Michelle Jana Chan

The Wandering Book Collector

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The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan airs regular conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. The podcast has welcomed Booker and Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists, such as Bernardine Evaristo, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Karen Joy Fowler, Carla Power and Maaza Mengiste. The choice of writers is representative of the world around us, naturally. https://linktr.ee/thewanderingbookcollector Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Michelle Jana Chan

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27 cze 2024

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Jessi Jezewska Stevens on Geneva, Gettysburg, Krakow, Tuscany, Siberia, Indiana; on writing for two days and editing for a year; on honeymoons; on precise descriptions and hope; on landing in JFK; and on dwelling in the past — with TWBC 27.06.2024 43:47

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Jessi Jezewska Stevens, to discuss her book, Ghost Pains.  Plea...

Hilary Bradt on getting lost; on the Galapagos and Inca Trail in the 1970s; on aerograms v social media; on hitch-hiking at 82; on her guidebooks to Burma, Iraq, Iran and N Korea; on public footpaths and bluebells; and on feeling homesick — with TWBC 24.04.2024 35:50

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Hilary Bradt to discuss Taking the Risk: My Adventures in Travel &am...

Ginanne Brownell on hearing clarinets and trombones by a Nairobi city dump; on a fairytale morphing; on big skies; on searching for a cemetery by Lake Michigan; on her next book: a global surrogacy journey — with TWBC 28.03.2024 28:59

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Ginanne Brownell, to discuss her book, GHETTO CLASSICS: How a youth...

Nastassja Martin on her near-death encounter with a Kamchatka bear; on the boundaries between humankind and nature; on linear v spiral storytelling; on being in between worlds; on dreams, and on waking from them — with TWBC 18.01.2024 49:44

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Nastassja Martin to discuss her book, IN THE EYE OF THE WILD . ...

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ on life in Lagos and Norwich; on how family pressure shapes you; on hope as something active; on walking to get out of one’s head; on random news items; and on writing a story, leaving out all the politics — with TWBC 17.11.2023 42:51

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ to discuss her new book, A Spell of Good Things.&n...

Daljit Nagra on his sense of mischief; on abandoning 30 line poems; on his first language Punjabi; on listening to Miles Davis; on fully expecting to fail; on the nine-metre man and snake gods; and on straight bananas — with TWBC 30.08.2023 36:35

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Daljit Nagra to discuss his latest collection of poetry, Indiom. Ple...

Khashayar J Khabushani on hyphenated identity; on Dodgers jerseys and drinking beer; on memoir v fiction; on belonging where we are born; on hopefulness and youthfulness; on the myth of LA; and on missing hearing Farsi — with TWBC 02.08.2023 45:01

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Khashayar J Khabushani to discuss his debut, I Will Greet the Sun Ag...

Hanne Ørstavik on love, love and more love; on travelling with her books; on openness and vulnerability as two sides of the same thing; on 16 books written as one big novel; on the power of silence in Mexico; and on embarrassing notebooks — with TWBC 17.07.2023 47:21

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Hanne Ørstavik to discuss her book, Ti Amo. It is her 16th novel. Pl...

Damian Le Bas on rambunctious families; on van life; on slag heaps and rubbish tips; on lecturing kids; on the only seasons of summer and winter; on the question “where are you from?”; and on looking like a Division 4 Swedish footballer — with TWBC 11.06.2023 47:07

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Damian Le Bas to discuss his debut, The Stopping Places. Please cons...

Sophie Ward on experimental education; on flaws and frailties and guilt; on saying “my wife”; on child acting; on the US-Vietnam War; on her superpower; on writing more about Detective Sergeant Carter; on outliers; on travelling to Mars — with TWBC 17.05.2023 39:04

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Sophie Ward to discuss her novels, The Schoolhouse, and her debut Lo...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on riding matatus in Kenya; on the community he misses most; on torture and imagination; on the fun of writing a book on toilet paper; on birds, bees and butterflies; on which book is next; on where he wants to retire — with TWBC 29.04.2023 52:02

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer and scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o to discuss his life's works including...

Doreen Cunningham on Arctic ice; on bullying; on community as hope; on the fact there are whales singing in the sea still, in spite of it all; on Amtrak trains; on bank loans and luck; on mothering; on the gray whales of the Puget Sound— with TWBC 29.03.2023 47:04

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Doreen Cunningham to discuss her debut, SOUNDINGS: Journeys in the c...

