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Edward A. Farmer, "Pale: A Novel" (Blackstone, ...
An interview with Edward A. Farmer
27 min
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Erika Rummel, "The Road to Gesualdo" (D. X. Var...
The Italian Renaissance introduced—or reintroduced—many valuable concepts to society and culture, giving rise eventually to our modern world...
31 min
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Premee Mohamed, "Beneath the Rising" (Solaris, ...
"Beneath the Rising" combines horror, science fiction and fantasy in its portrayal of the complicated friendship of Nick and Joanna (Johnny)...
30 min
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Bill LeFurgy, "Into the Suffering City: A Novel...
Sarah Kennecott is a brilliant young doctor who cares deeply about justice for murder victims after her own family is murdered....
36 min
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Chelsea Wagenaar, "The Spinning Place" (Souther...
Wagenaar explores the power of language—in terms of its possibilities and what it fails to express...
35 min
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Nancy Thayer, "Girls of Summer: A Novel" (Balla...
Christina Gessler talks with her friend Nancy Thayer about "Girls of Summer: A Novel" (Ballantine Books), which was just chosen for O Magazine’s Summer Reading List...
63 min
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Chanelle Benz, "The Gone Dead" (Ecco, 2019)
Told from several perspectives, The Gone Dead (Ecco, 2019) is a story about family and memory, justice for those who were never given a chance, and some of the wounds caused by racism in America...
35 min
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Suri Hustvedt, "Memories of the Future" (Simon ...
How Do We Write Our Personal History at the Same Time That It’s Written for Us?
40 min
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Jessica Winters Mireles, "Lost in Oaxaca" (She ...
After an injury to her hand derails her promising concert career, Camille retreats to her mother’s house and teaches piano to mostly desultory students...
26 min
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Emily B. Martin, "Sunshield: A Novel" (Harper V...
A frustrated prince out to make a name for himself, a mysterious young woman who goes by the name of the Sunshield Bandit...
34 min
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P. W. Singer and A. Cole, "Burn-In: A Novel of ...
An FBI agent hunts a new kind of terrorist through a Washington, DC, of the future - at once a gripping technothriller and a fact-based tour of tomorrow.
24 min
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Ilze Hugo, "The Down Days" (Skybound Books, 2020)
Few science fiction writers have their vision of the future tested upon publication...
31 min
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Sohrab Ahmari, "From Fire, by Water: My Journey...
Youthful arrogance. Hipster alienation. A lot of reading. A lot of drinking. Struggles to adjust to a land radically different from the one that one has left in youth....
60 min
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Connie Kronlokhen, "So Are You to My Thoughts" ...
This book is the seventh novel in a series about the Mikkelson siblings and loosely based loosely on the author’s family...
26 min
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Sarah Knott, "Mother is a Verb: An Unconvention...
Mothering is as old as human existence. But how has this most essential experience changed over time and cultures?
37 min
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Will Thomas, "Lethal Pursuit" (Minotaur, 2019)
London, 1892. Private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn have been tasked by the Prime Minister to deliver a satchel to the Vatican...
27 min
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "The Age of Phillis" (...
Jeffers draws on fifteen years of research in archives and locations across America, Europe and Africa to envision the world of Phillis Wheatley Peters...
51 min
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Maggie Kast, "Side by Side but Never Face to Fa...
During the first few stories, we think the book centers on Manfred, an Austrian Holocaust survivor whose parents converted out of Judaism to save him from centuries of oppression...
26 min
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Donna Hemans, "Tea by the Sea" (Red Hen Press, ...
A new father walks out of the hospital with his day-old baby while the mother recuperates from giving birth...
26 min
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Crissy Van Meter, "Creatures: A Novel" (Algonqu...
Going back and forth in time, Evangeline (Evie) recalls the challenges of being raised on a lush island off the coast of California...
25 min
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Sarah M. Sala, "Devil's Lake" (Tolsun Books, 2020)
Sala's poems move deftly within a world that is equal parts dangerous, celebratory, subdued, modern, and rural....
38 min
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Barbara Monier, "The Rocky Orchard" (Amika Pres...
Sitting on the porch swing at her family’s vacation house, Mazie sees an old woman cutting through the orchard across the way and offers her a glass of water....
27 min
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Kristin O’Donnell Tubb, "The Story Collector" (...
Eleven-year-old Viviani Fedeler has spent her whole life in the New York Public Library...
40 min
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Eric LeMay, "Remember Me: An Essay" (CutBank 2020)
Listen in, as I talk cancer, parenting, writing, and Shakespeare’s Hamlet with my former professor and mentor, author Eric LeMay...
59 min
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Janie Chang, "The Library of Legends" (William ...
Chang draws on family stories and ancient legends to weave a fact-based yet mystical tale about this period in China’s long history...
31 min