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2017/10/06
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2026/11/05
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46 min.
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Hosted by Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan, fiction/non/fiction interprets current events through the lens of literature, and features conversations with writers of all stripes, from novelists and poets to journalists and essayists.

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S10 Ep. 3 ZZ Packer and Nafkote Tamirat on France’s Ongoing Student Protests
2026/11/05
American writers ZZ Packer and Nafkote Tamirat join co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell from Paris to talk about recent mass demonstrations across France. They explain how the movement originated at the start of the academic year, with high school students protesting the state of education, and subsequently snowballed to include broad agitation with trade unions and others over poor socioeconomic conditions. Packer and Tamirat discuss the history and structure of the French education system and trace how students came to contend with crumbling buildings and old textbooks. The writers reflect on narratives around property damage versus harm to people and share stories of navigating teargas and confusion amidst the protests. Packer, who was on a brief stint at the American University of Paris, and Tamirat, who is also affiliated with the university and lives in France full-time, also talk about the role of the police in escalating violence. They respond to questions about the protests’ potential impact on spring elections and assess the possibility of real change. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by V.V. Ganeshananthan, Whitney Terrell, Eric Thong, Archer Walsh, and Elizabeth Willis. ZZ Packer Drinking Coffee Elsewhere Nafkote Tamirat The Parking Lot AttendantTeret Teret  (forthcoming) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
S10 ep. 2 Ten Years of Fiction/Non/Fiction: An Anniversary Episode
2026/10/29
Co-hosts Whitney Terrell, V.V. Ganeshananthan, and Jennifer Maritza McCauley are joined by poet and essayist Kathryn Nuernberger, a frequent guest and longtime friend of the show, for a look back at the past decade of episodes. The quartet discuss the show’s origins, its focus on the Midwest and the globe, how the hosts prep for interviews, and how they think about the show’s tagline: “We believe that every issue in your social media feed or on the evening news has already been tackled somewhere in literature.” To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by V.V. Ganeshananthan, Whitney Terrell, Rylee Adamson, Valen Williams, and Lucien Hockaday.  Co-Hosts Whitney Terrell Jennifer Maritza McCauleyV. V. GaneshananthanChristian Barter Guest Kathryn Nuernberger Held: Essays in BelongingThe Witch of Eye Episodes Mentioned: Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 1, Episode 1: The Art of Taking a Knee: Colin Kaepernick EditionFiction/Non/Fiction Season 1, Episode 4: We’re All Russian, NowFiction/Non/Fiction Season 1, Episode 12: C. Riley Snorton and T Fleischmann Talk Gender, Freedom, and TransitivityFiction/Non/Fiction Season 2, Episode 1: MFA vs. Everything: Four Writers Weigh InFiction/Non/Fiction Season 3, Episode 19: Black Stories Matter: Terrion Williamson and Jabari Asim on Narrative During the George Floyd ProtestsFiction/Non/Fiction Season 4, Episode 3: Monsters for President: Maria Dahvana Headley on Modern MythmakingFiction/Non/Fiction Season 4, Episode 16: Michael Kleber-Diggs and Kao Kalia Yang on How Minnesota’s Literary Community Is Reacting to Racial InjusticeFiction/Non/Fiction Season 7, Episode 18: Glenn North on Kansas City’s Jazz, Poetry, and BarbequeFiction/Non/Fiction Season 9, Episode 30: Rebecca Lehmann on Anne Boleyn, Trump, and TreasonFiction/Non/Fiction Season 9, Episode 41: Lupe Mendez on Texas Politics and the Killing of Lorenzo Salgado AraujoFiction/Non/Fiction Season 9, Episode 45: Aruni Kashyap on India’s Cockroach Youth Movement See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
S10 Ep. 1 Nicole Bedera on the Cornell 7, Title IX, and How Universities Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence
2026/10/22
Sociologist Nicole Bedera joins co-hosts V.V Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about the Cornell 7 and her book, On the Wrong Side: How Universites Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence. She explains how the Cornell case, in which a student said she was gang-raped at a fraternity party at the Ivy League institution, falls into a long tradition of universities mishandling reports of sexual violence. Bedera describes the history of Title IX, which forbids discrimination on the basis of sex, and pinpoints how sexual violence came to fall under its framework. She considers how Title IX’s effectiveness has fluctuated since its establishment in 1972, and especially under the Trump administration, which during its first stint shifted regulations in a way that made it easier for universities to avoid accountability. Bedera discusses what universities stand to gain from improper handling of sexual violence cases and why administrators insist on referring to such cases as isolated, rather than representing systemic problems. She also addresses common misconceptions about sexual violence and Title IX investigations. Bedera reflects on her time as a victim advocate, using her experience to conduct fieldwork at an anonymized Title IX office, and how Title IX could be reimagined as a state agency to be more effective. She reads from On the Wrong Side.  