- 73
- Episodes
- 3
- Transcribed
- 32
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About Novel Dialogue
Novel Dialogue: where unlikely conversation partners come together to discuss the making of novels and what to make of them. What makes us special? Critics and novelists in conversation. Breaking down the boundaries between critical, creative, and just plain quirky, Novel Dialogue’s approach is wide-ranging and unconventional. Ever wondered what Jennifer Egan thinks of TikTok, how Ruth Ozeki honed her craft working on the movie Mutant Hunt, or if Colm Tóibín will ever write a novel about an openly gay novelist? Join us for lively conversations hosted by scholars who admire and write about the novelists that help shape our literary culture. Learn more about Novel Dialogue here.
- Publisher
- Aarthi Vadde and John Plotz
- Category
- arts · fiction
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 3 Mar 2021
- Latest episode
- 22 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
3 of 73 episodes have a transcript.
22 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
11.2 Taking Apart a Metaphor: Dan Sinykin and Sarah Brouillette on the Literary Ecosystem
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
11.1 Indie Presses and the Literary Ecosystem: Meg Reid and Will Evans
21 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
10.5 The Novel as Instrument: Sinan Antoon and Michael Allan (MAT)
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11.2 Taking Apart a Metaphor: Dan Sinykin and Sarah Brouillette on the Literary Ecosystem
Published 22 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But then there's this kind of shocking, astonishing to me, just sheer fact of quantity. So if you if you go back to the 1990s, about 30 years ago, there were probably around 10,000 works of fiction published in the U.S. annually in a given year with an ISBN. And last year in 2025, there were probably around half a million people works published with ISBNs in the U.S., works of fiction published with ISBNs. Now, that's going to be a dramatic undercount of the amount of fiction published because you don't have to have an ISBN to self-publish with Amazon, Kindle Direct Publishing, KDP, and you don't on Wattpad or Archive of Our Own either. […]
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- Dan Sinykin
- Sarah Brouillette
- Meg Reid
- Will Evans
- Sinan Antoon
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 22 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.4 / 5
- 10 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 42 / 100
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- Quality
- 49
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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