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The Chills at Will Podcast is a celebration of the visceral beauty of literature. This beauty will be examined through close reads of phrases and lines and passages from fiction and nonfiction that thrills the reader, so much so that he wants to read again and again to replicate that thrill. Each episode will focus on a different theme, such as "The Power of Flashback," "Understatement," "Cats in the Cradle," and "Chills at Will: Origin Story."

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The Chills at Will Podcast is a celebration of the visceral beauty of literature. This beauty will be examined through close reads of phrases and lines and passages from fiction and nonfiction that thrills the reader, so much so that he wants to read again and again to replicate that thrill. Each episode will focus on a different theme, such as "The Power of Flashback," "Understatement," "Cats in the Cradle," and "Chills at Will: Origin Story."

    Episode 228 with Jennifer Croft, Author of The Extinction of Irena Rey and Award-Winning Translator, and Master of Worldbuilding, Highly-Allegorical Yet Masterfully-Plotted Fiction, and Nuance

    Episode 228 with Jennifer Croft, Author of The Extinction of Irena Rey and Award-Winning Translator, and Master of Worldbuilding, Highly-Allegorical Yet Masterfully-Plotted Fiction, and Nuance

    Notes and Links to Jennifer Croft’s Work
     
     
       For Episode 228, Pete welcomes Jennifer Croft, and the two discuss, among other topics, her early relationship with words and geography and later, multilingualism, formative colleagues and teachers who guided and inspired her love of languages and literary translation, her serendipitous path to focusing on Polish and Spanish translations, connections between cultural nuances and translation, and literal and allegorical signposts in her book, including climate change and celebrity “brands,” the fluidity of translation, the relationships between translators and original writing, the intriguing phenomenon that is amadou, and time and perspective and their connections to translation. 

       Jennifer Croft won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel The Extinction of Irena Rey, the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir Homesick, and the 2018 International Booker Prize for her translation of Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. A two-time National Book Award–honoree, Croft is Presidential Professor of English & Creative Writing at the University of Tulsa. 

    Buy The Extinction of Irena Rey
     
     
    Jennifer's Wikipedia Page
     
    Review of The Extinction of Irena Rey in The New York Times
     
    Jennifer Discusses her Book with Scott Simon on NPR’s Weekend Edition

    At about 2:40, Jennifer discusses the feedback she’s gotten, and the overall experience that has governed the weeks since the book’s March 6 publication  
    At about 3:40, Shout out to the coolest envelope ever, and to Emily Fishman at Bloomsbury Publishing
    At about 4:20, Jennifer talks about the influences that led to her curiosity about reading and geography and knowledge 
    At about 5:55, Jennifer lays out the books that she was reading in her childhood, and talks about books and writing as ways of “traveling”
    At about 8:15, Jennifer talks about inspirations from her reading, including working with Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    At about 10:15, Jennifer expounds upon her journey in learning new languages, and how learning Spanish and Polish were connected
    At about 13:15, Jennifer and Pete talk about the greatness of Jorge Luis Borges, and Pete shouts out the unforgettable “The Gospel According to Mark”
    At about 14:15, Jennifer charts what makes her MFA in Literary Translation different than translation on its own
    At about 15:30, Jennifer recounts her experiences in Poland when she was there during the time of Pope John Paul II’s death
    At about 17:35, Jennifer talks about the art of translation and how she has evolved in her craft over the years
    At about 20:45, Pete uses a Marquez translation as an example of a seemingly-absurd rendering, while Jennifer provides a balanced view of translation challenges 
    At about 22:30, Pete cites some of the gushing blurbs for the book and asks Jennifer about seeds for the book; she cites a genesis in a nonfiction idea 
    At about 28:15, Pete reads a plot summary from the book jacket/promotional materials 
    At about 29:10, Pete and Jennifer discuss the book’s two narrators-Emilia the writer, and Alexis, her English translator-and their conflicts and devolutions 
    At about 33:40, Pete remarks on the strategic and highly-successful structure of the book
    At about 34:20, Jennifer responds to Pete’s questions about her use of images throughout the book
    At about 37:30, Jennifer discusses the “dishonest[y] of subjectivity” in discussing translation and the author/translator’s role in the writing
    At about 38:20, Pete reads a few key lines from the book, including the powerful opening lines and gives some exposition of the book
    At about 40:50, Jennifer responds to Pete’s questions about the importance of amadou in the book, and she expands on its many uses and history
    At about 45:35, Jennifer expounds on ideas of the “mother tongue” as posited in the book, and uses examples from her own life to further reflect
    At about 48:00, Incredibl