To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by V.V. Ganeshananthan, Whitney Terrell, AJ Abernathy, Sienna Hoopingarner, and Grace Workman.  Nicole Bedera On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpatrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence“A New Title IX Rule Essentially Allows Accused Sexual Assailants to Hide Evidence Against Them” Others Jane Doe says she did not feel supported by Cornell’s president. | The New York Times See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
S9 Ep. 52 Yiyun Li on Art, Fame, History, and Music Against the Night
2026/10/15
Acclaimed writer Yiyun Li returns to the show to talk about her new novel, Music Against the Night, with co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell. Li explains how she first became interested in fictionalizing the lives of married musicians John Field and Adelaide Percheron and reflects on the limits, challenges, and opportunities of conducting historical research for fiction. She discusses the role grandparents play in her characters’ lives and how older mentors can shape an artist’s personal and professional growth. She also shares how she chose to structure two wide-ranging life stories within one novel, and how her characters illustrate disparities in opportunity among equally talented peers. Li considers how her characters define failure and success, and how these definitions affect John and Adelaide, neither of whom achieve fame. She reads from Music Against the Night. Yiyun Li Music Against the NightEncountering the Past in “Music Against the Night” | The New YorkerThings in Nature Merely GrowThe Book of GooseWednesday's ChildMust I GoWhere Reasons EndKinder Than SolitudeGold Boy, Emerald GirlThe VagrantsA Thousand Years of Good PrayersDear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life Others A Life and Times: Fryderyk Chopin | Dr Alan WalkerA Confession and Other Religious Writings | Leo TolstoyFiction/Non/Fiction Season 5, Episode 42: Yiyun Li on Complicated Friendships Real and Imagined See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
S9 Ep. 51 T. Geronimo Johnson on Atlanta, White Supremacy, and The Occidental Book of the Dead
2026/10/08
Award-winning fiction writer T. Geronimo Johnson joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about his new novel, The Occidental Book of the Dead. He discusses how the book addresses white supremacy and the United States’ deep-seated and racist mythology through the perspective of George Washington Jonson, a black police officer working in a fictional version of Atlanta. Johnson talks about researching police work but almost entirely avoiding depicting scenes of it on the page, and also explains why the book transitions from third to first person. He reflects on how structures of The Egyptian Book of the Dead and other classics are incorporated into the story. He reads from The Occidental Book of the Dead. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by V.V. Ganeshananthan, Whitney Terrell, Archer Walsh, Elizabeth Willis, and Eric Thong.  T. Geronimo Johnson The Occidental Book of the DeadHold It 'Til It HurtsWelcome to Braggsville Others A Man in Full by Tom WolfeThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodAutobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon JohnsonThe Egyptian Book of the Dead,  translated by E.A. Wallis BudgeThe Consolation of Philosophy by BoethiusConfessions by St. Augustine See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
S9 Ep. 50 James Richardson on Within the Hour: Poems and Aphorisms, 1971-2026
2026/10/01
Poet James Richardson joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and Christian Barter to talk about his collection of new and selected poetry, Within the Hour. Richardson discusses how his early fascination with science and his enjoyment of science fiction has influenced his poetry and considers the way his aphorisms counterbalance his more lyric poems. He reflects on the role that literary criticism has played in his career as a poet and gives listeners a rare glimpse into his process of inspiration and composition. He speculates on the increasing role that politics has played in his new work, particularly since 2016, and reads from Within the Hour. This podcast is produced by Christian Barter, Whitney Terrell, Valen Williams, Ashley Holmes, Rylee Adamson, and Lucien Hockaday.  James Richardson  Within the Hour: Poems and Aphorisms, 1971-2026For NowDuringBy the NumbersInterglacial: New and Selected Poems and Aphorisms  Vectors:  Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays  Others “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
