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Hosted by Anna Nguyen · arts · EN · 70 episodes
Join Anna Nguyen for a podcast that asks us to reflect on our reading and analyzing practices. Interviewing writers, authors, and academics, we'll discuss: what does it mean when we cite a text or when we activate the text? Are we giving authors the agency or do we take for granted the concepts we use?Find me on Instagram and Twitter @anannadroid .
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Critical Literary Consumption is hosted by Anna Nguyen. The show has published 70 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "On Writing an Immersive, Propulsive Romance-Beach Read (with Soon Wiley)" (14 August 2026, 37 minutes), "Poetics, Prose, Place, and Persona (with Saeed Jones)" (29 May 2026, 40 minutes), and "Testimonies Are a Form of Data (with Dr. Jessica Hernandez)" (14 April 2026, 42 minutes).
Critical Literary Consumption publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 47 minutes across 70 episodes.
Booking probability for Critical Literary Consumption is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Critical Literary Consumption requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Critical Literary Consumption's contact route on record: public web form.
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Anna Nguyen hosts Critical Literary Consumption, an arts show with 70 episodes published.
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Four years after appearing on Critical Literary Consumption to discuss his debut, When We Fell Apart , Soon Wiley returns with CeCe Downing’s Start Over Summer , a complex beach read. Wiley considers, again, the...
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Saeed Jones traces his poetic roots through his sense of place and placemaking, identity, education, and his experiences writing in multiple genres. Considering how freeing the poetic form can be, Jones talks about the...
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In discussing her books, Fresh Banana Leaves and Growing Papaya Plants , Indigenous scientist Dr. Jessica Hernandez talks about turning her attention from a non-native but displaced relative (banana trees) to a native...
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A character who is dissatisfied in her own marriage will likely struggle to be a mother, says Thammika Songkaeo. Discussing her debut novel, Stamford Hospital, Thammika explores the complexity of womanhood, intimacy and...
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Kaila Yu's Fetishized: A Reckoning With Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty is written as memoir-in-essays that serves as media and cultural analysis. We discussed how she situated her personal experiences as part of her...
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Tanya Guerrero shares how her love of animals and her volunteer experiences with Trap/Neuter/Return (TNR) shaped her first adult novel, Cat’s People . We discussed the popular trend of cat-centered novels and the porous...
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Dr. Karen Throsby, author of Sugar Rush: Science, politics and the demonisation of fatness , discusses how the public and scientific framings of sugar and health are focused on the nutritional gaze of a single nutrient...
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Dr. Matthieu Chapman previews his forthcoming book, Shakespeare and Antiblack World-making , in which reflects on the fields of Pre-Modern Critical Race Studies and Early Modern Studies. He discusses why he portrays...
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Calling Slow Noodles her one story, Chantha Nguon recounts being hesitant to write about her life until her collaborator, Kim Green, suggested that she write a recipe book. When she began reviving these food-related...
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Following Chemistry and Joan Is Okay , Weike Wang again reflects on labor, home, place, and identity in Rental House , a novel that follows an interracial couples’ two vacations. She describes how Keru and Nate’s...
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Brandon Shimoda discusses his pursuit of similar questions during his writing and research for his two longer books, The Grave on the Wall and The Afterlife is Letting Go , which are about Japanese American history...
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Chen Chen talks about genre, creative writing pedagogy, race, and politics as he reflects on his two full-length poetry collections, When I Grow Up I Want To Be A List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions) and Your...
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To celebrate Halloween and the season of extremes, K-Ming Chang returns to discuss Organ Meats , which is the final story in her mythic triptych (or what she calls the “fecal trio”). She extends her thoughts on...
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Aditi Machado previews her upcoming poetry collection, Material Witness (Nightboat Books), and reflects on the concept and act of "witnessing". Witnessing then makes its poetic way into her questions of human/non-human...
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Morgan Talty shares his thoughts on this peculiar thing called genre and his experiences writing short stories ( Night of the Living Rez ) and a novel (his debut, Fire Exit ). We talk about his reasons for writing from...
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My diaCritics book review focused and critiqued this ever recurring topic of nostalgia in diasporic memoirs, and Lieu shares her own thoughts on critical nostalgia, its connection to the tragedy of the living, and her...
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To think about sex work differently, Dr. Juana María Rodríguez (University of California, Berkeley) argues that we too will need to think about sex differently. Specifically, her project argues against merely ending the...
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Erica N. Cardwell reflects on writing Wrong Is Not My Name: Notes on (Black) Art , a possible anti-memoir that features essays on the importance of art criticism, visuality, grief, and radical Black imagination. Because...
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Dr. Matthieu Chapman discusses his experiences with genre shift from academic writing to his beautiful hybrid memoir, Shattered: Fragments of a Black Life . He shares his thoughts on craft, genre, “the canon” in Early...
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At the beginning of the new year, I talked to Athena Dixon about the release of her latest book, The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays . She shares how the book came to be and how she interrogated the concept of...
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poet and cultural critic
postdoctoral research fellow at University of Washington Bothell; Climate Justice Policy Strategist at the International Mayan League; Environmental Justice Representative of the City of Seattle Commission of Urban Forestry, El Paso Animal Services
Author of Fetishized: A Reckoning With Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty, and Nuanced Writer of Historical and Contemporary Pop Culture, Misogyny, & Anti-Asian Racist Othering
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