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1401
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
1402
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
1403
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
1404
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
1405
Ilze Hugo, "The Down Days" (Skybound Books, 2020)
Few science fiction writers have their vision of the future tested upon publication...
31 min
1406
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
1407
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
1408
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
1409
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
1410
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
1411
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
1412
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
1413
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
1414
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
1415
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
1416
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
1417
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
1418
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
1419
Tochi Onyebuchi, "Riot Baby" (Tor.com, 2020)
Onyebuchi tells the story of two siblings—Ella, who is gifted with powers of precognition and telekinesis, and her younger brother Kevin, whose exuberant resistance to systemic racism earns him a one-way ticket to jail...
36 min
1420
Frederik H. Green, "Bird Talk and Other Stories...
Xu Xu (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s...
66 min
1421
Erica Bauermeister, "House Lessons: Renovating ...
This memoir is about the power of home, and the transformative act of restoring one house in particular...
58 min
1422
Gabriel Bump, "Everywhere You Don’t Belong" (Al...
Bump has created an unforgettable debut novel that will sometimes make you laugh, and sometimes pull at your gut..
33 min
1423
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
1424
Alice C. Early, "The Moon Always Rising" (She W...
At the dawn of the new millennium, Els Gordon finds herself adrift...
32 min
1425
Megan E. O'Keefe, "Velocity Weapon" (Orbit, 2019)
O’Keefe’s characters search for truth in a universe where the secrets are centuries old and where A.I.s depend on humans as much as humans depend on A.I.s...
22 min