S9 Ep. 49 Sam A. Miller on YouTube Storytelling and Choosing Science Fiction
2026/09/24
Fiction writer and popular YouTuber Sam A. Miller joins co-hosts Christian Barter and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about his debut story collection, Still Lost: Tales from the Year 2080, as well as his educational and comedic videos. Miller reflects on how he got started on YouTube a decade ago, when he was an adolescent, and amassed 4.8 million followers by developing Sam O’Nella Academy, a channel with a scrappy, homemade feel and distinct illustrations. Miller discusses the genesis of the unusual aliens who set the stage for most of Still Lost’s human-centered stories by solving potentially world-ending problems like climate change right off the bat. He explains why he decided to self-publish the science fiction collection and how it found its way to a traditional publisher. He also shares his science fiction influences and talks about how his personal history with addiction shapes the book’s final story. He reads from Still Lost.  To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Christian Barter, V.V. Ganeshananthan, AJ Abernathy, Grace Workman, and Sienna Hoopingarner.  Sam Miller Still Lost: Tales from the Year 2080 by Sam A. MillerSam O'Nella Academy - YouTube Others Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Blindsight by Peter WattsWheelers by Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
S9 Ep. 48 Emily McBride on Maternal Mental Health and the Lindsay Clancy Trial
2026/09/17
Fiction writer Emily McBride joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss her debut novel, Queen Mab, and maternal mental health. McBride talks about the media frenzy around the trial of Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts woman charged with killing her three children, and considers how Clancy’s insanity defense has seized the public imagination, prompting new conversation about postpartum psychosis. McBride reflects on Queen Mab’s protagonist, a 23-year-old graduate student of Victorian and modernist literature, who struggles to bond with her baby and begins to fear that her child is a changeling. McBride explains the narrative shifts she uses to portray the character’s fluctuating reality and why literary allusions to changelings and fairies make sense in the context of the pressures of new motherhood. She also discusses how the most infamous “bad mothers” in folklore have skewed society’s perception of postnatal depression. She reads from Queen Mab.  To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Whitney Terrell, V.V. Ganeshananthan, Emily Farris, Sydney Perkins, and Emma Ware.  Emily McBride  Queen Mab by Emily McBride  Others Inferno by Catherine Cho Lucky Jim By Kingsley Amis Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Medea by Euripides Labyrinth (1986) dir. by Jim HensonCottingley Fairies: How Sherlock Holmes's creator was fooled by hoax | BBC (2020) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
S9 Ep. 47 Robert Moor on Rethinking Environmentalism Tree by Tree
2026/09/10
Nonfiction writer Robert Moor joins co-hosts Christian Barter and Jennifer Maritza McCauley to talk about his new book, In Trees, and the power of “tree thinking,” a concept developed by the evolutionary biologist Robert J. O’Hara. Moor explains how this form of thought emphasizes branching, growth, and pruning, as opposed to hierarchical ordering, and shows how these principles can be identified in the work of writers like Tolstoy and Wordsworth. He explores the role the giant sequoia played in founding modern conservatism and takes listeners on a tour of his own experiences in the trees from Papua New Guinea to Vancouver, Canada, where he participated in a tree sit with activists protesting an oil pipeline. He discusses the ethics of climate activism and how tree thinking might help us re-imagine the environmental movement for a new age. He reads from In Trees. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Whitney Terrell. Robert Moor In Trees by Robert Moor | Moon Palace Books On Trails by Robert Moor | Moon Palace Books  Others The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino“The Trouble with Wilderness” by William CrononOn the Origin of Species by Charles DarwinNature by Ralph Waldo EmersonHow to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas MalmWalden by Henry David ThoreauFiction/Non/Fiction Season 9, Episode 56: Matthew Wolfe on the Secret History of Radical EnvironmentalismSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
S9 Ep. 46 G’Ra Asim on 99 Problems Finding the 1
2026/09/03
