Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAndrew Ridker, "Hope" (Viking, 2023)
Episode 103
The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and idealistic) suburb west of Boston. Scott Greenspan is a…
2 years, 8 months ago
Marjorie Hudson, "Indigo Field" (Regal House Publishing, 2023)
Episode 365
Marjorie Hudson's Indigo Field (Regal House Publishing, 2023) paints a sweeping picture of multigenerational family trauma, Native American and Black…
2 years, 8 months ago
Robert Lashley, "I Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer" (Demersal, 2023)
Episode 364
Poet Robert Lashley's I Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer (Demersal, 2023) is a complex and compelling coming-apart-of-age story set in the Hilltop…
2 years, 8 months ago
Chris Stowers, "Bugis Nights" (Earnshaw Books, 2023)
Episode 157
In 1987, Chris Stowers ditches his dull job in the UK and embarks on a trip throughout the Asia-Pacific, following countless other adventurers travel…
2 years, 8 months ago
Stephanie Cowell, "The Boy in the Rain" (Regal House Publishing, 2023)
Episode 169
Robert Stillman, an eighteen-year-old Londoner, has few expectations when he travels to Nottingham to study with the Reverend George Langstaff. Life …
2 years, 8 months ago
What Would Undo the Maxim Gun? Magic: P. Djèlí Clark and andré carrington
Episode 41
Locus- and Nebula- award-winning author P. Djèlí Clark joins critic andré carrington (UC Riverside) and host Rebecca Ballard for a conversation about…
2 years, 8 months ago
Suzanne Berne, "The Blue Window: A Novel" (Marysue Rucci Books, 2023)
Episode 363
Today I talked to Suzanne Berne about her novel The Blue Window (Marysue Rucci Books, 2023).
Lorna is a clinical social worker, trained to talk to pe…
2 years, 8 months ago
Hannah Michell, "Excavations: A Novel" (One World, 2023)
Episode 156
Sae, former journalist turned a young mother of two in 1992 Seoul, is waiting for her husband, an engineer for a small construction company. He’s lat…
2 years, 8 months ago
Sherif M. Meleka, "Suleiman's Ring" (Hoopoe, 2023)
Episode 362
Today I talked to Sherif Meleka about his novel Suleiman’s Ring (Hoopoe, 2023)
An enchanted ring brings good fortune to an Egyptian oud player in this…
2 years, 8 months ago
Caitlin Cowan, "Happy Everything" (Cornerstone Press, 2024)
Episode 128
Caitlin Cowan is the author of Happy Everything, forthcoming in February 2024 from Cornerstone Press. Caitlin holds a PhD in English from the Univers…
2 years, 8 months ago