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    Episode 227 with Gina Chung, Author of Green Frog, a Dazzling Collection of Poignant, Offbeat, Chillingly-Realistic and Fantastical Stories

    Episode 227 with Gina Chung, Author of Green Frog, a Dazzling Collection of Poignant, Offbeat, Chillingly-Realistic and Fantastical Stories

    Notes and Links to Gina Chung’s Work
     
       For Episode 227, Pete welcomes Gina Chung, and the two discuss, among other topics, The Babysitters Club’s lasting impact, her early relationship with words and bilingualism, finding great storytelling in her parents’ example and in folktales and animal myths, her master touch with disparate stories and characters, and salient topics from the story collection like parental/child relationships and expectations, grief and memory, and one’s connection with her forebears. 
     
    Gina Chung is a Korean American writer from New Jersey currently living in New York City. She is the author of the novel SEA CHANGE (Vintage, March 28, 2023; Picador, April 13, 2023 in the Commonwealth and in the UK on August 10, 2023), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, an Asian/Pacific American Award for Adult Fiction Honor, a 2023 B&N Discover Pick, and a New York Times Most Anticipated Book, and the short story collection GREEN FROG (Vintage, March 12, 2024; out in the UK/Commonwealth from Picador on June 6, 2024). A recipient of the Pushcart Prize, she is a 2021-2022 Center for Fiction/Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow and holds an MFA in fiction from The New School's Creative Writing Program and a BA in literary studies from Williams College. Her work appears or is forthcoming in One Story, BOMB, The Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Catapult, Electric Literature, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Idaho Review, The Rumpus, Pleiades, and F(r)iction, among others.
     
    Buy Green Frog
     
     
    Gina's Website
     
    Review of Green Frog-Kirkus

    At about 2:35, Gina shouts places to buy her book, Green Frog, and about her feelings a few weeks before the book’s release
    At about 4:25, Gina recounts what she’s heard from early readers of her collection
    At about 6:05, Gina responds to Pete’s questions about storytellers in her life and her early language and reading life
    At about 10:10, Gina talks about her early reading delights
    At about 12:10, Babysitters Club love!
    At about 13:15, Gina talks about her writing journey and her confidence peaks and valleys
    At about 16:40, Gina shouts out “amazing” contemporary writers, such as Rebecca K. Riley and Jiaming Tang 
    At about 18:40-21:25, Gina talks about seeds for her collection and gives background on the title story and the “Green Frog” folktale
    At about 21:25-22:40, Gina talks about daily and informal observation that inspired “Mantis” and other stories in the collection
    At about 24:40, Gina speaks to her rationale and the background in picking the Emily Jungmin Yoon-inspired epigraph
    At about 26:25, Pete and Gina discuss “How to Eat Your Own Heart,” the collection’s first story, including profound quotes (27:10-30:20)
    At about 31:00, Gina speaks to ideas of regeneration in the above story and gives some background on how the story came from a Zoom “Knife Skills” course
    At about 34:25, The two further discuss the title story of the collection 
    At about 36:20, Pete asks Gina about the meanings of “here” in the title story 
    At about 39:30, Themes of community in “The Fruits of Sin” are discussed 
    At about 40:35, Belief is discussed in conjunc
    At about 41:15, Grief and the importance of rabbits in Korean culture and beyond are discussed in connection to a moving story from the collection
    At about 43:40, Pete quotes an important and universal passage as he and Gina talk about memory’s throughline in the collection; the two ruminate on connections to The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    At about 50:20, Gina reflects on a moving story that deals with memory and technology
    At about 54:00, The two talk about mother-daughter and parent-child relationships in the collection
    At about 57:40, Pete quotes a poignant and skillfully crafted passage
    At about 59:15, Gina gives a ballpark for how long of a range the stories were written in and throughlines that she has identified in her collection 
    At about 1:03:00,

