Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRachel Khong, "Real Americans" (Knopf, 2024)
Episode 129
Real Americans (Knopf, 2024) begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media c…
2 years, 4 months ago
C. J. Spataro, "More Strange Than True" (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2024)
Episode 411
Award winning author and short fiction writer, C. J. Spataro's debut novel, More Strange Than True (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2024) takes us in to a wo…
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"Conjunctions" Magazine: A Discussion with Bradford Morrow
Episode 21
Bradford Morrow is an American novelist, editor, essayist, poet, and children’s book author. A professor of literature and Bard Center Fellow at Bard…
2 years, 4 months ago
Kimberly King Parsons, "We Were the Universe" (Knopf, 2024)
Episode 128
The trip was supposed to be fun. When Kit's best friend gets dumped by his boyfriend, he begs her to ditch her family responsibilities for an idyllic…
2 years, 4 months ago
Katherine Mezzacappa, "The Maiden of Florence" (Fairlight Books, 2024)
Episode 410
Giulia is an orphan who has been cloistered since she was a baby. In 1584, the powerful Medici family demands a test of virility from the Grand Duke …
2 years, 4 months ago
Jean Trounstine, "Motherlove: Stories" (Concord Free Press, 2024)
Episode 410
Motherlove (Concord Free Press, 2024) is the powerful short-story collection from Jean Trounstine, an acclaimed writer and social-justice activist wi…
2 years, 4 months ago
Machine, System, Code: Masande Ntshanga and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra (EH)
Episode 50
Building parallels between technology and the human imagination, Masande Ntshanga’s conversation with Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra explains how cities are…
2 years, 4 months ago
"Southern Humanities Review" magazine
Episode 20
Justin Gardiner is the author of two nonfiction books and a collection of poetry. His most recent title is the book-length lyric essay Small Altars, …
2 years, 4 months ago
Joan Leegant, "Displaced Persons: Stories" (New American Press, 2024)
Episode 409
Joan Leegant’s new story collection, Displaced Persons (New American Press 2024) delves into human stories of living in the 21st century. Characters …
2 years, 4 months ago
Jennine Capó Crucet, "Say Hello to My Little Friend" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
Episode 127
Failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael Reyes--you can call him Izzy--might not be the Scarface type, but why should that keep him from trying? Growing up…
2 years, 4 months ago