New Books in Literature
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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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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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David Moloney, “Counsel,” The Common magazine ...
David Moloney discusses his story “Counsel,” The Common Magazine (Spring, 2020)
26 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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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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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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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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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
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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
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Megan Harlan, "Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays"...
Harlan recounts her experiences living in some of the world’s most historically rich, remote places, and how these many homes afforded her an appreciation...
25 min
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S. J. Hartland, "The 19th Bladesman" (Dark Blad...
A rich and complex world of sword-wielding fighters and seductive sorceresses, written in percussive, lyrical prose...
34 min
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Sarah Wisseman, "The Botticelli Caper" (Wings e...
The Botticelli Caper (Wings ePress, 2019) is set at the Uffizi Galleries during a period, not long ago, when workmen were constantly coming in and out during massive amounts of reconstruction...
22 min
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Zaina Arafat, "You Exist Too Much" (Catapult, 2...
Arafat offers a captivating story charting two of our most intense longings--for love, and a place to call home....
41 min
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Rebekah Taussig, "Sitting Pretty: The View from...
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most...
60 min
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Lawrence Osborne, "The Glass Kingdom" (Hogarth,...
Sarah Mullins, an American woman, arrives at the Kingdom: a fading luxury apartment complex in Bangkok...
36 min
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Michelle Cameron, "Beyond the Ghetto Gates" (Sh...
Cameron explores one little-known episode of that past: the effect of Napoleon’s invasion of 1796–97 on the Italian port city of Ancona....
36 min