The Sewanee Review Podcast

Adam Ross Jan 06, 2025

In which Adam Ross taps the aquarium glass.

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Nov 25, 2024

In which Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah swings through the truth, not at it.

Cindy Juyoung Ok Sep 23, 2024

In which Cindy Juyoung Ok speaks across the rupture.

John Jeremiah Sullivan II Aug 13, 2024

In which John Jeremiah Sullivan pities the monster.

Joy Priest Jul 02, 2024

In which Joy Priest maps a life made in letters.

Patricia Smith Jun 25, 2024

In which Patricia Smith writes against silence.

John Jeremiah Sullivan I May 16, 2024

In which John Jeremiah Sullivan lays the golden egg.

Justin Taylor Apr 04, 2024

In which Justin Taylor follows the breadcrumbs.

Sigrid Nunez Mar 07, 2024

In which Sigrid Nunez catalogues her literary present and past.

Elliot Ackerman Feb 01, 2024

In which Elliot Ackerman grapples with the military-industrial complex.

Gabrielle Bates Nov 16, 2023

In which Gabrielle Bates writes into the darkness.

Jennifer Habel and Chris Bachelder Oct 17, 2023

In which a day's work is never done.

Christopher Spaide Jun 16, 2023

In which Christopher Spaide waxes critical.

Garrett Hongo May 25, 2023

In which Garrett Hongo writes toward a better America.

CJ Hauser Apr 14, 2023

In which CJ Hauser writes to the heart.

Joanna Pearson Mar 24, 2023

In which Joanna Pearson does not fear the ghosts in the attic.

Matthew Baker Mar 03, 2023

In which Matthew Baker cherishes corporeal existence.

Jay Parini Jan 13, 2023

In which Jay Parini recounts the fictions and realities of his Borgesian adventure.

Kirmen Uribe Nov 11, 2022

In which Kirmen Uribe and his writing witness a changing world.

Alice McDermott Oct 28, 2022

In which Alice McDermott knows her way around a novel.

Gwen E. Kirby Sep 16, 2022

In which Gwen E. Kirby talks sexist tropes, angry women, and radioactive cockroaches.

Matthew Olzmann Aug 05, 2022

In which Matthew Olzmann casts his poems into the stars and into the sea.

Vievee Francis Jun 02, 2022

In which Vievee Francis looks toward the light.

Phillip B. Williams Apr 29, 2022

In which Phillip B. Williams writes with anger and preserves with love.

Michael Knight Mar 25, 2022

In which Michael Knight finds magic.

Brandon Taylor Feb 11, 2022

In which Brandon Taylor surveys his Hot Freud Summer.

Lauren Groff Jan 14, 2022

In which novelist Lauren Groff talks utopia, twelfth-century feminine desire, and the ghost of Hildegard von Bingen.

Elena Passarello Dec 10, 2021

In which Elena Passarello gives Aesop a run for his money.

Sidik Fofana Nov 12, 2021

In which editor-at-large Sidik Fofana discusses MFA culture, slow writing, and teaching high school, as well as his stories “The Okiedoke” and “The Rent Manual,” which were originally published in the Sewanee Review.

Danielle Evans Oct 22, 2021

In which Danielle Evans discusses characterological framework, the coincidence of unintentional motif, and the underpinnings of a successful short story.

Katie Kitamura Sep 24, 2021

In which editor-at-large Brandon Taylor interviews Katie Kitamura, author of *A Separation* and *Intimacies*. In this episode, Kitamura considers how her work explores the inner landscapes of the self.

Nikky Finney Jun 18, 2021

In which poet Nikky Finney begins with love.

Lisa Taddeo Jun 04, 2021

In which Lisa Taddeo, author of the *New York Times* bestseller *Three Women* and the novel *Animal*, talks about the mundane cruelty of male indifference, the deferral of female desire, and power dynamics in heterosexual relationships that elide female agency, favoring narratives of absolute victimhood.

