New Books in Literature

Interviews with Writers about their New Books

Arts
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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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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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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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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
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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
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Martin Shaw, "Courting the Wild Twin" (Chelsea ...
Shaw invites us to consider the power of myth to guide us not only toward new ways of seeing our current moment—one in which we’re witnessing an unprecedented global pandemic—but also new ways of seeing itself...
49 min
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
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Kevin Miller, "Fight Fight" (Braveship Books, 2...
Miller explores the next big fight in the South China Sea when errors and miscalculations on the grandest scale drive the world’s greatest maritime powers into conflict...
50 min
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Archana Venkatesan, "Endless Song: Tiruvaymoli"...
In this interview we discuss the sophisticated structure and profound content of the Tiruvaymoli, along with the translator’s own transformative journey rending into English the meaning, emotion, cadence and kaleidoscopic brilliance proper to this Tamil masterpiece...
61 min
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Margaret Randall, "I Never Left Home: Poet, Fem...
Randall focuses in this memoir on recreating the communities and historical moments in which she lived. Randall especially emphasizes how her encounter with feminist thinking reshaped how she understood not only her own life, but also the Latin American revolutions she saw up from up close...
47 min
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Matthew Quirk, "Hour of the Assassin" (William ...
After a decade spent protecting public officials, Nick Averose has the unique ability to think like an assassin...
35 min
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Sarah Adleman, "The Lampblack Blue of Memory: M...
Adleman’s collection, a gorgeous hybrid of poetry and memoir, is a journey through grief and forgiveness...
36 min
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Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, "Starling Days" (The Ove...
Mina completed a doctorate in Classics but can’t find a tenure track position. She earns money by teaching adjunct classes and tutoring in Latin...
24 min
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Keren Landsman, "The Heart of the Circle" (Angr...
Not only is Reed a person who feels emotions strongly, he’s actually an empath, who can manipulate other people’s emotions, preferably at their invitation, and project feelings into books...
27 min
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Jaime Baum, "Then She Woke Up" (2019)
One summer, Joni Griffith Wexler realizes that she hasn’t paid enough attention to her life...
26 min