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Back to SearchS. 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, 10 months ago
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…
1 year, 11 months ago
Chikodili Emelumadu, "Dazzling" (Harry N. Abrams, 2023)
Episode 437
Today I talked to Chikodili Emelumadu about Dazzling (Harry N. Abrams, 2023).
Treasure and Ozoemena are young Nigerian girls forced to deal with spiri…
1 year, 11 months ago
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, "Prayers of a Heretic: Poems" (Plain View Press, 2015)
Episode 577
In the poetry collection Prayers of a Heretic (Plain View Press, 2015), Yermiyahu Ahron Taub explores the "crime" of heresy and the condition of exis…
1 year, 11 months ago
Sam Sax, "Yr Dead" (McSweeney’s Books, 2024)
Episode 146
Sam Sax is a queer, jewish, writer and educator. They're the author of Yr Dead (McSweeney's Books, 2024), longlisted for The National Book Award and …
1 year, 11 months ago
All of Our Stories Were War Stories: Jamil Jan Kochai and Kalyan Nadiminti (AV)
Episode 55
Imagine growing up between Sacramento, California and Logar, Afghanistan; you hear stories about war, watch coverage of the United States’ War on Ter…
1 year, 11 months ago
Emily Dinova, "The Antagonist" (Bruce Scivally, 2024)
Episode 244
Today I spoke with Emily Dinova about her new novel The Antagonist (Bruce Scivally, 2024). Dinova, a psychoanalytic candidate working towards a lice…
1 year, 11 months ago
Cornelia M. Spelman, "Solace" (Jackleg Press, 2024)
Episode 265
How do we become the persons we are? Cornelia Maude Spelman's Solace (Jackleg Press, 2024) seeks to answer that question. A portrait of the emotional…
1 year, 11 months ago
Monica Chenault-Kilgore, "The Jewel of the Blues" (Graydon House, 2024)
Episode 192
Life is tough for people of color in the early twentieth century—not only in the Southern states, which have put Reconstruction firmly behind them in…
1 year, 11 months ago
Megan Tennant, "Little Women," The Common magazine
Episode 61
Megan Tennant speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her story “Little Women,” which appears in The Common’s brand new fall issue. Megan talks…
1 year, 11 months ago