AWM Author Talks

This week, hear from journalist and editor Elly Fishman about her book Refugee High: Coming of Age in America , winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel award. The book tells the story of a year in the life of a Chicago high school that has one of the highest proportions of refugees of any school in the nation. Elly is interviewed by award-winning author Alex Kotlowitz. This program took place August 10...

This week, AWM Program Director Allison Sansone talks with Charles Ardai, editor of the short story anthology Killer, Come Back to Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury . This program took place August 17th, 2021 and was recorded live via Zoom. This is the final of three episodes in a row about Bradbury in the leadup to his August 22nd birthday. Visit our special exhibit Ray Bradbury: Inextinguish...

This week, AWM President Carey Cranston talks with former chairman and CEO of Playboy Enterprises Christie Hefner about the landmark publication and its relation to Ray Bradbury and Fahrenheit 451 in particular. This program took place May 25th, 2021 and was recorded live via Zoom. This is the second of three episodes in a row about Bradbury in the leadup to his August 22nd birthday. Visit our spe...

This week, Kathleen Rooney talks about her recent novel Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey with fellow writer Michael Zapata, author of The Lost Book of Adana Moreau . This program took place August 13th, 2020 and was recorded live via Zoom. Learn more about and order Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey here . We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer. All podcast episodes available here.

This week, AWM Program Director Allison Sansone chats with renowned poet and a leader of the Black Arts Movement Dr. Haki Madhubuti about his recent collection Taught By Women: Poems as Resistance Language . This program took place May 20, 2021 and was recorded live via Zoom. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer. AWM PODCAST NETWORK HOME

This week, AWM Program Director Allison Sansone chats with writer and researcher Jess McHugh about her recent book Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books . This program took place June 1, 2021 and was recorded live via Zoom. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer.

June is Immigrant Heritage Month and we are celebrating all month long by sharing past programs presented in conjunction with our special exhibit My America: Immigrant and Refugee Writers Today . This exhibit has been extended through 2021 and you can explore it in person at the American Writers Museum or online at My-America.org . This week, acclaimed mystery writer Sara Paretsky interviews histo...

This week, program director Allison Sansone chats with writer and professor Aaron Bobrow-Strain, whose book The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez tells the true story of a Mexican teen mother journeying through the U.S. immigration system and the obstacles she faces. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer.

June is Immigrant Heritage Month and we are celebrating all month long by sharing past programs presented in conjunction with our special exhibit My America: Immigrant and Refugee Writers Today . This exhibit has been extended through 2021 and you can explore it in person at the American Writers Museum or online at My-America.org . This week, we talk with poet Khaled Mattawa about his recent colle...

June is Immigrant Heritage Month and we are celebrating all month long by sharing past programs presented in conjunction with our special exhibit My America: Immigrant and Refugee Writers Today . This exhibit has been extended through 2021 and you can explore it in person at the American Writers Museum or online at My-America.org . We kick off this special series with Rebecca Deng , who shares her...

This week, Nicole Chung discusses her memoir All You Can Ever Know with fellow writer Rebecca Makkai. This conversation originally took place November 27th, 2018 and was recorded live at the American Writers Museum. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer. VIEW ALL PODCAST EPISODES HERE

Today is Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday...may he stay forever young. To celebrate, we caught up with Sean Latham, Director of the Institute for Bob Dylan Studies and editor of the new essay anthology The World of Bob Dylan . This program took place May 13th, 2021 and was recorded live via Zoom. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer.

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and we continue our celebration of that with writers Rowan Hisayo Buchanan and T Kira Madden who discuss their writing habits and contributions to the book Go Home! , an anthology of Asian diasporic writers musing on the notion of “home”. This conversation originally took place March 12th, 2020 and was recorded live at the American Writers...

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and we continue our celebration of that with June Hur, author of The Silence of Bones . This conversation originally took place April 29th, 2020 and was recorded live via Zoom. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer.

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and we begin our celebration of that with R. O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries . This conversation originally took place July 31, 2019 and was recorded live. You can see R. O. Kwon live at the American Writers Museum on June 5, 2024 ! She will be here to read from and discuss her newest novel, Exhibit . She takes her investigations into d...

Our National Poetry Month celebrations continue with acclaimed poets Rigoberto González and Johanny Vázquez Paz. This program took place April 15th, 2021 and was recorded live via Zoom. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer. All podcasts and episodes here .

Our National Poetry Month celebrations continue with indigenous poets Layli Long Soldier, Mark Turcotte, and Tanaya Winder who read from and discuss the recent book When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry . This program took place November 19th, 2020 and was recorded live via Zoom. Quick programming note: The work Layli Long Sold...

Celebrate Arab American Heritage Month with Sahar Mustafah, who discusses her recent novel The Beauty of Your Face . This conversation took place April 8th, 2020 and was recorded live via Zoom. Mustafah also put together a list of some of her favorite and most influential books by Arab American writers. Check out that reading list here . ALL PODCAST EPISODES We hope you enjoy entering the mind of...

This week, we kick off National Poetry Month with former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins, who is interviewed by Irish Ambassador to the US Daniel Mulhall. This conversation took place December 8th, 2020 and was recorded live via Zoom. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer. ALL PODCAST EPISODES HERE

This week, pop culture historian and bestselling author Jennifer Keishin Armstrong discusses her new book When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today . This conversation took place March 23rd, 2021 and was recorded live via Zoom. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer.

This week, anthropologist Claudio Lomnitz discusses his memoir Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation with Princeton University professor Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones. This conversation took place March 9th, 2021 and was recorded live via Zoom. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer.

This week, to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, acclaimed Irish-American writers Alice McDermott, Joseph O’Neill and Irish Ambassador to the United States Daniel Mulhall discuss their work, their approach to writing, and their shared Irish heritage. This program originally took place October 29th, 2020 and was recorded live over Zoom. Hear more immigrant and refugee writers share their stories in our v...

This week, AWM President Carey Cranston chats with award-winning New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth about her new book This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race . This conversation was recorded live via Zoom on February 26th, 2021. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer.

This week, renowned mystery writer Sara Paretsky discusses her book Shell Game, her writing process and more. This conversation was recorded live at the American Writers Museum in October 2018. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer.

This week, NPR correspondent Aarti Shahani discusses her memoir Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares with fellow NPR correspondent Sonari Rhodes Glinton. This conversation was recorded live at the American Writers Museum in October 2019. This program was the first in a series of programs presented in conjunction with our special exhibit My America: Immigrant and Refugee Writers Today...