Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAlexandra Chang, "Tomb Sweeping: Stories" (Ecco Press, 2023)
Episode 107
Compelling and perceptive, Tomb Sweeping (Ecco Press, 2023) probes the loyalties we hold: to relatives, to strangers, and to ourselves. In stories se…
2 years, 6 months ago
Attention is Love: A Discussion with Lauren Groff and Laura McGrath (SW)
Episode 44
Just days before the release of her latest novel, The Vaster Wilds (Riverhead Books, 2023), three-time National Book Award Finalist and The New York …
2 years, 7 months ago
Lynn Miller, "The Lost Archive" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
Episode 372
The Lost Archive (U Wisconsin Press, 2023) is comprised of a cast of characters who are mostly dealing with, or in the aftermath of a crisis of some …
2 years, 7 months ago
Kawika Guillermo, "Nimrods: A Fake-Punk Self-Hurt Anti-Memoir" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 72
Today I talked to Christopher Patterson about two books: the late Y-Dang Troeung's Landbridge [life in fragments] (Knopf Canada, 2023) and Christophe…
2 years, 7 months ago
Andy Mozina, "Tandem" (Tortoise Books, 2023)
Episode 371
Today I talked to Andy Mozina about his new novel Tandem (Tortoise Books, 2023).
An economics professor at a Michigan college is struggling through a …
2 years, 7 months ago
Alice Simpson, "The Winthrop Agreement: A Novel" (Harper Paperbacks, 2023)
Episode 170
Rivkah Milman is just one of the thousands of young women who fled their homes in Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth century, looking for better p…
2 years, 7 months ago
Wole Talabi, "Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon" (Daw Books, 2023)
Episode 77
Wole Talabi’s debut novel Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon (Daw Books, 2023) follows Shigidi–a former nightmare god–and his partner, the succub…
2 years, 7 months ago
Proto-Science Fiction Classics: Joshua Glenn on MIT Press's "Radium Age Series"
Episode 265
Under the direction of founding editor Joshua Glenn, the MIT Press’s Radium Age series is reissuing notable proto–science fiction stories from the un…
2 years, 7 months ago
Ross Gay, "The Book of (More) Delights: Essays" (Algonquin Books, 2023)
Episode 114
In 2016, poet Ross Gay set out to document a delight each day for a year. After he published The Book of Delights, his friend asked him if he planned…
2 years, 7 months ago
Laura Sims, "How Can I Help You" (Putnam, 2023)
Episode 106
No one knows Margo's real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library only know her middle-aged normalcy, congeniality, and charm…
2 years, 7 months ago