SlantCast

About SlantCast

Online book launches, readings, conversations about a wide range of literary topics -- welcome to SlantCast, the official podcast of Slant Books. Slant is an independent, not-for-profit literary press specializing in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, philosophy, theology, and belles lettres. Slant books are marked by the kind of meticulous craft and passion for language that are harder and harder to come by in our age of instant publishing and literary gimmickry. These are books that will lodge themselves in readers’ lives.

Publisher

The Official Podcast of Slant Books

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Aug 2022

Latest episode

16 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

52 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Oct 2026

   #52: Book Launch for "Carnaval"

   SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by poet Susan L. Miller for the book launch of “Carnaval,” published by Slant Books.

2. 

   24 Sept 2026

   #51: Book Launch for "Miller Cane"

   SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by novelist Samuel Ligon for the book launch of “Miller Cane,” published by Slant Books.

3. 

   11 Sept 2026

   #50: Is There a Reading Crisis?

   SlantCast host Gregory Wolfe is joined by distinguished literary critic Sven Birkerts, author of The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age to discuss the debate over whether there is a contemporary crisis of reading.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.3 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 18 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

16

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51