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Back to SearchAri 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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Rachel Kushner, "Creation Lake" (Scribner, 2024)
Episode 141
Creation Lake (Scribner, 2024) is a novel about a secret agent, a thirty-four-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics, bold opinions, and clean b…
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Nicholas Molbert, "Altars of Spine and Fraction" (Curbstone Press/Northwestern UP, 2024)
Episode 146
Nicholas Molbert's Altars of Spine and Fraction (Curbstone Press/Northwestern UP, 2024) follows its protagonist through the joys and dangers of child…
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Marguerite Young, "Miss MacIntosh, My Darling" (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2024)
Episode 424
In this episode I'm joined by Dalkey Archive's editorial director, Chad W. Post. We discuss the republication of the late Marguerite Young's cult-cla…
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