# Lisa Dillman

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Ieva Jusionyte on American Guns in Mexico: Exit Wounds (EF, JP)

John and Elizabeth had the chance to talk with Ieva Jusionyte, anthropologist, journalist, emergency medical technician. Her award-winning books include Exit Wounds, which uses anthropological and journalistic methods to follow guns purchased in the United States through organized crime scenes in M…

147 Ieva Jusionyte on American Guns in Mexico: Exit Wounds (EF, JP)

John and Elizabeth had the chance to talk with Ieva Jusionyte, anthropologist, journalist, emergency medical technician. Her award-winning books include Exit Wounds, which uses anthropological and journalistic methods to follow guns purchased in the United States through organized crime scenes in M…

Is the Hockey Hall of Fame just the Hall of very good? Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings shockingly good and NHL's Winter olympic involvement in jeopardy after Ottawa Senators COVID-19 outbreak.

On the Wednesday round table, Rob Pizzo from CBC Sports, along with Sara Civian and Jesse Granger from the Athletic look back on the 2020/21 class for the Hockey Hall of Fame, and if the standard that has to be met to be a hall of fame'er has been watered down. Lisa Dillman from the Athletic Los An…

Andrew McMillan and Kathryn Williams

ON WRITING by Stephen King, chosen by Kathryn Williams THE BITCH by Pilar Quintana (translated by Lisa Dillman), chosen by Harriett Gilbert ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute, chosen by Andrew McMillan The singer-songwriter Kathryn Williams loves books about the craft of writing and her choice of a good …

Lisa Dillman: Translating Worlds Between Spanish and English

In this episode, award-winning literary translator Lisa Dillman — who has translated more than thirty novels from Spanish and Catalan into English — opens a window into the art and craft of translation. She explains what draws her to a book, from voice and cultural depth to linguistic challenge, an…

Talking with Yuri Herrera About Season of the Swamp, Palestine, ICE, and Fighting for a Better World

Today I am deeply honored to speak with novelist, essayist, and scholar Yuri Herrera about his new novel, Season of the Swamp, which is a deeply researched and dazzlingly imagined account of Benito Juarez’s time spent in exile in New Orleans.  We talk about what that time and place offered to Juare…

Exile, Empire & Resistance: YURI HERRERA on Benito Juarez & Today's Political Crises

What happens when Mexico's future president lands in New Orleans, a city of operas, slave markets, and radical musical invention? A man who spoke a variant of Zapotec and read the French philosophers of the Enlightenment finds himself adrift in the hallucinatory swamps of New Orleans. In this episo…

Yuri Herrera | 2025-2026 Readings and Talks

On Tuesday, February 10, 2026, the Lannan Center hosted a conversation between Mexican novelist Yuri Herrera and Carmen Lamas (Latinx Literary Culture Professor at the University of Virginia). Yuri Herrera is a writer born in Actopan, Hidalgo, México, and he writes in both Spanish and English. His …

Andrew McMillan and Kathryn Williams

ON WRITING by Stephen King, chosen by Kathryn Williams THE BITCH by Pilar Quintana (translated by Lisa Dillman), chosen by Harriett Gilbert ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute, chosen by Andrew McMillan The singer-songwriter Kathryn Williams loves books about the craft of writing and her choice of a good …