Listen Up! August 2023 on Poured Over
Anything is a beach read if you take it to the beach, so don’t let the rest of this summer…
Miwa Messer
Miwa Messer is the creator, executive producer and host of our podcast, Poured Over, a show for readers who pore over details, obsess over sentences and ideas and stories and character — readers who ask a lot of questions, just like her, a career bookseller who’s always reading.
Listen Up! July 2023 on Poured Over
Sirius is up in the night sky and we can’t stop singing about Dog Days with Florence and the Machine.…
Listen Up! June 2023 on Poured Over
Summer’s here, the days are longer, and we’re delivering lots of Poured Over Double Shot episodes to help you plan…
Listen Up! May 2023 on Poured Over
The days are getting longer, which around here just means more time to read and listen. We’re a month shy of…
Poured Over: Rachel Heng on The Great Reclamation
“As a kid, you don’t know any of that. You’re just like, wow, this sounds magical, like, how could this…
Poured Over: Matthew Desmond on Poverty, By America
“Look at all the advances we’ve made in the last 50 years, look at the way that culture and medicine…
Listen Up! April 2023 on Poured Over
Spring’s sprung, and we have some fabulous writers joining us on Poured Over in April. Bestselling authors like: Jeanette Walls…
Poured Over Double Shot: Claire Jimenez and Elaine Hsieh Chou
Who gets to tell our stories? Two debut authors use their powerful voices to show strong female characters navigating family,…
Poured Over Double Shot: Madelaine Lucas and Alice Winn
From the trenches of WWI to the coast of Australia, these two debut novels depict the ubiquity of coming of age, even when…
Poured Over Double Shot: Jenny Jackson and Ann Napolitano
Family dynamics, for better or worse, are front and center in these two novels from two striking voices in fiction. …
Poured Over: Jenny Odell on Saving Time
“I’m also trying to make use of how innate I think curiosity is for people, because curiosity is kind of…
Poured Over: Eleanor Catton on Birnam Wood
“I’m interested in how deceptions can make you feel more of yourself or can unlock something in you that you…
Poured Over: Will Schwalbe on We Should Not Be Friends
“How do you spot a ‘we should not be friends’ friendship? It’s when someone shows you who they are, and…
Poured Over: Eloghosa Osunde on Vagabonds!
“Each time I wrote a story that belonged in this book … It held some pain. It held some love.…
Poured Over: Samantha Shannon on A Day of Fallen Night
“I feel like we’re in a real golden age of fantasy that’s exploring diversity from lots of different perspectives, and…
Poured Over: Asale Angel-Ajani on A Country You Can Leave
“When you’ve been disappointed for that long in your life — what kind of people are you? What do you…
Poured Over: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ on A Spell of Good Things
“I’m one of those writers that … I think I know the story I want to write when I’m going…
Poured Over: Rebecca Makkai on I Have Some Questions for You
“It’s a literary, feminist, boarding school murder mystery — everyone’s favorite genre.” I Have Some Questions for You is the…
Poured Over: Kevin Jared Hosein on Hungry Ghosts
“No one in this cast believes that they have a home — they have houses, but they don’t have homes.…
Poured Over: Isabel Wilkerson on Caste
“I wouldn’t have written the book if I were not hopeful. I mean, the act of writing this book was…