The Greenlight Bookstore Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode QS25: Adam Smyer + Irma Herrera (November 12, 2020)
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Author Adam Smyer discusses his biting and hilarious guidebook You Can Keep That to Yourself: A Comprehensive List of What Not to Say to Black People,...
Episode QS24: Sebene Selassi + Mike Albo (November 5, 2020)
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Buddhist thought leader and meditation expert Sebene Selassie provides some much-needed calm in her discussion of her new book You Belong: A Call for ...
Episode QS23: Peter Cameron + Christopher Beha (October 29, 2020)
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Cameron joins Greenlight discusses his atmospheric, suspenseful new novel What Happens at Night with mutually admired fellow author Christopher ...
Episode QS22: Nelson George + Melissa Kimble (October 22, 2020)
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Beloved Brooklyn author and filmmaker Nelson George returns to Greenlight to discuss the fifth installment of his music-infused D Hunter mystery serie...
Episode QS21: Akwaeke Emezi + Rivers Solomon (October 15, 2020)
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Two award-winning authors return to Greenlight as Akwaeke Emezi discusses their highly anticipated new novel The Death of Vivek Oji in a lively conver...
Episode QS20: Raven Leilani + Samantha Irby (October 8, 2020)
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this electrifying pre-publication event, Raven Leilani launches her highly anticipated novel Luster in conversation with fiercely brilliant comedia...
Episode QS19: Douglas Martin + Darcey Steinke (October 1, 2020)
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Douglas A. Martin discusses the reissue of his novel, Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother, with his friend and fellow Brooklyn author Darcey Stei...
Episode QS18: Kelli Jo Ford + Emily Nemens (September 24, 2020)
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Talking about the weather takes on a new dimension when Kelli Jo Ford talks about her debut novel Crooked Hallelujah with Paris Review editor Emily Ne...
Episode QS17: David Randall + Celine Gounder (September 17, 2020)
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David K. Randall presents the paperback edition of his eerily relevant book on a past pandemic, Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save Ameri...
Episode QS16: Kyle McCarthy + Leslie Jamison (September 10, 2020)
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kyle McCarthy discusses her debut novel Everyone Knows How Much I Love You, about the dark side of female friendship, with award-winning author Leslie...
Episode QS15: Emily Temple + Téa Obreht (September 3, 2020)
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Literary Hub senior editor Emily Temple launches her debut novel The Lightness—a meditation on adolescent desire, female friendship, belief, and th...
Episode QS14: Jia Lynn Yang + Michael Luo (August 27, 2020)
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
(Recorded June 12, 2020)Author Jia Lynn Yang and journalist Michael Luo take a whirlwind ride through the legal, political and cultural history of Ame...
Episode QS13: Zaina Arafat + Mallika Rao (August 20, 2020)
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Palestinian-American writer Zaina Arafat presents her debut novel You Exist Too Much with Mallika Rao of the Atlantic. In unfolding the novel's...
Episode QS12: Joseph Stiglitz + Felicia Wong (August 13, 2020)
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz discusses his newest book People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent...
Episode QS11: Meredith Talusan + Alok Vaid-Menon (August 6, 2020)
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning author and journalist Meredith Talusan’s talks about her memoir Fairest — a coming of age story about a precocious boy with albinism...
Episode QS10: Ishmael Beah + Alexis Okeowo (July 30, 2020)
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alexis Okeowo interviews Ishmael Beah (author of the memoir A Long Way Gone) about his new novel Little Family, a story of the connections we forge to...
Episode QS9: Marie-Helene Bertino + Alexandra Kleeman & more (July 23, 2020)
23 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the extraordinary days of early June 2020, Marie-Helene Bertino virtually launches her novel Parakeet in conversation with Alexandra Kleeman, co-ho...
Episode QS8: Nicole Dennis-Benn + Imani Perry (July 16, 2020)
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Author and professor Imani Perry interviews novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn for the paperback launch of her novel Patsy, in an evening that grapples with ...
Episode QS7: John Freeman + Julia Alvarez (July 9, 2020)
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Poet, essayist and editor John Freeman talks with novelist Julia Alvarez about his poetry collection The Park and her novel Afterlife. A beautiful c...
Episode 60: Lidia Yuknavitch + Amber Tamblyn (July 2, 2020)
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Novelist Lidia Yuknavitch rejoins fellow author/actor/activist Amber Tamblyn for a passionate conversation centered around Yuknavitch's newest bo...
Episode QS6: Jessica Anthony + Deb Olin Unferth (June 25, 2020)
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica Anthony's Enter the Aardvark and Deb Olin Unferth's Barn 8 both engage with the ethics of contemporary political and cultural realit...
