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Back to SearchStephen Jenkinson and Kimberly Johnson, "Reckoning" (Iron God of Mercy, 2022)
Episode 300
Today I interview Kimberly Johnson and Stephen Jenkinson about their new book, Reckoning (Iron God of Mercy, 2022). Reckoning is an encounter, not on…
3 years, 6 months ago
Anna Hogeland, "The Long Answer" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
Episode 72
Today I talked to Anna Hogeland about her new novel The Long Answer (Riverhead Books, 2022). Hogeland is a psychotherapist in private practice, with …
3 years, 6 months ago
Sandy Moffett, "The Ghost of Craven Snuggs: A Midwestern Murder Mystery" (Ice Cube Press, 2022)
Episode 25
Today I talked to the wonderful Sandy Moffett. Sandy joined the Grinnell faculty in 1971 and teaches Acting, Directing and American Theatre. Although…
3 years, 6 months ago
Sarah Jane Butler, "Starling" (Fairlight Books, 2022)
Episode 299
Today I talked to Sarah Jane Butler about her novel Starling (Fairlight Books, 2022).
Starling is 19 and was raised in a camper van by a strong-willed…
3 years, 6 months ago
Michael X. Wang, "Lost in the Long March" (Overlook Press, 2022)
Episode 113
In 1934, tens of thousands of Communist guerillas fled Jiangxi, in an extended retreat through hazardous terrain to Shaanxi in the north, while under…
3 years, 6 months ago
95* Books in Dark Times: A Discussion with Kim Stanley Robinson
Episode 95
Kim Stanley Robinson, SF novelist of renown, has three marvelous trilogies: The Three Californias, Science in the Capital and Red Mars, Green Mars an…
3 years, 6 months ago
Jemma Borg, "Wilder" (Liverpool UP, 2022)
Episode 119
What is still wild in us – and is it recoverable? The poems in Wilder (Liverpool UP, 2022), Jemma Borg’s second collection, are acts of excavation in…
3 years, 6 months ago
Murray Lee, "Compass" (Publerati, 2022)
Episode 298
We can't all be heroes. Some try and succeed. Others posture and pretend. And a few--just a few--set off on their hero's quest only to discover that …
3 years, 6 months ago
Michelle R. Boyd, "Becoming the Writer You Already Are" (Sage, 2022)
Episode 90
Becoming the Writer You Already Are (Sage, 2022) helps scholars uncover their unique writing process and design a writing practice that fits how they…
3 years, 6 months ago
Mitzi Szereto, "The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes and Mysteries" (Mango, 2022)
Episode 140
Crimes are meant to be solved. But what happens when they’re not? For the individuals involved—from the victims and their families to police investig…
3 years, 6 months ago