Contemporary Literature Podcasts

A monthly reading and conversation.

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, interviewing winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Booker Prize, the Pulitzer Prize...

Listen to short fiction read by the amazing actor and voice talent Levar Burton. You might recognize Levar Burton from his television work on Reading Rainbow, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the miniseries Roots.

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.

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.

New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.

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

Join the thousands of people who want to be smarter, faster and just plain better readers. On Rev It Up Reading Revolution you'll learn tips and secrets for becoming a more confident reader and how to make reading more enjoyable.

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