Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRan Oron, "He Could See a Bird Outside if He Looked Through His Window" (Persimmon Books, 2023)
Episode 153
From his home in Connecticut, Ran Oron observed and drew a pair of ospreys, a couple of birds of prey that return each year to the same nest.
With a d…
2 years, 6 months ago
Eliza Minot. "In the Orchard" (Knopf, 2023)
Episode 111
A novel about womanhood, modern family, and the interior landscape of maternal life, as seen through the life of a young wife and mother on a single …
2 years, 6 months ago
Martin Clark, "The Plinko Bounce" (Rare Bird Books, 2023)
Episode 380
For seventeen years, small-town public defender Andy Hughes has been underpaid to look after the poor, the addicted, and the unfortunate souls who co…
2 years, 6 months ago
Mary Kay Zuravleff, "American Ending" (Blair, 2023)
Episode 378
It’s the early 1900s in an Appalachian town filled with immigrants, and Yelena is the first American born to her Old Believer Russian Orthodox parent…
2 years, 6 months ago
Booksellers' Best Books of 2023
Episode 110
Every year one of my absolute favorite episodes is the Booksellers Best-Of episode for which I get to interview independent bookstore managers, owner…
2 years, 6 months ago
Karina Shor, "Silence, Full Stop" (Street Noise Books, 2023)
Episode 127
Alina Gorban is an illustrator of 22 children's books, a cartoonist, and a teaching artist. In our interview we celebrate her new graphic novel entit…
2 years, 6 months ago
Karina Shor, "Silence, Full Stop" (Street Noise Books, 2023)
Episode 127
Alina Gorban is an illustrator of 22 children's books, a cartoonist, and a teaching artist. In our interview we celebrate her new graphic novel entit…
2 years, 6 months ago
Jarret Keene, "Hammer of the Dogs" (U Nevada Press, 2023)
Episode 377
Set in the wasteland of post-apocalyptic Las Vegas, Jarret Keene's, Hammer of the Dogs (University of Nevada Press, 2023), is a literary dystopian a…
2 years, 6 months ago
Bryan Washington, "Family Meal" (Riverhead Books, 2023)
Episode 109
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel about two young men, once best friends, whose lives c…
2 years, 6 months ago
Boria Sax, "Enchanted Forests: The Poetic Construction of a World Before Time" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Episode 177
Linking literature, philosophy, art, and personal experience, a moving exploration of the wooded landscape’s power.
In 1985 Boria Sax inherited an are…
2 years, 6 months ago