Poured Over

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).

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Every guest on Poured Over

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

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   Michelle Zauner

   Michelle Zauner on CRYING IN H-MART · Dec 2021

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   Nikole Hannah-Jones

   Nikole Hannah-Jones and Xaviera Simmons on THE 1619 PROJECT: A VISUAL EXPERIENCE · 2 episodes

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   Patricia Lockwood

   Patricia Lockwood on WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU · Sep 2025

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   Reginald Dwayne Betts

   Reginald Dwayne Betts on DOGGEREL · Apr 2025

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   Samin Nosrat

   Samin Nosrat on GOOD THINGS · Nov 2025

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   Scott Anderson
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   Sheila Heti

   Sheila Heti on ALPHABETICAL DIARIES · Feb 2024

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   Sloane Crosley

   Sloane Crosley on GRIEF IS FOR PEOPLE · 2 episodes

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   Susan Casey

   Susan Casey on THE UNDERWORLD: JOURNEYS TO THE DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN · Aug 2023

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    Susan Orlean

    Susan Orlean on JOYRIDE · Nov 2025

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    Taffy Brodesser-Akner

    Taffy Brodesser-Akner on LONG ISLAND COMPROMISE · Jul 2024

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    Tara Westover

    Tara Westover on EDUCATED · Feb 2022

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    Vinson Cunningham

    Vinson Cunningham on GREAT EXPECTATIONS · Mar 2024

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    Wright Thompson

    Wright Thompson on THE BARN · Sep 2024

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    Abraham Verghese

    Abraham Verghese on THE COVENANT OF WATER · May 2023

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    Cory Doctorow

    Cory Doctorow on ENSHITTIFICATION · Oct 2025

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    Robin Wall Kimmerer

    Robin Wall Kimmerer on THE SERVICEBERRY · Nov 2024

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    Timothy Snyder

    Timothy Snyder on On Freedom · Sep 2024

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    Abdulrazak Gurnah

    Abdulrazak Gurnah on AFTERLIVES · Sep 2022

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    Ali Smith

    Ali Smith on GLIFF · Feb 2025

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    Amy Tan

    Amy Tan on THE BACKYARD BIRD CHRONICLES · Apr 2024

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    Annie Leibovitz

    Annie Leibovitz on WOMEN · Dec 2025

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    Arundhati Roy

    Arundhati Roy on MOTHER MARY COMES TO ME · Sep 2025

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    Ashley Flowers

    Ashley Flowers & Alex Kiester on ALL GOOD PEOPLE HERE · Jan 2024

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    Bernardine Evaristo

    Bernardine Evaristo on MANIFESTO: ON NEVER GIVING UP · Jan 2022

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    Colm Toibin

    Colm Tóibín on LONG ISLAND · 2 episodes

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    David Mitchell

    Poured Over: David Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon From Page to Screen · Dec 2021

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    Dolly Alderton

    Dolly Alderton on GOOD MATERIAL · Feb 2024

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    Elif Shafak

    Elif Shafak on THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY · Aug 2024

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    Helen Macdonald

    Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché on PROPHET · 2 episodes

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    Ian McEwan

    Ian McEwan on LESSONS · Sep 2022

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    Ina Garten

    Ina Garten on BE READY WHEN THE LUCK HAPPENS · Oct 2024

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    Isabel Allende

    Isabel Allende on VIOLETA · Jan 2022

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    Jeanette Winterson

    Jeanette Winterson on ONE ALADDIN TWO LAMPS · Jan 2026

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    Jodi Picoult

    Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan on MAD HONEY · Oct 2022

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    Julian Barnes

    Julian Barnes on ELIZABETH FINCH · Aug 2022

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    Kristin Hannah

    Kristin Hannah on FOUR WINDS · Aug 2021

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    Maggie O'Farrell

    Maggie O'Farrell on LAND · 3 episodes

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    Marlon James

    Marlon James on THE DISAPPEARERS · 2 episodes

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    Mary Beard

    Mary Beard on TWELVE CAESARS · Dec 2021

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