Listen Up! September 2022 on Poured Over

Lots of great fiction this month on the show, starting with The House of Fortune, Jessie Burton’s fabulous follow-up to her bestseller, The Miniaturist. NAACP Image Award winning author Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (The Revisioners) transports us to 1950s San Francisco in On the Rooftop. We have a pair of unforgettable debuts with The Old Place, from Who? Weekly podcast co-host Bobby Finger and Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm from Laura Warrell. In a little twist on our typical one-on-one conversation, we have Jonathan Escoffery (If I Survive You), YiYun Li (The Book of Goose) and Ling Ma (Severance and Bliss Montage) together in a single episode. We have a pair of prize-winning, bestselling authors in Ian McEwan, the Booker Prize winning author of Atonement, talking about his latest, Lessons, and Andrew Sean Greer on Less is Lost, the sequel to his Pulitzer winner, Less.

Memoirs and more from poets and culture writers: Stay True, a memoir of friendship and belonging from New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu. Javier Zamora (Unaccompanied) presents his epic, unforgettable memoir, Solito. Hafizah Augustus Geter (Un-American) blends memoir and Afrofuturism in The Black Period: On Personhood, Race and Origin. Poet, memoirist (How We Fight for Our Lives) and podcast co-host (Vibe Check) Saeed Jones joins us in studio to riff on his newest collection, Alive at the End of the World.