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Back to SearchBenjamin Resnick, "Next Stop" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
Episode 436
Today I talked to Benjamin Resnick about his novel Next Stop (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
A hole opens in the universe and suddenly consumes a building,…
1 year, 7 months ago
8.3 Aspire to Magic but End Up With Madness: Adam Ehrlich Sachs speaks with Sunny Yudkoff (JP)
Episode 54
What happens when a novelist wants “nonsense and joy” but his characters are destined for a Central European sanatorium? How does the abecedarian for…
1 year, 7 months ago
Megan Staffel, "The Causative Factor" (Regal House, 2024)
Episode 435
Sparks fly in Megan Staffel’s novel, The Causative Factor (Regal House 2024), when Rachel is randomly paired with Rubiat, a fellow student, for an as…
1 year, 7 months ago
Tim Ecott, "Sigmundur and the Golden Ring" (Sprotin, 2024)
Episode 190
Tim Ecott, who is well-known as a journalist and writer, has, in his last several books, turned his attention to the history and culture of the Faroe…
1 year, 7 months ago
Bonnie Jo Campbell, "The Waters: A Novel" (Norton, 2024)
Episode 434
Hermine “Herself” Zook is a healer who rules over an island in a swampy area of Michigan known as “The Waters.” People, including her three grown dau…
1 year, 8 months ago
Kristopher Jansma, "Our Narrow Hiding Places" (Ecco, 2024), "Revisionaries" (Quirk Books, 2024)
Episode 145
Kristopher grew up in Lincroft, New Jersey. He received his B.A. in The Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University and an M.F.A. in Fiction from …
1 year, 8 months ago
To Gallop Again and Again into Failure: Kaveh Akbar and Pardis Dabashi (SW)
Episode 53
An unforgettable horse gallops through the pages of Kaveh Akbar’s best-selling novel Martyr! (2024), but it is a figurative hastening toward failure …
1 year, 8 months ago
Nat Reeve, "Earlyfate" (Cipher Press, 2024)
Episode 433
Pip Property is no stranger to disaster. Typically, they’ve got a plan, but now Dallyangle’s favourite dandy & part-time criminal is locked in the mo…
1 year, 8 months ago
S. L. Wisenberg, "The Adventures of Cancer Bitch" (Tortoise Books, 2024)
Episode 432
It’s 2006, and S. L. Wisenberg is teaching writing at one of Chicago’s great universities and living a busy life when she’s gobsmacked by a sudden ca…
1 year, 8 months ago
Vanessa Kelly, "Murder in Highbury" (Kensington, 2024)
Episode 189
For a woman who published only four novels during her lifetime, with two others appearing shortly after her death and several incomplete or shorter w…
1 year, 8 months ago