This week, journalist and author Kosoko Jackson discusses his young adult novel Survive the Dome with writer and educator Jacoby Cochran. The Hate U Give meets Internment in this pulse-pounding thriller about an impenetrable dome around Baltimore that is keeping the residents in and information from going out during a city-wide protest.

This conversation was recorded live at the American Writers Festival on May 15, 2022 in Chicago.

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This week, acclaimed writers Maxine Hong Kingston and Viet Thanh Nguyen discuss Kingston’s writing and legacy in light of the new collection of Kingston’s work from the Library of America, edited by Nguyen.

This conversation was recorded live for the American Writers Festival on May 15, 2022 in Chicago.

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This week, bestselling author Sudhir Venkatesh discusses his new book, The Tomorrow Game: Rival Teenagers, Their Race for a Gun, and a Community United to Save Them. This conversation originally took place July 6th, 2022 and was recorded live at the American Writers Museum.

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On July 11th, 1960, Harper Lee’s iconic novel To Kill A Mockingbird was originally published. To celebrate the 62nd anniversary of this literary event, this week screenwriter Aaron Sorkin chats with professor Ivy Wilson about how he adapted Lee’s novel for the stage.

This conversation was recorded for the American Writers Festival on May 15th, 2022, which featured more than 75 leading writers from across the country.

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This is a special week…it is our 100th episode! To celebrate, we’re counting down our top ten most listened-to podcasts from the past three years and sharing highlights from each. From poets to journalists to novelists and more, we hope you enjoy entering the minds of these writers.

Listen to the full episodes below:

1. Alice McDermott, Joseph O'Neill & Daniel Mulhall: Irish-American Writers and Writing
2. Nicole Perlroth: This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
3. Sandra Cisneros & Fernando A. Flores: Tears of the Trufflepig
4. Viet Thanh Nguyen, Kao Kalia Yang & Vu Tran: The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
5. Gary Paulsen: Gone to the Woods
6. Joe Bonomo & Rick Telander: Baseball Writers and Writing
7. Billy Collins: Whale Day
8. Walter Mosley: John Woman
9. Natasha Trethewey: Memorial Drive
10. John Scalzi: The Consuming Fire

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This week, we honor the 53rd anniversary of the Stonewall Riots with comic artist Archie Bongiovanni, who discusses their graphic novel The Stonewall Riots: Making A Stand for LGBTQ Rights, a History Comics book. Archie is joined by journalist Andrew Davis, executive editor of the Chicago-based LGBTQ+ media outlet Windy City Times.

This conversation was recorded live during our American Writers Festival on May 15th, 2022, which featured more than 75 leading writers from across the country.

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This week, we are excited to release the first of many episodes recorded live during our American Writers Festival on May 15th, 2022, which featured more than 75 leading writers from across the country.

In this episode, writer Vincent Tirado discusses their young adult novel Burn Down, Rise Up with journalist Andrew Davis.

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This week, AWM Program Director Allison Sansone chats with author and historian Aaron Sachs about his new book Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times, a double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisis. This conversation originally took place June 7th, 2022 and was recorded live via Zoom.

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This week, author Karl Marlantes discusses his novel Deep River, which the Washington Post called, “an engrossing and commanding historical epic about one immigrant family’s shifting fortunes.” This conversation originally took place August 7th, 2019 and was recorded live at the American Writers Museum.

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This week, opera librettist Gene Scheer discusses the process of transforming Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick into a critically acclaimed opera. He is joined by Northwestern University Professor Betsy Erkkila. This conversation originally took place April 24, 2019 and was recorded live at the American Writers Museum.

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