Lauren Graham on Have I Told You This Already?
“Storytelling can just be you understanding yourself, but it turns into something else when it’s a shared piece—so much of…
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: Nick Hornby on Dickens and Prince
“I loved it more than everybody. And afterwards, I thought for the first time, whatever I do, I’ve got to…
Poured Over: Matthew Quick on We Are the Light
“I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood. And you know, nobody was expected to be a novelist—that was not a…
Poured Over: Adam Hochschild on American Midnight
“…One of the ways you can get into my cast of characters is by leaving a very detailed written record.…
Poured Over: Erika T. Wurth on White Horse
…When I was a kid, I was super, super geeky, it was so nerdy. And all I read was dragon…
Poured Over: Sue Lynn Tan on Heart of the Sun Warrior
“They’re rooted in our culture as well. And because of all that, I think they feel a little bit more…
Congratulations to the Winners of the 2022 National Book Awards
The 73rd National Book Awards were celebrated in New York last night and fun was had by all. The ceremony…
Poured Over: Jerry Saltz on Art is Life
“We are writing our stories to the world, as opposed to just reading the old stories. And somehow, some way…
Poured Over: Patti Smith on A Book of Days
“I’m really driven by poetry. I’m really driven by language. But also, I’m driven by a desire to connect with…
Listen Up! December 2022 on Poured Over
We’re releasing our 200th episode on December 1st! LAUREN GRAHAM on her very funny essay collection Have I Told You…
Poured Over: Kevin Wilson: Now is Not the Time to Panic
“It’s hard to be funny, you can’t really plan on—you don’t know what will land with people…. absurdity just exists…
Poured Over: Rabia Chaudry on Fatty Fatty Boom Boom
“I had never known what it was like to feel full. And I know that sounds like really odd, but…
Poured Over: Madeline Miller on Galatea
“I always feel like as a reader, I always want to go in ready to be changed, ready to be…
Poured Over: Anand Giridharadas on The Persuaders
“More people than we realize are works in progress, are trying to figure out a way to think about the…
Poured Over: N.K. Jemisin on The World We Make
“…The idea just kind of spun itself into existence in my head, the world started to form almost immediately—When my…
Poured Over: Louise Kennedy on Trespasses
“…It was at the end of an exhibition called The Art of The Troubles. And that had been a little controversial…
Poured Over: Marjorie Liu on The Night Eaters
“We don’t know our parents, I mean, we think we do; you know, all of us have a practice of…
Poured Over: Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan on Mad Honey
“I was always writing, and I think it goes back to that Charlotte’s Web thing when I had that experience…
Poured Over: Siddhartha Mukherjee on The Song of the Cell
“People write medical histories, people write personal case histories, I didn’t want to do either. People write memoirs; I wanted…
Poured Over: Ross Gay on Inciting Joy
“We were doing all of this for people we did not know and could not imagine. And as is the…