    • 1 hr 9 min
    Episode 226 with Priscilla Gilman, Author of The Critic's Daughter and Skilled and Thoughtful Chronicler of the Universal and the Intimately Personal

    Episode 226 with Priscilla Gilman, Author of The Critic's Daughter and Skilled and Thoughtful Chronicler of the Universal and the Intimately Personal

    Notes and Links to Priscilla Gilman’s Work
     
       For Episode 226, Pete welcomes Priscilla Gilman, and the two discuss, among other topics, her famous and accomplished parents, and the perks and drawbacks that came with running in circles with dynamic writers and creatives, her voracious appetite for art and media and books, formational and informative works of art, books and not, her father’s wonderful work, belief in the sanctity of childhood, grief and its manifestations, the ways in which her relationships were nurturing and not, and how she managed to write lovingly and honestly about such a towering and beloved figure.
     
       Priscilla Gilman is the author of the memoir, The Anti-Romantic Child, and a former professor of English literature at Yale University and Vassar College. The Anti-Romantic Child received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Booklist, was selected as one the Best Books of 2011 by the Leonard Lopate Show and The Chicago Tribune, and was one of five nominees for a Books for a Better Life Award for Best First Book. Gilman’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, O, the Oprah Magazine, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City.
     
     
    Buy The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir
     
    Priscilla's Wikipedia Page
     
    WYNC Episode: "The Critic's Daughter' Explores the Marriage of Lynn Nesbit and Richard Gilman" 
     
    New York Times Review of The Critic’s Daughter

    At about 2:00, Priscilla shouts out bookstores at which to buy her book and book events 
    At about 3:00, Pete and Priscilla fanboy and fangirl about Episode 42 guest Edoardo Ballerini
    At about 5:00, Priscila talks about early reading, texts, and authors who “enraptured” her
    At about 7:05, Priscilla and Pete talk about how her reading and writing life was shaped by her literary and artistic parents, Richard Gilman and Lynn Nesbit 
    At about 10:50, Priscilla responds to Pete’s questions about what it has been like to know some many literary and artistic giants on a personal level
    At about 15:30, Priscilla speaks to early writing and reading and her path to academia and literature, including the wonderful role played by Brearley High School  
    At about 19:10, Priscilla references some of many contemporary writers like Sarah Watters,  Ishiguro, Louise Erdrich, Strout, Leslie Jamison, Claire Keegan, Rachel Cusk, Lore Siegal, and Yaa Gaasi, who inspire and thrill her
    At about 22:55, Pete and Priscilla discuss the book’s epigraphs and their significances 
    At about 28:10, The two geek out about Priscilla’s talented sister
    At about 28:40, Pete wonders about 
    At about 32:20, Shaina Taub is shouted out, as Priscilla talks about a cool collaboration with her son and his high school drama
    At about 33:05, Pete points out an interesting opening excerpt that compares and contrasts Priscilla’s father and the NYC oeuvre he lived in; Priscilla also discusses the book’s universality
    At about 35:30, Priscilla discusses the old days of being able to live comfortably as an artist/critic and the book as a sort of lament for long-gone neighborhoods
    At about 37:45, Priscilla compliments Joan Didion as a wonderful, “kind, thoughtful sweetheart and incredible genius”
    At about 38:45, The two discuss ideas of public intellectuals and Wolff’s Old School
    At about 40:20, Pete asks Priscilla about being true to her father and to herself in writing her book-the two refer to a memorable George Bernard Shaw quote
    At about 44:15, Priscilla alludes to an often-quoted line from her book that speaks to ideas of “moving on” and grief
    At about 45:10, The two further discuss Richard Gilman’s public life and fame
    At about 48:00, Pete cites a disappointing workshop experience in connecting to a powerful and poignant story that Priscilla relates-her first memory-that is a microcosm of so much in her and her father’s lives
    At about 50:40, The two discuss how Richard Gilman “believed in childhood” 
    At about 54:30, Pete references excerpts about Prisc

    • 1 hr 6 min
    Episode 225 with Andrés N Ordorica, Author of How We Named the Stars and Generous Creator of Poignant, Resonant "Love and Loss" Scenes and Utterly Memorable Characters

    Episode 225 with Andrés N Ordorica, Author of How We Named the Stars and Generous Creator of Poignant, Resonant "Love and Loss" Scenes and Utterly Memorable Characters

    Notes and Links to Andrés Ordorica’s Work
     
         For Episode 225, Pete welcomes Andrés Ordorica, and the two discuss, among other topics, his early relationship to the written word, formative and transformative writers and writing, wonderful trips to Borders Books, moments and people that shaped his sensibilities, Shakespeare comparisons, and seeds for and salient themes related to How We Named the Stars, including love and loss, the intensity of young love and first love and college, longing and grief.
     
