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Back to SearchMelvin Burgess, "Loki: A Novel" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
Episode 70
In his new novel Loki (Pegasus Books, 2023), Melvin Burgess follows the antics of Norse mythology’s trickster god as he takes the reader on a wild ri…
3 years, 1 month ago
Edgar Gomez, "High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir" (Soft Skull, 2022)
Episode 104
Writing Latinos, from Public Books, is a new podcast featuring interviews with Latino (a/x/e) authors discussing their books and how their writing co…
3 years, 1 month ago
Helen Sword, "Writing with Pleasure" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 117
Listen to this interview of Helen Sword, professor emerita in the School of Humanities and the Centre for Arts and Social Transformation at the Unive…
3 years, 1 month ago
Lavinia Singer, "Artifice" (Prototype, 2023)
Episode 121
Artifice (Prototype, 2023), the debut collection by Lavinia Singer, is an exploration of the art of making. Its poems celebrate the artistry of craft…
3 years, 1 month ago
Evie Shockley, "Suddenly We" (Wesleyan UP, 2023)
Episode 381
In her new poetry collection Suddenly We (Wesleyan UP, 2023), Evie Shockley mobilizes visual art, sound, and multilayered language to chart routes to…
3 years, 1 month ago
Jenny Jackson, "Pineapple Street" (Pamela Dorman Books, 2023)
Episode 87
A deliciously funny, sharply observed debut of family, love, and class, this zeitgeisty novel follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn clan...
Darl…
3 years, 2 months ago
Rachel Heng, "The Great Reclamation" (Riverhead Books, 2023)
Episode 323
In the 1940s, Singapore was controlled by the British occupied by the Japanese and comprised of rubber plantations and decrepit fishing villages. A t…
3 years, 2 months ago
Tawanda Mulalu, "Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 62
Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die (Princeton UP, 2022) explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a…
3 years, 2 months ago
Volodymyr Rafeyenko, "The Length of Days: An Urban Ballad" (HURI, 2023)
Episode 19
The Length of Days: An Urban Ballad (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2023) is set mostly in the composite Donbas city of Z--an uncanny foretell…
3 years, 2 months ago
Mai Nardone, "Welcome Me to the Kingdom: Stories" (Random House, 2023)
Episode 131
Mai Nardone’s Welcome Me to the Kingdom (Random House, 2023) opens with two migrants from Thailand’s northeast who travel to Bangkok to make a new li…
3 years, 2 months ago