DiLouie's "Our War" is about a second U.S. civil war that starts after the president is impeached and convicted but refuses to step down—feels as if it might be only weeks away...
42 min
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
1353
Johanna Stoberock, "Pigs" (Red Hen Press, 2019)
Stoberock has written a lyrical fable about an island that receives all the world’s garbage...
27 min
1354
Tamara J. Madison, "Threed, This Road Not Damas...
Madison seamlessly bridges the gap between past and present while remaining grounded in the here and now...
35 min
1355
Charles Todd, "A Cruel Deception" (William Morr...
Writing novels—never mind entire series—takes determination, persistence, imagination, and craft...
43 min
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H. G. Parry, "The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep...
While all fiction writers can pull characters from their imaginations and commit them to the page, most readers can’t do what Charley Sutherland can: pull characters from the page and commit them to the real world...
38 min
1357
Emily Roberson, "Lifestyles of Gods and Monster...
In this modern version of the myth of Theseus and Ariadne, Ariadne is a complacent Daddy‘s girl when we meet her...
27 min
1358
Talia Carner, "The Third Daughter" (William Mor...
"The Third Daughter" is an essential and compelling read, not least because although set in the late nineteenth century its story is as contemporary as yesterday’s headlines...
36 min
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Julie Justicz, "Degrees of Difficulty" (Fomite ...
Ben Novotny was born with a rare chromosomal abnormality that caused profound mental retardation and seizures...
22 min
1360
Jason Bayani, "Locus" (Omnidawn Publishing, 2019)
"Poetry gave me back a way to find my culture, my history,” says Jason Bayani...
40 min
1361
Oren Harman, "Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Ex...
Harman takes scientific facts, as we know them today, and weaves them into narratives that have the tone, grace and drama of myth...
63 min
1362
Wiley Cash, "The Last Ballad" (William Morrow, ...
Cash explores the complexities of southern class, race, and gender relations against the backdrop of the 1929 Loray Mill strike...
30 min
1363
Alan Bradley, "The Flavia de Luce Mystery Serie...
Flavia de Luce, who lives in an enormous manor house in England, with her widowed father and two sisters. It’s 1950, and England is still rebuilding itself after WWII...
30 min
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John Birmingham, "The Cruel Stars" (Del Rey, 2019)
“I'm a huge fan of the [space opera] genre, but it took me a while to get the confidence to write my own,” Birmingham says.
37 min
1365
K. C. Maher, "The Best of Crimes" (RedDoor Publ...
A man turns himself into the police for kidnapping an underage girl...
29 min
1366
Sofia Grant, "Lies in White Dresses" (William M...
Francie Meeker and her best friend, Vi Carothers, bought into the promise offered to middle-class, especially white, women in the mid-twentieth-century United States:..
37 min
1367
Nicholas Walton, "Singapore Singapura: From Mir...
Part travelogue, part history, Walton charts the opportunities and pitfalls confronting small states that have become particularly acute in an era of identity politics and civilizational leadership...
60 min
1368
Annalee Newitz, "The Future of Another Timeline...
42 min
1369
Peg Alford Pursell, "A Girl Goes into the Fores...
The stories and fables in A Girl Goes into the Forest twist and turn...
35 min
1370
Tim Frandy, "Inari Sami Folklore: Stories from ...
First published in 1918 only in the Aanaar Sámi language and in Finnish, this anthology is now available in a centennial English-language edition...
60 min
1371
Deborah L. Davitt, "The Gates of Never" (Finish...
Davitt explores the intersections of myth, science, and humanity through her beautifully accessible poems...
43 min
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Daphne Kalotay, "Blue Hours" (Triquarterly, 2019)
It’s 1991, and recent college graduate Mim wants to be a writer, but for now she is folding clothes at Benetton...
30 min
1373
Gill Paul, "The Lost Daughter" (William Morrow,...
"The Lost Daughter" is a thoroughly satisfying read: Romanov fans will rejoice at this latest iteration of the alternative narrative...
58 min
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Cadwell Turnbull, "The Lesson" (Blackstone Publ...
In Cadwell Turnbull’s "The Lesson", the U.S. Virgin Islands serve as Earth’s entry point for the Ynaa,
36 min
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Chelene Knight, "Dear Current Occupant" (Book*h...
"Dear Current Occupant" is also a letter to Knight’s younger selves, to the girl and eventually young woman who lived in these places and who struggled to discover who she was and who she could be...