Season 5 · New episodes every Thursday
The interview is the second book.
A long-form literary podcast hosted by Maren Okafor: novelists, poets, translators and editors on the sentences that survived, the ones that were cut, and the work nobody sees. Hosted by Maren Okafor — every episode opens with the host, meets the author, then goes deep into the book.
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Four interviewers, one rule: read the whole book before the red light goes on.
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“I open every episode the same way: my name, the show, then the author — and then we don't stop until we reach the sentence that cost them the most.”
Maren Okafor · Host & executive producer
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One episode, one paragraph, one deleted page.
Each week we send the transcript excerpt that did not fit the episode, plus what our guest cut from their own book. 96,000 readers. No sponsors in the body.