Madeline Miller, "Circe" (Little, Brown and Com...
Circe is an immortal naiad, the daughter of the Sun God, Helios...
48 min
1327
Andrea Miller, "The Day The Buddha Woke Up" (W...
I spoke with Andrea on the heels of her trip to India to attend the International Buddhist Conclave...
48 min
1328
Liza Perrat, "The Swooping Magpie" (Triskele Bo...
Lindsay Townsend is doing well at her high school in Wollongong, Australia...
27 min
1329
LaTanya McQueen, "And It Begins Like This" (Bla...
Today, I spoke with LaTanya McQueen, whose new collection of essays reckons with intriguing and timely questions about history, race, family, place, and self...
47 min
1330
Kurt Raaflaub, "The Landmark Julius Caesar: The...
That the Roman leader Gaius Julius Caesar is so well remembered today for his achievements as a general is largely due to his skills as a writer...
43 min
1331
Rosellen Brown, "The Lake on Fire" (Sarabande B...
Against the backdrop of a gritty 1890’s Chicago teaming with labor problems, filthy sweatshops, and putrid stockyards, two young immigrants struggle to survive...
28 min
1332
C.P. Lesley, "Song of the Siren" (Five Directio...
Since being sold into slavery as a child and working her way up to becoming concubine and mistress for several different men, Lady Juliana's survival has depended on her allure...
35 min
1333
Matthew Binder, "The Absolved" (Black Spot Book...
Henri is a middle-aged doctor, one of the few employed people left in the U.S, though the reader suspect his job might be in danger...
40 min
1334
Tade Thompson, "The Rosewater Insurrection" (Or...
In most alien invasion stories, mankind and the invaders battle to the death. In Thompson’s tale, however, there is more inter- than intra-planetary conflict,..
46 min
1335
Allison Coffelt, "Maps Are Lines We Draw: A Roa...
An American in Haiti....
57 min
1336
Isobel O’Hare, "all this can be yours" (Univers...
Isobel O’Hare’s all this can be yours (University of Hell Press, 2019) presents a series of erasures crafted from celebrity sexual assault apologies...
55 min
1337
Mike Chen, "Here and Now and Then" (MIRA, 2019)
Mike Chen’s debut novel Here and Now and Then (MIRA, 2019) is a portrait of patience...
34 min
1338
Kate Quinn, "The Huntress" (William Morrow, 2019)
Ian Graham, a British war correspondent, is chasing an escaped Nazi known only as die Jaegerin, the Huntress...
42 min
1339
Nicole Walker, "Sustainability, A Love Story" (...
Walker faces the challenges of sustainability with deep humor, deeper insight, and an abiding sympathy for what it means to be all-too-human in your love for other humans and the struggling earth we all share...
Building from her brother's death and journeying through her grieving process, Burns guides readers into her heart and back out...
30 min
1341
Pema Tseden, "Enticement" (SUNY Press 2018)
66 min
1342
James Rollins, "Crucible" (William Morrow, 2019)
On one side of the conflict is a secret sect, the Crucibulum...
38 min
1343
Caitlin Hamilton Summie, "To Lay to Rest our Gh...
An 8-year-old awaits her father’s return from the war...
22 min
1344
Micah McCrary, "Island in the City" (U Nebraska...
As a black and queer-identifying man, McCrary examines these identities through keen exploration of gender, sexuality, race, class, geography, and more...
43 min
1345
Pam Jenoff, "The Lost Girls of Paris" (Park Row...
Although World War II has long been a favorite subject in both literature and history, a new interest seems to have developed in the multiple roles played by women during the war...
27 min
1346
Yang-Sze Choo, "The Night Tiger" (Flatiron Book...
"The Night Tiger" is much more than just a fantasy novel—it’s also a mystery, a historical novel, and a love story...
47 min
1347
Tom Sweterlitsch, "The Gone World" (G.P. Putnam...
The book opens with a brutal murder and a search for a missing girl, and maintains the pace of a chilling page-turner...
35 min
1348
Marshall Ryan Maresca, "The Way of the Shield" ...
Dayne has the highest respect for the order he’s joined, the Tarians...
28 min
1349
Stephen Evans, "The Island of Always" (Time Bei...
Minneapolis environmental attorneys Nick Ward and Lena Grant are no longer partners in law or marriage, but their lives are still strongly intertwined.
28 min
1350
Terry Gamble, "The Eulogist" (William Morrow, 2...
When Olivia Givens and her family leave Ireland in 1819, they have no idea that they are distant victims of a volcanic eruption in Indonesia four years before...