Episode 59: Ezra Klein + Ta-Nehisi Coates (June 18, 2020)
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Acclaimed podcaster and political analyst Ezra Klein of Vox talks with Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me) in front of a packed house about th...
Episode QS5: Kathy Valentine + Lizz Winstead (June 11, 2020)
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rock legend Kathy Valentine, bassist for the Go-Gos drummer, riffs on her memoir All I Ever Wanted with fellow icon Lizz Winstead, humorist and founde...
Episode 58: Paul Yoon + Hernan Diaz (June 4, 2020)
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning author Paul Yoon discusses Run Me To Earth, his heartbreaking novel of three orphans in 1960s Laos, with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist...
Episode QS4: Katy Simpson Smith + Rivka Galchen (May 28, 2020)
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Novelist Rivka Galchen interviews Katy Simpson Smith about her new novel The Everlasting, a portrait of the "Eternal City," Rome, over four ...
Episode 57: Leah Greenberg + Ezra Levin (May 21, 2020)
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Wife and husband political dynamos Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin talk about Indivisible–both the movement they co-founded and the book they co-wrote...
Episode QS3: Emily Gould + Naomi Fry (May 14, 2020)
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Author and publisher Emily Gould chats with her good friend (and New Yorker staff writer) Naomi Fry about Gould's new novel of music and parentho...
Episode 56: Lindy West
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The inimitable Lindy West (author of Shrill) owns the stage at St. Joseph’s College for a reading from her new book The Witches Are Coming and a fra...
Quarantine Season Episode 2: Robert Reich with Anand Giridharadas
02 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Robert B. Reich, the best-selling author and commentator who has served in three presidential administrations, discusses his new book The System: Who ...
Quarantine Season Episode 1: Emily St. John Mandel + Isaac Fitzgerald
25 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Greenlight's first-ever virtual event, bestselling Brooklyn author Emily St. John Mandel launches her new novel, The Glass Hotel, in a brillia...
Episode 55: Ibi Zoboi + Rita Williams-Garcia (March 12, 2020)
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rising star Ibi Zoboi (author of the young adult novels American Street and Pride) presents her middle grade fiction debut My Life as an Ice Cream San...
Episode 54: Tash Aw + Chimamanda Adichie (February 27, 2020)
27 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Novelist Tash Aw talks with his close friend, literary superstar Chimamanda Adichie, about his newest novel We, the Survivors, touching on questions o...
Episode 53: Dan Rather + Katy Tur (February 13, 2020)
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Legendary journalist Dan Rather launches the paperback edition of his book What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism in conversation with fellow news ...
Episode 52: Susan Straight + Emily Bernard (January 30, 2020)
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this in-depth and personal discussion of race and womanhood in America, authors and close friends Susan Straight (In the Country of Women) and Emil...
Episode 51: Rick Moody + Amy Hempel (January 16, 2020)
16 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Beloved Brooklyn novelist and essayist Rick Moody discusses his memoir The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Hope and Struggle in Matrimony in an emoti...
Episode 50: Jess Row + Yahdon Israel (January 2, 2020)
02 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Novelist Jess Row talks with poet and educator Yahdon Israel about Row’s book of literary criticism White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American I...
Episode 49: Tom Campanella + Philip Lopate (December 19, 2019)
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Renowned essayist Philip Lopate interviews native Brooklynite and urban studies professor Thomas Campanella about his magisterial new book Brooklyn: T...
Episode 48: Eric Foner + Chris Hayes (December 5, 2019)
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner discusses his newest book The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitutio...
Episode 47: Mark Bittman + Melissa Clark (November 21, 2019)
21 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Acclaimed food writer Mark Bittman celebrates the release of the 20th anniversary edition of his classic cookbook How To Cook Everything, in a lively ...
Episode 46: Oyinkan Braithwaite + Bridgett M. Davis (November 7, 2019)
07 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Oyinkan Braithwaite discusses her smash hit debut My Sister the Serial Killer -- a short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel that encompasses both s...
Episode 45: Robert MacFarlane + Philip Gourevitch (October 24, 2019)
24 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In his highly anticipated US book launch, beloved British writer Robert MacFarlane presents his latest exploration of the natural world, Underland, ...
Episode 44: Nathan Englander + Colson Whitehead (October 10, 2019)
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two former Brooklyn neighbors (and longtime friends) of Greenlight take the stage as Pulitzer finalist Nathan Englander discusses his novel kaddish.co...
Episode 43: John Waters + Rob Spillman (September 26, 2019)
26 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Transgressive auteur/icon John Waters serves it up raw in his memoir-cum-self-help-book Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder. Fellow...
