Multimedia - Audio

Manjula Martin reads from the opening of her memoir, The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History, published by Pantheon Books in January 2024.

Zenia Tompkins reads from “The Two Antons” from her English translation of Artem Chapeye’s story collection, The Ukraine, published by Seven Stories Press in January 2024. Chapeye follows with a reading of the same selection in Ukrainian.

Kaveh Akbar reads from the opening of his novel, Martyr!, published by Knopf in January 2024.

Diana Khoi Nguyen reads “Đổi Mới” from her poetry collection Root Fractures, published by Scribner in January 2024.

Elizabeth Gonzalez James reads from the prologue of her novel The Bullet Swallower, published by Simon & Schuster in January 2024.

Susan Kiyo Ito reads from the opening of her memoir, I Would Meet You Anywhere, published by Mad Creek Books in November 2023.

Dorothea Lasky reads “A Lion” and “Self-Portrait in the Hotel” from her poetry collection The Shining, published by Wave Books in October 2023.

Gabriel Bump reads from the opening of Part Three of his novel The New Naturals, published by Algonquin Books, November 2023.

Elle Nash reads from the opening of her novel Deliver Me, published by Unnamed Press in October 2023.

Jaswinder Bolina reads “English as a Second Language” from his poetry collection English as a Second Language and Other Poems, published by Copper Canyon Press in October 2023.

Shane McCrae reads from the opening of his memoir, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping published in August 2023 by Scribner.

Sally Wen Mao reads “Chimera” and “a dream or a fox” from her poetry collection The Kingdom of Surfaces, published in August 2023 by Graywolf Press. 

Daniel Mason reads “The CATAMOUNT, or a True Relation of a Bloody Encounter that Lately Happen’d; a song for VOICE and FIFE, to the tune of CHEERILY and MERRILY,” a poem within the narrative of his novel North Woods, published in September...

Leslie Sainz reads “Nature and Nurture, Miami, FL” from Have You Been Long Enough at Table, published in September 2023 by Tin House.

Mary Ruefle reads “The Effusive” from her prose collection The Book, published in September 2023 by Wave Books.

Jamel Brinkley reads from “Blessed Deliverance” from his story collection Witness, published in August 2023 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Translator Johnny Lorenz reads from the first section of Itamar Vieira Júnior’s novel Crooked Plow, published in June 2023 by Verso. Vieira Júnior follows with a reading of the same selection in Portuguese.

Terrance Hayes reads “Blood Pressure Medicine” and “Folk Stone” from his poetry collection So to Speak, published in July 2023 by Penguin Books.

Madison Davis reads from her essay collection, The Loved Ones: Essays to Bury the Dead, published in June 2023 by Dzanc Books.

Henry Hoke reads from the opening of his novel Open Throat, published in June 2023 by MCD.

Tommy Archuleta reads “The blue jays and blackbirds,” “Another velvet painting please,” “A stone a leaf a stash of cranes,” “I never told you this but in one,” and “All those faces” from the second section of his poetry collection, Susto,...

Brandon Taylor reads from “The Kings of Norway,” the fourth chapter of his novel The Late Americans, published in May 2023 by Riverhead Books. 

Samantha Irby reads from “My Firstborn Dog” from her essay collection Quietly Hostile, published in May 2023 by Vintage.

Hazel Jane Plante reads from the opening of her novel Any Other City, published in April 2023 by Arsenal Pulp Press.

Matthew Zapruder reads from his memoir, Story of a Poem, published in April 2023 by Unnamed Press, with music by the author and The Claudius Birdman Quartet, from the vinyl audiobook released by Rarebird x Unnamed Press.