Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNazli Koca, "The Applicant" (Grove Press, 2023)
Episode 98
It's 2017 and Leyla, a Turkish twenty-something living in Berlin is scrubbing toilets at an Alice in Wonderland-themed hostel after failing her thesi…
2 years, 10 months ago
Marty Wingate, "The Orphans of Mersea House" (Crooked Lane Books, 2022)
Episode 352
Today I talked to Marty Wingate about her novel The Orphans of Mersea House (Alcove Press 2022).
Olive Kersey is both penniless and alone at 37 – her …
2 years, 10 months ago
B. D'Amato, "Triskele: A Novel" (Atmosphere Press, 2023)
Episode 351
In the unconscious, coincidence does not exist.
A bizarre tragedy drives ten-year-old Paul from his dysfunctional home, leaving his younger sister, Be…
2 years, 10 months ago
Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, "The Witch and the Tsar" (Ace Books, 2022)
Episode 166
Any novel set in Russia during the reign of Ivan the Terrible (1533–1584) is an instant draw for me; that is, after all, the setting for most of my o…
2 years, 10 months ago
Samuel R. Delany, Neveryon and Beyond
Episode 111
John Plotz talked with Samuel Delany, living legend of science fiction and fantasy back in 2019. You probably know him best for breakthrough novels l…
2 years, 10 months ago
Molly Peacock, "A Friend Sails in on a Poem: Essays on Friendship, Freedom and Poetic Form" (Palimpsest Press, 2022)
Episode 127
For the last forty-five years, the distinguished poets Molly Peacock and Phillis Levin have read and discussed nearly every poem they’ve written-an u…
2 years, 10 months ago
M. A. Carrick, "Labyrinth's Heart" (Orbit, 2023)
Episode 73
M. A. Carrick’s newest novel Labyrinth’s Heart (Orbit, 2023) is the culmination of their Rook and Rose trilogy, which chronicles the life of the thie…
2 years, 10 months ago
Michelle Brafman, "Swimming with Ghosts" (Keylight Books, 2023)
Episode 350
Today I talked to Michelle Brafman about her novel Swimming with Ghosts (Keylight Books, 2023).
Until her unemployed husband Charlie volunteers to ste…
2 years, 10 months ago
T. Kingfisher, "Thornhedge" (Tor, 2023)
Episode 71
T. Kingfisher’s newest novel Thornhedge (Tor, 2023) is a retelling of Sleeping Beauty that follows Toadling, the person in charge of keeping the fair…
2 years, 10 months ago
Joshua Cohen’s "The Netanyahus" (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
Episode 110
n this episode (originally aired by our partner Novel Dialogue) John and his Brandeis colleague Eugene Sheppard speak with Joshua Cohen about The Net…
2 years, 10 months ago