New Books in Literature

Interviews with Writers about their New Books

Arts
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Ilze Hugo, "The Down Days" (Skybound Books, 2020)
Few science fiction writers have their vision of the future tested upon publication...
31 min
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Sohrab Ahmari, "From Fire, by Water: My Journey...
Youthful arrogance. Hipster alienation. A lot of reading. A lot of drinking. Struggles to adjust to a land radically different from the one that one has left in youth....
60 min
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Connie Kronlokhen, "So Are You to My Thoughts" ...
This book is the seventh novel in a series about the Mikkelson siblings and loosely based loosely on the author’s family...
26 min
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Sarah Knott, "Mother is a Verb: An Unconvention...
Mothering is as old as human existence. But how has this most essential experience changed over time and cultures?
37 min
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Will Thomas, "Lethal Pursuit" (Minotaur, 2019)
London, 1892. Private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn have been tasked by the Prime Minister to deliver a satchel to the Vatican...
27 min
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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