Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMimi Herman, "The Kudzu Queen" (Regal House, 2023)
Episode 302
Kudzu salesman James T. Cullowee arrives in Cooper County, North Carolina in the spring of 1941 to spread the gospel of kudzu. It can apparently feed…
3 years, 5 months ago
Fran Hawthorne, "I Meant to Tell You" (Stephen F. Austin State UP, 2022)
Episode 301
I Meant to Tell You, by Fran Hawthorne (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2022) opens during a conversation between Miranda Isaacs and her fi…
3 years, 5 months ago
Susan Stokes-Chapman, "Pandora" (Harper Perennial, 2023)
Episode 156
It is the very end of the eighteenth century, and Pandora Blake—known as Dora—lives at the edge of London society. Despite the opposition of her obno…
3 years, 5 months ago
Dan Kois, "Vintage Contemporaries" (Harper, 2023)
Episode 75
Dan Kois is the author of three nonfiction books: How to Be A Family, a memoir; The World Only Spins Foward, an oral history of Tony Kushner's Angels…
3 years, 5 months ago
Hadeer Elsbai, "The Daughters of Izdihar" (Harper Voyager, 2023)
Episode 66
The Daughters of Izdihar (Harper Voyager, 2023), like last year’s A Master of Djinn, is set in a world similar to Egypt, during the time of the suffr…
3 years, 5 months ago
Gil Hovav, "Candies from Heaven" (Green Bean Books, 2023)
Episode 50
"Uncle Aron's compliments, which hadn't changed since the days of the Bible, didn't sound so great. One time, he told my mother that she was 'awesome…
3 years, 5 months ago
Afsar Mohammad, "An Evening with a Sufi" (Red River, 2022)
Episode 288
Afsar Mohammad's An Evening with a Sufi (Red River, 2022) is a collection of Afsar's Telugu poems translated into to English by Asfar and Shamala Gal…
3 years, 5 months ago
Annalee Newitz, "The Terraformers" (Little, Brown, 2023)
Episode 149
In their new novel, The Terraformers (Little, Brown, 2023), Annalee Newitz leaps 60,000 years into the future, redefining ideas of peoplehood, democr…
3 years, 5 months ago
Svetlana Lavochkina, "Carbon: Song of Crafts" (Lost Horse Press, 2020)
Episode 10
Donetsk, the black gem of Ukraine―Eden and Sodom in one, a stew steaming with coal fever, Manifest Destiny of Europe's east: Svetlana Lavochkina send…
3 years, 5 months ago
Booksellers' Best of 2022
Episode 73
Lisa Swayze is the General Manager and Buyer at Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca’s cooperatively owned independent bookstore. You’ve heard me mention Buf…
3 years, 6 months ago