Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCally Fiedorek, "Atta Boy" (U Iowa Press, 2024)
Episode 135
In December 2018, we meet Rudy Coyle, a bar owner's son from Flushing, Queens, in the throes of a major quarter-life crisis. Cut out of the family bu…
1 year, 10 months ago
Na'ou Liu, "Urban Scenes" (Cambria Press, 2023)
Episode 540
"In this tango palace everything was swaying rhythmically to and fro, bodies of men and women, beams of colored light, brilliant wine glasses, red an…
1 year, 10 months ago
Megan Nolan, "Ordinary Human Failings" (Little, Brown, 2024)
Episode 134
It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants" -- ord…
1 year, 10 months ago
Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 162
In The People of the Ruins (originally published in 1920), Edward Shanks imagines England in the not-so-distant future as a neo mediaeval society who…
1 year, 10 months ago
Kate Brandes, "Stone Creek" (Wyatt-MacKenzie, 2024)
Episode 416
Kate Brandes' new novel, Stone Creek (Wyatt-MacKenzie, 2024) introduces readers to Tilly and Frank Stone. Seventeen years ago, after living as a fugi…
1 year, 10 months ago
Rochelle Potkar, "Coins in Rivers: Poems" (Hachette India, 2024)
Episode 147
Fierce and unflinching, Rochelle Potkar's poetry springs from the deeply personal and ripples out to the world, capturing lovers' whispers and reverb…
1 year, 10 months ago
Premee Mohamed, "The Siege of Burning Grass" (Solaris, 2024)
Episode 82
Premee Mohamed’s novel The Siege of Burning Grass (Solaris, 2024) is set during an ongoing war between two empires: Varkal and Med’ariz and follows A…
1 year, 10 months ago
Laura van den Berg, "State of Paradise" (FSG, 2024)
Episode 133
It's another summer in a small Florida town. After an illness that vanishes as mysteriously as it arrived, everything appears to be getting back to n…
1 year, 10 months ago
"Catamaran" Magazine: A Discussion with Catherine Segurson
Episode 25
Catherine Segurson is the founding editor of Catamaran. She’s a painter, videographer and creative writer who graduated from the Master of Fine Arts …
1 year, 11 months ago
Ruchama Feuerman, "In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist" (Open Road Media, 2024)
Episode 415
In Ruchama Feuerman's novel In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist (Open Road Media 2024), Isaac, a lonely, heartbroken New York haberdasher, moves to Jer…
1 year, 11 months ago