The Sewanee Review Podcast
Episodes
Corey Van Landingham
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In which Corey Van Landingham is in on the joke.
Rebecca Gayle Howell
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In which Rebecca Gayle Howell calls into silence.
Ben Austen
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In which Ben Austen sees the underbelly.
Lydi Conklin
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In which Lydi Conklin slips the net.
Maria Zoccola
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In which Maria Zoccola sweetens the pill.
Tyriek White
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In which Tyriek White confronts his literary ghosts.
Adam Ross
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In which Adam Ross taps the aquarium glass.
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In which Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah swings through the truth, not at it.
Cindy Juyoung Ok
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In which Cindy Juyoung Ok speaks across the rupture.
John Jeremiah Sullivan II
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In which John Jeremiah Sullivan pities the monster.
Joy Priest
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In which Joy Priest maps a life made in letters.
Patricia Smith
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In which Patricia Smith writes against silence.
John Jeremiah Sullivan I
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In which John Jeremiah Sullivan lays the golden egg.
Justin Taylor
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In which Justin Taylor follows the breadcrumbs.
Sigrid Nunez
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In which Sigrid Nunez catalogues her literary present and past.
Elliot Ackerman
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In which Elliot Ackerman grapples with the military-industrial complex.
Gabrielle Bates
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In which Gabrielle Bates writes into the darkness.
Jennifer Habel and Chris Bachelder
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In which a day's work is never done.
Christopher Spaide
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In which Christopher Spaide waxes critical.
Garrett Hongo
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In which Garrett Hongo writes toward a better America.
CJ Hauser
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In which CJ Hauser writes to the heart.
Joanna Pearson
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In which Joanna Pearson does not fear the ghosts in the attic.
Matthew Baker
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In which Matthew Baker cherishes corporeal existence.
Jay Parini
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In which Jay Parini recounts the fictions and realities of his Borgesian adventure.
Kirmen Uribe
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In which Kirmen Uribe and his writing witness a changing world.
Alice McDermott
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In which Alice McDermott knows her way around a novel.
Gwen E. Kirby
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In which Gwen E. Kirby talks sexist tropes, angry women, and radioactive cockroaches.
Matthew Olzmann
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In which Matthew Olzmann casts his poems into the stars and into the sea.
Vievee Francis
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In which Vievee Francis looks toward the light.
Phillip B. Williams
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In which Phillip B. Williams writes with anger and preserves with love.
Michael Knight
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In which Michael Knight finds magic.
Brandon Taylor
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In which Brandon Taylor surveys his Hot Freud Summer.
Lauren Groff
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In which novelist Lauren Groff talks utopia, twelfth-century feminine desire, and the ghost of Hildegard von Bingen.
Elena Passarello
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In which Elena Passarello gives Aesop a run for his money.
Sidik Fofana
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In which editor-at-large Sidik Fofana discusses MFA culture, slow writing, and teaching high school, as well as his stories “The Okiedoke” and “...
Danielle Evans
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In which Danielle Evans discusses characterological framework, the coincidence of unintentional motif, and the underpinnings of a successful short sto...
Katie Kitamura
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In which editor-at-large Brandon Taylor interviews Katie Kitamura, author of *A Separation* and *Intimacies*. In this episode, Kitamura considers how ...
Nikky Finney
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In which poet Nikky Finney begins with love.
Lisa Taddeo
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In which Lisa Taddeo, author of the *New York Times* bestseller *Three Women* and the novel *Animal*, talks about the mundane cruelty of male indiffer...
Ross Gay
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In which Ross Gay, poet of Be Holding; Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book C...
Caki Wilkinson
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In which Caki Wilkinson personifies hope and muses, “Hope is a character and things are not going well for her. I was thinking about Emily Dickinson...
Rebecca Wolff
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In which Rebecca Wolff, poet and editor of Fence magazine, discusses the sparse structure of her writing life, her editorship of Fence, and the kineti...
Graham Barnhart
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In which Graham Barnhart, poet and US Army veteran, discusses the paradox of being an army medic—“You carry a rifle and an aid bag full of medic...
Jennifer Habel
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In which the poet Jennifer Habel, author of The Book of Jane discusses the process of reexamining traditionally female forms of artistry and how that ...
Chris Bachelder
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In which editor Adam Ross interviews novelist Chris Bachelder about his thoughts on patient writing, and Bachelder reads an excerpt from his novel The...
Erin McGraw
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In which Erin McGraw, a former teacher at the University of Cincinnati and Ohio State as well as a prolific author with three novels and four collect...
Paul Muldoon
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In which Pulitzer prizewinning poet Paul Muldoon confronts himself. “Ok Paul get a grip. Face reality this is what you do, and it’s a perfectly re...
Edgar Kunz & Anders Carlson-Wee
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In which poets Edgar Kunz, the author of *Tap Out*, and Anders Carlson-Wee, the author of *The Low Passions*, consider influence and camaraderie—the...
Anna Lena Phillips Bell
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In which Anna Lena Phillips Bell—author of the poetry collection Ornament and editor of Ecotone—considers the ways poetry helps us map the natural...
Margaret Renkl
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In which Margaret Renkl—the author of Late Migrations and a contributing writer for the New York Times—wonders if the arc of the universe still be...
Stephanie Danler
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In which editor Adam Ross interviews bestselling author Stephanie Danler about her upcoming memoir Stray. In this episode, Danler discusses the differ...
Melissa Febos
14 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In which Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me, dubs writing "psychological alchemy" and recites a poem by Mary Oliver.
Garth Greenwell
10 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In which editor Adam Ross interviews Garth Greenwell, the author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You. In this episode, Greenwell is crowned King of ...
The Sewanee Review Podcast - Trailer
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In which Adam Ross, editor of the Sewanee Review, introduces the Sewanee Review Podcast for readers and storytellers.