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Back to SearchBrian 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 months ago
Tara 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 months ago