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Bryan Washington: Palaver

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In this episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast hosted by Miwa Messer, Bryan Washington speaks about how his experiences in Tokyo and Osaka informed his latest novel, Palaver (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025), and how third-person narratives reflect the estrangement of being in a different country.

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Joy Harjo: Girl Warrior

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In this episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast hosted by Miwa Messer, Joy Harjo reflects on becoming a poet and artist in the turbulence of the seventies in America and talks about the process of writing her memoir Girl Warrior: On Coming of Age (Norton, 2025). Harjo’s book is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Jade Chang: What a Time to Be Alive

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“I think I just really wanted to show a version of the city that we don’t see as often in popular culture.” In this live episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast hosted by Miwa Messer, Jade Chang discusses the nuances of writing about Los Angeles in her latest novel, What a Time to Be Alive (Ecco, 2025). Read Chang’s installation of our Ten Questions series.

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Elaine Castillo: Moderation

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“I knew I was going to write about tech, but I did think of it first as a novel about labor.” Elaine Castillo talks about exploring the intersection of virtual reality and the Filipino American diaspora for her second novel, Moderation (Viking, 2025), and how Jane Austen’s novels, including Pride and Prejudice, informed her process in this episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast hosted by Miwa Messer.

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Poured Over With Katie Yee

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“She was a short story that kind of got too big and started rolling away from me,” says Katie Yee about her debut novel, Maggie; or a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar (Summit Books, 2025), in this episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast hosted by Miwa Messer, in which they discuss writing outside of your own experience and usual style.

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Poured Over: Honoreé Fanonne Jeffers on Misbehaving at the Crossroads

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In this episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast hosted by Miwa Messer, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers discusses the themes of Blackness, intersectionality, and diaspora in her essay collection, Misbehaving at the Crossroads (Harper, 2025), and how it serves as a companion piece to her novel, The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois (Harper, 2021).

Sing the Truth: Laura Pegram, Edwidge Danticat, and Princess Joy L. Perry

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Laura Pegram, Edwidge Danticat, and Princess Joy L. Perry discuss the making of the anthology Sing the Truth: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collection (Authors Equity, 2025) and talk about the importance of finding and nurturing emerging writers of color in this live episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast hosted by Miwa Messer. Read more about the anthology in “The Anthologist” in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Poured Over: Tayari Jones and A. M. Homes

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Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage (Algonquin Books, 2018), and A. M. Homes, author of May We Be Forgiven (Viking, 2012), talk about how the definition of women’s literature has evolved over time in this live episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast hosted by Miwa Messer celebrating thirty years of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

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