Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCourtney Denelle, "It's Not Nothing" (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2022)
Episode 116
Rosemary Candwell's past has exploded into her present. Down-and-out and deteriorating, she drifts from anonymous beds and bars in Providence, to a h…
2 years, 5 months ago
Lindsay Pereira, "The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao" (Vintage Books, 2023)
Episode 169
In December 1992, Hindu nationalists seize the Babri Masjid mosque and tear it down, proclaiming their wish to build a Hindu temple in its stead. The…
2 years, 5 months ago
Mark Ernest Pothier, "Outer Sunset" (U Iowa Press, 2023)
Episode 115
Jim Finley--a recently retired English teacher living alone on the shifting edge of San Francisco--has been set, unwittingly, on the back porch of li…
2 years, 5 months ago
Cynthia Marie Hoffman, "Exploding Head" (Persea Books, 2024)
Episode 140
Exploding Head (Persea Books, 2024) chronicles a woman’s childhood onset and adult journey through obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), which manifes…
2 years, 5 months ago
Rebecca Turkewitz, "Here in the Night" (Black Lawrence Press, 2023)
Episode 114
The thirteen stories in Rebecca Turkewitz's debut collection, Here in the Night (Black Lawrence Press, 2023), are engrossing, strange, eerie, and emo…
2 years, 5 months ago
Kyle Dillon Hertz, "The Lookback Window" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
Episode 113
Growing up in suburban New York, Dylan lived through the unfathomable: three years as a victim of sex trafficking at the hands of Vincent, a troubled…
2 years, 5 months ago
Vanessa R. Sasson, "The Gathering: A Story of the First Buddhist Women" (Equinox, 2023)
Episode 118
After the Buddha’s enlightenment, his aunt and adoptive mother, Mahapajapati Gotami, asks him to ordain women and welcome them into his new monastic …
2 years, 6 months ago
Lexi Freiman, "The Book of Ayn" (Catapult, 2023)
Episode 113
An original and hilarious satire of both our political culture and those who rage against it, The Book of Ayn (Catapult, 2023) follows a writer from …
2 years, 6 months ago
Vix Gutierrez, "Don’t Step Off the Path" (The Common magazine, 2023)
Episode 53
Vix Gutierrez speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her essay “Don’t Step Off the Path,” which appears in The Common’s most recent issue. Vix…
2 years, 6 months ago
Adi Wolfson, "I Am Your Father" (Pardes Press, 2023)
Episode 141
The poems in the book I Am Your Father (Pardes Press, 2019) were written during a period of great confusion and pain, culminating in the moment when…
2 years, 6 months ago