Podcast

This month on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, we are thrilled to share a conversation with three Deerfield filmmakers about their recent award-winning short films: Marina Shifrin, writer of Pickled Herring, and Bryan Simpson and Taylor Simpson, creators of Creating Things.  This conversation was recorded as part of a special live podcast and film screening… Read More

On this episode of the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, we are honored to welcome author Amina Gautier to discuss her recently published collection of short stories, The Best That You Can Do (Soft Skull Press, 2024).  Amina Gautier is one of the most prolific and acclaimed short story writers working today, and she lives in… Read More

This month on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, it is my great pleasure to present a conversation with Dr. Jennifer MacLure, Assistant Professor of English at Kent State University, on the occasion of the publication of her book, The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction (Ohio State University Press, 2023). (Our conversation is… Read More

We are so excited to launch the third year of our special Pride Month podcast and program series Queer Poem-a-Day. For our first two years, we presented a unique public archive of poems written and read by LGBTQIA+ poets, released each day in June. We invite you to check out our archives from year one… Read More

This month on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, it is my great honor to present a conversation I had with the poet Robert Pinsky on the occasion of the publication of his new memoir, Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet (W. W. Norton & Company, 2022). Robert Pinsky is a celebrated poet, essayist, translator, teacher,… Read More

This month on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, we are sharing the recording of the special in-person interview we held earlier this month with New York Times bestselling author—and Deerfield resident—Lisa Barr. Our conversation was recorded live in front of an enthusiastic audience of fans, family, friends, book clubs, book bloggers, and neighbors. Lisa Barr’s… Read More

This month on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, I am very pleased to share a conversation with acclaimed critic Merve Emre on the beloved Italian writer Italo Calvino, known for his genre-defying stories and novels like Invisible Cities and If on a winter’s night a traveler. Merve Emre is a contributing writer at The New… Read More

This month on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, we have the honor of presenting a fascinating conversation with world-famous pianist Seymour Bernstein. You may know Seymour as the subject of the widely acclaimed 2015 documentary Seymour, an Introduction, directed by Ethan Hawke. The film tells Seymour’s inspiring story of abandoning his solo concert career at… Read More

This month on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, we are honored to share a conversation with Deborah Nelson, author of Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil (University of Chicago Press, 2017). Deborah Nelson is the Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor of English and chair of the Department of English at the… Read More

This month on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, we are thrilled to present a dynamic conversation with Chicago-based poet and writer Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, author most recently of the poetry collection Madness (Nightboat Books, 2022). Gabriel was one of our Queer Poem-a-Day poets earlier this year, also featured on our podcast feed, and we are so… Read More