Contemporary Literature Podcasts

Join the World Book Club and listen to the globe’s great authors discuss their best known works of literature. The BBC's Harriett Gilbert has been hosting this monthly radio show since 2002 with over 200 podcast episodes on the feed...

A monthly reading and conversation.

Lose yourself in a great story with LeVar Burton Reads. In each episode, host LeVar Burton (Reading Rainbow, Star Trek, Roots) hand-picks a different piece of short fiction, and reads it to you.

Each week the editor of The Book Review, Pamela Paul, conducts interviews with two authors of popular new book releases, both fiction and nonfiction.

In this downloadable series from Stanford, professor Robert Harrison hosts discussions with other academics on variety of philosophical and literary topics. These hour-long conversations probe into the areas of expertise of many of Stanford's top professors and scholars.

Writers & Company offers an opportunity to explore in depth the lives, thoughts and works of remarkable writers from around the world. Hosted by Eleanor Wachtel.

Hosted by Doug Fabrizio, KUER's award-winning program features conversations with authors, politicians, artists and others.

The history of ideas discussed by Melvyn Bragg and guests including Philosophy, science, literature, religion and the influence these ideas have on us today.

LRB-published writers read their own work, introduced by the editors of the London Review of Books.

New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.