     
       Andrés N. Ordorica is a queer Latinx writer based in Edinburgh. Drawing on his family’s immigrant history and third culture upbringing, his writing maps the journey of diaspora and unpacks what it means to be from ni de aquí, ni de allá (neither here, nor there). He is the author of the poetry collection At Least This I Know and novel How We Named the Stars. He has been shortlisted for the Morley Lit Prize, the Mo Siewcharran Prize and the Saltire Society’s Poetry Book of The Year. In 2024, he was selected as one of The Observer’s 10 Best Debut Novelists.
     
    Buy How We Named the Stars
     
    Andres' Website
     
    New York Times Review of How We Named the Stars from Maxwell Gilmer

     
    At about 2:15, Andrés talks about the “surreal” experiences he’s had since the book has been out in the world
    At about 3:20, Andrés shouts out Douglas Stuart and advice on dealing with multiple projects
    At about 5:40, Andrés calls his new project “part of a similar world” as that of How We Named the Stars
    At about 8:15, Andrés fill Pete in on his childhood relationship with libraries and the written word, including how his mother’s storytelling influenced and inspired him
    At about 11:00, Andrés shouts out NorCal reading spots and how he “fell in love with the idea of books”
    At about 13:05, Andrés discusses writers and writing that catapulted him into writing and reading even more seriously-Cristina Garcia, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Susan Lori Parks, Sandra Cisneros, and Marquez 
    At about 19:30, Andrés shouts out Jackie Kay and Griffin Hansbury and other contemporaries he’s reading in 2024
    At about 22:45, Andrés discusses the stellar work of Jackie Kay’s time as Maker of Scotland
    At about 24:10, GoodReads discourse!
    At about 25:20, Andrés discusses seeds for the book and its epigraph
    At about 28:55, Andrés reflects on love and loss as important themes in general and in his book in particular
    At about 30:00, Andrés shouts out places to buy his book, and mentions that his book is a Barnes and Noble Pick of the Month
    At about 32:20, Andrés breaks down his “pragmatic” and “poetic” decisions to write the book in the epistolary form and let the trader know very quickly about a shattering death
    At about 34:35, Pete and Andrés discuss the Prologue and the cosmos and axolotls being referenced 
    At about 39:40, Andrés gives history on how Elizabeth DeMeo helped him choose his dynamic title
    At about 41:00, Pete references ideas of light and darkness and tells a story about a mistaken symbol in Reyna Grande’s Across a Hundred Mountains
    At about 43:55, Andrés talks about how even a novelist “doesn’t have all of the answers” regarding the letter/book that constitutes the book
    At about 45:30, Pete makes a controversial comparison, re: Shakespeare 
    At about 47:15, Andrés gives background on a deleted scene from the book alluding to As You Like It
    At about 48:45, Pete references Karim new book on Shakespeare by Farah Karim-Cooper
    At about 51:30, The two discuss the intensity of college and “the transitory” experience that characterizes the beginning of college
    At about 54:50, Pete asks Andrés about the first interactions between Sam and Daniel in the book and about an early scene as a balancing act
    At about 1:00:20, Pete lays out early scenes from the book that deal with ignorant and racist comments and the “generous” Sam-Andrés expands upon the former scene’s significance
    At about

    • 1 hr 16 min
    Episode 224 with Peter Coviello, Enthusiastic and Deeply Knowledgeable Critic and Celebrator of Moving Art, and Author of the Essay Collection, Is There God After Prince

    Episode 224 with Peter Coviello, Enthusiastic and Deeply Knowledgeable Critic and Celebrator of Moving Art, and Author of the Essay Collection, Is There God After Prince

    Notes and Links to Peter Coviello’s Work
     
       For Episode 224, Pete welcomes Peter Coviello, and the two discuss, among other topics, his early relationship with music and bands that led him on a circuitous route to reading and writing, favorite individual and shared writers, the ways in which fandom and passion for books and music and the like grows and cements friendships, and salient topics from the book like The Sopranos as comfort watching and bringing Peter closer to his Covid-isolated family, the tonic and “jolt” that is passionate and talented artist, Prince as of this world and totally otherworldly somehow, and the visceral pleasures that come with love of the arts and love for the people who make and enjoy these arts.
     
