Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLynda Williams, "The Beauty and the Hell of It and Other Stories" (Guernica, 2025)
The Beauty and the Hell of It and Other Stories (Guernica, 2025) conjures up images of women who struggle through difficult transitions, unpleasant e…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Catherine Merridale, "Moscow Underground" (HarperColins, 2025)
Episode 204
Moscow Underground (HarperCollins, 2025) by Dr. Catherine Merridale is a sweeping novel of life, death and politics in the quicksand world of Stalin'…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Lily Lloyd Burkhalter, "Raffia Memory," The Common Magazine (Spring, 2025)
Lily Lloyd Burkhalter speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her essay “Raffia Memory,” which appears in The Common’s spring issue. Lily talks…
10 months ago
Alina Adams, "Go On Pretending" (History Through Fiction, 2025)
In Go On Pretending (History Through Fiction, 2025) Rose Janowitz is surprised to get a production job with a radio soap opera and stunned to fall …
10 months ago
Alejandro Puyana, "Freedom Is a Feast" (Little, Brown, 2024)
Episode 180
In 1964, Stanislavo, a zealous young man devoted to his ideals, turns his back on his privilege to join the leftist movement in the jungles of Venezu…
10 months, 1 week ago
Nan Z. Da, The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (Princeton UP, 2025)
I’m Nicholas Gordon, host of the Asian Review of Books podcast, done in partnership with the New Books Network. On this show, we interview authors wr…
10 months, 1 week ago
Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (Norton, 2025)
Episode 515
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the stirring autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive, detailing her harrowing escape from ens…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Nell Stevens, "The Original" (Norton, 2025)
Nell Stevens is an award-winning author of memoir and fiction. Her work has been awarded the Somerset Maugham Award, longlisted for the Dylan Thomas …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Joyce Hinnefeld, "The Dime Museum" (Unbridled Books, 2025)
The Dime Museum (Unbridled Books, 2025) is a novel spanning several generations, told in stories that begin in the early 1900s and end during the 202…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Kathleen Waites, "The Faithful Ones" (Invictus, 2025)
Episode 528
The Faithful Ones (Invictus Press, 2025) chronicles a rarely explored intersection in World War II history—the entanglement of the U.S. military, con…
10 months, 3 weeks ago