Last month, I was scheduled to moderate a panel at the annual AWP Conference called “The Craft of the Literary Podcast Interview,” featuring Rachel Zucker of Commonplace, Dujie Tahat of The Poet Salon, and David Naimon of Between the Covers, three of my favorite literary podcasts. Due to the coronavirus, we ended up having to cancel our appearance at the conference, which makes it all the sweeter to be able to bring you this podcast version of our panel. In this wide-ranging coversation, Rachel, Dujie, David, and I talked all about the “how”s and the “whys” of interviewing, including the importance of establishing rapport with our guests, questions about the ethics of interviewing, and what the role of the host ought to be.

(Conversation recorded March 27, 2020.)

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Show Notes:

• Rachel Zucker
• Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People)
• Dujie Tahat
• The Poet Salon
• Luther Hughes
• Gabrielle Bates
• Between the Covers
• Between the Covers - Solmaz Sharif : Look
• Commonplace - Episode 37: Sheila Heti and Sarah Manguso
• AWP 2019 - The Art of the Interview
• VS Podcast
• Open Books: A Poem Emporium
• Dujie Tahat - “salat to be read from right to left”
• CAConrad
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 78: David Naimon
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 94: Rachel Zucker
• Commonplace - Episode 82: Maggie Nelson
• Commonplace - Episode 81: Commonplace goes to Taiwan, Part 2
• Commonplace - Episode 72: Ilya Kaminsky
• Commonplace - Episode 54: Gerald Stern
• Between the Covers - Junot Diaz : This Is How You Lose Her
• Between the Covers - Terese Marie Mailhot : Heart Berries
• Wesley Morris - “The Morality Wars”
• Nicole Chung - “E. B. White’s Lesson for Debut Writers: It’s Okay to Start Small”
• Commonplace - Episode 26: Alice Notley
• Commonplace - Episode 15: Bernadette Mayer
• Commonplace - Episode 23: Morgan Parker
• Tommy Pico
• Danez Smith
• Robin Coste Lewis
• Commonplace - Episode 60: Robin Coste Lewis
• Alexander Chee - “How to Unlearn Everything”
• Between the Covers - Claudia Rankine : Citizen
• The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind
• Zadie Smith - “Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction”
• Between the Covers - Zadie Smith : Grand Union
• Commonplace - Episode 83: Darcey Steinke
• The Poet Salon - Taneum Bambrick + End of Tour Toddy

Transcript Episode Credits

• Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
• Music: Podington Bear
• Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo