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Back to SearchAllegra Goodman, "Isola" (The Dial Press, 2025)
Episode 458
Today I talked to Alegra Goodman about her novel Isola (The Dial Press, 2025)
After Marguerite is orphaned as a young girl, her guardian leaves her al…
1 year, 4 months ago
Elio Zarmati, "Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the Nile" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025)
Episode 604
Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the Nile (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025) is a first-person memoir written from the standpoint of a Jew…
1 year, 4 months ago
Gloria Blizzard, "Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas" (Dundurn Press, 2025)
Episode 457
Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas (Dundurn Press, 2025) by Gloria Blizzard is a diasporic collection of essays on music, memory, and motion…
1 year, 4 months ago
Julia Sanches, "The Advice," The Common magazine
Episode 62
Translator Julia Sanches speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about translating “The Advice,” a story by Irene Pujadas, which appears in The Commo…
1 year, 5 months ago
Rufi Thorpe, "Margo's Got Money Troubles" (William Morrow, 2024)
Episode 152
As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet's always known she’d have to make it on her own. So she enrolls at her local …
1 year, 5 months ago
Brian Hioe, "Taipei at Daybreak" (Repeater, 2025)
Episode 551
Brian Hioe is a Taipei-based writer, editor, translator, activist, and DJ who is best known for his journalism regarding Taiwan’s social and politica…
1 year, 5 months ago
Andrew Lipstein, "Something Rotten" (FSG, 2025)
Episode 151
Andrew’s debut novel Last Resort was published in 2022 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the US, and Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK. You can hear our in…
1 year, 5 months ago
Louise Ells, "Lies I Told My Sister" (Latitude 46, 2024)
Episode 456
Lies I Told My Sister (Latitude 46, 2024) is Ells’ second novel and is a sensitive, poignant work of fiction. Taking place over just 17 hours and alt…
1 year, 5 months ago
Ben Berman Ghan, "The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024)
Episode 455
Ben Berman Ghan is the author of the bestselling novel, The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024).
The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits is a …
1 year, 5 months ago
Rod Carley, "Ruff: A Novel" (Latitude 46, 2024)
Episode 454
RuFF (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2024) is Rod Carley’s highly-anticipated fourth novel. This historical fiction transports us to Elizabethan England, wh…
1 year, 5 months ago