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Every guest on Between the Covers

300 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay : An Untamed State · Jun 2014

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Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson : Seveneves · May 2015

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Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein : Doppelganger : Part Two · 2 episodes

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Sam Lipsyte
Sam Lipsyte : The Fun Parts · Mar 2013

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Neil Gaiman
Crafting with Ursula: Neil Gaiman on Word Magic & The Power of Telling Stories · Dec 2022

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Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng : Little Fires Everywhere · Oct 2017

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Miranda July
Miranda July : The First Bad Man · Jan 2015

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Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles : Afterglow · Oct 2017

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George Saunders
George Saunders : Tenth of December · Feb 2013

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Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine : Triage · 2 episodes

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Hanif Abdurraqib
Hanif Abdurraqib : A Fortune For Your Disaster · May 2020

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Leslie Jamison
Leslie Jamison : The Empathy Exams · Dec 2014

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Mitchell S. Jackson
Mitchell S. Jackson : Survival Math · Mar 2019

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Molly Crabapple
Molly Crabapple : Here Where We Live Is Our Country : The Story of the Jewish Bund · 2 episodes

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Sheila Heti
Sheila Heti : Pure Colour · 3 episodes

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Vauhini Vara
Vauhini Vara : The Immortal King Rao · Jul 2022

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David Mitchell
David Mitchell : The Bone Clocks · Oct 2014

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Marlon James
Marlon James : Black Leopard, Red Wolf · Mar 2019

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Robert Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane : Is a River Alive? · Jun 2025

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William Gibson
William Gibson : The Peripheral · Nov 2014

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Zadie Smith
From the Archives : Zadie Smith : Grand Union · 2 episodes

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Ada Limón
Ada Limón : The Hurting Kind · May 2022

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Ben Marcus
Ben Marcus : The Flame Alphabet · Mar 2012

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Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead : Zone One · Dec 2011

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Morgan Parker
From the Archives : Morgan Parker : Magical Negro · 3 episodes

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Percival Everett
Percival Everett : The Trees · Oct 2021

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Richard Powers
From the Archives : Richard Powers : The Overstory · 3 episodes

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Brandon Taylor
Tin House Live : Queer Beatitudes with Brandon Taylor & Garth Greenwell · Sep 2020

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Carmen Maria Machado
Carmen Maria Machado : In the Dream House · 2 episodes

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Dani Shapiro
Dani Shapiro : Hourglass · Jun 2017

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Kaveh Akbar
Kaveh Akbar : Pilgrim Bell · Aug 2021

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Lidia Yuknavitch
Crafting with Ursula : Lidia Yuknavitch on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction · 4 episodes

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Raymond Antrobus
Raymond Antrobus : All The Names Given & The Perseverance · Dec 2021

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Ross Gay
Ross Gay : Be Holding · Feb 2021

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Billy-Ray Belcourt
Billy-Ray Belcourt : A Minor Chorus · Oct 2022

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China Miéville
China Miéville : The Rouse · 2 episodes

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Jeff VanderMeer
Jeff Vandermeer : Borne · May 2017

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Junot Diaz
Junot Diaz : This Is How You Lose Her · Sep 2012

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Kenzie Allen
Kenzie Allen : Cloud Missives · Oct 2024

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Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis : Our Strangers · Oct 2023

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