Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMonica 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
Eric Drooker, "Naked City: A Graphic Novel" (Dark Horse Books, 2024)
Episode 18
Born and raised on Manhattan Island, Eric Drooker began to slap his art on the streets at night as a teenager. Since then, his drawings and posters h…
1 year, 11 months ago
Ruth Vanita, "A Slight Angle" (India Viking, 2024)
Episode 210
A Slight Angle (India Viking: 2024), the newest novel from Indian writer Ruth Vanita, is a story about love. Difficult love–her six characters are gr…
1 year, 11 months ago
Benjamin 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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…
2 years 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 …
2 years ago