Multimedia - Audio

Karan Mahajan reads from his latest novel, The Association of Small Bombs, published in March by Viking.The Association of Small BombsThe bombing, for which Mr. and Mrs. Khurana were not present, was a flat, percussive...

Melissa Broder reads an excerpt from her essay collection, So Sad Today, published in March by Grand Central Publishing.I Want To Be a Whole Person But Really ThinI am an eater of numbers. I prefer packaged foods, foods with a bar...

Rita Mae Reese reads a crown of sonnets from her latest poetry collection, The Book of Hulga, published in March by the University of Wisconsin Press. Illustrations by Julie Franki. Milledgevilleis the nothingness from...

Idra Novey reads an excerpt from her debut novel, Ways to Disappear, published in February by Little, Brown.

erica lewis reads two poems from her latest collection, daryl hall is my boyfriend, published in December by Barrelhouse Books. The Silver Leaves The Drone of Clever Talk “you look like one of those moon girls”how we’re...

Mira Ptacin reads an excerpt from her debut memoir, Poor Your Soul, published in January by Soho Press. Poor Your Soul I know some things. I know you set the backyard on fire. It was autumn. You were six years old. The oak...

Poet and translator Ming Di reads three poems, in both the original Chinese and in English, from the poetry collection Empty Chairs by Liu Xia, published in November by Graywolf Press and translated into English by Ming Di and Jennifer...

Camille Rankine reads three poems from her new collection, Incorrect Merciful Impulses, published in November by Copper Canyon Press.

Marsha de la O reads three poems from her new collection, Antidote for Night, published in September by BOA Editions.

Rowan Ricardo Phillips reads three poems from his new collection, Heaven, published in June by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Ampersand hosts Kevin Larimer and Melissa Faliveno sit down with Jesse Browner, the author of How Did I Get Here? Making Peace With the Road Not Taken, published this month by Harper Wave, to talk about the new book and the decisions we...

Mia Alvar reads an excerpt from her debut story collection, In the Country, published in June by Knopf.   Legends of the White Lady If you are beautiful and broke, one place left for you is Asia. Usually when I ran out of...

Nick Flynn reads three poems from his new collection, My Feelings, published in June by Graywolf Press.

Amy Butcher reads from her debut memoir, Visiting Hours: A Memoir of Friendship and Murder, published in April by Blue Rider Press. As my car cuts across the countryside toward Kevin's prison, the sun like yolk across the fields, I...

Matthew Rohrer reads five poems from his collection Surrounded By Friends, published in April by Wave Books.  Le Machine Ate Himself Le machine ate himself the card that is mineI said, and I have need of the...

Benjamin Percy, the author of five books, including the novel The Dead Lands, published in April by Grand Central Publishing, wrote and recorded this literary rendition of the Ed Bruce song "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be...

Lucas Mann reads from his memoir, Lord Fear, forthcoming in May from Pantheon Books.  [NOTEBOOK, UNDATED, “THE MATTER OF THE DRUGS”]: Rules!!– ANY substance cannot be taken two days concurrently. I will keep it to twice per...

Ansel Elkins reads three poems from her debut collection, Blue Yodel, forthcoming in March from Yale University Press.   Blues for the Death of the Sun The evening sun descended with the decorum of an old manWho...

Kelly Link reads an excerpt of the story "Light" from her latest collection, Get in Trouble, published in February by Random House.   Light two men, one raised by wolves The man at the bar on...

Alice Eve Cohen reads four excerpts from her memoir, The Year My Mother Came Back, forthcoming in March from Algonquin Books.   The Year My Mother Came Back One day, my brilliant, beautiful, complicated mother...

Tim Johnston reads an excerpt from his novel Descent, published in January by Algonquin Books.From The Life Before Her name was Caitlin, she was eighteen, and her own heart would sometimes wake her—flying...

Dawn Lundy Martin reads two poems from her collection Life in a Box is a Pretty Life, published in December by Nightboat Books.

Meghan Daum reads two excerpts from her essay collection The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion, forthcoming in November from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  From the Introduction For more than twenty years...