NEW EPISODE: Acclaimed fiction writer and long-time creative writing professor Elizabeth McCracken joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss her ninth book and first volume about craft, A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/elizabeth-mc...

NEW EPISODE: 2025 Maya Angelou Book Award winner Alison C. Rollins joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss her 2024 poetry collection Black Bell, which documents a bell-laden iron device used to torture enslaved people. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/maya-angelou...

NEW EPISODE: Pulitzer Prize finalist Sven Beckert joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about his new book, Capitalism: A Global History. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/sven-beckert...

DHS pursues immigration deportation plans for New Orleans and Minnesota. Revisit @V_V_G @lithubradio @wsterrell interview with Ruben Reyes Jr. to explore the affected households of deportation. Reyes Jr. discusses There is a Rio Grande in Heaven, from which he reads. lithub.com/ruben-reyes-...

After hours of negotiation for Russia’s war against Ukraine, the Kremlin rejected proposals concerning its occupation of Ukraine. Revisit @wsterrell9 and @v_v_ganeshananthan as they meet with Tetyana Ogarkova and @volodymyr.yermolenko to discuss Trump’s negotiations. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

NEW EPISODE:Journalist @jacobsilverman.com joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about his new book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley which discusses the rightward ideological shift among tech giants and their companies lithub.com/jacob-silver...

NEW EPISODE: Poet and essayist Kathryn Nuernberger joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about her new collection of lyric essays, Held: Essays in Belonging, which is about symbiotic mutualisms and climate grief/joy. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/kathryn-nuer...

Today is the 1st day of COP30, or the UN’s annual climate summit. Revisit Whitney Terrell & @sugi.bsky.social as they talk with @emilyraboteau.bsky.social as they discuss climate change & her book, Lessons for Survival; Mothering Against “the Apocalypse.” bit.ly/47U1X9b lithub.com/emily-rabote...

A federal judge permanently barred Trump from sending the National Guard to Portland. Revisit Whitney Terrell & @sugi.bsky.social in an interview with @rubenwrites.bsky.social as they discuss mass deportation efforts & his book There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven. lithub.com/ruben-reyes-...

The University of Virginia is the first public university to strike a deal with the Trump administration. Revisit Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social and their conversation with @meghanor.bsky.social on her NYT piece “The End of the University as We Know It”. lithub.com/meghan-orour...

NEW EPISODE: Translator @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about her award-winning translations of Nobel Prize winner László Krasznahorkai’s work. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/ottilie-mulz...

Fiction writer @maxdelsohn.bsky.social joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his debut short story collection, Crawl, intracommunity violence, and the Trump administration’s vicious assault on transgender Americans. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/max-delsohn-...

Revisit @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell to hear their conversation with Vanity Fair’s journalist, Dan Adler, as they further breakdown his coverage highlighting new details on Maxwell’s involvement with the island and Epstein. lithub.com/vanity-fairs...

The USDA announced that food benefits, used by more than 41 million Americans, would not be issued on November 1st due to the ongoing shutdown. Listen to Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social w/ @lisquar3d.bsky.social on the danger of the bootstrap narrative. lithub.com/alissa-quart...

NEW EPISODE: Graphic novelist @benpassmore.bsky.social joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his new graphic novel Black Arms To Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/ben-passmore...

New Yorker staff writer @jelaniya.bsky.social joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his new essay collection, Three or More is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-2025. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/jelani-cobb-...

The relationship between American politics and the military is long and varied. Revisit Episode 21 from Season 2, where our hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social talk with novelist and Marine Elliot Ackerman and memoirist and Marine Anuradha Bhagwati! lithub.com/elliot-acker...

Black women have a long history of challenging the establishments of power. Revisit this conversation of our hosts @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell with author @mauricenow.bsky.social about his book, The American Daughters. Links in bio. lithub.com/maurice-carl... #fnfpod #lithubpod #writers

Acclaimed fiction writer and essayist Edwidge Danticat joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss her new essay collection We’re Alone. Danticat reflects on misinformation and xenophobic rhetoric in Trump's second term. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/edwidge-dant...

No back pay for federal workers? Listen as @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell discuss Trump's strategy to thwart Congressional spending with ProPublica reporter @mtredden.bsky.social en.bsky.social. Links in bio. lithub.com/molly-redden... #FNFpod #writingcommunity #lithub #writers #lithubpod

It’s Banned Book Week! A great opportunity to revisit a conversation between hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social with Farah Jasmine Griffin about censoring the American canon and targeting Black writers. lithub.com/censoring-th... #writingcommunity #writers #FNFpod #lithub #lithubpod

Fiction writer Yiming Ma joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his new novel These Memories Do Not Belong To Us and how terrifyingly easy it can be to live in a society in which censorship is the default. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/yiming-ma-on...

Journalist @calebgayle.bsky.social joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his new book Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/caleb-gayle-...

NEW EPISODE: Writer Omar El Akkad joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his recent nonfiction book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, which was just nominated for the National Book Award. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/omar-el-akka...

NEW EPISODE: Novelist Jessica Francis Kane joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss her new novel Fonseca, which fictionalizes writer Penelope Fitzgerald’s 1952 trip to Mexico. @literaryhub.bsky.social #books #podcast lithub.com/jessica-fran...

NEW EPISODE: Fiction writer and editor Patrick Ryan joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his debut novel, Buckeye, which traces two generations of two Midwestern families connected by a secret. @literaryhub.bsky.social #smalltown #Midwest #books lithub.com/patrick-ryan...

