Mar 10, 2026

⁠Namwali Serpell⁠ is the author of ⁠On Morrison⁠, available from Hogarth Press.

Serpell was born in Lusaka and lives in New York. Her debut novel, The Old Drift, won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times’s Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction....

Mar 3, 2026

⁠Tobi Coventry ⁠is the author of the debut novel ⁠He's the Devil⁠, available from Abrams Books. It was the official February pick of the ⁠Otherppl Book Club⁠.

For the past ten years, Coventry has worked as a book scout for film and television production companies. In 2023, he produced an award-winning short...

Feb 28, 2026

Vol. 6 of Story Time, a new series on the program featuring an author reading aloud from her work. In this episode, ⁠Emily Nemens⁠ reads aloud from her sophomore novel, ⁠Clutch⁠, available from Tin House / Zando.

Nemens’s debut novel, The Cactus League, was a New York Times Book ReviewEditors’ Choice and...

Feb 26, 2026

Volume 81 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad plants a beautiful garden...continues tedious AWP preparations...binge-watching UFO docuseries...the aliens are probably in the ocean...Mira still hasn't set up her hummingbird cam...is now invested in a new conspiracy theory involving the late Queen Elizabeth...

Feb 24, 2026

⁠Emily Nemens⁠ is the author of the novel ⁠Clutch⁠, available from Tin House.

Nemens's debut novel, The Cactus League, was a New York Times Book ReviewEditors’ Choice and named one of NPR’s and Lit Hub’s favorite books of 2020. Her stories have appeared in BOMB, The Gettysburg Review, n+1, and elsewhere;...