Episode 42: Bridgett Davis + James Hannaham (September 12, 2019)
12 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning writer and filmmaker Bridgett M. Davis offers an homage to an extraordinary parent in her memoir The World According to Fannie Davis: My...
Episode 41: Blythe Roberson + Phoebe Robinson (August 29, 2019)
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Blythe Roberson, writer, comedian, and researcher at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, launches her debut book How to Date Men When You Hate Men, in...
Episode 40: Shelley Jackson + Darcey Steinke (December 13, 2018)
13 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Experimental author Shelley Jackson discusses her new book, Riddance: Or The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers and Hearing Mouth Child...
Episode 39: Anne Lamott + Edward L. Beck ( November 29, 2018)
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bestselling author Anne Lamott talks about her new book, Almost Everything, with author, playwright and CNN-Commentator Father Edward L. Beck. Togethe...
Episode 38: Barbara Kingsolver + Julie Orringer (November 15, 2018)
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Beloved, award-winning author Barbara Kingsolver talks about her new book Unsheltered with author Julie Orringer. Together they talk about writing and...
Episode 37: Eleanor Kriseman + Julie Buntin (October 12, 2018)
12 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Social Worker, author, and Greenlight Bookstore staff alum Eleanor Kriseman discusses her debut novel, The Blurry Years, with author Julie Buntin. Tog...
Episode 36: Justin Phillip Reed + Angel Nafis + Jayson Smith (October 3, 2018)
03 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Poet Justin Phillip Reed discusses his debut poetry collection, Indecency with Greenlight staff alums, poets Angel Nafis and Jayson Smith. Together, t...
Episode 35: Ibi Zoboi + Elizabeth Acevedo (September 21, 2018)
21 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Young adult novelist Ibi Zoboi talks about her new book, Pride, with actor and best-selling author Elizabeth Acevedo. Together they discuss the inters...
Episode 34: Amanda Stern + A. M. Homes (July 31, 2018)
31 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Fiction writer, Memoirist, and children's author Amanda Stern discusses her new book, Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life, with author ...
Episode 33: Rachel Cusk + Alexandra Schwartz (July 25, 2018)
23 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Critically acclaimed author and memoirist, Rachel Cusk sits down with book critic Alexandra Schwartz to discuss her new book Kudos, the final novel of...
Episode 32: Caryl Phillips + Hilton Als (July 10, 2018)
09 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrated author and professor, Caryl Phillips speaks with Cultural Critic, Hilton Als to discuss his new book, A View of the Empire at Sunset. They ...
Episode 31: Michael Chabon + Julie Orringer (June 11, 2018)
11 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Father's Day from Greenlight Bookstore! From the Brooklyn Voices Series, held at St. Joseph's College, author Julie Orringer speaks wi...
Episode 30: Brittney Cooper + Rebecca Traister (May 27, 2018)
27 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Academic and writer Brittney Cooper speaks to Rebecca Traister, writer at large for New York Magazine and author, about her new book, Eloquent Rage. T...
Episode 29: Amy Siskind
30 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
President and co-founfer of The New Agenda Amy Siskind speaks with reporter Nomiki Konst about her new book The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trum...
Episode 29: Amy Siskind + Nomiki Konst (April 30, 2018)
19 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Writer Zinzi Clemmons speaks with author and cultural critic Margo Jefferson about her debut novel, What We Lose. They talk about the experience of be...
Episode 27: Nick Harkaway + Jenn Northington (March 29, 2018)
29 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Beloved British literary genre fiction writer Nick Harkaway talked with megafan Jenn Northington of BookRiot about his cerebral epic scifi novel Gnomo...
Episode 26: Light the Dark (Febuary 22, 2018)
22 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor Joe Fassler leads a panel of brilliant writers in a discussion expanding the themes of his anthology Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Ins...
Episode 25: Jessica Bruder + Dale Maharidge (January 10, 2018)
10 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Jessica Bruder celebrated the launch of her new book Nomadland, an immersive narrative of the time Bruder spent with the new nomadic commun...
Episode 24: Karl Ove Knausgaard + Kita Kitamura (December 14, 2017)
14 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As part of the Bookends event series surrounding the 2017 Brooklyn Book Festival, bestselling Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard read and discussed ...
Episode 23: Nathan Englander + Jonathan Safran Foer (November 7, 2017)
07 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Englander talks about his literary political thriller Dinner at the Center of the Earth with his longtime friend Jonathan Safran Foer in an eru...
Episode 22: Jesmyn Ward + Ayana Mathis (October 24, 2017)
24 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward talked with fellow author Ayana Mathis about Sing, Unburied, Sing, Ward’s beautiful, searing novel of a haunt...
