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Back to SearchOn Monsters, Goddesses and Myths: A Discussion with Author Katherine Marsh
Episode 15
“We’re not monsters, Mom. We’re goddesses—smart, fearless, and beautiful.” That’s the voice of Ava, the superpowered protagonist of Katherine Marsh’s…
2 years, 2 months ago
Rachel Greenlaw, "Compass and Blade" (Inkyard Press, 2024)
Episode 400
Rachel Greenlaw's debut young adult romantasy, Compass and Blade (Inkyard Press, 2024) is filled with sirens and mysterious magic, swoony romance and…
2 years, 2 months ago
Zhang Ling, "Aftershock" (Amazon Crossing, 2024)
Episode 401
In the summer of 1976, an earthquake swallows up the city of Tangshan, China. Among the hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for survival is a …
2 years, 2 months ago
D. J. Green, "No More Empty Spaces" (She Writes Press, 2024)
Episode 399
No More Empty Spaces (She Writes Press, 2024) opens with Will Ross, an engineering geologist, who shares custody of his three children with his ex-wi…
2 years, 2 months ago
Wole Talabi, "Convergence Problems" (Astra Publishing House, 2024)
Episode 160
In his new story collection Convergence Problems (DAW Books, 2024), Wole Talabi investigates the rapidly changing role of technology and belief in ou…
2 years, 2 months ago
"Ploughshares" Magazine: A Discussion with Ladette Randolph
Episode 13
Ladette Randolph has served as editor-in-chief of Ploughshares literary journal since 2008, where she had acquired numerous notable essays and short …
2 years, 2 months ago
Nell Freudenberger, "The Limits" (Knopf, 2024)
Episode 124
The most thrilling work yet from the best-selling, prize-winning author of The Newlyweds and Lost and Wanted, a stunning new novel set in French Poly…
2 years, 2 months ago
Deborah Kalb, "Off to Join the Circus" (Apprentice House, 2023)
Episode 398
In Deborah Kalb’s debut adult novel Off to Join the Circus (Apprentice House Press 2023) it’s 2018, Howard Pinsky’s sister Adele, who ran away in 195…
2 years, 2 months ago
Greg Wrenn, "Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis" (Regalo Press, 2024)
Episode 214
A dazzling, evidence-based account of one man’s quest to heal from complex PTSD by turning to endangered coral reefs and psychedelic plants after tra…
2 years, 3 months ago
Marie Mutsuki Mockett, "The Tree Doctor" (Graywolf Press, 2024)
Episode 123
When the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett's stirring second novel returns to Carmel, California, to care for her mother, she finds herself s…
2 years, 3 months ago