Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchClaudia H. Long, "Our Lying Kin" (Kasva Press, 2023)
Episode 331
The story of middle-aged sisters Zara and Lilly begins in Long’s fast-paced, first novel in this witty series, Nine Tenths of the Law, when Zara reco…
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Susan Stinson, "Martha Moody" (Small Beer Press, 2020)
Episode 329
Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award in Fiction, Susan Stinson's Martha Moody (Small Beer Press, 2020) is a speculative western that follows Amanda,…
3 years, 1 month ago
Ray Nayler, "The Mountain in the Sea" (MCD, 2022)
Episode 330
Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to domina…
3 years, 1 month ago
Jane Roper, "The Society of Shame" (Anchor, 2023)
Episode 90
In this timely and witty combination of So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Where'd You Go, Bernadette? a viral photo of a politician's wife's "femini…
3 years, 1 month ago
Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky, "In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine" (Arrowsmith Press, 2023)
Episode 21
Ukraine may be the only country on earth that owes its existence, at least in part, to a poet. Ever since the appearance of Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar…
3 years, 1 month ago
Jessica Stilling, "After the Barricades" (DX Varos, 2023)
Episode 328
Today I talked to Jessica Stilling about her new novel After the Barricades (DX Varos, 2023).
After her mother dies in a tragic accident, Anna cleans …
3 years, 1 month ago
Anne-Marie Oomen, "As Long As I Know You: The Mom Book" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Episode 325
In As Long As I Know You: The Mom Book (U Georgia Press, 2022), Ann-Marie Oomen offers a real-time narrative of walking her mother through dementia t…
3 years, 1 month ago
Girls Against God
Episode 86
Cathi Unsworth, journalist and author of Bad Penny Blues, as well as numerous other novels, speaks with artists and author Jenny Hval about her recen…
3 years, 1 month ago
Andrew Porter, "The Disappeared: Stories" (Knopf, 2023)
Episode 89
A husband and wife hear a mysterious bump in the night. A father mourns the closeness he has lost with his son. A friendship with a married couple tu…
3 years, 1 month ago
David Plotz: Books in Dark Times (JP)
Episode 105
Aside from being John’s (younger, suaver and beardier) brother, what has the inimitable David Plotz done lately? Only hosted “The Slate Political Gab…
3 years, 1 month ago