NEW EPISODE: New York Times book critics JenniferSzalai and @alexandrajacobs.bsky.social join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss their recent article, “Love Jack Kerouac? Read These Great American Road Trip Books Next.” @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/jennifer-sza...

NEW EPISODE: Biographer Nicholas Boggs joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his groundbreaking new book, Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of James Baldwin to be published in three decades. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/nicholas-bog...

Journalist Will Bardenwerper joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his new book, Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America, which explores the consequences of MLB cutting 40 minor league teams. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/will-bardenw...

NEW EPISODE: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss her support of Higher Ground, a long-term residence for women recovering from addiction. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/barbara-king...

NEW EPISODE: Vanity Fair’s Dan Adler on Jeffrey #Epstein and What Ghislaine Maxwell Knows, in conversation with @sugi.bsky.social & Whit Terrell cc @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/vanity-fairs...

NEW EPISODE! Gary Shteyngart @shteyngart.bsky.social on Vera, or Faith, and American #Authoritarians, in conversation with @sugi.bsky.social and Whit Terrell cc @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social lithub.com/gary-shteyng...

Is political discourse under attack getting help from mainstream media? Listen as @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell talk with writer Jeff Sharlet about “sanewashing” and “fascism.” #FNFpodcast #writers #writingcommunity www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/a... lithub.com/jeff-sharlet...

Tributes to Poet Andrea Gibson, who died this last week, speak of her simple authenticity. Many writers present very differently. Listen as @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell talk with writer Lan Samantha Chang about personas. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... lithub.com/lan-samantha...

Haitian families see cracks in the American Dream. Listen as @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell talk with Myriam J.A. Chancy about the perils facing Haitian communities in Trump’s picture of America. #FNFpodcast #writers www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter... lithub.com/myriam-j-a-c...

NEW EPISODE: Pulitzer Prize finalist Ed Park joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his debut short story collection, An Oral History of Atlantis. Park talks about short stories, humor, and New York underwater. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/ed-park-on-a...

NEW EPISODE: Writer @Raina Lipsitz joins co-hosts @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell to discuss Zohran Mamdani’s surprise win in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor. @literaryhub.bsky.social #politics #podcast #DemocraticSocialist #news #books #nycprimary lithub.com/raina-lipsit...

Lena Dunham’s new Rom-Com is one is a series of new romance shows and books having a hot moment. Listen as @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell talk to romance writers Elle Everhart and Elllie Palmer about the industry. #FNFpodcast www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/a... lithub.com/elle-everhar...

The Feud: Part 2. Listen as @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell talk to the South African author of Scatterlings, Resoketswe Manenzhe, about Elon Musk’s formative years in South Africa. #FNFpodcast #writers #writingcommunity www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u... lithub.com/resoketswe-m...

Indirect consequences of Artificial Intelligence open a dark story of those opposed to the technology. Listen as @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell talk to writer Vauhini Vara about how AI works. #FNFpodcast #writers www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/b... lithub.com/chatbot-vs-w...

NEW EPISODE: Prize-winning Iranian American author Dina Nayeri joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss the complicated reality of survival on the ground during Israel’s recent bombing of Iran. @literaryhub.bsky.social #politics #podcast #iran lithub.com/dina-nayeri-...

NEW EPISODE: New York Times reporter ‪‪@londonoe.bsky.social‬ joins co-hosts @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell to discuss the murder of Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman, a rare assassination of a local politician in the U.S. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/ernesto-lond...

As LA deals with massive wildfire cleanup, creative entrepreneurs aid the effort. Listen as @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell talk about the climate of wildfires with writer Sarah S. Grossman. #fnfpod #writingcommunity www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/d... lithub.com/sarah-s-gros...

Many Americans are caught in a heat wave, but some are suffering more than others. Listen as @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell talk about the inequities of climate change with author, Emily Raboteau. #FNFpod #climatechange #writers www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/c... lithub.com/emily-rabote...

The Ukraine-Russia War rages on with Zelensky building support where he can find it. Listen as @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell talk about the history of this war with journalists Tatyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko. #FNFpod www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/w... lithub.com/journalists-...

New York politics grinds forward with the leading mayoral candidate bringing significant baggage. Listen as @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell talk to NYT reporter Nicholas Fandos about how this moment evolved. #FNFpod #writers www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/n... lithub.com/nicholas-fan...

The Senate continues debate over the “Big, Beautiful Bill.” Listen as Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social discuss Trump’s plan to seize spending power with ProRepublica reporter Molly Redden. #FNFpod #writers www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u... lithub.com/molly-redden...

Listen as Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social discuss the Supreme Court and current legal processes with Harry Siegel. #FNFpodcast #writers #writerscommunity apnews.com/article/supr... lithub.com/harry-siegel... Harry Siegel on the Supreme Court, Bribery, and Scofflaws ‹ Literary Hub

NEW EPISODE: Writer Geoff Dyer joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his new memoir HOMEWORK, which covers Dyer’s working-class youth in England during the 1960s and ’70s. @literaryhub.bsky.social #homework #writing #books #podcast lithub.com/geoff-dwyer-...

NEW EPISODE: Fiction writer Jess Walter joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his new novel So Far Gone, in which a former environmental reporter living off the grid is jolted back by the arrival of his grandchildren. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/jess-walter-...