The Greenlight Bookstore Podcast

Author Adam Smyer discusses his biting and hilarious guidebook You Can Keep That to Yourself: A Comprehensive List of What Not to Say to Black People, for Well-Intentioned People of Pallor with write…

Buddhist thought leader and meditation expert Sebene Selassie provides some much-needed calm in her discussion of her new book You Belong: A Call for Connection with hilarious writer and performer Mi…

Peter Cameron joins Greenlight discusses his atmospheric, suspenseful new novel What Happens at Night with mutually admired fellow author Christopher Beha of Harper's Magazine.  They discuss how Came…

Beloved Brooklyn author and filmmaker Nelson George returns to Greenlight to discuss the fifth installment of his music-infused D Hunter mystery series, The Darkest Hearts, with Melissa Kimble of #bl…

Two award-winning authors return to Greenlight as Akwaeke Emezi discusses their highly anticipated new novel The Death of Vivek Oji in a lively conversation with Rivers Solomon.  The two talk about t…

In this electrifying pre-publication event, Raven Leilani launches her highly anticipated novel Luster in conversation with fiercely brilliant comedian Samantha Irby.  Leilani's novel of a young Blac…

Douglas A. Martin discusses the reissue of his novel, Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother, with his friend and fellow Brooklyn author Darcey Steinke.  In their discussion of Martin's fictionalize…

Talking about the weather takes on a new dimension when Kelli Jo Ford talks about her debut novel Crooked Hallelujah with Paris Review editor Emily Nemens. Set in Texas and Oklahoma, the novel-in-sto…

David K. Randall presents the paperback edition of his eerily relevant book on a past pandemic, Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague.  Along with journalis…

Kyle McCarthy discusses her debut novel Everyone Knows How Much I Love You, about the dark side of female friendship, with award-winning author Leslie Jamison (The Recovering, The Empathy Exams). McC…

Literary Hub senior editor Emily Temple launches her debut novel The Lightness—a meditation on adolescent desire, female friendship, belief, and the female body—with Téa Obreht, bestselling author of…

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz discusses his newest book People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent, with Roosevelt Institute president Felicia Wong…

Award-winning author and journalist Meredith Talusan’s talks about her memoir Fairest — a coming of age story about a precocious boy with albinism, a “sun child” from a rural Philippine village, who …

Alexis Okeowo interviews Ishmael Beah (author of the memoir A Long Way Gone) about his new novel Little Family, a story of the connections we forge to survive the fate we’re dealt. The two discuss th…

In the extraordinary days of early June 2020, Marie-Helene Bertino virtually launches her novel Parakeet in conversation with Alexandra Kleeman, co-hosted by BOMB Magazine.  Poet Angel Nafis opens th…

Author and professor Imani Perry interviews novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn for the paperback launch of her novel Patsy, in an evening that grapples with intergenerational trauma as well as embracing Bla…

Poet, essayist and editor John Freeman talks with novelist Julia Alvarez about his poetry collection The Park and her novel Afterlife.  A beautiful cross-genre conversation ensues about public space,…

Novelist Lidia Yuknavitch rejoins fellow author/actor/activist Amber Tamblyn for a passionate conversation centered around Yuknavitch's newest book Verge.   Their wide-ranging discussion circles arou…