Listen Up! June 2024 on Poured Over

This month, we’re celebrating Poured Over’s third anniversary along with Pride, and the start of our favorite season: Summer Reading. Once again we’re featuring a fantastic range of writers we love — a mix of names you know and names you will know — on episodes taped in the studio and in store, this time on the upper west side of Manhattan.




Actor/producer/director Griffin Dunne (After Hours and The Center Cannot Hold, the Joan Didion documentary on Netflix) on his memoir, The Friday Afternoon Club, his unforgettable family and his coming of age, his adventures in movie-making and more.

Nina St. Pierre explores her complicated relationship with her mother, mental health, poverty and the divine in her memoir, Love is a Burning Thing.

KB Brookins delivers their thoughtful, original take (a blend of poetry and prose) on queerness, masculinity and more in Pretty: A Memoir.

If you’re looking to lose yourself in a great story, start with Enlightenment, the new novel from Sarah Perry (The Essex Serpent) : longing, lost love, scientific inquiry, Perry’s prose will transport— and transform — you.

Swift River by Essie Chambers is a story of family mythology and coming-of-age that you won’t want to put down and a narrator you won’t forget.

Morgan Talty, the bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez, a story collection that was a B&N Discover Prize finalist, joins us from our store on NYC’s upper west side to talk about his first novel, Fire Exit.

YA superstar Nicola Yoon, author of The Sun is Also a Star and publisher of the Joy Revolution book imprint (along with her husband David), delivers her first novel for adults, One of Our Kind, a chilling mash-up of Get Out and The Stepford Wives.

Rufi Thorpe has written an all-too-relatable story for our times: Margo’s Got Money Troubles, rollicking ride about the hustle and grind life (literally and figuratively), complicated families and social media. Don’t miss this one if you loved the wry voice and sharp insights of Kiley Reid’s Come and Get It.

A lot can happen in eleven thousand years. Moon Bound is the charming and time-bending new novel from Robin Sloan. (PS, If you love books about books and/or love to solve literary puzzles, you need to read Robin’s howlingly funny debut, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore.)

Garth Greenwell (Cleanness) has written a forward to Edmund White’s novel, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, and they join us for a join interview.

National Book Award Finalist Julia Phillips (Disappearing Earth) riffs on fairy tales, sisterhood, class and her new novel, Bear.

Sure, marriage is hard, but it makes for great reading. Same as It Ever Was is the new novel from Claire Lombardo (The Most Fun We Ever Had) and a joy to read — especially when your own family starts to stress you out. (And Claire’s live from our store on the upper west side of NYC.)

From the libraries of Princeton to alien planets,The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei is a heist story like no other. For lovers of alien tech, found family and saving the world.