Louisiana Literature
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Douglas Stuart on 'Shuggie Bain'
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
More than 40 publishers rejected the debut novel 'Shuggie Bain' by Scottish Douglas Stuart before it won the Booker prize in 2020. The jury ...
Jonathan Safran Foer: Novels Can Learn from Poetry
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, who reflects on the power of literature in general and poetry in particular. Foer argues that art always ha...
Margaret Atwood: On a Planet of Speculative Fiction
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Experience award-winning Canadian writer Margaret Atwood in this humorous and vivid conversation about her works of elaborate ‘speculative fiction’...
Mario Vargas Llosa: Literature Makes Citizens Critical
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Peruvian Nobel Prize-winner Mario Vargas Llosa (b.1936), who talks about his literary beginnings and about the inherent power good literature has...
Han Kang: The Horror of Humanity
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“I always move on with the strength of my writing.” In this powerful portrait, South Korean writer Han Kang – winner of the 2016 Man Booker Inte...
Eileen Myles: A Poem Says 'I Want'
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“I think a poem really is a statement of desire.” Meet the legendary American poet, writer – and homosexual icon – Eileen Myles. In this inter...
Paul Auster: How I Became a Writer
25 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Auster shares the story of how he became a writer and how he works: “A good day’s work is if I have one typed page at the end of the day, t...
Chris Kraus: Changing Lives
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Experience American writer Chris Kraus, author of the iconic feminist novel ‘I Love Dick’, in this passionate talk about the apolitical art scene ...
Patti Smith: I Will Always Live Like Peter Pan
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
70-minute in-depth interview with rock singer and poet Patti Smith, who speaks about her National Book Award winning memoir 'Just Kids' and ...
Jennifer Egan: Writing Out the American Psyche
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this extensive interview, American Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan takes us through her career as a writer and explains why she considers ficti...
Colum McCann: What Ulysses Did to Me
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
”The blood that moves through me right now is my great grandfather's blood, but the reason I know him, is because I read Ulysses” says Irish ...
Umberto Eco: I Was Always Narrating
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Interview with the late Italian novelist Umberto Eco, author behind the bestselling novel ‘The Name of the Rose’. With great warmth and humour Eco...
Matias Faldbakken: An Element of Vandalism
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“My writing became ventilation for my frustrations on the art scene.” Meet Norwegian visual artist and writer Matias Faldbakken, who has been desc...
CAConrad: Rituals for Poetry
29 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The award-winning American poet CAConrad here shares the moving story of how, following the brutal murder of his boyfriend and the subsequent indiffer...
Arundhati Roy: The Characters Visited Me
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“It is important to be able to write about violence with the same intimacy with which I write about love.” Enjoy this cordial interview with India...
Anne Carson: Lecture on the History of Skywriting
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Enjoy this spellbinding performance by Anne Carson, heralded as one of the most important contemporary poets in the English-speaking world. Together w...
Erica Jong: Sexuality and Creativity
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“The urge to create and the urge to copulate are very close.” In this interview the iconic feminist writer Erica Jong speaks candidly of being fue...
Isabella Hammad: Nostalgia Has a Real Force
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
British-Palestinian writer Isabella Hammad has been widely praised for her first novel ‘The Parisian’ (2018). In this video, she talks about Pales...
Colson Whithead: I Have to Know the Destination
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“I became a writer once I realised no one liked my stuff.” Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey’s favourite author, Pulitzer Prize-winning Colson Wh...
Alaa Al-Aswany: All the Arab Regimes Have Expired
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Religion should be a personal, private issue. The state should not have any religion. This is the only way to achieve democracy.” Watch the world...
Ariana Reines: The Impulse of Poetry
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet American poet Ariana Reines, who has been described as one of the crucial voices of her generation. In this video, she talks openly about how ext...
Taiye Selasi & Colum McCann: We are all Multi-Local
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet the distinguished writers Taiye Selasi and Colum McCann in this inspiring talk about finding a way to be yourself, a “citizen of elsewhere”, ...
Claudia Rankine: Black on White
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Anti-black racism is at the core. It is part of what makes America, America,” says the award-winning American poet and writer Claudia Rankine. In...
Sally Rooney: Writing with Marxism
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“The best I can do is to try and observe how class, as a very broad social structure, impacts our personal and intimate lives.”To what extent can ...
Zadie Smith: Such Painful Knowledge
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“There’s never a good time to tell your child about slavery, or the Holocaust.”Since she made her astonishing literary debut with ‘White Teeth...