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The Kenyon Review Podcast

A monthly podcast from esteemed literary journal The Kenyon Review, featuring interviews, discussions, author readings and much more.

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22. Carl Phillips, A Conversation

22. Carl Phillips, A Conversation

A conversation with poet, Kenyon Review contributor, and Writers Workshop instructor Carl Phillips.

8 Sep 2015

20mins

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63. Adam Cayton-Holland

63. Adam Cayton-Holland

Adam Cayton-Holland talks with KR's own Katharine Weber about his new memoir Tragedy + Time, his career as a comedian, ... Read more

8 Oct 2018

52mins

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12. Ann Patchett, A Conversation Plus Readings from the Fall 2014 Issue

12. Ann Patchett, A Conversation Plus Readings from the Fall 2014 Issue

A conversation with acclaimed author Ann Patchett plus readings from José González Prada, Jeffrey Harrison, Campbell McG... Read more

4 Nov 2014

49mins

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76. Kimiko Hahn

76. Kimiko Hahn

Poet Kimiko Hahn talks about the significance of translation and conceiving words as portals and playgrounds with her Pe... Read more

16 Apr 2019

52mins

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38. Ruth Ozeki

38. Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki talks with Katharine Weber about her novels, her family story, and how the fictional moments in her 1995 auto... Read more

16 Oct 2016

43mins

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44. Lauren Redniss

44. Lauren Redniss

Writer and artist Lauren Redniss talks to associate editor Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky

10 Apr 2017

32mins

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40. Hilary Mantel

40. Hilary Mantel

O.Henry Prize winner and Kenyon Review editor David H. Lynn talks with Hilary Mantel, twice the winner of the Man Booker... Read more

4 Dec 2016

47mins

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39. Stephanie Danler

39. Stephanie Danler

Stephanie Danler, author of best-selling novel Sweetbitter, talks to P.F. Kluge about her writing workshop at Kenyon, wh... Read more

31 Oct 2016

39mins

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74. Rodger Kamenetz

74. Rodger Kamenetz

Rodger Kamenetz, author of The Jew in the Lotus and The History of Last Night’s Dream, speaks with his KR Writers Worksh... Read more

15 Mar 2019

1hr 10mins

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43. Solmaz Sharif

43. Solmaz Sharif

Andrew Grace discusses poetry's responsilibity to be politically engaged with Solmaz Sharif, who insists, in response to... Read more

6 Mar 2017

26mins

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11. Maureen McLane, A Conversation Plus Readings from the Fall 2014 Issue

11. Maureen McLane, A Conversation Plus Readings from the Fall 2014 Issue

A conversation with poet Maureen McLane plus readings from Scott Brownlee, Harold Schweizer, and Kimberly Gray.

13 Oct 2014

32mins

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29. Danielle Evans, A Conversation

29. Danielle Evans, A Conversation

Danielle Evans discusses road trip stories, the importance of plot, reading poetry as a daily exercise, and why poetry s... Read more

4 Apr 2016

26mins

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77. Proof Casts A Shadow: A Conversation

77. Proof Casts A Shadow: A Conversation

Kenyon Review fellow Misha Rai sits down with Gabrielle Bellot and Nay Saysourinho to discuss narratives that address th... Read more

9 May 2019

32mins

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54. Colm Tóibín

54. Colm Tóibín

Acclaimed author Colm Tóibín talks to KR editor David Lynn about his research process, teaching, and the struggle for Ca... Read more

1 Feb 2018

29mins

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60. Lewis Hyde

60. Lewis Hyde

KR Editor David H. Lynn speaks with Lewis Hyde about his best-selling book The Gift, personal and cultural forgetfulness... Read more

5 Jul 2018

18mins

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56. Nate Marshall

56. Nate Marshall

In this episode, Andrew Grace talks to poet and editor Nate Marshall about Seamus Heaney's sense of place, poetry as a t... Read more

13 Mar 2018

39mins

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58. Javier Zamora

58. Javier Zamora

Javier Zamora, author of the poetry collection Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press) and currently a Wallace Stegner Fello... Read more

30 Apr 2018

36mins

Ranked #18

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53. Saskia Hamilton

53. Saskia Hamilton

Kenyon professor of religious studies, Royal Rhodes, speaks to poet, editor and Kenyon alumna, Saskia Hamilton, about Ro... Read more

4 Jan 2018

23mins

Ranked #19

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71. Hilary Plum

71. Hilary Plum

Elizabeth Dark, KR’s associate director of programs, talks with prose writer Hilary Plum about documentary fiction, the ... Read more

4 Feb 2019

1hr 2mins

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33. Stanley Plumly Talks to Maggie Smith

33. Stanley Plumly Talks to Maggie Smith

Each summer, Kenyon College plays host to hundreds of writers, young and old, who come to our bucolic hill in rural Ohio... Read more

22 Jul 2016

23mins

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