Ross Gay May 14, 2021

In which Ross Gay, poet of Be Holding; Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; and author of the New York Times Bestselling collection of essays The Book of Delights, discusses “Joy as the rightful subject of our literary concerns or inquiry.”

Caki Wilkinson Apr 23, 2021

In which Caki Wilkinson personifies hope and muses, “Hope is a character and things are not going well for her. I was thinking about Emily Dickinson, like what is the 2020 version of Emily Dickinson’s ‘Hope is the thing with feathers?’. Definitely not a bird.”

Rebecca Wolff Jan 22, 2021

In which Rebecca Wolff, poet and editor of Fence magazine, discusses the sparse structure of her writing life, her editorship of Fence, and the kinetic tension between stanzas and space on the page: “I think the space is just as present but maybe not more. It’s a place full of hope, it’s a place where I am hoping that the reader will allow themselves to make connections that I am not willing to make for them.”

Graham Barnhart Jan 08, 2021

In which Graham Barnhart, poet and US Army veteran, discusses the paradox of being an army medic—“You carry a rifle and an aid bag full of medical supplies to treat the people you’re potentially expected to shoot”; and the capacity of poetry to contain that paradox without limiting it: “How do I communicate what feels like a personal experience without ignoring the violence and oppression of the machine I’m a part of that allowed me to receive that experience, even providing medical care as a way of pursuing the war?”

Jennifer Habel Oct 23, 2020

In which the poet Jennifer Habel, author of The Book of Jane discusses the process of reexamining traditionally female forms of artistry and how that exercise animates her own craft.

Chris Bachelder Sep 18, 2020

In which editor Adam Ross interviews novelist Chris Bachelder about his thoughts on patient writing, and Bachelder reads an excerpt from his novel The Throwback Special.

Erin McGraw Jul 10, 2020

In which Erin McGraw, a former teacher at the University of Cincinnati and Ohio State as well as a prolific author with three novels and four collections of short stories, entreats aspiring writers: “Forgive yourself.”

Paul Muldoon Jul 10, 2020

In which Pulitzer prizewinning poet Paul Muldoon confronts himself. “Ok Paul get a grip. Face reality this is what you do, and it’s a perfectly reasonable thing to do,” says he. “It is as reasonable a thing to do as to be a philosopher or a psychiatrist or a pulmonary specialist. Just get over yourself. It’s not about you. You are a poet.”

Edgar Kunz & Anders Carlson-Wee May 08, 2020

In which poets Edgar Kunz, the author of *Tap Out*, and Anders Carlson-Wee, the author of *The Low Passions*, consider influence and camaraderie—the ways in which their friendship has shaped their writing practices and their first books.

Anna Lena Phillips Bell Apr 24, 2020

In which Anna Lena Phillips Bell—author of the poetry collection Ornament and editor of Ecotone—considers the ways poetry helps us map the natural world and how “art is not a frivolous pursuit.”

Margaret Renkl Apr 10, 2020

In which Margaret Renkl—the author of Late Migrations and a contributing writer for the New York Times—wonders if the arc of the universe still bends towards justice.

Stephanie Danler Mar 20, 2020

In which editor Adam Ross interviews bestselling author Stephanie Danler about her upcoming memoir Stray. In this episode, Danler discusses the differences between writing fiction and memoir and gives the listener a behind-the-scenes look into how a book gets refined in its final stages of editing

Melissa Febos Feb 14, 2020

In which Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me, dubs writing "psychological alchemy" and recites a poem by Mary Oliver.

Garth Greenwell Jan 10, 2020

In which editor Adam Ross interviews Garth Greenwell, the author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You. In this episode, Greenwell is crowned King of MFA Programs and decrees mandatory reading in a second language and deeply in translated works.

The Sewanee Review Podcast - Trailer Dec 20, 2019

In which Adam Ross, editor of the Sewanee Review, introduces the Sewanee Review Podcast for readers and storytellers.

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