Novel Dialogue Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/category/podcast/novel-dialogue/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:10:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Novel Dialogue Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/category/podcast/novel-dialogue/ 32 32 “That In Between Time”: Fernanda Trías and Heather Cleary https://www.publicbooks.org/that-in-between-time-fernanda-trias-and-heather-cleary/ Fri, 09 May 2025 15:00:39 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59664 “I always feel that when I write, it’s like weaving senses.”

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]]> Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller https://www.publicbooks.org/planetary-boundaries-are-non-negotiable-kim-stanley-robinson-and-elizabeth-carolyn-miller/ Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:00:33 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59569 Our partner podcast Novel Dialogue invites a novelist and a literary critic to talk about novels from every angle: how we read them, write them, publish them, and remember them. This season’s signature question is: If you could spend a year anywhere, where, when, and how would you spend it? In Season 9, Novel Dialogue set […]

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]]> Monstrous Dreaming: Lauren Beukes and Andrew Pepper https://www.publicbooks.org/monstrous-dreaming-lauren-beukes-and-andrew-pepper/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:00:48 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59481 “I guess my actual process is probably despair and cortisol.”

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]]> Novels are Like Elephants: Ken Liu and Rose Casey https://www.publicbooks.org/novels-are-like-elephants-ken-liu-and-rose-casey/ Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:00:39 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59367 “All fictional works are in some sense defined by the moment they were written and what their authors were trying to experience.”

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]]> Novel Dialogue Season 9 Trailer: Writing Against the System with Aarthi Vadde https://www.publicbooks.org/novel-dialogue-season-9-trailer-writing-against-the-system-with-aarthi-vadde/ Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:11:42 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59332 In the trailer for Season 9 of Novel Dialogue, Aarthi Vadde looks at the web as the predominant platform of cultural life, and one that needs to be understood in light of literary history.

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]]> “I Love a Dialectical Reader, and Best Is a Dialectical Reader Who Cries”: Jordy Rosenberg and Annie McClanahan https://www.publicbooks.org/i-love-a-dialectical-reader-and-best-is-a-dialectical-reader-who-cries-jordy-rosenberg-and-annie-mcclanahan/ Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:00:16 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=58639 “I really just wanted to write a novel—I guess to me, this feels very queer—but a novel that was about tenderness and militancy.”

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]]> And Soon: Lydia Millet and Emily Hyde https://www.publicbooks.org/and-soon-lydia-millet-and-emily-hyde/ Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:00:13 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=58458 “The longer I'm alive, the more convinced I become that human exceptionalism is our original sin.”

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]]> All of Our Stories Were War Stories: Jamil Jan Kochai and Kalyan Nadiminti https://www.publicbooks.org/all-of-our-stories-were-war-stories-jamil-jan-kochai-and-kalyan-nadiminti/ Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:00:02 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=58358 “I had an innate sense as a child that the war was a deep part of who my parents were, so tied up in how they told stories and how they understood reality and existed in the world.”

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]]> Aspire to Magic but End Up with Madness: Adam Ehrlich Sachs Speaks with Sunny Yudkoff https://www.publicbooks.org/aspire-to-magic-but-end-up-with-madness-adam-ehrlich-sachs-speaks-with-sunny-yudkoff/ Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:00:38 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=58199 “I'm aiming for something emotional, psychological, but I want it as an emergent property.”

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]]> To Gallop Again and Again into Failure: Kaveh Akbar and Pardis Dabashi https://www.publicbooks.org/to-gallop-again-and-again-into-failure-kaveh-akbar-in-conversation-with-pardis-dabashi/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:00:24 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=58047 “What can be said with language, a human invention, about something as ineffable and ephemeral as love or desire or rage or loneliness or despair, fear of God?”

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