We are ReVERB, a podcast of Third Man Books. At ReVERB, we talk about how life and culture influences literature and how literature influences life and culture. We invite writers mostly but also songwriters, musicians, filmmakers—people we love—who have a thing or two to say about music, literature and pop culture, and we host them at Third Man Records to have a chat in the Blue Room.
In our very first live episode, we talk with Nickole Brown about “totem objects,” literary code-switching, permission to return to one’s roots, and he...
In this episode we talk with Danez Smith about writing “the unsavory parts” of ourselves, balancing truth with tenderness, having a healthy fear of fu...
We talk with poet, editor, and teacher Rebecca Gayle Howell along with her partner musician Brett Ratliff about writing into received musical and poe...
We talk to poet, editor and essayist Camille T. Dungy about memorizing poetry, the human and non-human natural world, being an extroverted poet on the...
We talk with poet Maggie Smith about the end of the world, ghost cells, writing her shadow self, dream collaborations, and what it’s like to have you...
We talk with poet, music critic, and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib about kindness, the art of fandom, Courtney Love, the legacy of 90s artists, and knowin...