Listen Up! March 2023 on Poured Over
Lions and lambs and literature, oh my! We’ve got you covered from Ides to Equinox with the episodes below… We…
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.
Poured Over: Rachel Joyce on Maureen
“Maureen’s journey is about going to the dark — and when you go right into the dark, you then find…
Poured Over: Jessica George on Maame
“That was only three years ago, where I read a protagonist I could relate to on a deeper level, for…
Poured Over Double Shot: Kashana Cauley and Matthew Salesses
These two novels explore the gulf between expectation and reality, ambition and opportunity, and what happens when life veers off…
Poured Over: Paul Harding on This Other Eden
“I love finishing reading a book and thinking, I feel privileged to have read that, I feel dignified. I feel…
Poured Over: Aleksandar Hemon on The World and All That It Holds
“At any given time, there’s a choir of ideas and nagging voices in my head — chatter that I had…
Poured Over Double Shot: Colm Toibin and Tom Crewe
This Double Shot episode features two authors, one familiar and one who soon will be, each tackling similar themes. Through…
Listen Up! February 2023 on Poured Over
It’s the perfect time of the year to curl up with a good book—and keep that New Year’s resolution to…
Poured Over: Grady Hendrix on How to Sell a Haunted House
“I wanted to spend time with a family and haunted house books are always about families.” Grady Hendrix’s bone-chilling novels…
Poured Over Double Shot: Monica Heisey and Laura Zigman
Two witty novels, two funny women, and two engaging interviews await you in this Double Shot episode of Poured Over.…
Poured Over: Margo Price on Strays
“That’s one of those epiphanies – I realized if I wanted to be taken seriously, I needed representation. And who…
Poured Over: Oindrila Mukherjee on The Dream Builders
“I remember being in an English class in high school (12th grade actually). We were reading The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot,…
Poured Over: Leigh Bardugo on Hell Bent
“And I always tend to start a book with a very popcorn sensibility, like, oh, well, this be fun, we’re…
Poured Over: Deepti Kapoor on Age of Vice
“But now, with the rise of new money, it’s like there’s this moment in India, when new money was eclipsing…
Poured Over Double Shot: Parini Shroff and Tracey Rose Peyton
Our January Discover and B&N Book Club picks have lots in common: both are debut novels with indelible characters and…
Listen Up! January 2023 on Poured Over
Start your next chapter with some of our favorite authors-—including a slew of remarkable debuts—on Poured Over this month. We…
Poured Over: All The Pretty Books and Beautiful Things
We’re closing out 2022 with something new: A Poured Over Double Shot with host Miwa Messer. Cormac McCarthy doesn’t really…
Maggie O’Farrell on The Marriage Portrait
“They have traveled for most of the day using what little daylight the season offers leaving Ferrara Dawn and riding…
Poured Over: Alison L. Strayer and Dan Simon on Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux
“It is an amazing, amazing translation experience….But it took a long time to get to the point where the language…
Poured Over: Jane Smiley on A Dangerous Business
“One of my favorite places to take a little walk around is the public cemetery, which is on a little…