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Back to SearchJessica Leigh Kirkness, "The House with All the Lights on: Three Generations, One Roof, a Language of Light" (Allen & Unwin, 2023)
Episode 18
Emily Pacheco speaks with writer and researcher Jessica Kirkness about her memoir, The House with All the Lights on: Three Generations, One Roof, a L…
2 years, 4 months ago
Tahir Annour, “Symphony of the South," The Common magazine (2024)
Episode 57
Mayada Ibrahim speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her translation of “Symphony of the South,” a short story by Tahir Annour that appears i…
2 years, 4 months ago
Yi-Han Lin, "Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise" (HarperVia, 2024)
Episode 532
In this episode, Jenna Tang shares with us her translation of Lin Yi-Han's Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise: A Novel (HarperVia, 2024), one of the m…
2 years, 4 months ago
Gina Chung, "Green Frog: Stories" (Vintage, 2024)
Episode 125
From the author of Sea Change comes Green Frog: Stories (Vintage, 2024) a short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, ani…
2 years, 5 months ago
Sasha Vasilyuk, "Your Presence Is Mandatory" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 408
In 2007 Ukraine, following the death of her husband, Yefim Shulman, Nina finds a letter he wrote to the KGB confessing the secret he’d kept for over …
2 years, 5 months ago
Alan Jenkins and Gan Golan, "1/6, The Graphic Novel: What if the Attack on the U.S. Capitol had Succeeded?" (Sun Print Solutions, 2023)
Episode 16
What if the January 6, 2021 Insurrection had been successful? A tale of what was, what could have been, and what still could be?
1/6: The Graphic Nove…
2 years, 5 months ago
A. Engels, "A Fool for an Heir" (2024)
Episode 178
Few destinies are more challenging than life in the orbit of a man obsessed with expanding his power at all costs. Such is the fate endured by Ivan I…
2 years, 5 months ago
Not Prophecy but Inversion: Omar El Akkad and Min Hyoung Song
Episode 49
Omar El Akkad joins critic Min Hyoung Song for a gripping conversation that interrogates fiction’s relationship to the real. Before he became a novel…
2 years, 5 months ago
"Salmagundi" Magazine: A Discussion with Bob Boyers
Episode 17
Robert Boyers founded the quarterly Salmagundi in 1965 and has been its editor in chief ever since. He’s the author of 12 books, including most rece…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Translator's Daughter: A Discussion with Grace Loh Prasad
Episode 215
Today’s book is: The Translator’s Daughter: A Memoir (Mad Creek Books, 2024), by Grace Loh Prasad, which is a unique immigration story about the lone…
2 years, 5 months ago