New Books in Literature
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Mark Haber, "Reinhardt's Garden" (Coffee House ...
Ten men have already died while searching the jungles of Uruguay for a reclusive writer,..
26 min
1452
Jake Kaminski, "The Shadow Wolves" (Page Publis...
Kaminski tells the story of Ethan Crowe, a Lakota Sioux tracker who spent a career with the Delta Forces and the Defense Intelligence Agency...
26 min
1453
Ken Liu, "The Hidden Girl and Other Stories" (G...
Ken Liu’s second collection of speculative stories explores migration, memory, and a post-human future through the eyes of parents and their children...
56 min
1454
James Rosone, "Rigged" (Front Line, 2019)
A former military interrogator and military intelligence specialist, Rosone’s experience is evident in every page of the book...
62 min
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Stephen Jenkinson, "Come of Age: The Case for E...
I spoke to Stephen at a moment when our most imminent trouble seems to be the global pandemic of the coronavirus, one that—on the date of our interview, March 18, 2020—appears as though it will only grow worse and more deadly here in North America and around the globe...
62 min
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Carrie Vaughn, "The Immortal Conquistador" (Tac...
Ricardo de Avila would have followed Coronado to the ends of the earth. Instead, Ricardo found the end of his mortal life, and a new one, as a renegade vampire...
20 min
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Maya Rodale, "An Heiress to Remember" (Avon Boo...
As Maya Rodale notes early in this interview, romance novels tend not to get the same respect as other categories of fiction, historical or otherwise...
32 min
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K. M. Szpara, "Docile" (Tor.com, 2020)
In "Docile," the debut novel by K. M. Szpara, people pay off family debts by working as indentured personal assistants to the ultra-wealthy....
49 min
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Berry Grass, "Hall of Waters" (Operating System...
Grass’s aim is nothing less than to demythologize the American Midwest.
47 min
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Eliza Griswold, "If Men, Then" (FSG, 2020)
Griswold grapples with a world that is fracturing at its foundation. In this series of poems, all at once dark. humorous and questioning, the author moves from the familiar to the unjust to hope with a keen eye...
34 min
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Laura Waterman, "Starvation Shore" (U Wisconsin...
Laura Waterman talks about her novel, Starvation Shore (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019), which relies upon memoirs, letters, and diaries to reconstruct the life of the Greely Party as it attempted to survive impossible conditions...
24 min
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Sarah Abrevaya Stein, "A Sephardic Journey Thro...
Stein weaves a narrative tapestry whose threads are drawn from the archives of one Sephardic family, with roots in the city of Salonica, then in the Ottoman Empire, now Thessaloniki in Greece...
47 min
1463
Karl Schroeder, "Stealing Worlds" (Tor Books, 2...
To catch the people who killed her environmentalist father, the main character of Karl Schroeder’s "Stealing Worlds" (Tor Books, 2019) disappears into a virtual world of overlapping LARPs—live action role-playing games...
42 min
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Emily Strelow, "The Wild Birds" (Rare Bird Book...
An orphaned young woman disguises herself as a boy in order to escape the dangers of being alone in 1870’s San Francisco...
25 min
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Kimberly Dark, "Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old...
Dark's essays take on self-improvement, self-acceptance, sexual attraction, language, aging, queer visibility, fashion, family, femininity, feminism, yoga culture, airplane seats, and the vilifying of fatness in the name of good health, among other compelling topics...
55 min
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
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Franny Choi, "Soft Science" (Alice James Books,...
Choi explores queer, Asian American femininity through the lens of robots, cyborgs, and artificial intelligence...
52 min
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery, "Quite Mad: An American ...
If you live in America, chances are good you’ve heard the term “mental health crisis” bandied about in the media...
35 min
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Phil Christman, "Midwest Futures" (Belt Publish...
What does the future hold for the Midwest?
61 min
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Gabrielle Mathieu, "Girl of Fire" (Five Directi...
In the fantasy medieval land of Trea—a conservative society that despite its worship of the goddess Amur respects her human daughters only as wives and mothers—eighteen-year-old Berona has limited expectations for her future...
37 min
1471
Kristen Millares Young, "Subduction" (Red Hen P...
Young provides a lyrical exploration of cultural encounters in the Pacific Northwest...
53 min
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Nino Cipri, "Homesick: Stories" (Dzanc Books, 2...
When Nino Cipri entered the Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest, they had no expectation of winning, so when they won, they were shocked...
43 min
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Michael Zapata, "The Lost Book of Adana Moreau"...
In 1916, Adana Moreau’s parents are killed by American Marines. She flees to Santo Domingo and then to New Orleans. There, she marries a pirate...
28 min
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Martín Prechtel, "The Disobedience of the Daugh...
Prechtel introduces the unique stories he heard when he lived among the Tzutujil Mayan people in the village of Santiago Atitlan in the Guatemalan highlands...
71 min
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Joan Schweighardt, "Gifts for the Dead" (Five D...
As "Gifts for the Dead" opens, it is 1911 and the heroine, Nora Sweeney, is waiting for bad news in Hoboken, NJ...
33 min