How Literature Can Save the World

Discussions and interviews with authors, scholars, and readers about the power of words, how to use that power to unite people, and what keeps readers interested and entertained enough to gain emotional perspective.

How Literature Can Save the World is a arts podcast hosted by Michelle R. Brady, with 17 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Michelle R. Brady hosts How Literature Can Save the World, a arts show with 17 episodes published.

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  Episode #17

  15 - Seeing the Unseen with Stacey Levine

  Aug 6, 202656 min

  Stacey Levine is the author of the novel Mice 1961, a finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize that the Washington Post called “a rich and surprising country of curious hilarity, skewed lighting, awkward pratfalls, and ludicrous conversations.” Also the author of The Girl with Brown Fur: Tales & Stories, Frances Johnson, and My Horse and Other Stories, Levine received a PEN USA fiction award, a Stranger Genius Literature Award, and other honors for her work. Her reviews and fiction have appeared in Tin House, Fence, Yeti, The Iowa Review, Bookforum, and The Seattle Times. A collection of her recent and past short fiction is forthcoming.

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  Episode #16

  14 - Freedom to Imagine with Daniel Seifert

  Apr 2, 202650 minS0

  <p>Daniel Seifert's writing is published in The New York Times, Consequence, and Gulf Coast. His work received a Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize 2026 anthology, and has twice been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. He lives in Singapore, and is working on a novel. </p>

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  Episode #15

  13 - Faithful to the Text with Ibrahim Fawzy

  Mar 12, 202648 minS0

  <p>Ibrahim Fawzy,  is a literary translator, academic and writer from Egypt. He holds an MA in Comparative Literature. His translations, reviews and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in ArabLit Quarterly, Words Without Borders, The Markaz Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Poetry Ireland Review, among others. He is currently an editorial assistant at Rowayat, and podcasts at New Books Network. In 2023, he finished a six-month mentorship with the British National Centre for Writing. He was a recipient of Culture Resource’s 2023 Wijhat grant. His translation of Khalid Al-Nasrallah’s The White Line of Night won the 2023 English...

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  Episode #14

  12 - Social Contracts and Cooking with Mara Karlin

  Feb 26, 202638 minS0

  <p>Mara Karlin, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, Brookings Institute Fellow and Director for Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, and author of The Inheritance. </p>

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  11 - Layers and Layers and Layers with Matt K. Parker

  Feb 12, 202646 minS0

  Matt K. Parker has been many things in his life: a musician, a programmer, an activist, a writer, a consultant, a business owner, a husband, a father. And he's lived in many places, including Texas, New York, California, and Connecticut. But amidst all the life and career changes, and all the moving from one coast to the other and back, the one constant in his life has been reading.    Whether hiding with a book in his closet as a kid, or burying his nose in a book on a subway train, or waking up before dawn to get a quiet hou...

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