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Back to SearchUrsula Villarreal-Moura, "Like Happiness" (Celadon Books, 2024)
Episode 143
Ursula Villarreal-Moura is the author of Math for the Self-Crippling (2022), selected by Zinzi Clemmons as the Gold Line Press fiction contest winner…
2 years ago
Rohit Manchanda, "The Enclave: A Sharp and Hilarious Portrait of Womanhood in India" (Fourth Estate, 2024)
Episode 207
Maya, the protagonist of Rohit Manchanda’s novel The Enclave (Fourth Estate: 2024), should be happy with her life. She’s newly single, her net worth …
2 years ago
Dirt Bag Novels: Lydia Kiesling in Conversation with Megan Ward (CH)
Episode 52
What does it mean for a novel to think globally? And can a global novel concerned with the macro movements of capital and labor still exist in the fo…
2 years ago
Esinam Bediako, "Blood on the Brain" (Red Hen Press, 2024)
Episode 430
Today I talked to Esinam Bediako about here novel Blood on the Brain (Red Hen Press, 2024).
When Akosua, a 24-year-old grad student in New York, falls…
2 years ago
Emma Hinds, "The Knowing" (Bedford Square Publishers, 2024)
Episode 187
In the slums of 19th-century New York. A tattooed mystic fights for her life. Her survival hangs on the turn of a tarot card.
Powerful, intoxicating a…
2 years ago
Recall This Story: Part 2 of Linda Schlossberg on Alice Munro's "Miles City, Montana" (JP)
Episode 135
You will want to start with Part 1 of episode 135; it can be found right here.
Linda Schlossberg, author of Life in Miniature, who teaches at Harvard,…
2 years ago
Maaria Sayed, "From Pashas to Pokemon" (Vishwakarma Publications, 2024)
Episode 206
From Pashas to Pokemon (Vishwakarma Publications, 2024), Maaria Sayed’s first novel, is a coming-of-age story. Aisha grows up in the Muhammad Ali Roa…
2 years ago
Recall This Story: Part 1 of Linda Schlossberg on Alice Munro's "Miles City Montana" (JP)
Episode 135
Linda Schlossberg, author of Life in Miniature, who teaches at Harvard, joins RTB to read and explore one of her favorite Alice Munro stories, "Miles…
2 years ago
Cynthia Swanson, "Anyone But Her" (Columbine York, 2024)
Episode 429
Today I talked to Cynthia Swanson about Anyone But Her (Columbine York, 2024).
In 1979 during her freshman year at Denver East High School in 1979, Su…
2 years ago
Patrick Hicks, "In the Shadow of Dora: A Novel of the Holocaust and the Apollo Program" (Stephen F. Austin UP, 2020)
Episode 186
In the Shadow of Dora: A Novel of the Holocaust and the Apollo Program (Stephen F. Austin UP, 2020) spans two very different decades from the Nazi co…
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