New Books in Literature

Interviews with Writers about their New Books

Arts
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "The Age of Phillis" (...
Jeffers draws on fifteen years of research in archives and locations across America, Europe and Africa to envision the world of Phillis Wheatley Peters...
51 min
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Maggie Kast, "Side by Side but Never Face to Fa...
During the first few stories, we think the book centers on Manfred, an Austrian Holocaust survivor whose parents converted out of Judaism to save him from centuries of oppression...
26 min
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Crissy Van Meter, "Creatures: A Novel" (Algonqu...
Going back and forth in time, Evangeline (Evie) recalls the challenges of being raised on a lush island off the coast of California...
25 min
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Donna Hemans, "Tea by the Sea" (Red Hen Press, ...
A new father walks out of the hospital with his day-old baby while the mother recuperates from giving birth...
26 min
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Sarah M. Sala, "Devil's Lake" (Tolsun Books, 2020)
Sala's poems move deftly within a world that is equal parts dangerous, celebratory, subdued, modern, and rural....
38 min
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Kristin O’Donnell Tubb, "The Story Collector" (...
Eleven-year-old Viviani Fedeler has spent her whole life in the New York Public Library...
40 min
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Barbara Monier, "The Rocky Orchard" (Amika Pres...
Sitting on the porch swing at her family’s vacation house, Mazie sees an old woman cutting through the orchard across the way and offers her a glass of water....
27 min
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Eric LeMay, "Remember Me: An Essay" (CutBank 2020)
Listen in, as I talk cancer, parenting, writing, and Shakespeare’s Hamlet with my former professor and mentor, author Eric LeMay...
59 min
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Janie Chang, "The Library of Legends" (William ...
Chang draws on family stories and ancient legends to weave a fact-based yet mystical tale about this period in China’s long history...
31 min
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Tochi Onyebuchi, "Riot Baby" (Tor.com, 2020)
Onyebuchi tells the story of two siblings—Ella, who is gifted with powers of precognition and telekinesis, and her younger brother Kevin, whose exuberant resistance to systemic racism earns him a one-way ticket to jail...
36 min
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Frederik H. Green, "Bird Talk and Other Stories...
Xu Xu (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s...
66 min
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Gabriel Bump, "Everywhere You Don’t Belong" (Al...
Bump has created an unforgettable debut novel that will sometimes make you laugh, and sometimes pull at your gut..
33 min
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Erica Bauermeister, "House Lessons: Renovating ...
This memoir is about the power of home, and the transformative act of restoring one house in particular...
58 min
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
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Alice C. Early, "The Moon Always Rising" (She W...
At the dawn of the new millennium, Els Gordon finds herself adrift...
32 min
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Megan E. O'Keefe, "Velocity Weapon" (Orbit, 2019)
O’Keefe’s characters search for truth in a universe where the secrets are centuries old and where A.I.s depend on humans as much as humans depend on A.I.s...
22 min
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Kathryn H. Ross, "Black Was Not a Label" (Pront...
Ross is a writer of humanness, one who finds more interest in what we feel than theme...
33 min
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S. M. Hardy, "The Evil Within" (Allison and Bus...
Jim, our narrator, experiences a crisis of conscience in the wake of the possible suicide of his girlfriend...
22 min
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Chip Jacobs, "Arroyo" (Rare Birds Books, 2019)
Two guys named Nick Chance, both with clairvoyant dogs named Royo, both inventors living in Pasadena, California – in 1913 and 1993...
32 min
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Caridad Svich, "The Hour of All Things and Othe...
Svich remains one of America’s most exciting playwrights, and this book collects some of her most invigorating work yet.
78 min
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Chris Fleming, "On Drugs" (Giramondo Publishing...
In a memoir by turns insightful and outlandish, Fleming combines meticulous observation with a keen sense of the absurdity of his actions...
73 min
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Marco Rafalà, "How Fires End" (Little A, 2019)
Rafala's novel centers on the haunting legacy of WWII on the people of a small Sicilian village...
25 min
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Lana Lesley, "Rude Mechs’ Lipstick Traces" (53r...
The graphic novel vibrantly recreates the experience of watching Rude Mechs perform...
55 min
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Laura Lam, "Goldilocks" (Orbit, 2020)
Laura Lam’s new book "Goldilocks" (Orbit, 2020) takes readers into space with an all-female crew bound for a distant Earth-like planet.
30 min
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Janice Hadlow, "The Other Bennet Sister" (Henry...
"The Other Bennet Sister" focuses on the life of the middle sister in "Pride and Prejudice."
38 min