Kylie Moore-Gilbert on her most treasured possession in prison; on training herself to memorise everything in a room, and on recall; on solitary confinement, hope and freedom; on how it feels to be in an airport immigration queue — with TWBC 22.02.2023 34:20

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer and scholar Kylie Moore-Gilbert to discuss her book, THE UNCAGED SKY...

Osman Yousefzada on writing about a community that didn’t want to be documented; on illiteracy; on being polite; on his photographic memory and eye for detail; on being on an eternal road; on the right passport and the wrong passport — with TWBC 07.02.2023 37:50

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the writer Osman Yousefzada to discuss his debut The Go-Between: A portrait of g...

Frances Stonor Saunders on stamp-collecting; on Alzheimer’s and collective amnesia; on folding maps the wrong way; on what you would take if you were fleeing; on subversive humour; on inanimate objects; on never writing another book again — with TWBC 12.01.2023 45:08

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the writer Frances Stonor Saunders to discuss her book The Suitcase, Six Attempt...

Justin Marozzi on what makes a city great; on wanting to live in Istanbul, but not Jerusalem; on finding your bearings in time and space; on pilgrimages; on feeling like an outsider more than ever; on waking up in an unknown city alone — with TWBC 18.12.2022 42:17

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the writer Justin Marozzi to discuss his book Islamic Empires: Fifteen cities th...

Roger Robinson on roadtripping around Britain's coastline; on the white light of Trinidad; on Black Joy; on what he sees looking at the sea; on moving to Marseille, or anywhere; on police knees on throats; on creative citizenship — with TWBC 01.12.2022 44:09

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the writer Roger Robinson to discuss his book, Home Is Not A Place, a collaborat...

Anthony Sattin on nomadic thinking; on whether one plus one really does equal two; on the survival of the hunter-gatherer; on assabiyah; on digital nomads; on Bruce Chatwin’s unpublished writing; on telling stories around campfires — with TWBC 11.11.2022 40:04

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the writer Anthony Sattin to discuss his book, NOMADS: The Wanderers Who Shaped...

Ariana Neumann on inherited memory; on getting angry in Spanish; on wanting to speak Czech and have a little house on the Vltava; on the migrant crisis in Venezuela; on betrayal and hope; on travelling and feeling the wind on your face — with TWBC 23.10.2022 46:36

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the writer Ariana Neumann to discuss her book, When Time Stopped: A memoir of my...

Mother & daughter Karen Joy Fowler and Shannon Leone Fowler on historical fact, the imagination and the revision of memory; on childhood freedoms and unstructured time; on keeping a journal; on the heroics of librarians — with TWBC 02.10.2022 49:37

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I talk to the mother and daughter pairing Karen Joy Fowler and Shannon Leone Fowler, to discu...

Tim Mackintosh-Smith on the settled v the wanderer; on capital letters and capital cities; on his hometown San’a; on mesmerising language, the heft of translation and sonorous tripe; on libraries, scud missiles and alabaster window panes — with TWBC 18.09.2022 46:11

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the writer Tim Mackintosh-Smith to discuss his latest book, Arabs: A 3,000-year...

Mona Arshi on transitioning from lawyer to poet to novelist; on silence; on the energy of adolescence; on not wanting to be persuasive; on listening to birdsong and hearing Punjabi; on writing on trains; on “tornado poems” — with TWBC 03.09.2022 37:04

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the writer Mona Arshi to discuss her debut novel: Somebody Loves You, a coming-o...

Winnie M Li on the author as activist; on sexual assault and consent and #metoo; on writing both perspectives — of perpetrator and victim; on the memories we can choose, and those foisted upon us; and on getting back on the road — with TWBC 07.08.2022 36:05

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the writer Winnie M Li to discuss her books: Complicit, a novel exploring sexual...

Jennifer Steil on unexpected connections between places; on "in between-ness"; on friendship in Yemen; on the Jewish diaspora in Bolivia; on the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan; on living in a permanent state of nostalgia; and on gallons of gin — with TWBC 24.07.2022 36:53

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the writer Jennifer Steil to discuss her book, Exile Music, a historical novel w...

"War Child" Emmanuel Jal on a special edition of The Wandering Book Collector, including the title track of his new album Shangah 10.07.2022 31:07

Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this special edition, I speak with Emmanuel Jal to discuss War Child, a memoir of his years growing up in S...