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Mar 3, 2024

A new 'Craftwork' episode, about how to write flash fiction. My guest is author and editor Tommy Dean.

Dean is the author of two flash fiction chapbooks and a full flash collection, Hollows (Alternating Current Press 2022). He is the Editor of Fractured Lit and Uncharted Magazine. His writing can be found in...


Mar 1, 2024

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 613, my conversation with author Leland Cheuk. It first aired on November 20, 2019.

Cheuk is an award-winning author of three books of fiction, most recently the novel No Good Very Bad Asian (2019). His work has appeared in a variety of publications including The Washington...


Feb 28, 2024

Sloane Crosley is the author of the memoir Grief Is for People, available from MCD Books.

Crosley is the author of the novels Cult Classic and The Clasp and of three essay collections: Look Alive Out There and the New York Times bestsellers I Was Told There'd Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number. She lives in New...


Feb 25, 2024

Lauren Markham is the author of A Map of Future Ruins, available from Riverhead Books.

Markham is the author of the award-winning The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life. She has been working with migrants for two decades and has written about migration and other social issues in The...


Feb 23, 2024

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 29, my conversation with author Ben Loory. It first aired on December 25, 2011.

Loory is the author of the story collections Tales of Falling and Flying and Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day, and a picture book for children, The Baseball Player and the Walrus. His...