       Peter Coviello is a scholar of American literature and queer theory, whose work addresses the entangled histories of sex, devotion, and intimate life in imperial modernity.
       A writer of criticism, scholarship, and literary nonfiction, he is the author of six books, including Make Yourselves Gods: Mormonism and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism (Chicago), a finalist for the 2020 John Whitmer Historical Association Best Book Prize; Long Players (Penguin), a memoir selected as one of ARTFORUM’s Ten Best Books of 2018; and Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America (NYU), a 2013 finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies. 
       His book, Vineland Reread (Columbia), was listed among the New York Times’s “New and Noteworthy” titles for January of 2021. He taught for sixteen years at Bowdoin College, where he was Chair of the departments of Gay and Lesbian Studies, Africana Studies, and English, and since 2014 has been at UIC, where he is Professor and Head of English. His newest book Is There God After Prince?: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things (Chicago), was selected for The Millions’ “Most Anticipated” list for 2023.
       He advises work on 19th- and 20th-century American literatures and queer studies, as well as literary theory, religion and secularism, the history of sexuality, gender studies, poetry and poetics, modernism, and creative nonfiction.
     
    Buy Is There God After Prince: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things
     
    Peter's Website with University of Chicago
     
    New City Lit Review of Is There God After Prince

    At about 3:00, Cavatelli! Italian last names! Goodfellas references!
    At about 5:00, Peter Coviello talks about his early relationship with the written word, and particularly how “worlds of music and imagination” got him into Rolling Stone and William Faulkner and other wonderful and catchy writing  
    At about 9:10, Peter highlights the “jolt” and “discovery” of young people/students and coins (?) the term “quotidian miraculousness” that comes with teaching literature 
    At about 10:50, Pete references the liner notes of Rage Against the Machine albums, as he and Peter discuss talking about great books and other artistic appraisals 
    At about 12:20, Peter responds to Pete’s question about which writers have influenced him over the years, including more recent writers like Jessica Hopper and Helen Macdonald
    At about 15:20, Peter talks about tangential connections to David Foster Wallace
    At about 16:20, Peter talks about who he is reading in 2024, including Anna Burns and Sam Lipsyte
    At about 19:00, Peter talks about seeds for his essay collections
    At about 21:10, Pete and Peter nerd out about a favorite writer of Peter’s and a favorite professor of Pete’s
    At about 24:15, Peter discusses love and sorrow and the ways in which critique is intertwined with love, especially when discussing art of all types
    At about 25:55, The two discuss contrasts in love of art, and little victories in reading and fandom
    At about 28:10, Pete highlights “not nothing” and “and yet” as so crucial and telling in the book
    At about 29:20, Pete shouts out the book’s Introduction and he and Peter

    • 1 hr 8 min
    Episode 223 with Sarah Rose Etter, Master Balancer of Surrealism, Realism, Dark Humor, and Themes of Grief and Anxiety that are Timely and Timeless

    Episode 223 with Sarah Rose Etter, Master Balancer of Surrealism, Realism, Dark Humor, and Themes of Grief and Anxiety that are Timely and Timeless

    Notes and Links to Sarah Rose Etter’s Work
     
       For Episode 223, Pete welcomes Sarah Rose Etter, and the two discuss, among other topics, her early relationship to the written word, formative and transformative writers and writing, her love of writing in translation, her and Pete’s shared love of Hemingway’s short stories, and seeds for and salient themes related to Ripe, including housing and economic inequalities and realities, depression and anxiety as represented by the book’s “black hole,” parental/child relationships, and grief.
     
