Miwa Messer

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Poured Over: Revisiting Colson Whitehead on The Nickel Boys

2 months ago | barnesandnoble.com | Miwa Messer |Jenna Seery

Poured Over: Revisiting Colson Whitehead on The Nickel Boys The Nickel Boys, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, is a story of injustice and ultimately hope about two young men at a Florida reform school. We love this interview with Miwa Messer and Whitehead from the novel’s release in 2019. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.
Where to Start Reading James Baldwin

Aug 1, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Miwa Messer |James Baldwin |Anna Tubbs |Isabelle McConville

Where to Start Reading James Baldwin August 2nd is the 100th anniversary of James Baldwin’s birth, and though he died in 1987, his body of work still speaks to us as if it was written last year, or last month, or even last week.
Listen Up! Celebrating Pride on Poured Over

Jun 7, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Miwa Messer

Share Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter We just celebrated Poured Over’s third anniversary, and we’re truly excited by the LGBTQ+ writers who’ve joined us on the show so far — with KB Brookins on their memoir, Pretty, and Edmund White and Garth Greenwell joining us later this month to talk about Edmund’s reissued novel, Nocturnes for the King of Naples (with an introduction from Garth).
>You Are Standing in a Dark Cave: Robin Sloan and Charles Yu in Conversation

May 29, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Charles Yu |Robin Sloan |Miwa Messer

>You Are Standing in a Dark Cave: Robin Sloan and Charles Yu in Conversation This conversation between two of the biggest-hearted, most curious, wildly imaginative writers we know was originally posted in 2012, when Robin’s debut novel, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore was newly published (with a glow in the dark cover) and selected for our Discover Great New Writers program, and before Charles had won the National Book Award for Interior Chinatown.
Listen Up! May 2024 on Poured Over

May 1, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Miwa Messer

Share Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter Our 400th episode lands this month (we celebrate our third birthday on June 1st) — time flies when you’re producing 2-3 in depth author conversations every week, some live from our stores on Union Square and the Upper West Side in New York City and at the Grove in Los Angeles.
Listen Up! Celebrating AAPI Month Year-Round

May 1, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Miwa Messer

Share Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter We’re a month away from Poured Over’s third anniversary, and we’re truly excited by the writers who’ve joined us on the show so far and we hope you’ll take a listen to the shows you might have missed, here, on your favorite podcast app or B&N”s YouTube channel. New episodes of Poured Over land Tuesdays and Thursdays with occasional bonus episodes on Saturdays.
Listen Up! April 2024 on Poured Over

Apr 1, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Miwa Messer

Share Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter If you’re looking for poets on Poured Over, check out this post. April showers bring May flowers — along with more time for reading (and listening). We have a terrific lineup of writers riffing on their new books, what drives their work, and more on the show this month.
Listen Up! March 2024 on Poured Over

Mar 5, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Miwa Messer

Share Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter In like a lion and out like a lamb: We have some terrific author interviews coming this month, some live in our flagship stores on New York’s Union Square and at The Grove in Los Angeles. We’re kicking off March with poet/translator/novelist Idra Novey and our newest Fiction Monthly Pick, Take What You Need, a story of art and visibility, translation and liminal spaces.
Listen Up! February 2024 on Poured Over

Feb 7, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Miwa Messer

Listen Up! February 2024 on Poured Over “Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: They feed the soul.” — Anne Lamott, Bird by BirdHow great is this?
Poured Over: Kwame Alexander on This Is the Honey

Feb 3, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Jenna Seery |Miwa Messer

Share Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter “I feel like these poems tell stories in and of themselves. And perhaps as an entire collection, they tell a greater story. … We’re human beings — people laugh, love, hope, dream, dance, smile, live, die, just like everybody else.