SlantCast: Recent Episodes
Gregory Wolfe
Online book launches, readings, conversations about a wide range of literary topics -- welcome to SlantCast, the official podcast of Slant Books. Slant is an independent, not-for-profit literary press specializing in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, philosophy, theology, and belles lettres. Slant books are marked by the kind of meticulous craft and passion for language that are harder and harder to come by in our age of instant publishing and literary gimmickry. These are books that will lodge themselves in readers’ lives.
SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by Derek Updegraff for the book launch of his novel "Whole," recently published by Slant Books. After his reading, Updegraff responds to questions from the attendees.
SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by Bret Lott for the book launch of his new book, "Gather the Olives: On Food and Hope and the Holy Land," recently published by Slant Books. After his reading, Lott responds to questions from the attendees.
SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by poet Leslie Williams for the book launch of her new collection, Matters for You Alone, recently published by Slant Books. After her reading, Williams responds to questions from the attendees.
SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by poet Professor Timothy P. O'Malley of the University of Notre Dame to discuss Luigi Giussani's "Living the Liturgy: A Witness," recently published by Slant Books.
SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by poet Matthew Porto to launch the publication of "Moon Grammar," his debut poetry collection, just out from Slant Books.
John Salter reads from his new short story collection, published by Slant Books: "There Will Never Be Another Night Like This" and fields questions from the audience and from SlantCast host, Gregory Wolfe.
SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by Kamil Suskiewicz, a Polish writer and thinker, to mark the publication of "Kinderszenen," a searing memoir by the late Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, a book about growing up during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw (and much else).
Jeanne Murray Walker reads from her new memoir, published by Slant Books: "Leaping from the Burning Train: A Poet's Journey of Faith" -- which tells the story of her journey from a childhood immersed in fundamentalism to a broader and more capacious faith, guided by her love for poetry -- and fields questions from SlantCast host, Gregory Wolfe.
SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe, publisher & editor of Slant Books, is joined by novelist Jonathan Geltner to discuss the fiction of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature winner, Jon Fosse.
To celebrate the posthumous publication of Robert Pack's final poetry collection, SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by poets Paul Mariani, Richard Jackson, Jane Scharl, with special guest appearances by Gary Margolis and Julia Alvarez!
Renowned Russian poet, Olga Sedakova, is joined by her translator, Martha M.F. Kelly, and former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, to celebrate the Slant Books publication of Sedakova's Old Songs.
Amit Majmudar reads from his new memoir, "Twin A," recently published by Slant Books. He then answers questions from the audience.
Richard Michelson reads from his new poetry collection, "Sleeping as Fast as I Can," just published by Slant Books. He then answers questions from the audience.
On the occasion of the publication of the 40th anniversary edition of Richard Rodriguez's classic memoir, Hunger of Memory, a conversation between Gregory Wolfe, Publisher & Editor of Slant Books, Dave Griffiths, author of A Good War is Hard to Find, and Richard Rodriguez.
Slant Books publisher & editor Gregory Wolfe welcomes novelist Jonathan Geltner to the podcast to talk about "The Passenger" and "Stella Maris," two recent novels by Cormac McCarthy.
SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by author Daniel Taylor for the online book launch of "The Mystery of Iniquity," the four and final volume in the Jon Motes mystery series.
SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by author Morgan Meis for the online book launch of "The Fate of the Animals: On Horses, the Apocalypse, and Painting as Prophecy."
SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by author Nance Van Winckel for the online book launch of her memoir, "Sister Zero" and special guest Kate Lebo, author of "The Book of Difficult Fruit."
Poet Robert Cording joins SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe to reading from -- and discuss -- his new hybrid memoir/poetry collection, In the Unwalled City, recently published by Slant Books.
Jonathan Geltner joins SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe to read from, discuss, and answer questions about his debut novel, "Absolute Music," just out from Slant Books.
Renowned poet and biographer Paul Mariani joins SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe and special guests National Book Award-winner Martin Espada and Angelo Alaimo O'Donnell. to launch "All That Will Be New."
SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to discuss the publication of "Shakeshafte & Other Plays" from Slant Books.