Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWriting the Counter-Book: Joshua Cohen with Eugene Sheppard (JP)
Episode 34
Eugene Sheppard joins his Brandeis colleague John Plotz to speak with Joshua Cohen about The Netanyahus. Is the 2021 novel a Pulitzer-winning bravura…
3 years, 2 months ago
Elizabeth Bradfield in Dark Times (JP)
Episode 103
For the RtB Books in Dark Times series back in 2021, John spoke with Elizabeth Bradfied, editor of Broadsided Press, poet, professor of creative writ…
3 years, 2 months ago
Brad Kelly, "House of Sleep" (2021)
Episode 321
Today I talked to Brad Kelly about his novel House of Sleep (2021).
A cerebral PsyFi thriller that will break your heart and then set it free. Think C…
3 years, 2 months ago
Daniel M. Ford, "The Warden" (Tor, 2023)
Episode 69
Daniel M. Ford’s new novel The Warden (Tor, 2023) follows Aelis de Lenti, a young necromancer in her first year as the Warden of Lone Pine—a small fr…
3 years, 2 months ago
Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi, "Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories" (Amistad Press, 2022)
Episode 322
Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi’s novel Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories (Amistad 2022), is a moving and unforgettable coll…
3 years, 2 months ago
C. S. Harris, "Who Cries for the Lost" (Berkley Books, 2023)
Episode 160
Fans of Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, know that the individual tales that form his saga combine complex, fast-paced, often political mysteries …
3 years, 2 months ago
Douglas Bauer, "The Beckoning World" (U Iowa Press, 2022)
Episode 320
Douglas Bauer's novel The Beckoning World (U Iowa Press, 2022) is set in the first quarter of the twentieth century and follows Earl Dunham. His week…
3 years, 2 months ago
Donnaldson Brown, "Because I Loved You: A Novel" (She Writes Press, 2023)
Episode 319
Today I talked to Donnaldson Brown about her new novel Because I Loved You (She Writes Press 2023)
Sixteen-year-old Leni O’Hare loves her horse, so wh…
3 years, 2 months ago
Lauren Kay Johnson, "The Fine Art of Camouflage" (MilSpeak Books, 2023)
Episode 148
Lauren Kay Johnson is just seven when she first experiences a sacrifice of war as her mother, a nurse in the Army Reserves, deploys in support of Ope…
3 years, 2 months ago
Marianna Kiyanovska, "The Voices of Babyn Yar" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2022)
Episode 17
Today I talked to the translators of Marianna Kiyanovska's The Voices of Babyn Yar (HURI, 2022), Max Rosochinsky and Oksana Maksymchuk.
With this coll…
3 years, 2 months ago