Roxane Gay on What Feminism Can Do in This Moment Roxane Gay on What Feminism Can Do in This Moment
An interview with the best-selling author about her latest project, The Portable Feminist Reader.
Mar 25, 2025 / Q&A / Sara Franklin
“It’s Not About the Operation. It’s About Us”: Rachel Somerstein on the Untold Story of C-Sections “It’s Not About the Operation. It’s About Us”: Rachel Somerstein on the Untold Story of C-Sections
A conversation with Rachel Somerstein about her new book, Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section.
Aug 12, 2024 / Q&A / Sara Franklin
The Radical Politics of the Garden The Radical Politics of the Garden
An interview with author Olivia Laing.
Jul 1, 2024 / Q&A / Sara Franklin
Ada Limón: "The Country Has Taught Me That Poetry Lives Everywhere." Ada Limón: "The Country Has Taught Me That Poetry Lives Everywhere."
The US poet laureate on nature, the art of America, and her new anthology.
May 7, 2024 / Q&A / Sara Franklin
Jenn Shapland on the Need for “Thin Skin” Jenn Shapland on the Need for “Thin Skin”
An interview with the writer about her new collection of essays, Thin Skin, and her hopes for the life it takes on in the world.
Aug 15, 2023 / Q&A / Sara Franklin
Camille Dungy on the Bewildering Wonder of Rewilding Camille Dungy on the Bewildering Wonder of Rewilding
A conversation with the award-winning poet and scholar Camille Dungy about her new book, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden.
May 2, 2023 / Q&A / Sara Franklin
Jenny Odell Wants You to Reclaim Your Time Jenny Odell Wants You to Reclaim Your Time
A conversation with the How to Do Nothing author, Jenny Odell, about her new book, Saving Time: Discovering Life Beyond the Clock.
Mar 6, 2023 / Q&A / Sara Franklin
Ross Gay on the Labor of “Inciting Joy” Ross Gay on the Labor of “Inciting Joy”
A conversation with the poet Ross Gay about Inciting Joy, an exploration of joy as a critical emotion that “gets us to love, as a practice of survival."
Oct 25, 2022 / Q&A / Sara Franklin
Angela Garbes on Mothering for the World We Want Angela Garbes on Mothering for the World We Want
Garbes’s new book looks at what it means to be a parent when we are “caught between the way we were raised and the way we want to live.”
May 3, 2022 / Q&A / Sara Franklin