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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
Jessica 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