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Episode 43
Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Norton, 2022), which won the Booker Prize in 2022, is a thriller that begins in the afterlife…
2 years, 7 months ago
Annie Dawid, "Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown" (Inkspot, 2023)
Episode 370
Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown by Annie Dawid, (Inkspot Publishing 2023), opens long after 917 people died by drinking cyanide or by lethal in…
2 years, 7 months ago
Mina Seçkin, "The Four Humors" (Catapult, 2022)
Episode 105
Mina Seçkin's novel The Four Humors (Catapult, 2022) follows a young Turkish-American woman who, rather than grieving her father's untimely death, se…
2 years, 7 months ago
Reese Hogan, "My Heart Is Human" (Space Wizard Science Fantasy, 2023)
Episode 158
Today we talked to Reese Hogan about his book My Heart Is Human (Space Wizard Science Fantasy, 2023).
The body belongs to Joel Lodowick, a single pare…
2 years, 7 months ago
Kim Taylor Blakemore, "The Good Time Girls Get Famous" (Sycamore Creek Press, 2023)
Episode 369
Today I talked to Kim Taylor Blakemore about her new book The Good Time Girls Get Famous (Sycamore Creek Press, 2023).
Get ready for the latest rip-ro…
2 years, 7 months ago
Angie Kim, "Happiness Falls" (Hogarth Press, 2023)
Episode 104
"We didn't call the police right away." Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Vir…
2 years, 7 months ago
Narrative, Database, Archive: Tom Comitta and Deidre Lynch (AV)
Episode 42
12 tables; 300 novels, 1500 pages of nature description: This is how Tom Comitta created The Nature Book (Coffee House Press, 2023), a one-of-a-kind …
2 years, 7 months ago
Phyllis M. Skoy, "A Coup: The Turkish Trilogy #3" (Black Rose Writing, 2023)
Episode 368
A Coup, the third novel in Phyllis Skoy’s Turkish Trilogy (Black Rose Writing 2023) follows a young woman in Turkey. In the first book of the trilogy…
2 years, 7 months ago
Valerie Werder, "Thieves: A Novel" (Fence Books, 2023)
Episode 367
Thieves (Fence Books, 2023) is an autofictional account of a gallery girl named Valerie – an art worker in the big city, a product of an American chi…
2 years, 8 months ago
Sheldon Birnie, "Down in the Flood" (BookBaby, 2012)
Episode 366
Sheldon Birnie's novel Down in the Flood (BookBaby, 2012) is the story of a man who is rapidly becoming lost in a sea of women, whisky, and bad weath…
2 years, 8 months ago