Nonfiction writer G’Ra Asim joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about his new book, 99 Problems Finding the 1: a love story (sort of). Asim discusses Afropessimism, heteropessimism, and their relationship to his pursuit of love as a cis straight black man; defines the idea of “thinkful wishing”; and recalls the ways in which black couples in his family, including his parents, have modeled relationships for him. He explains how—inspired by the viral New York Times essay “The 36 Questions That Lead to Love”— he came up with a series of inquiries that push two participants to reflect on their experiences of gender and race. He talks about how culture influences understanding of romance, mentioning Destiny’s Child, Dexter, and Minor Feelings. He reads from 99 Problems Finding the 1. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell. G'Ra Asim 99 Problems Finding the 1: : a love story (sort of)Boyz n the Void: a mixtape to my brother Others “On the Necessity of Turning Oneself into a Character,” by Phillip Lopate from To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction“Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?” | VogueDexter (TV Series 2006–2013) - IMDbAtlanta (TV Series 2016–2022) - IMDbDestiny's Child - Soldier ft. T.I., Lil' Wayne“The 36 Questions That Lead to Love,” by Mandy Len Catron,  The New York TimesMinor Feelings by Cathy Park HongDreams from My Father by Barack ObamaSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
S9 Ep. 45 Aruni Kashyap on India’s Cockroach Youth Movement
2026/08/27
Novelist Aruni Kashyap joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Jennifer Maritza McCauley to talk about the surprising surge of a new youth movement in India. Kashyap, the author of a new novel, How to Date a Fanatic, about young queer academics navigating the Indian campus protests of the mid-2010s, explains how the Chief Justice of India likening unemployed youth to “cockroaches and parasites” has prompted the rise of a wildly popular satirical group. He shares the history of the Cockroach Janta Party or Cockroach People’s Party, whose followers now number in the millions and whose political demands have become well known. Kashyap discusses those demands and the historical significance of campus politics in India, considers how a satirical organization is pushing real reform, and recalls his own experiences with campus protests in India, where he grew up and previously taught. Kashyap reflects on writing about political violence, love, and queer life in India. He reads from How to Date a Fanatic. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell. Aruni Kashyap How to Date a FanaticHow to Date a Fanatic excerpt from LitHubThe Way You Want to Be LovedThe House with a Thousand StoriesHow to Tell the Story of an Insurgency  Others The rise of the Cockroaches - The HinduSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
S9 Ep. 44 Claudia Rankine on Triage, Antigone, and Collapse
2026/08/20
Poet, essayist, and playwright Claudia Rankine joins co-hosts Christian Barter, Jennifer Maritza McCauley and Whitney Terrell to talk about her new book Triage.  Rankine outlines the decades-long relationship between the book’s narrator and a character she names “the theorist,” who, as college students, develop the habit of collapsing whenever they greet each other. She talks about how each character interprets collapse differently, the theorist prescribing action while the narrator fights for her “silences, routines, and quietude.” Rankine discusses how their “conversation” echoes Antigone and is rooted in our current reactions to the war in Gaza and the second Trump Administration. She reflects on the role that visual imagery has in her work and reads from Triage. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Christian Barter, Jennifer Maritza McCauley, and Whitney Terrell. Claudia Rankine TriageDon't Let Me Be Lonely: An American LyricCitizen: An American LyricJust Us: An American Conversation Others Antigone | SophoclesFiction/Non/Fiction Season 8, Episode 51: Omar El Akkad on Gaza and Western EmpireJulia (1977) dir. Fred Zinnemann See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
S9 Ep. 43 Dino Martins on Cyclospora, Screwworms, and Our Lives with Parasites
2026/08/13
Entomologist Dino Martins joins co-host V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about the Cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands of people across the U.S., as well as the New World screwworm that has been affecting the cattle population. Martins, the author of a new book called Hidden Creatures: Luscious Leeches, Bashful Botflies, and the Wondrous, History-Shaping World of Parasites, discusses the benefits and dangers of parasites and reflects on his own lifelong interest in bugs, beginning with his childhood in Kenya. He explains how living alongside other animals has taught him to observe the world differently. Martins reads from Hidden Creatures. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell. Dino Martins Hidden Creatures: Luscious Leeches, Bashful Botflies, and the Wondrous, History-Shaping World of ParasitesGrasses of East AfricaTurkana Basin Institute Others Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 7, Episode 45: Jasmin Graham on Understanding SharksFiction/non/Fiction Season 9, Episode 7: Kathryn Nuernberger on Mutualism, Climate, and Finding Family at the End of the WorldAlien (1979) dir. Ridley Scott The Fly (1986) dir. David Cronenberg Stand by Me (1986) dir. Rob Reiner  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
