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Book Chat: "Human Glitches" (2020)
Episode 11
In this episode, our podcast host, Ti-han Chang, invited Ms Lin Hsin-hui, a bourgeoning Taiwanese Sci-fi writer to talk about her award-winning short…
3 years, 3 months ago
Idra Novey, "Take What You Need: A Novel" (Viking, 2023)
Episode 311
Today I talked to Idra Novey about her new novel Take What You Need (Viking 2023).
Leah, her husband, and their little son are driving back to where s…
3 years, 3 months ago
Juliana Lamy, "You Were Watching from the Sand" (Red Hen Press, 2023)
Episode 309
Playful, kinetic, and devastating in turn, You Were Watching from the Sand (Red Hen Press, 2023) is a collection in which Haitian men, women, and chi…
3 years, 3 months ago
Mohamed Tonsy, "You Must Believe in Spring" (Hajar Press, 2022)
Episode 310
You Must Believe in Spring (Hajar Press, 2022) is Mohamed Tonsy's "speculative fiction." It is about the future of Egypt when people's memory of the …
3 years, 3 months ago
Omer Bartov, "The Butterfly and the Axe" (Amsterdam Publishers, 2023)
Episode 381
Spring 1944. A Jewish family is murdered in a remote Ukrainian village. Who were they? Who were the killers?
Three generations later, an Israeli woman…
3 years, 3 months ago
Molly Greeley, "Marvelous" (William Morrow, 2023)
Episode 158
Once in a while, a novel comes along that is both different and special. Marvelous (William Morrow, 2023) is such a book. Retellings of fairy tales a…
3 years, 3 months ago
Kashana Cauley, "The Survivalists: A Novel" (Soft Skull Press, 2023)
Episode 82
Kashana is the author of the novel The Survivalists, which was published in January 2023 by Soft Skull Press. She’s also a TV writer who has written …
3 years, 3 months ago
Talia Lakshmi Kolluri, "What We Fed to the Manticore" (Tin House Books, 2022)
Episode 48
Through nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives, Talia Lakshmi Kolluri’s debut collection explores themes of environmen…
3 years, 3 months ago
Priscilla Gilman, "The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir" (Norton, 2023)
Episode 81
Growing up on the Upper West Side of New York City in the 1970s, in an apartment filled with dazzling literary and artistic characters, Priscilla Gil…
3 years, 3 months ago
Lavanya Lakshminarayan, "The Ten-Percent Thief" (Solaris, 2023)
Episode 151
In Lavanya Lakshminarayan’s science fiction novel, The Ten-Percent Thief (Solaris, 2023), is set in a world centered on meritocracy, where everyone i…
3 years, 3 months ago