
Novel Dialogue: where unlikely conversation partners come together to discuss the making of novels and what to make of them. What makes us special? Critics and novelists in conversation. Breaking down the boundaries between critical, creative, and just plain quirky, Novel Dialogue’s approach is wide-ranging and unconventional. Ever wondered what Jennifer Egan thinks of TikTok, how Ruth Ozeki honed... more
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 66 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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Álvaro Enrigue and critic Maia Gil’Adí begin their conversation considering translation as a living process, one that is internal to the novel form. Álvaro, author of the trippy You Dreamed of Empires (Riverhead, 2024), explains how the opening lette... more
In an essay about her recent book Searches (Pantheon, 2025), a genre-bending chronicle of the deeply personal ways we use the internet and the uncanny ways it uses us, Vauhini Vara admits that several reviewers seemed to mistake her engagement with C... more
Fernanda Trías’s Pink Slime (Scribner, 2024) was first published in Spanish in October 2020, several months into a global pandemic that had bent our world into something uncannily similar to the one imagined in the Uruguayan writer’s fourth novel. He... more
In Season 9, Novel Dialogue set out to find the Venn diagram intersection of tech and fiction—only to realize that Kim Stanley Robinson had staked his claim on the territory decades ago. With influential series on California, on the terraforming of M... more
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I learned a lot from this podcast. With the help of insightful questions from the hosts and guest critics, the authors who sat down for these interviews were candid about their writing processes and objectives and what draws them to the form of the novel. Careful listeners will also be rewarded with gossip about how the publishing industry works (or doesn’t). Strongly recommend!
As someone who listens to a lot of podcasts (too many, honestly), I've been on the lookout for one about books that isn't either simply interviews with authors about their own novels (which are great in their own way, but end up sometimes feeling like the authors are just running the press circuit), lightly historicist readings of canonical texts, or that end up boiling down to "here's what I've been reading lately and it was good/bad" in some form: listening to Aarthi Vadde, Kelly Rich, and Tej... more
Imagine getting to take part in a dynamic and intelligent but also relaxed conversation with an incredible novelist and incredible literary critic. That’s what the first episode was like for me - and I’m excited for later episodes. It’s perfect for students and scholars of the novel, but it would also be great for anyone who reads and likes to think about novels.









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