The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

On today's episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplan talks to Ralph Nader about his new cookbook, The Ralph Nader and Family Cookbook: Classic Recipes from Lebanon and Beyond, out now from Akashic Books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplan talks to Cambria Gordon about her new book, The Poetry of Secrets, out now from Scholastic Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplan talks to Hanif Abdurraqib about his new book, A Little Devil in America, out now from Random House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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On today's episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplan talks to Russell Banks, author of Foregone, out now from Ecco Books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplan talks to Fred Guttenberg about his new book, Find the Helpers: What 9/11 and Parkland Taught Me about Recovery, Purpose, and Hope.. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode ofThe Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplan talks to P. Scott Cunningham about organizing the O, Miami Book Festival. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplan talks to Jen Spyra about her new book, Big Time, out now from Random House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“On the cover of my book, is a portrait that one of my friends, Omar Rayyan did. His strange, whimsical paintings of people carrying their own horrible-looking beasties, to me is 100-percent what it’s like dealing with mental illness,” Jenny Lawson. On this episode, Jenny shares her openness and humor with Mitchell Kaplan. BROKEN (in the best possible way) is her new short stories collection. Reco...

On today’s episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplan talks to Carol Edgarian about her new novel, Vera, out now from Scribner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplan talks to Dantiel W. Moniz about her new book, Milk Blood Heat, out now from Grove Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplan talks to Tim Dorsey about his new book, Tropic of Stupid, out now from William Morrow & Company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplan talks to Gabriel Byrne about his new book, Walking with Ghosts, out now from Grove Press. ________________________________ This episode of The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan was recorded between Miami and Maine. Subscribe now on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever else you find your podcasts! Gabriel Byrne was born in Dublin and has starred in...

On today’s episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplan talks to Maika and Maritza Moulite about their new book, One of the Good Ones, out now from Inkyard Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“I was very politically active, particularly in the sixties. It’s kind of an unusual story…I think I am the only independent bookseller, that I am aware of, that came straight from jail to bookselling,” Paul Yamazaki, Principal/Chief Buyer at City Lights Booksellers, an official historic landmark in San Francisco. Yamazaki talks with Mitchell Kaplan about working with City Lights co-founder Lawren...

John Fowles. Annie Dillard. Russell Banks. Raymond Carver. Carolyn Forché. Richard Ford, Louise Glück. Anthony Bourdain. What do all of these writers have in common? They and many more have all been published by Daniel Halpern. On today’s episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell talks to publisher and poet Daniel Halpern about ushering 2021 and celebrate him and the fiftieth anniversary of his publi...

On today's episode, Mitchell talks to David Hopen about his debut novel, The Orchard, and the balance between secular involvement and rigorous tradition in modern Orthodox Judaism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, Mitchell's joined by Books & Books colleagues Cristina Nosti, Gaël LeLamer, and Christina Russell to discuss their favorite books of the year to add to your holiday gift list. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, Mitchell talks to Deesha Philyaw about her National Book Award nominated collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, publishing a book during a pandemic and writing about dissatisfied women. Deesha Philyaw's writing on race, parenting, gender, and culture has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, McSweeney's, the Rumpus, Brevity, TueNight, and elsewhere. Origi...

This week on The Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplantalks with Carlos Lozada about his new book, What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era. They discuss what led to writing the book, the current election results, and what is going to happen next in America. Carlos Lozada is the nonfiction book critic of The Washington Post and winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for criticism....

Post-election, there are still urgent questions of the political and legal moment that must be addressed. Mitchell Kaplan is joined by Russell Banks, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Blanco, and Fernand R. Amandi to discuss what just happened and what must happen next, especially on how the Democratic party can connect with Trump voters across America. RUSSELL BANKS, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Pri...

This week, in lieu of the upcoming election, we revisit our conversation with Pete Souza, the former White House Staff Photographer to President Barack Obama, discuss his world famous photos, his *Shade Instagram,* special moments in the Obama White House and what’s to come in American politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of The Literary Life, Jill McCorkle talks with Mitchell Kaplan about her new book, Hieroglyphics, and the role of a writer in difficult times. This episode of The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan was recorded between North Carolina and Miami. Subscribe now on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever else you find your podcasts! Jill McCorkle’s first two novels were released simultaneously wh...

On this episode of The Literary Life, Allie Brosh talks with Mitchell Kaplan about her new book, Solutions and Other Problems, and how bad things still happen to good people. ________________________________ This episode of The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan was recorded between Bend and Miami. Subscribe now on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever else you find your podcasts! Allie Brosh is the author...

On this episode of The Literary Life, Diane Roberts, Todd Gitlin, and Carolyn Forché talk with Mitchell Kaplan about Writers Against Trump, and how what started in response to a crisis of language became a full-fledged movement against fascism. To learn more about Writers Against Trump, go to https://www.writersagainsttrump.org/. Host: Mitchell Kaplan Producer: Carmen Lucas Editor: Justin Alvarez,...