Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTara Dorabji, "Call Her Freedom" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
Episode 249
In this episode, we explore one woman’s struggle to protect her culture and her family amidst the backdrop of a military occupation.
Our book is: Call…
1 year, 5 months ago
Glenn Diaz, "Yñiga: A Novel" (Ateneo de Manila UP, 2022)
Episode 221
Yniga, the main character of Glenn Diaz’s novel of the same name, returns to her unnamed fishing town after her urban neighborhood burns down in a fi…
1 year, 5 months ago
Roberta Satow, "Our Time Is Up" (Ipbooks, 2024)
Episode 249
Today I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Roberta Satow about her new book Our Time Is Up (Ipbooks, 2024).
In 1895 Freud noticed that his case his…
1 year, 5 months ago
Maria Zoccola, "Helen of Troy, 1993" (Scribner, 2025)
Episode 150
In the hills of Sparta, Tennessee, during the early nineties, Helen decides to break free from the life that stifles her: marriage, motherhood, the m…
1 year, 5 months ago
Mariam Pirbhai, "Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2023)
Episode 40
In Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging (Wolsak and Wynn, 2023), author Mariam Pirbhai looks carefully at the pocket of land …
1 year, 5 months ago
Zeeva Bukai, "The Anatomy of Exile: A Novel" (Delphinium Books, 2025)
Episode 453
The Anatomy of Exile by Zeeva Bukai (Delphinium Books 2025) opens in the aftermath of the 1967 Six Day War, when Tamar Abadi’s sister-in-law is kille…
1 year, 5 months ago
Jami Nakamura Lin, "The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir" (Mariner Books, 2023)
Episode 452
Jami Nakamura Lin spent much of her life feeling monstrous for reasons outside of her control. As a young woman with undiagnosed bipolar disorder, mu…
1 year, 5 months ago
Ariel Gordon, "Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2024)
Episode 450
Both personal and entertaining, Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024) is the highly anticipated second book of a trilogy and sho…
1 year, 5 months ago
Fiona Davis, "The Stolen Queen" (Dutton, 2025)
Charlotte Cross has built a satisfying career as assistant curator in the Department of Egyptian Art at New York’s Metropolitan Museum. It’s 1978, th…
1 year, 5 months ago
Barbara Nickless, "The Drowning Game" (Thomas and Mercer, 2025)
Episode 450
Today I talked to Barbara Nickless about The Drowning Game (Thomas and Mercer, 2025).
Two sisters are heirs to a company that builds yachts for the su…
1 year, 5 months ago