on Tin House.

Elissa Washuta : White Magic

Writer, poet, and painter Rikki Ducornet returns to Between the Covers to discuss her latest novel Trafik which is her first foray into science fiction. Ducornet’s body of work—surrealist, alchemical, gnostic, metamorphic—is sparked by the wonder and mystery of dreams, as well as by the shared company of the non-human other, the eels and butterflies […] The post Rikki Ducornet : Trafik appeared first on Tin House.

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