Poured Over

The Occidental Book of the Dead by T. Geronimo Johnson is a sharp-eyed look at America which follows George Washington Jonson across two decades of his life as a Black cop in Atlanta. T. Geronimo joins us to talk about class, community, belonging, and empathy with host Miwa Messer.
This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.
New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.
Featured Books & Authors:
The Occidental Book of the Dead by T. Geronimo Johnson
Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson
Hold It 'Til It Hurts by T. Geronimo Johnson
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Percival Everett
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Tibetan Book of the Dead
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
James Baldwin
There Is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone

Luna, Phoenix, Queen is Julie Orringer's latest, a thoughtful, and thought-provoking novel about the stories we tell about ourselves—and who gets to tells them. Julie joins us to talk about autonomy, memory, patience, and her adopted dog, Hazel with cohost Jenna Seery.
This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Jenna Seery and mixed by Harry Liang.
New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.
Featured Books:
Luna, Phoenix, Queen by Julie Orringer
The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer
How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
Dear Life by Alice Munro
How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend by The Monks of New Skete
The Art of Raising a Puppy by The Monks of New Skete
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Last Days of the Dog-Men: Stories by Bad Watson
Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet's Journey by Stephen Kuusisto
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Day for Night by Frederick Reiken
Intimacies by Katie Kitamura
Foster by Claire Keegan
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders

Music Against the Night is an epic story about love and betrayal, music and power, creativity and lust, that cuts across time and countries, from Yiyun Li, the acclaimed author of The Book of Goose. Yiyun joins us to talk about Hilary Mantel, movement and music, laughter and more with host Miwa Messer.
This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.
New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.
Featured Books:
Music Against the Night by Yiyun Li
Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
Wednesday's Child by Yiyun Li
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
Childhood; Boyhood; Youth by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Collected Stories by William Trevor
Nocturnes for the King of Naples by Edmund White
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Moderation by Elaine Castillo
Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Duel Duet: Selected Stories by Graham Greene
East of Eden by John Steinbeck

After the global sensation Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus delivers a charming and funny novel about a young man searching for his place in the world in Peck & Peck. When he stumbles into a job at an unconventional New York City poetry journal, Batter Gray discovers the transformative power of language and a community he never knew he needed. Bonnie joined us live in New York to talk about her dog Friday, the magic of poetry, and the future of the arts with host Miwa Messer. 
This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.
New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.
Featured Books & Poets:
Peck & Peck by Bonnie Garmus
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant
Robert Lowell
Sylvia Plath
Jericho Brown
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Jorie Graham
Geraldine Brooks
Langston Hughes
Claudia Rankine
Edgar Allen Poe
Charles Bukowski
A. A. Milne
Phillip Larkin

When a dark secret comes to light after his mother's death, Jay sets out to uncover the truth in Mystery Play, a haunting tale steeped in Dracula lore from master storyteller, Elizabeth Kostova. Elizabeth joins us to talk about seances, mysticism, the theater and Indiana Jones with cohost Jenna Seery.
This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Jenna Seery and mixed by Harry Liang.
New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.
Featured Books & Authors:
Mystery Play by Elizabeth Kostova
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Henry James
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Arthur Conan Doyle
Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare