June 7, 2017
KR Podcast with Andrea Wulf
In this episode, award-winning author Andrea Wulf talks to Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky about her book The Invention of Nature, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, and the need for a modern-day Humboldt. […]
May 8, 2017
KR Podcast with Lauret Savoy
In this episode, writer, geologist and professor of environmental studies at Mount Holyoke College Lauret Savoy, author of Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape, talks with Associate Editor […]
April 6, 2017
KR Podcast with Lauren Redniss
In this episode, graphic journalist and 2016 MacArthur Fellow Lauren Redniss, author of Thunder and Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future, talks with Associate Editor Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky about drawing with words […]
March 6, 2017
KR Podcast with Solmaz Sharif
In this episode, poet Solmaz Sharif, author of LOOK, and Editor at Large Andrew Grace discuss poetry’s responsibility to be politically engaged. Sharif insists, in response to the argument that […]
February 4, 2017
KR Podcast with John Koethe
In this episode, John Koethe, award-winning author of four books of poetry including The Swimmer (2016), talks with Editor at Large Andrew Grace about balancing a dual career as poet […]
January 5, 2017
KR Podcast with Josh Bell
In this episode, Editor at Large Natalie Shapero talks with poet Josh Bell about rock star energy, being anxious in New York, and the difficulty of publicizing your book when […]
December 5, 2016
KR Podcast with Hilary Mantel
In this episode, O. Henry Prize winner and Kenyon Review editor David H. Lynn talks with Hilary Mantel, twice the winner of the Man Booker Prize, about the way historical […]
October 27, 2016
KR Podcast with Stephanie Danler
In this episode, Stephanie Danler, author of best-selling novel Sweetbitter, talks to P.F. Kluge about her writing workshop at Kenyon, whether or not to read your book’s reviews, and how […]
October 17, 2016
KR Podcast with Ruth Ozeki
In this episode, Ruth Ozeki talks with Katharine Weber about her novels, her family story, and how the fictional moments in her 1995 autobiographical documentary film have since been mirrored […]
October 3, 2016
KR Podcast with Lee K. Abbott
In this month’s podcast, Lee K. Abbott talks to Nick White about his experience leading fiction workshops, writing for the lady on the bus, and why Dolly Parton is the […]
September 16, 2016
KR Podcast with Brenda Miller
In this month’s podcast, Brenda Miller talks to Kaitlyn Teer about exploring intuitive, contemplative, playful, and collaborative approaches to writing, making video essays and word-image hybrid texts, and experimenting with […]
September 5, 2016
KR Podcast with E.J. Levy
In this month’s podcast, E.J. Levy talks with Meghan Pipe about adding the texture of life to fiction, the “disciplined passivity” of following your characters, and the joy of finding […]