Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEmily E K Murdoch on the Governess Bureau Series
Episode 35
When the nobility and gentility of England are at their wits end, they send a discrete note to Miss Vivienne Clarke’s Governess Bureau. Only acceptin…
1 year, 8 months ago
Adam Ross, "Playworld: A Novel" (Knopf, 2025)
Episode 151
“In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. She was thirty-six, a mother of two, and mar…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jamie Tennant, "River, Diverted" (Palimpsest Press, 2022)
Episode 459
River, Diverted is a wild and wonderfully dark and campy novel by Jamie Tennant, published by Palimpsest Press in 2022.
River Black found cult success…
1 year, 8 months ago
Saad T. Farooqi, "White World" (Cormorant Books, 2024)
Episode 460
Today I talked to Saad T. Farooqi about his new novel White World (Cormorant Books, 2024).
Allah has burned the sky away. A mysterious snow falls over…
1 year, 8 months ago
Allegra 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, 8 months ago
Badiucao and Mellissa Chan, "You Must Take Part in Revolution" (Street Noise Books, 2024)
Episode 60
You Must Take Part In Revolution is a mind-bending graphic novel by award-winning journalist Melissa Chan and acclaimed dissident artist Badiucao. A …
1 year, 8 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, 8 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 months ago