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
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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
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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...
44 min
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Jeffrey Saks, "Agnon Library of The Toby Press"
Considered one of the greatest Hebrew writers, in 1966, Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...
38 min
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Melissa Albert, "The Hazel Wood" (Flatiron Book...
The Hazel Wood(Flatiron Books, 2018) is a shivery delight, like a dazzling vintage ball gown of paisley silk, slithering over your head...
28 min
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Rebecca Clarren, "Kickdown" (Arcade, 2018)
Award-winning journalist Rebecca Clarren has been writing about the rural West for twenty years...
26 min
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C.A. Fletcher, "A Boy and His Dog at the End of...
In his interview, Fletcher discusses the research that informs the novel’s “soft apocalypse"...
33 min
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Linnea Hartsuyker, "The Golden Wolf" (Harper, 2...
The Golden Wolf seamlessly blends Old Norse folklore with creative imagination to paint a picture of ninth-century Norway from the inside...
31 min
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Karen Hugg, "The Forgetting Flower" (Magnolia P...
Karen Hugg loves plants and is thrilled when new cultivars or varieties are discovered...
23 min
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G. P. Gottlieb, "Battered" (D. X. Varos, 2019)
It is not easy to interview a writer of murder mysteries without giving away too many details...
31 min
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Kate Braithwaite, "The Girl Puzzle" (Crooked Ca...
Nellie Bly is in some respects a household name, yet the passage of time has erased many of her accomplishments from popular memory...
34 min
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Laury Silvers, “The Lover” (Kindle Direct Publi...
Laury Silvers discusses her transition from writing scholarship to historical fiction...
66 min
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Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, "This is How ...
The only thing that endures after millennia of espionage and intrigue is love...
51 min
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Eyal Kless, "The Lost Puzzler: The Tarakan Chro...
A picaresque novel about a serious boy with special powers, "The Lost Puzzler" takes place in an impoverished, technologically backwards world.
41 min
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Rabeah Ghaffari, "To Keep the Sun Alive" (Catap...
It’s 1979, and the Islamic Revolution is just around the corner, as is a massive solar eclipse...
31 min
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David Slucki, "My Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers ...
Slucki’s memoir blends the scholarly and literary, grounding the story of his grandfather and father in the broader context of the twentieth century...
34 min
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Lauren Willig, "The Summer Country" (William Mo...
Willig nimbly balances Emily’s story against her grandfather’s, interweaving the stories of three families across two timelines into a seamless whole...
35 min
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Sarah St. Vincent, "Ways to Hide in Winter" (Me...
"Ways to Hide in Winter" is a powerful story about violence and redemption, betrayal and empathy, and how we reconcile the unforgivable in those we love...
23 min
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David Wellington, "The Last Astronaut" (Orbit, ...
Wellington turns his prolific imagination—which is more often associated with earthbound monsters like zombies, vampires, and werewolves—to the threat of an alien invasion...
46 min
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C. W. Gortner, "The Romanov Empress: A Novel of...
101 years have passed since the murder of the Imperial Family of Russia at Yekaterinburg, but their appeal has not diminished...
67 min
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jayy dodd, "The Black Condition Ft. Narcissus" ...
jayy dodd offers her own brilliant reflections on so many things: the contemporary moment, dystopia, her transition, and more...