S9 Ep. 42 Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on Harry Belafonte’s Extraordinary Art & Activism
2026/08/06
Non-fiction writer Joshua Jelly-Schapiro joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Christian Barter to talk about the life of performer and activist Harry Belafonte, who died in 2023. Jelly-Schapiro, the author of a new biography of Belafonte, considers the entertainer’s distinctive combination of mainstream appeal and radical politics. He notes how Belafonte’s vault to stardom and success with the first LP to sell a million copies, Calypso, positioned him to speak across racial lines in a segregated society. Jelly-Schapiro discusses Belafonte’s nation-changing impact on the Civil Rights Movement, and his unique position as the only member of Martin Luther King’s inner circle who could also be asked to guest-host The Tonight Show. He reflects on how Belafonte, the son of Jamaican immigrants who grew up between Harlem and his parents’ country, navigated the performance of authenticity. Jelly-Schapiro reads from his book, Daylight Come: Harry Belafonte and the World He Made. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by V.V. Ganeshananthan and Christian Barter. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Daylight Come: Harry Belafonte and the World He MadeNames of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-NamesIsland People: The Caribbean and the WorldNonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas with Rebecca SolnitPòtoprens: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince with Leah Gordon and Katelyne Alexis Cuba Then, Cuba NowChris Ofili: Paradise Lost with Chris Ofili Harry Belafonte CalypsoIsland in the SunBuck and the Preacher“We Are the World” Others BeetlejuiceSing Your Song (2011)Following Harry (2024) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
S9 Ep. 41 Lupe Mendez on Texas Politics and the Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
2026/07/30
Houston-based poet Lupe Mendez joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and Jennifer Maritza McCauley to discuss ICE raids, the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and the political climate in Texas heading into the midterms. Mendez details the last few minutes of Araujo’s life and talks about the government’s altered story of Araujo’s death. Mendez also explains why he decided to write about the Mexican community’s boycott of racist integration practices in Houston during the 1970s and his compulsion to write poetry in Spanish and English. Inspired by Ebony Stewart, Mendez talks about how his “artivism” intersected with his role as Texas Poet Laureate. Mendez reads from We Exist in the Whisper: Huelga School Verses and Prayer Holding Night: New & Selected Works. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Jennifer Maritza McCauley and Whitney Terrell. Lupe Mendez We Exist in the Whisper: Huelga School VersesPrayer Holding Night: New & Selected WorksWhy I Am Like Tequila Others Ebony Stewart Jasminne Mendez Librotraficante Tintero ProjectsLorenzo Salgado Araujo Chased the American Dream for 35 Years See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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paul, nicknames all taken 2025/01/27
A teensy request
Great show, perfect marriage of the craft of storytelling and the world of culture and politics. Can you please get better microphones? It’s hard to l...
★★★★★
NadaTeTurbe 2023/11/05
Wonderful bookish podcast
This is hands down my favorite podcast. The hosts deftly steer the conversation with such interesting guests, the discussion always gets my wheels tur...
★★★★★
Dawnship625 2023/07/15
Love how relevant it is
Loved the one on the writers’ strike, the one on Cormac McCarthy… a really nice range of topics always, and smart analysis, good questions, prepared h...
★★★★★
Bohemian_Peasant 2022/10/24
Relevant and informative
Your conversation with the hosts of Explaining Ukraine about “Crime Without Punishment” was timely and relevant. Don’t miss this episode!
★★★★★
dataylor1 2021/03/05
Entertaining and thoughtful
Every episode a great listen
★★☆☆☆
UWSTB 2021/01/12
Boring, Off Topic
This podcast is really boring and they don’t talk about what the title says they will. Plus the male host’s banter is annoying. I feel like these peop...
★★★★★
ustazaduktura 2020/11/25
Such a fun and thought-provoking podcast
A must listen
★★★★★
CharlieMcGill 2020/03/10
Amazing
Amazing, contemporary, and timely. Highly recommended!
★★★★★
Abbsamillion 2020/03/10
Inspiring and Intriguing!
I love this podcast. I’m blown away every week. The podcast has amazing guests, and the discussions are always insightful and entertaining. They cover...
★★★★★
gianamini 2020/03/10
Awesome podcast
These are always interesting
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