The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

Deirdre Madden (winner of a 2024 Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction) joins Michael Kelleher to talk about Marilynne Robinson's classic novel Housekeeping , siblings, writing with a density of language, and the unacknowledged humor present even in hard times. Reading list:  Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville • Carl Jung • William Shakespeare • Reading Genesis by Maril...

Hanif Abdurraqib (winner of a 2024 Windham Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction) joins Michael Kelleher to discuss his love for Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place , writing about cities, the importance of community, and more. Reading list:  The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor • Mama Day by Gloria Naylor • Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor • Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell...

Tessa Hadley (winner of a 2016 Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction) joins Michael Kelleher for the final episode of this winter mini-season to talk about Ivan Turgenev's First Love , translated by Isaiah Berlin. Reading list:  First Love by Ivan Turgenev, tr. by Isaiah Berlin • The Odyssey by Homer • "A Nest of Gentlefolk" by Ivan Turgenev • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Tessa Hadley is the author o...

John Keene (winner of a 2018 Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction) talks with Prize Director Michael Kelleher about Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's 2021 Prix Goncourt-winning novel The Most Secret Memory of Men , the joys of a shaggy dog story, the power of the sublime, and the limits of knowledge. Reading list:  The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, tr. by Laura Vergnaud • Blackouts by Just...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (winner of a 2016 Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama) chats with Prize Director Michael Kelleher about British theater legend Caryl Churchill's Far Away , the power of language on the page and stage, and the point of having a playwright at all. Reading list:  Far Away by Caryl Churchill • Escaped Alone by Caryl Churchill • Top Girls by Caryl Churchill • Prince • Jasmine Lee Jo...

Yiyun Li (winner of a 2020 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction) chats with Prize Director Michael Kelleher about French Catholic monarchist author Georges Bernanos's Mouchette , the joys of reading together, and why inarticulate characters often live the deepest lives. Reading list:  Mouchette by Georges Bernanos, tr. by J.C. Whitehouse •  War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy •  Tolstoy Together • Peter Pa...

Percival Everett (winner of a 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction) joins Windham-Campbell Prize administrator Michael Kelleher for the last interview of the season, and it's a joyful exploration of Ralph Ellison's seminal novel  Invisible Man , Everett's relationship to the book and its contemporaries, and the enduring power of a novel that makes you think. Reading list:  Invisible Man by Ralp...

Jasmine Lee-Jones (winner of a 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama) joins Windham-Campbell Prize administrator Michael Kelleher for a wide-ranging conversation about the incredible power of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun , linking the work of Hansberry and Jordan Peele, and the power of dreams. Reading List: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry August Wilson's Century Cycle Get Ou...

Susan Williams (winner of a 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction) joins Windham-Campbell Prizes director Michael Kelleher to talk about the majesty and the drudgery of Bleak House , walking through history in the present, and the complicated realities of Charles Dickens the human. Reading List: White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams David Copperfield...

dg nanouk okpik (winner of a 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry) joins Windham-Campbell Prizes director Michael Kelleher for a deep-dive into Layli Long Soldier's 2017 collection Whereas , examining the historical potency of poetry, the depth of an artistic friendship, and an appearance by a cat named Blue. Reading List: "Eyes of a Blue Dog" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo...

Dominique Morisseau joins Windham-Campbell Prizes director Michael Kelleher to talk about the still-resonant power of Pearl Cleage's What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day , representing Black men on the page and onstage, the AIDS epidemic and COVID, and why the writers of Family Guy seem to hate Meg. Reading List: Idlewild, Michigan for colored girls... by Ntozake Shange The Color Purple by Ali...

Ling Ma joins Windham-Campbell Prizes director Michael Kelleher to talk about tuning into the same frequency as Rachel Ingalls, crying on airplanes, and what it means to write about human-cryptid romance. READING LIST: Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls Times Like These by Rachel Ingalls The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Grumpy Old Men (1993) For a full episod...

Alexis Pauline Gumbs joins Windham-Campbell Prizes director Michael Kelleher to talk about the beauty of Audre Lorde's poetry and why more people should know her as a poet as well as an essayist. READING LIST: The Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir Broadside Press "A Supermarket in California!" by Allen Ginsberg For a full episode trans...

Darran Anderson is our first guest on the show and he joins Windham-Campbell Prizes Director Michael Kelleher to talk about the ever-shifting magic of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities . READING LIST: Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Derry Girls (2018-2022) The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris by Georges Perec Frank...

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