Episode 21: Teju Cole + Ben Lerner (September 1, 2017)
01 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Two brilliant novelist/essayists dive deep into issues of photography and text as Teju Cole talks with Ben Lerner on June 14, 2017. Cole returns to St...
Episode 20: Hala Alyan + Mira Jacob (July 26, 2017)
26 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Palestinian-American poet and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan talked with novelist Mira Jacob (The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing) about her debut ...
Episode 19: Chris Hayes + Wesley Lowery (May 19, 2017)
19 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On April 8, 2017, MSNBC's Chris Hayes presented his new book A Colony In A Nation to his hometown in Brooklyn, in a interview with Wesley Lowery....
Episode 18: Álvaro Enrigue + Garth Risk Hallberg (April 17, 2017)
17 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Internationally acclaimed Mexican author Alvaro Enrigue and New York City author Garth Risk Hallberg (City on Fire) start with Enrigue’s genre-bendi...
Episode 17: Marie Ponsot (November 4, 2016)
04 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The beloved poet Marie Ponsot returns to her alma mater, St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn, for an evening celebrating the publication of her magiste...
Episode 16: Jeff Chang + Rebecca Carroll and Nikole Hannah-Jones (September 29, 2016)
29 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In front of a packed house at Greenlight Bookstore, author Jeff Chang discussed his book We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation, with p...
Episode 15: Ann Patchett + J. Courtney Sullivan (September 19, 2016)
19 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On the publication date of her seventh novel Commonwealth, author and bookseller Ann Patchett (Bel Canto, Run, State of Wonder, etc.) launched the boo...
Episode 14: Teju Cole + Amitava Kumar (August 17, 2016)
17 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On a hot August night in Brooklyn, novelist, art critic and photographer Teju Cole (Open City, Every Day is for the Thief) celebrates the launch of hi...
Episode 13: Khaled Hosseini + Anand Giridharadas (June 6, 2014)
30 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner) uses the release of his latest, And The Mountains Echoed, to discuss east and west, war and peace, and everything in...
Episode 12: Alexi Zentner + Téa Obreht (December 2, 2014)
02 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Alexi Zentner (Touch) talks to friend and fellow novelist Téa Obreht (The Tiger's Wife) about Shakespeare, shellfish, and his newest novel, The ...
Episode 11: Luke B. Goebel + Tobias Carroll (Sept 22, 2014)
18 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The intense and soulful Luke B. Goebel talks about his debut novel Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours with Tobias Carroll of Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Al...
Episode 10: Damon Galgut (September 30, 2014)
03 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Damon Galgut (In a Strange Room) speaks about his latest – Arctic Summer, a fictionalization of E.M. Forster’s life while writing A Passage to Ind...
Episode 9: Ghost Stories with David Mitchell + John Freeman (October 27, 2014)
27 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Halloween! In this bonus mini-episode, David Mitchell and John Freeman tell each other ghost stories. S'mores not included. Find a selectio...
Episode 8: Emily St. John Mandel + Emma Straub (September 8, 2014)
20 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven, sits down with fellow author Emma Straub to talk about the craft of writing, the vicissitudes of publ...
Episode 7: David Mitchell + John Freeman (October 27, 2014)
01 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream) on his new novel, The Bone Clocks, his illicit dreams of Amsterdam, and why Optimism is probably the best c...
Episode 6: Jack Livings + Brigid Hughes (August 21, 2014)
15 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Brigid Hughes (A Public Space, The Paris Review) speaks to Jack Livings about his debut collection of stories, The Dog, as well as the agonies and ecs...
Episode 5: Lev Grossman + Friends (August 5, 2014)
02 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Levapalooza! Lev Grossman (The Magicians) assembles the Super Friends of Brooklyn-based fantasy and sci-fi authors to help launch his latest, the New ...
Episode 4: Tom Rachman + Susan Kamil (June 19, 2014)
15 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Rachman (The Imperfectionists) talks with Susan Kamil, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Random House and Dial Press, about his new novel, The Rise...
Episode 3: Elizabeth Gilbert + Rebecca Mead (Tuesday, June 24, 2014)
04 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) talks to Rebecca Mead (My Life in Middlemarch) about her newest novel, The Signature of All Things, as well as the...
Episode 2: One Story Magazine 2014 Literary Debutantes (Thursday, May 5, 2014)
14 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
We meet One Story Magazine’s 2014 Literary Debutantes, a collection of fiction writers who have published their first full-length books in the past ...
Episode 1: Colum McCann + Phil Klay (May 19, 2014)
28 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In our debut episode: Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin) in conversation with Phil Klay (Redeployment) about writing, war, and the shifting sands...