New Books in Literature
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Bethany Maile, "Anything Will Be Easy After Thi...
An interview with Bethany Maile
40 min
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Elizabeth McCulloch, "Dreaming the Marsh" (Twis...
An interview with Elizabeth McCulloch
29 min
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Kim Stanley Robinson, "The Ministry for the Fut...
An interview with Kim Stanley Robinson
43 min
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Ashon T. Crawley, "The Lonely Letters" (Duke UP...
An interview with Ashon T. Crawley
61 min
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Tara Skurtu, "Offering," The Common magazine (S...
Skurtu speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about “Offering,” her poem from Issue 19 of The Common magazine....
43 min
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Susie Yang, "White Ivy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
An interview with Susie Yang
28 min
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Joyce Ruth Yarrow, "Zahara and the Lost Books o...
An interview with Joyce Ruth Yarrow
26 min
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Paul Kingsnorth, "Alexandria" (Graywolf Press, ...
27 min
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Sunisa Manning, "A Good True Thai" (Epigram Boo...
In this interview, Sunisa and I discuss the historical setting of her book, and how much her characters represent the dynamics and emotions of Thailand’s student activists...
32 min
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Gila Green, "No Entry" (Stormbird Press, 2020)
Seventeen-year-old Yael Amar is in South Africa, signed up for a summer course in South Africa’s Kruger National Park....
26 min
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David Moloney, “Counsel,” The Common magazine ...
David Moloney discusses his story “Counsel,” The Common Magazine (Spring, 2020)
26 min
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Finola Austin, "Bronte's Mistress" (Atria Books...
It seems likely that most of our listeners have at least heard of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and her sister Emily’s Wuthering Heights. Many also know that Charlotte and Emily had two other talented siblings who grew to adulthood...
39 min
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Roy G. Guzmán, "Catrachos" (Graywolf Press, 2020)
Part immigration narrative, part elegy, and part queer coming-of-age story..
50 min
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Evan Winter, "The Fires of Vengeance" (Orbit Bo...
In order to reclaim her throne and save her people, an ousted queen must join forces with a young warrior...
29 min
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Mary Cappello, "Lecture" (Transit Books, 2020)
Today I interview Mary Cappello about her new book, Lecture (Transit Books, 2020). Although I almost hesitate to call it a book. It’s much more—like all great lectures are—a performance...
43 min
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Rachel Hall, "Heirlooms: Stories" (BkMk Press, ...
In these linked stories, the war reverberates through four generations of a Jewish family...
55 min
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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
1298
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