Poured Over

Blending surrealism, satire and philosophical concepts, Booker Prize-longlisted Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman weaves a tale of beginnings following a disgraced professor who moves into a house where the presence of the previous owner lingers. Makenna joins us to talk about narrative form, stand-up comedy, and the dynamism of nature with cohost Jenna Seery.
This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Jenna Seery and mixed by Harry Liang.
New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.
Featured Books:
Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman
Living the Good Life by Scott & Helen Nearing
All Fours by Miranda July
Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel
The Power of Now by Eckart Tolle
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Friere
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
The Moomin Series by Tove Jansson
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

In Triage, acclaimed author and playwright Claudia Rankine uses prose, poetry and art images to challenge the ways we look at friendship and memory, action and obligation. Claudia joined us live from B&N Upper West Side to talk about narrative, lyric poetry, interiority, and broadening the collective we with host Miwa Messer.
This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.
New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.
Featured Books:
Triage by Claudia Rankine
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
The White Card by Claudia Rankine
Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space by Catherine Barnett
Gaza in My Phone by Mazen Kerbaj
William Kentridge: Milestones: At the Heart of Creation by William Kentridge
Anarchitecture After Everything by Jack Halberstam
Black Formations: Poetics of Refusal Within the African Diaspora by Melody Howse

In her latest novel, Hollow Bones, Jodi Picoult uses her powerful voice to craft a moving story about what we do to protect our loved ones when faced with the unexpected. Jodi joins us to talk about public health, private tragedy, motherhood, and gender gaps in healthcare with cohost Brenda Allison.
This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Brenda Allison and mixed by Harry Liang.
New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.
 
Featured Books:
Hollow Bones by Jodi Picoult
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Into the Blue by Emma Brodie
Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves
Under Story by Chloe Benjamin
 
TBR Featured Books:
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan

Told from the perspective of a wax doll, Olga Ravn's The Wax Child is a chilling tale inspired by a real group of women accused of dark magic in seventeenth-century Denmark. Olga joins us to talk about her craft, the power of ritual, collective memory, creepy children, and contemporary Scandinavian literature with cohost Jenna Seery.
This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Jenna Seery and mixed by Harry Liang.
New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.
Featured Books:
The Wax Child by Olga Ravn
The Employees by Olga Ravn
alphabet by Inger Christensen
The Condition of Secrecy: Selected Essays by Inger Christensen
it by Inger Christensen
How I Became a Nun by César Aira
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Dark Spring by Unica Zürn
The Man of Jasmine and Other Texts by Unica Zürn
The Trumpets of Jericho by Unica Zürn
The Cinnamon Shops and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
Strega by Johanne Lykke Holm
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy
The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen
Vilhelm's Room by Tove Ditlevsen
The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen
On the Calculation of Volume, Book I by Solvej Balle
After the Sun by Jonas Eika
Money to Burn by Asta Olivia Nordenhof
Valerie: or, The Faculty of Dreams: Amendment to the Theory of Sexuality by Sara Stridberg

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson takes readers on a tour through the ancient world for an entertaining examination of Greek and Roman literature and their impact on our modern world. Emily joins us to talk about the joys and challenges of interpreting antiquity, the stakes of poetic form and re-translating The Odyssey with cohost Jenna Seery.
This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Jenna Seery and mixed by Harry Liang.
New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.
Featured Books:
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson
The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
The Iliad by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho, translated by Anne Carson
The Oresteia by Aeschylus, translated by Robert Fagles
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, translated by Marin Hammond
The Aeneid by Virgil, translated by Scott McGill & Susannah Wright
The Poems of Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus, translated by Stephanie McCarter
Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles, translated by Robert Fagles