After her parents' divorce, Jackie Stalnaker is sent to her grandmother’s dilapidated house in a tiny town in West Virginia...
21 min
1327
Christina Adams, "Camel Crazy" (New World Libra...
Adams' son is on the autistic spectrum, and her love for him becomes a beautiful and passionate engine that ultimately leads her to start a movement that may just transform how we see camels and how we see and treat autism...
47 min
1328
Katharine Dion, "The Dependents" (Back Bay Book...
'The Dependents' is a sensitive novel about love, parenthood, friendship, and finding contentment...
27 min
1329
Priya Sharm, "Ormeshadow" (Tor.com, 2019)
Priya Sharm's 'Ormeshadow' is about more about human beasts than the actual dragon that slumbers under the earth...
37 min
1330
Becca Klaver, "Ready for the World" (Black Lawr...
Klaver reminds us that no matter the digital distance between us we are never quite alone...
34 min
1331
Mike Chen, "A Beginning at the End" (MIRA, 2020)
36 min
1332
Mark Barr, "Watershed" (Hub City Press, 2019)
It’s 1937 and rural Tennessee is still recovering from the Great Depression. The construction of a huge dam brings job seekers, fortune hunters, and the promise of electricity to the area...
24 min
1333
Serena Burdick, "The Girls with No Names" (Park...
Burdick turns a spotlight on the world of “Magdalene laundries” and the many nameless women who passed through them...
34 min
1334
Donald Morrill, "Impetuous Sleeper" (Mid-List P...
"Impetuous Sleeper" offers us an interesting opportunity to talk about a part of publishing world that we often don’t talk about: what happens when your publisher closes and your book goes out of print?
47 min
1335
Jason Brown, "A Faithful but Melancholy Account...
John Howland and his descendants struggle with their New England legacy as one of the country's founding families and the decaying trappings of that esteemed past..
34 min
1336
Abdulhamid Sulaymon o’g’li Cho’lpon, "Night and...
Fort gives readers a chance to dive into the world of early 20th century Uzbek literature and understand the complex social problems of late Russian imperial Turkestan...
44 min
1337
Seanan McGuire, "Middlegame" (Tor.com, 2019)
McGuire sees elements of a “modern Frankenstein” in her novel about a brother and sister created by a ruthless alchemist...
29 min
1338
Jim Rossi, "Cleantech Con Artists: A True Vegas...
Rossi tells the real life story of his effort to get to the bottom of confidence men in the modern American West...
34 min
1339
Katherine Kayne, "Bound in Flame" (Passionflowe...
In this delightful debut novel Katherine Kayne sweeps us back to a Hawaii still mourning its lost kingdom,..
37 min
1340
Joyce Ashuntantang, "A Basket of Flaming Ashes"...
Joyce Ashuntantang talks about her experiences as a traveler and a poet, from her childhood Cameroon to her years studying in Great Britain and the United States...
41 min
1341
Christopher Brown, "Rule of Capture" (Harper Vo...
A crash course in the law as well as a darkly humorous thriller, Christopher Brown’s "Rule of Capture" should make you think hard about the importance of law and its implications for citizens...
65 min
1342
K Chess, "Famous Men Who Never Lived" (Tin Hous...
"Famous Men Who Never Lived" is set in two Brooklyns. In one, people ride in trams; in the other, they take subways. In one, the swastika is a symbol of luck; in the other, it signifies hate.,,
24 min
1343
Nora Gold, "The Dead Man" (Inanna Publications,...
"The Dead Man" a beautiful tale of love, loss, family, and the music of the world around us...
30 min
1344
Dan Burns, "Grace: Stories and a Novella" (Chic...
In Dan Burns’ latest book unforgettable characters encounter gorgeous landscapes, nasty betrayals, shocking technology, a heartless future, and a decaying city neighborhood...
33 min
1345
Mary Fleming, "The Art of Regret" (She Writes P...
Mary Fleming moved to Paris in 1981, as a freelance journalist and consultant...
24 min
1346
Olga Zilberbourg, "Like Water and Other Stories...
To this generation that includes writers as disparate as Gary Shteyngart and Irina Reyn comes Olga Zilberbourg...
54 min
1347
Sarah Pinsker, "A Song for a New Day" (Berkley,...
Pinsker explores how society changes following two plausible disasters: a surge in terrorism and a deadly epidemic...
26 min
1348
Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne, "Holding Onto Nothi...
Lucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing...
23 min
1349
Emily Skaja, "Brute" (Graywolf Press, 2019)
"Brute" is a stunning collection of poetry that navigates the dark corridors of trauma found at the end of an abusive relationship...
47 min
1350
Steven Moore, "The Longer We Were There: A Memo...
The reality of war is much more nuanced than the typical narratives might have you believe...