Ayad Akhtar on THE RADIANCE
Notes de l’épisode
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author, Ayad Akhtar joins us to talk about craft, the campus novel, autofiction, and his latest book, The Radiance, with host Miwa Messer.
This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.
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Featured Books:
The Radiance by Ayad Akhtar
Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar
American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar
Junk by Ayad Akhtar
McNeal by Ayad Akhtar
The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar
Poor Folk and Other Early Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fifty-Two Stories by Anton Chekhov
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
Herzog by Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
The Republic of Plato translated by Allan Bloom
The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia
Antiquities and Other Stories by Cynthia Ozick
Nature and Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hawthorne's Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
The American Canon by Harold Bloom
The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation by Harold Bloom
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
The Complete Odes and Epodes by Horace