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Back to SearchAnthony Valerio, "Confessions of an Aspiring Pornographer" (Grailing Press, 2024)
Episode 403
Anthony Valerio's novel Confessions of an Aspiring Pornographer (Grailing Press, 2024) tells the story of Walter Michael Gregory. Call him Wally.
Wal…
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You Write Because You Want to Feel Free: Katie Kitamura and Alexander Manshel (SW)
Episode 47
Although Katie Kitamura feels free when she writes—free from the “soup of everyday life,” from the political realities that weigh upon her, and even …
2 years, 2 months ago
"Oxford American" Magazine: A Discussion with Danielle Amir Jackson
Episode 16
Danielle Amir Jackson is a Memphis-born writer and critic, and the editor-in-chief of the Oxford American. Her work has appeared in the New York Time…
2 years, 2 months ago
Artem Chapeye, "The Ukraine" (Seven Stories Press, 2024)
Episode 35
A stunning debut collection of fiction and creative nonfiction-- irreverent and unglorified; loving and tender; uncomfortable and inconvenient--by a …
2 years, 2 months ago
"Akmaral" (Regal House, 2024): A Discussion with Judith Lindbergh
Episode 37
Inspired by the legends of Amazon women warriors told by ancient Greek historian Herodotus and evidenced by recent archaeological discoveries in Cent…
2 years, 2 months ago
Tarek El-Ariss, "Water on Fire: A Memoir of War" (Other Press, 2024)
Episode 265
In this evocative, insightful memoir, a leading voice in Middle Eastern Studies revisits his childhood in war-torn Lebanon and his family’s fascinati…
2 years, 2 months ago
Ruth Reichl, "The Paris Novel" (Random House, 2024)
Episode 177
Stella St. Vincent, a thirty-something copy editor in 1980s New York, has survived a relationship with her mother, Celia, so complicated that even th…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Things We Didn't Know: A Conversation with Elba Iris Pérez
Episode 210
Today’s book is: The Things We Didn’t Know (Gallery Books, 2024), by Dr. Elba Iris Pérez’s. A cross-cultural coming-of-age story, The Things We Didn’…
2 years, 2 months ago
Greg Sarris, "The Forgetters" (Heyday Books, 2024)
Episode 402
In Greg Sarris' book The Forgetters (Heyday Books, 2024), Answer Woman, a crow, cannot come up with a story until she is asked by Question Woman, her…
2 years, 2 months ago
Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, "A Nose and Three Eyes" (Hoopoe, 2024)
Episode 254
Written by iconic Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, this classic of love, desire, and family breakdown smashed through taboos when first publis…
2 years, 2 months ago