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Back to SearchAlina Adams, "Go On Pretending" (History Through Fiction, 2025)
Episode 1693
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 …
1 year, 2 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…
1 year, 2 months ago
Nan Z. Da, The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 1691
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…
1 year, 2 months 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…
1 year, 2 months ago
Nell Stevens, "The Original" (Norton, 2025)
Episode 1689
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 …
1 year, 2 months ago
Joyce Hinnefeld, "The Dime Museum" (Unbridled Books, 2025)
Episode 1688
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…
1 year, 2 months 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…
1 year, 2 months ago
Megan Cummins, "Atomic Hearts" (Ballentine Books, 2025)
Episode 169
Sixteen and living in a small Michigan town, Gertie is harboring a secret heavy enough to fracture her closest friendship. She and Cindy have been bo…
1 year, 3 months ago
Michelle De Kretser, "Theory & Practice" (Catapult, 2025)
Episode 526
Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and lives in Australia on unceded Gadigal land. She writes fiction but has also published a short book abou…
1 year, 3 months ago
Jan Dost, "Safe Corridor" (DarArab, 2025)
Episode 314
A bold, unforgettable novel of war, imagination, and survival. Thirteen-year-old Kamiran is fleeing the collapse of Syria when his body begins to har…
1 year, 3 months ago