Chris Holmes

1 month ago | publicbooks.org | Chris Holmes |Emily Hyde |Megan Cummins

We kick off Season 9: TECH by talking with our very own Aarthi Vadde, the E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of English at Duke University. Hosts and coproducers Chris Holmes and Emily Hyde ask Aarthi about the role of the novel in relation to the mass writing platforms that dominate our digital lives.

Oct 11, 2024 | publicbooks.org | Chris Holmes |Megan Cummins

Our partner podcast Novel Dialogue invites a novelist and a literary critic to talk about novels from every angle: how we read them, write them, publish them, and remember them. This season’s signature question is: If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be, and why? What does it mean for a novel to think globally? And can a global novel concerned with the macromovements of capital and labor still exist in the form of a bildungsroman?

May 10, 2024 | publicbooks.org | Chris Holmes |Megan Cummins

Our partner podcast Novel Dialogue invites a novelist and a literary critic to talk about novels from every angle: how we read them, write them, publish them, and remember them.

Nov 17, 2023 | publicbooks.org | Chris Holmes |Megan Cummins

Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which won the Booker Prize in 2022, is a thriller that begins in the afterlife, an uproarious murder mystery set amid the tragedies of Sri Lanka’s long civil war. Its protagonist, a war photographer, has become a ghost with just seven moons to find his killer and give his life’s work meaning.

Jun 2, 2023 | publicbooks.org | Pedro A. Regalado |Chris Holmes |Megan Cummins

“As a horror trope, the child is always scary. It turns our notions of purity, innocence, violence, upside down.” Booker Prize shortlister Mariana Enríquez, author of Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, joins Penn State professor Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra and host Chris Holmes to talk about her most recent novel, Our Share of Night, her first to be translated into English.