    Sarah Rose Etter is the author of RIPE (published by Scribner), and The Book of X, winner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award. Her short fiction collection, Tongue Party, was selected by Deb Olin Unferth to be published as the winner of the 2011 Caketrain Award.
    Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in TIME, Guernica, BOMB, Gulf Coast, The Cut, VICE, and more. 
    She has been awarded residences at the Jack  Kerouac House, the Disquiet International program in Portugal, and the Gullkistan Writing Residency in Iceland.
    In 2017, she was the keynote speaker at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers conference in Bordeaux, France, where she presented on surrealist writing as a mode of feminism.
    She earned her B.A. in English from Pennsylvania State University and her M.F.A. in Fiction from Rosemont College. She lives in Los Angeles, CA.
     
    Buy Ripe
     
    Sarah's Website
     
    New York Times Review of Ripe by Alexandra Chang
     
    NPR Interview

     
    At about 2:00, Sarah shouts out the literary landscape and physical landscape 
    At about 2:45, Sarah talks about her childhood relationship with the written word
    At about 4:30, Pete and Sarah exchange formative stories and writing that opened up analytical and emotional taps, including Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and “Cat in the Rain,” as well as Plath’s “Metaphors” 
    At about 5:40, Sarah talks about how and why she started writing with short stories
    At about 6:50, Sarah reflects on ideas of obsession with subject matter when writing
    At about 7:22, Sarah shares a few examples of chill-inducing writing for her as a reader
    At about 8:55, Sarah discusses contemporary writers who thrill and challenge her: Carmen Maria Machado, Hallie Butler, Kristen Arnett, Melissa Broder, and many works in translation, like Olga T
    At about 15:00, Sarah discusses seeds for Ripe, including how her personal life and the world’s recent issues informed the book
    At about 19:00, Pete and Sarah talk about grief and sharing
    At about 22:10, Pete sets the book’s exposition, and Sarah gives background on the powerful and meaningful first line of the book
    At about 25:30, Sarah and Pete compare notes on first draft and heavy editing 
    At about 27:15, The two discuss the black hole, a common symbol in the book
    At about 29:50, Pete compliments the ways in which Sarah presents the narrator Cassie and the frenzied Silicon Valley lifestyle
    At about 30:55, Sarah discusses the ways in which Cassie is the person she is due to her parents’ influences
    At about 33:00, Sarah charts and breaks down a bit of her writing outlook and style and schedule 
    At about 34:30, Sarah references Parasite and Uncut Gems as examples of storytelling and escalating tensions as so powerful 
    At about 35:50, Sarah talks about her black hole research and earlier permutations of the black hole and its place in the book
    At about 37:50, Sarah responds to Pete’s questions about a possible history of depression within Cassie's family and without
    At about 40:10, Sarah discusses the strengths and beauty of Cassie’s relationship with her father, as well as some of his toxic qualities
    At about 41:20, Sarah discusses the issues revolving around money and the high cost of living
    At about 43:10, The two discuss the book’s title and the symbolism of the pomegranate and ideas of mythical connections and underworlds
    At about 45:25, The two shout out Stephanie Feldman and

    • 1 hr 4 min

Customer Reviews

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62 Ratings

EthanCCh ,

Great literary interviews

Chills at Will is one of my favorite sources for writer interviews. Pete has a great way of coming at his conversations from lots of different angles, opening up interesting insights and keeping the interviews lively. A great listen for readers, writers, and artists of all sorts.

Andrew_Porter ,

Outstanding literary podcast!

I was a huge fan of the Chills at Will podcast long before I was lucky enough to be guest on it, and I remain an avid listener! I love the laid back vibe of the show and Pete’s casual demeanor and excellent questions. As a listener, you really feel like you know the guests and their work by the end of each interview, and, as a guest, I was grateful for the detailed and thoughtful questions. Pete reads the books very closely and carefully, you can tell this as an author, and that’s one of the reasons the interviews are so insightful. Truly one of the best literary podcasts out there!

elderberry11 ,

Such thoughtful questions!

I was lucky enough to be a guest on Pete’s podcast earlier this year and he is such a thoughtful interviewer. He reads books with such care and attention, and i always learn something from the conversations I listen to. Recommend for writers and readers!

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