New Books in Literature

Interviews with Writers about their New Books

Arts
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Tyler Hayes, "The Imaginary Corpse" (Angry Robo...
Tyler Hayes's "The Imaginary Corpse" offers an escape from the unending stress of the Covid-19 pandemic with three simple words: plush yellow triceratops...
28 min
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Octavia Cade, "Mary Shelley Makes a Monster" (A...
In these poems, the famous author of Frankenstein crafts a creature out of ink, mirrors, and the remnants of her own heartbreak and sorrow...
60 min
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Mari Coates, "The Pelton Papers" (She Writes Pr...
Like the better-known and perhaps luckier Georgia O’Keeffe, the American painter Agnes Pelton also found her unique vision in the western desert...
39 min
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George Scialabba, "How To Be Depressed" (U Penn...
In the place of dispensable banalities—"Hold on," "You will feel better," and so on—Scialabba offers an account of how it's been for him, in the hope that doing so might prove helpful to others.
32 min
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Shelly Hoover, "Timeless Sisters: Peace at the ...
Janene, Cora, and Amadahy live on the banks of the river in a small North Carolina town, but they live centuries apart...
22 min
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C. Baker and P. Phongpaichit, "From the Fifty J...
The Jātaka tales, or stories of the Buddha’s previous lives as a bodhisatta, are included in the Pāli Canon and have for centuries been a rich source of inspiration in Theravada Buddhism...
82 min
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Mark Haber, "Reinhardt's Garden" (Coffee House ...
Ten men have already died while searching the jungles of Uruguay for a reclusive writer,..
26 min
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Jake Kaminski, "The Shadow Wolves" (Page Publis...
Kaminski tells the story of Ethan Crowe, a Lakota Sioux tracker who spent a career with the Delta Forces and the Defense Intelligence Agency...
26 min
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Ken Liu, "The Hidden Girl and Other Stories" (G...
Ken Liu’s second collection of speculative stories explores migration, memory, and a post-human future through the eyes of parents and their children...
56 min
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Stephen Jenkinson, "Come of Age: The Case for E...
I spoke to Stephen at a moment when our most imminent trouble seems to be the global pandemic of the coronavirus, one that—on the date of our interview, March 18, 2020—appears as though it will only grow worse and more deadly here in North America and around the globe...
62 min
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James Rosone, "Rigged" (Front Line, 2019)
A former military interrogator and military intelligence specialist, Rosone’s experience is evident in every page of the book...
62 min
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Carrie Vaughn, "The Immortal Conquistador" (Tac...
Ricardo de Avila would have followed Coronado to the ends of the earth. Instead, Ricardo found the end of his mortal life, and a new one, as a renegade vampire...
20 min
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Maya Rodale, "An Heiress to Remember" (Avon Boo...
As Maya Rodale notes early in this interview, romance novels tend not to get the same respect as other categories of fiction, historical or otherwise...
32 min
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K. M. Szpara, "Docile" (Tor.com, 2020)
In "Docile," the debut novel by K. M. Szpara, people pay off family debts by working as indentured personal assistants to the ultra-wealthy....
49 min
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Berry Grass, "Hall of Waters" (Operating System...
Grass’s aim is nothing less than to demythologize the American Midwest.
47 min
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Eliza Griswold, "If Men, Then" (FSG, 2020)
Griswold grapples with a world that is fracturing at its foundation. In this series of poems, all at once dark. humorous and questioning, the author moves from the familiar to the unjust to hope with a keen eye...
34 min
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Laura Waterman, "Starvation Shore" (U Wisconsin...
Laura Waterman talks about her novel, Starvation Shore (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019), which relies upon memoirs, letters, and diaries to reconstruct the life of the Greely Party as it attempted to survive impossible conditions...
24 min
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Sarah Abrevaya Stein, "A Sephardic Journey Thro...
Stein weaves a narrative tapestry whose threads are drawn from the archives of one Sephardic family, with roots in the city of Salonica, then in the Ottoman Empire, now Thessaloniki in Greece...
47 min
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Karl Schroeder, "Stealing Worlds" (Tor Books, 2...
To catch the people who killed her environmentalist father, the main character of Karl Schroeder’s "Stealing Worlds" (Tor Books, 2019) disappears into a virtual world of overlapping LARPs—live action role-playing games...
42 min
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Kimberly Dark, "Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old...
Dark's essays take on self-improvement, self-acceptance, sexual attraction, language, aging, queer visibility, fashion, family, femininity, feminism, yoga culture, airplane seats, and the vilifying of fatness in the name of good health, among other compelling topics...
55 min
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Emily Strelow, "The Wild Birds" (Rare Bird Book...
An orphaned young woman disguises herself as a boy in order to escape the dangers of being alone in 1870’s San Francisco...
25 min
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
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Franny Choi, "Soft Science" (Alice James Books,...
Choi explores queer, Asian American femininity through the lens of robots, cyborgs, and artificial intelligence...
52 min
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery, "Quite Mad: An American ...
If you live in America, chances are good you’ve heard the term “mental health crisis” bandied about in the media...
35 min
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Phil Christman, "Midwest Futures" (Belt Publish...
What does the future hold for the Midwest?
61 min