Imagine a noble cruise ship with a rogue charlatan as its new captain with followers "most fowl" and a conspiracy theorist speaking from the bowels of the ship...

Discover American author John Edward Williams, who wrote Stoner, critically described as the "perfect novel."

Can a blind astronomer, who claims to use the longest telescope in the world, accurately predict an eclipse? Does it take a madman to truly "see" reality? What is the nature of tasty dumplings?

Map the territory of trauma and survival with poet H. K. Hummel.

On this episode of Arts & Letters, we celebrate the music from Season Six.

Does the garden die with the gardener?

Reflections on home, family, and the spiritual essence of place…

Geek out with the A&L team as we interview Stephanie Vanderslice, self-proclaimed writing geek--blogger, scholar, teacher, and mom ...

Escape with us to the shopping mall, as Matthew Newton and the Arts & Letters team craft a nostalgic love letter to the malls of America, with special focus on the Monroeville Mall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On this episode of Arts & Letters, we'll be talking with writer Matthew Newton about his Bloomsbury Object Lessons' book Shopping Mall , which chronicles its history, its relationship to us and our collective communities and our personal relationships to it. Newton writes: As a

Meet American prize-winning short story author: Amina Gautier. Today on Arts & Letters, we’ll be talking with award-winning writer Amina Gautier. Her third short story collection, The Loss of All Lost Things , published by Elixir Press is about reconstituting lives after imaginable and unimaginable losses. In this episode, we'll be examining her story "A Brief Pause." The Loss of All Lost Things won the Elixir Press Award in Fiction and the 2018 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short