Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOvertaken by Awe: Sheila Heti speaks with Sunny Yudkoff
Episode 45
Sheila Heti sits down with Sunny Yudkoff and ND host John Plotz to discuss her incredibly varied oeuvre. She does it all: stories, novels, alphabetiz…
2 years, 6 months ago
Olena Stiazhkina, "Cecil the Lion Had to Die" (HURI, 2023)
Episode 30
In 1986 Soviet Ukraine, two boys and two girls are welcomed into the world in a Donetsk maternity ward. Following a Soviet tradition of naming things…
2 years, 6 months ago
Sheldon Birnie, "Where the Pavement Turns to Sand" (Malarkey Books, 2023)
Episode 376
Where the Pavement Turns to Sand (Malarkey Books, 2023) is a collection of working class, everyday heartbreaks and bad decisions. In a refreshing rur…
2 years, 6 months ago
Katherine Vaz, "Above the Salt" (Flatiron Books, 2023)
Episode 375
Today I talked to Katherine Vaz about her new novel Above the Salt (Flatiron Books, 2023).
In 1843-1846, on the Portuguese island of Madeira, five-yea…
2 years, 6 months ago
Isa Arsén, "Shoot the Moon" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
Episode 171
Annie Fisk—an only child in Los Alamos, New Mexico—spends a lot of time investigating the treasure trove of objects at the back of her garden. Her fa…
2 years, 6 months ago
Julie Schumacher, "The English Experience" (Doubleday, 2023)
Episode 108
Today I talked to Jule Schumacher about her new novel The English Experience (Doubleday, 2023).
Jason Fitger may be the last faculty member the dean w…
2 years, 6 months ago
Bradley P. Beaulieu, "The Dragons of Deepwood Fen" (Daw Books, 2023)
Episode 78
The Dragons of Deepwood Fen (Daw Books, 2023) is an immersive fantasy which takes you deep into a world of duality. There are two suns, one light and…
2 years, 6 months ago
Alix Christie, "The Shining Mountains" (High Road Books, 2023)
Episode 373
Angus McDonald had to escape from Scotland or risk arrest. In 1838, he contracted with the Hudson Bay Company to trade in the Pacific Northwest. Ther…
2 years, 6 months ago
Elizabeth Hoover, "The Archive Is All in Present Tense" (Barrow Street Press, 2022)
Episode 138
The Archive Is All in Present Tense (Barrow Street Press, 2022) attempts to capture the feeling of archival research, which, despite being an attempt…
2 years, 6 months ago
Douglas Weissman, "Life Between Seconds" (Addison & Highsmith, 2022)
Episode 374
In Life Between Seconds (Addison & Highsmith, 2022), Douglas Weissman explores found family and magic.
After his mother dies, Peter Berry collects me…
2 years, 6 months ago