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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Point Podcast is hosted by The Point Magazine. The show has published 41 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Selected Novels | Catherine Lacey on Evan S. Connell" (4 September 2025, 41 minutes), "Selected Essays | Ellen Wayland-Smith on Siddhartha Mukherjee" (7 August 2025, 36 minutes), and "Selected Novels | Bruce Holsinger on Stoner" (3 July 2025, 43 minutes).
The Point Podcast publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 46 minutes across 41 episodes.
Booking probability for The Point Podcast is 22%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Point Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Point Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
The Point Magazine hosts The Point Podcast, a society podcast with 41 episodes published.
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Episode #7
<p>On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to Catherine Lacey about Evan S. Connell’s Mrs. Bridge.<br/><br/>Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal rate.</p>
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<p>On this episode of the podcast, Jess and Zach return to Selected Essays to talk to Ellen Wayland-Smith about Siddhartha Mukherjee’s “My Father’s Body, at Rest and in Motion,” published in the New Yorker in...
Episode #6
<p>On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to the novelist and English professor Bruce Holsinger about John Williams’s Stoner.<br/><br/>Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal...
Episode #5
<p>On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to the novelist and cultural critic Joanne McNeil about J.G. Ballard’s Concrete Island.<br/><br/>Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal...
Episode #4
<p>On the fourth episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to the novelist and short story writer (and Point contributor) Jessi Jezewska Stevens about Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.<br/><br/>Want more from The...
Episode #3
<p>On the third episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to the novelist Adam Ehrlich Sachs about Flaubert’s final, unfinished novel, Bouvard and Pécuchet.<br/><br/>Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50%...
Episode #2
<p>On the second episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to Clare Sestanovich, writer and managing editor of the Drift, about Marilynne Robinson’s first novel, Housekeeping. <br/><br/>Want more from The Point...
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<p>On this episode of The Point podcast, Zach Fine takes a break from Selected Essays and Selected Novels to discuss another important, if less literary, topic: American football. Zach is joined by Leif Weatherby, the...
Episode #1
<p>On this episode—our very first!—of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to novelist (and writer of our 2024 advice column, Higher Gossip) Lillian Fishman about Edith Wharton’s novel Age of Innocence. <br/><br/>Want...
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<p>On this bonus episode of Selected Essays, Jess and Zach talk to Dayna Tortorici and Mark Krotov about their new anthology of the best of n+1’s second decade, The Intellectual Situation.<br/><br/>Craving more essays...
Episode #11
<p>On this episode of Selected Essays, Jess and Zach talk to George Scialabba about Michael Walzer’s "In Defense of Equality," first published in Dissent in 1973.<br/><br/>Craving more essays? Subscribe to The Point...
Episode #10
<p>On this episode of Selected Essays, Jess and Zach talk to writer and literary critic Emily Ogden about Elizabeth Hardwick’s "Living in Italy: Reflections on Bernard Berenson," first published in Partisan Review in...
Episode #9
<p>On this episode of Selected Essays, Jess and Zach talk to Julian Lucas about his essay “Welcome to Armageddon,” published in Cabinet in 2017, and Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Enigma of Edward FitzGerald,” which was...
Episode #8
<p>On this episode of “Selected Essays,” Jess and Zach talk with Greg Jackson about<br/> his essay “Within the Pretense of No Pretense,” published in issue 31 of The Point, and Hannah Arendt’s “Truth and Politics,”...
Episode #7
<p>On this episode of “Selected Essays,” Jess and Zach talk with Michael Clune about<br/>his essay “The Anatomy of Panic,” published in Harper's last May and recently selected for Best American Essays, and Thomas...
Episode #6
<p>On this episode of “Selected Essays,” Jess and Zach talk with Jennifer Wilson about<br/>her New York Times Book Review essay, “The Love Letters That Spoke of Everything but Love,” and Viktor Shklovsky’s “Art as...
Episode #5
<p>On this bonus episode of Selected Essays, Jess and Zach talk to Point editors, Jon Baskin and Rachel Wiseman about two of their favorite essays—Charles Comey's “Against Honeymoons,” and Moeko Fujii’s “Let Them...
Episode #4
<p>On this episode of “Selected Essays,” Jess and Zach talk with Apoorva Tadepalli about Maeve Brennan’s “Lost Overtures” and her Electric Lit essay “It’s Okay to Talk to Me When I’m Trying to Read.”</p>
Episode #3
<p>On this episode of “Selected Essays,” Jess and Zach talk with Sumana Roy about Joseph Brodsky’s “Less Than One” and her Caravan essay “We Are All Mamata Now.” <br/><br/>Craving more essays? Subscribe to The Point...
Episode #2
<p>On the new episode of Selected Essays, Jess and Zach speak with Clare Bucknell about Charles Lamb’s “The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers”—surprisingly the first essay a guest has chosen that was written before 1900. In...
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bestselling novelist and professor, University of Virginia
author of Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism, New York University
Chair of Integrated Studies and Deputy Director of National Security Studies, White House Office of Gun Prevention
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