New Books in Literature

Interviews with Writers about their New Books

Arts
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Jennifer Valenti, "The Maverick" (Broken Arrow ...
Valenti plugs into the current zeitgeist of young women who struggle to defy the casual sexism of men in power...
25 min
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David Adjmi, "Lot Six" (Harper, 2020)
Adjmi’s memoir also traces his evolving relationship with his family and his community, from whom he desires to escape even as he finds himself drawn continually back to them...
57 min
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Tom Rastrelli, "Confessions of a Gay Priest: A ...
Restrelli divulges the clandes­tine inner workings of the seminary, providing an intimate and unapologetic look into the psychosexual and spiritual dynamics of celibacy...
58 min
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Harvey Araton, "Our Last Season: A Writer, a Fa...
Araton's book reads like a mix between Tuesdays with Morrie and a sequel to his book When the Garden was Eden (which chronicled the New York Knicks’ early-70s title teams). It’s a book about friendship, aging and of course, basketball....
47 min
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Alix E. Harrow, "The Once and Future Witches" (...
"The Once and Future Witches" begins with the familiar phrase “Once upon a time” but the novel is anything but a traditional fairytale...
34 min
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Farzana Doctor, "Seven" (Dundurn Press, 2020)
Sharifa and her husband Murtuza are spending his sabbatical year in Mumbai with their seven-year-old daughter, Zeenat...
30 min
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Finishing Your Book When Life Is A Disaster
In this episode you’ll hear disaster stories, finishing a book project, poetry, and what resilience is and isn’t...
44 min
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Sunday Taylor, "The Anglophile's Notebook" (Spu...
Californian Claire Easton, who writes a magazine column called “The Anglophile’s Notebook,” travels to England to do research for a book about Charlotte Brontë....
28 min
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Terry Baum, "One Dyke’s Theater: Selected Plays...
The plays range from outlandish comedies like Bride of Lesbostein to the historical drama Hick: A Love Story...
50 min
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Megan Harlan, "Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays"...
Harlan recounts her experiences living in some of the world’s most historically rich, remote places, and how these many homes afforded her an appreciation...
25 min
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S. J. Hartland, "The 19th Bladesman" (Dark Blad...
A rich and complex world of sword-wielding fighters and seductive sorceresses, written in percussive, lyrical prose...
34 min
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Zaina Arafat, "You Exist Too Much" (Catapult, 2...
Arafat offers a captivating story charting two of our most intense longings--for love, and a place to call home....
41 min
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Sarah Wisseman, "The Botticelli Caper" (Wings e...
The Botticelli Caper (Wings ePress, 2019) is set at the Uffizi Galleries during a period, not long ago, when workmen were constantly coming in and out during massive amounts of reconstruction...
22 min
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Rebekah Taussig, "Sitting Pretty: The View from...
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most...
60 min
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Lawrence Osborne, "The Glass Kingdom" (Hogarth,...
Sarah Mullins, an American woman, arrives at the Kingdom: a fading luxury apartment complex in Bangkok...
36 min
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Michelle Cameron, "Beyond the Ghetto Gates" (Sh...
Cameron explores one little-known episode of that past: the effect of Napoleon’s invasion of 1796–97 on the Italian port city of Ancona....
36 min
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Rachel Genn, "What You Could Have Won" (And Oth...
What You Could Have Won (And Other Stories, 2020) is a novel about resilience and self-discovery in the face of control....
28 min
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P. Djèlí Clark, "Ring Shout" (Tordotcom, 2020)
Ring Shout (Tordotcom, 2020) is a fantasy built around an ugly moment in American history—the emergence of the second Ku Klux Klan in the early 20th century....
29 min
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Deni Ellis Bechard, "A Song from Faraway" (Milk...
A young man visits his half-brother in Vancouver and steals a book that changes his life...
34 min
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Lisa B. Thompson, "Underground, Monroe, and the...
Lisa B. Thompson is equally renowned as a scholar of African and African-American studies and as a playwright...
57 min
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Anne Louise Bannon, "Death of the Chinese Field...
Solving murders is just a past-time, but luckily, she has a keen eye for details and knows what it means when a boot print with a gaping hole is discovered near the bodies of several Chinese workers....
28 min
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Maria Hinojosa, "Once I Was You: A Memoir of Lo...
Maria shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the South Side of Chicago...
62 min
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Heather Lende, "Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaska...
Heather Lende was one of the thousands of women inspired to take a more active role in politics during the past few years...
62 min
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Shakira Croce, "Leave It Raw" (Finishing Line P...
Like a storm waiting to break over a plain, Shakira Croce pulls at tensions and heartstrings in a debut collection filled with longing, wit, and intelligence...
30 min
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Morris Ardoin, "Stone Motel: Memoirs of a Cajun...
The preteen would learn as he matured that his father had reserved his most ferocious attacks for him because of an inability to accept a gay or, to his mind, broken, son. It became his dad’s mission to “fix” his son...
53 min