Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPatrick 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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Kevin Dean, "Patron Saints" The Common Magazine
Episode 60
Kevin Dean speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his story “Patron Saints,” which appears in The Common’s most recent issue. Kevin talks abou…
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Christina Dodd, "A Daughter of Fair Verona" (John Scognamiglio, 2024)
Episode 185
It takes a certain gall to update one of William Shakespeare’s most enduring and most beloved tragedies. Anyone who has survived an English literatur…
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Ari Gautier, "Nocturne Pondicherry" (Hachette India, 2024)
Episode 428
A postman struggles to deliver the last letter on his last day of work. A prostitute elopes with the auto rickshaw driver who arranged clients for he…
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Sara Johnson Allen, "Down Here We Come Up" (Black Lawrence Press, 2023)
Episode 427
In Sara Johnson Allen's novel Down Here We Come Up (Black Lawrence Press 2023), Kate Jessup’s mother lures her back home to North Carolina. Jackie Je…
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Francis Stevens, "The Heads of Cerberus and Other Stories" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 426
When three people in Philadelphia inhale dust developed by a scientist who has discovered parallel universes, they are transported into an interdimen…
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S J. Naudé, "Fathers and Fugitives" (Europa, 2024)
Episode 142
Daniel is a worldly and urbane journalist living in London. His relationships appear to be sexually fulfilling but sentimentally meager. A young gay …
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F. J. Watson, "Lies of the Flesh" (Polygon, 2024)
Episode 184
When evil stalks the land, who can you trust? Autumn 1314. In the aftermath of the Scottish victory at the Battle of Bannockburn, the villagers of Wa…
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Etherized: Anne Enright in a Novel Dialogue Conversation (Paige Reynolds, JP)
Episode 134
Anne Enright, writer, critic, Booker winner, kindly made time back in 2023 for Irish literature maven Paige Reynolds and for John Plotz in his role a…
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Scott Nadelson, "Trust Me" (Forest Avenue Press, 2024)
Episode 425
Today I talked to Scott Nadelson's novel Trust Me (Forest Avenue Press, 2024).
After his divorce, Lewis moves into the cabin he bought as a vacation …
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