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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Kathryn D. Sullivan on our oceans; on an adventurous childhood; on maps and plotting journeys; on moving in microgravity; on time travel; on a ticket to Mars; on Moscow during the Cold War; and on losing sight of Planet Earth, literally — with TWBC 08.06.2022 33:53

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 Kathryn D. Sullivan to discuss her book, Handprints on Hubble: An Ast...

Preti Taneja on finding the words; on collective grief; on Partition; on the question of home and how prison is never home; on the inevitability of political writing; on anguish; on the necessary fiction that is trust — with TWBC 22.05.2022 30:23

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 Preti Taneja to discuss her book, AFTERMATH, which has just been publ...

Rebecca Mead on the to-ing and fro-ing between New York and London; on being mis/understood; on migration in your 20s v your 50s; on Trieste; on eavesdropping on buses — with TWBC 04.05.2022 37:57

Welcome to 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 journalist and writer Rebecca Mead to discuss her latest book — Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Ret...

Horatio Clare on madness, mania and healing; on migrating swallows; on keeping a diary; on being the other in othering; on "the love of many things" and Van Gogh — with TWBC 20.04.2022 37:13

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 inimitable travel writer Horatio Clare to discuss his latest book — Heavy Li...

Brigid Delaney on restlessness, on the mania around wellness, on Seneca and stoicism, on Australia's tough lockdown and where she is choosing to go first (Bali), not forgetting cockatoos — with TWBC 07.04.2022 33:21

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 speak with the travel writer and columnist Brigid Delaney to discuss her latest book Wellma...

Geoffrey Kent on a special SAFARI edition of The Wandering Book Collector 27.03.2022 17:25

Welcome to this special SAFARI edition of The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan . This podcast 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 Geoffrey Kent to discuss his memoir, Safari, a book which opens in Na...

Sara Wheeler on Russia and its writers of the Golden Age: Pushkin, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, and on language, translation, etymology and bathmats across nine time zones -- with TWBC 13.03.2022 46:13

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 travel writer and biographer Sara Wheeler to discuss her book — Mud and Star...

Kapka Kassabova on the Balkans, on growing up behind the Iron Curtain, on the inheritance of pain, on writing by water, on alchemistry, on healing -- with TWBC 02.03.2022 36:35

Half-way into the first season, 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 and poet Kapka Kassabova whose body o...

Maaza Mengiste on Ethiopia, on women in war, on pulling the trigger, on photography, on writing in Rome, on standing before monuments to fascism, on Project 3541 -- with TWBC 15.02.2022 36:56

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 most lyrical of writers Maaza Mengiste discussing her latest book The Shadow...

Carla Power on how to deradicalise your town, on the journey back from extremism, on a childhood across Afghanistan, India, Iran and Egypt, as well as St Louis, Missouri, and on the Islamic feminist theologian Amina Wadud -- with TWBC 03.02.2022 32:29

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 dauntless journalist and writer Carla Power discussing her latest book Home,...

Afua Hirsch on London, Senegal, Ghana, on imperial nostalgia, on the African diaspora, on plane journeys, and on choosing a name for her daughter -- with TWBC 19.01.2022 28:06

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, longing and belonging, and home. In this edition, I speak with the media multi-hyphenate Afua Hirsch whose book Brit(ish): On Race...

Bernardine Evaristo on London, Nigeria, Brazil, the Royal Society of Literature, on travelling as a Black woman in Estonia, on the Booker, on marble bathrooms, and on Never Giving Up -- with TWBC 29.12.2021 25:39

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 around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, longing and belonging, and home. In this second edition, I speak with writer and journalist Bernardine Evaristo discussing her latest book Manifes...

Janine di Giovanni on covering conflicts in Syria, Gaza and Bosnia, on vanishing Christian communities in the Middle East, and on nesting, on loneliness, on risk, and on not going home -- with TWBC 14.12.2021 31:00

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 around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, longing and belonging, and home. In this first edition, I speak with writer and journalist Janine di Giovanni discussing her latest book, The Vani...

The Trailer - The Wandering Book Collector 04.12.2021 1:31

This travel/literary podcast welcomes some of the world's great writers and thinkers and risk-takers, from Bernardine Evaristo to Afua Hirsch to Janine di Giovanni to Carla Power. Hosted by award-winning journalist and author Michelle Jana Chan. https://linktr.ee/thewanderingbookcollector Supported by: Abercrombie & Kent — Creating unique, meticulously planned journeys into hard-to-reach wilde...