Podcast Episodes

Booksellers’ Best 2024

Episode 148

Lisa Swayze has been the General Manager at Buffalo Street Books for 7 years and will transition to becoming the Executive Director of the bookstore’…

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Robert G. Penner, "The Dark King Swallows the World" (Radiant Press, 2024)

Episode 440

Robert Penner’s best-selling novel, The Dark King Swallows the World (Radiant Press, October 2024) is a phenomenal genre-bending read.

A coming-of-age…

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Suzanne Allain, "The Wrong Lady Meets Lord Right" (Berkley Books, 2024)

Episode 193

Arabella Grant doesn’t want to deceive London high society. It’s her cousin Lady Isabella, known as Issie, who convinces Arabella to take over so tha…

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Christine Coulson, "One Woman Show" (Avid Reader Press, 2023)

Episode 147

Author Christine Coulson spent twenty-five years writing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her final project was to write wall labels for the museu…

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Wayne Ng, "Johnny Delivers" (Guernica Editions, 2024)

Episode 37

Set in 1977, Johnny Delivers (Guernica Editions, 2024) tells the absorbing story of 18-year-old Johnny Wong—the son of Chinese immigrants to Canada—w…

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Recall This Story: Ivan Kreilkamp on Sylvia Townsend Warner's "Foxcastle" (JP)

Episode 139

Ivan Kreilkamp, Indiana University English professor and no stranger to Recall This Book, is the author of two books on Victorian literature and one …

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Book Chat: Home & Queer Writing – "Ghost Town," with Kevin Chen

Episode 20

In this episode, our host, Ti-han, invited Taiwanese Queer author, Kevin Chen, to talk about his LGBTQ novel, Ghost Town (Europa Editions, 2022) 鬼地方 …

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Lisa Williamson Rosenberg, "Mirror Me" (Little a, 2024)

Episode 439

Today I talked to Lisa Williamson Rosenberg about Mirror Me (Little a, 2024)

Eddie Asher has always lost chunks of time, and the novel opens as he che…

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S. A. McLain, "Blood on the Veld" (Elevin Books, 2024)

Episode 438

When seventeen-year-old Christian Bekker killed a poacher, he claimed it was self-defense. But the judge disagreed. He gave Christian a choice: go to…

1 year, 7 months ago

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Vikas Swarup, "The Girl with the Seven Lives" (Simon & Schuster India, 2024)

Episode 214

Vikas Swarup’s new novel, The Girl With the Seven Lives (Simon & Schuster India: 2024), opens with its main character Devi locked in a room, forced t…

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