Poured Over

In Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hernan Diaz's Ply, centuries from now, society has adapted to a new way of life as humans mend their relationships to the world…and each other. Hernan joined us live in Philadelphia to talk about subjectivity, selfhood and identity; particle physics; and Charles Dickens 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:
Ply by Hernan Diaz
Trust by Hernan Diaz
In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
The Bostonians by Henry James
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Moderation by Elaine Castillo
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

The acclaimed, bestselling author of Pachinko, Min Jin Lee returns with American Hagwon, a modern classic about ambition and love, family and finding home. Min Jin joined us live at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church to talk about education and ambition, the 19th century social novel, compressed modernity, and trying to be a good person in an anxious world 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:
American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Can You Forgive Her? By Anthony Trollope
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Risk of Compressed Modernity by Chang Kyung-Sup
Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

In The French Illusion by John Grisham, a honeymoon unravels into terror as newlyweds Paul and Chelsea get snatched from the French countryside, prompting a puzzling investigation. John joins us to talk about his time in law school, his prolific writing career, and his advocacy for the wrongfully convicted with cohost Chris Gillespie.
This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Chris Gillespie and mixed by Harry Liang.
New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.
Featured Books:
The French Illusion by John Grisham
The Law Student by John Grisham
Time to Kill by John Grisham
Pelican Brief by John Grisham
The Innocent Man by John Grisham
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions by John Grisham & Jim McCloskey
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author, Ayad Akhtar joins us to talk about craft,  the campus novel, autofiction, and his latest book, The Radiance, 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:
The Radiance by Ayad Akhtar
Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar
American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar
Junk by Ayad Akhtar
McNeal by Ayad Akhtar
The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar
Poor Folk and Other Early Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fifty-Two Stories by Anton Chekhov
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
Herzog by Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
The Republic of Plato translated by Allan Bloom
The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia
Antiquities and Other Stories by Cynthia Ozick
Nature and Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hawthorne's Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
The American Canon by Harold Bloom
The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation by Harold Bloom
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
The Complete Odes and Epodes by Horace

Now out in paperback, The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon casts a needed spotlight on the other heroes of American greatness — ones you may not have heard of. Sharon joins us to talk about raising engaged citizens, local news, and communication as a leadership skill with cohost Chris Gillespie.
This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Chris Gillespie and mixed by Harry Liang.
New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.
 
Featured Books:
The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon
We are Mighty by Sharon McMahon