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Poured Over is a show for readers who pore over details, obsess over sentences and ideas and stories and characters; readers who ask a lot of questions, just like Poured Over’s host, Miwa Messer, a career bookseller who’s always reading. Follow us here for surprising riffs, candid conversations, a few laughs, and lots of great book recommendations from big name authors and authors on their way to being big names. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional bonus episodes on Saturdays).

Aug 31, 2023

“I've been asked, why do you blend genres so much? And the simple answer is that it's what I want to read.”

Horror meets romance meets historical fiction in Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas. This genre-bending novel will have something for any reader — whether they’re looking for spooky, spicy or something...


Aug 29, 2023

Angie Kim’s Happiness Falls is a family drama with an unconventional cast of characters centered around a missing persons case. Kim joins us to talk about disability awareness in fiction, how she started writing, getting into her narrator’s head and more.

Where There Was Fire by John Manuel Arias is a rich...


Aug 26, 2023

“I wrote this very simply to stay alive.” 

Alice Carrière’s beautiful and intense memoir of her unconventional childhood, her mental health journey through the failings of the psychiatric system and more that eventually led her to a life of reconciliation and reconstruction. Carrière joins us to talk about...


Aug 24, 2023

“Having that store of memories that history can be, if done well, is a really tremendous form of solace.”

Jill Lepore, historian and author of These Truths, returns with The Deadline, a collection of essays ranging from the personal to the political. Lepore joins us to talk about how she came to compile this...


Aug 22, 2023

“My book is really an attempt to change that conversation and begin to dismantle some of these pressures so that we don't have to be upheld to these standards.”

Prachi Gupta’s memoir, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Uscombines meticulous research with the challenging and emotional story...