{"podcast":{"title":"Inklings Book Club","slug":"inklings-book-club-7466333","podcast_index_feed_id":7466333,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/inklings","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d43a05ee-82d8-11f0-b290-8b14ec327370/image/98345a127b5b5bff01e70664b20b83c5.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Jack Edwards","episode_count":53,"summary":"The internet's resident librarian, Jack Edwards, presents... Inklings! The Inklings Book Club is a community for book lovers, championing storytellers from around the world. Subscribe for weekly author interviews and our spotlight monthly book club chat, where we'll be grilling authors on their writing process, inspiration, and future projects. To be involved with the group-read, search Inklings on the Fable app or join us on Instagram.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T08:20:51.579352+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inklings-book-club-7466333"},"episode":{"title":"Seán Hewitt: Open Heaven","slug":"se-n-hewitt-open-heaven","published_at":"2026-04-29T14:58:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inklings-book-club-7466333/se-n-hewitt-open-heaven","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inklings-book-club-7466333","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/IBC3453154432.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/IBC3453154432.mp3","summary":"Today we’re joined by poet, lecturer, and literary critic Seán Hewitt. Seán is the author of three original poetry collections, a memoir, and several curations of other poets’ work, from wood engravings to tales of love from the ancient world. His debut novel, Open, Heaven, was published last year and I utterly adored it. A man returns to the small village in which he first fell in love, which summons up memories of the charismatic and impulsive Luke. There’s gorgeous nature writing, and plenty of yearning, but also that perfect literary alchemy that happens when a poet writes a novel. I interviewed Seán at Waterstones with a bunch of you wonderful people – so, here’s what happened. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Today we’re joined by poet, lecturer, and literary critic Seán Hewitt. Seán is the author of three original poetry collections, a memoir, and several cura…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3655,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/inklings-book-club-7466333/episodes/se-n-hewitt-open-heaven/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inklings-book-club-7466333/se-n-hewitt-open-heaven.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}