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Back to SearchChrysta Bilton, "Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings" (Little, Brown, 2022)
Episode 71
Chrysta Bilton is an American writer who lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children. Her first book, the memoir Normal Family: On Truth, …
3 years, 6 months ago
C. W. Gortner, "The American Adventuress" (William Morrow, 2022)
Episode 155
From Lucrezia Borgia to Marlene Dietrich, Empress Marie Fyodorovna of Russia, and most recently the actress Sarah Bernhardt, C. W. Gortner has made a…
3 years, 6 months ago
Jamil Jan Kochai, "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories" (Viking, 2022)
Episode 112
The first story in Jamil Jan Kochai’s newest collection has an interesting title and premise.
“Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain” leads The…
3 years, 6 months ago
Jonathan Escoffery, "If I Survive You" (MCD, 2022)
Episode 70
Jonathan Escoffery is the author of the linked story collection, If I Survive You, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and an Indie National Bestseller.…
3 years, 6 months ago
S. K. Waters, "The Dead Won't Tell" (Camcat Books, 2022)
Episode 297
In The Dead Won't Tell (Camcat Books, 2022), Abbie Adams is hired to write an article about an unsolved murder that took place in a small southern co…
3 years, 6 months ago
Zaure Batayeva and Shelley Fairweather-Vega, "Amanat: Women's Writing from Kazakhstan" (Gaudy Boy, 2022)
Episode 212
A man is arrested for a single typo, a woman gets on buses at random, and two friends reunite in a changed world.... Diverse in form, scope and style…
3 years, 6 months ago
Meg Howrey, "They're Going to Love You" (Doubleday Books, 2022)
Episode 69
Meg Howrey is the author of the novels They're Going to Love You, The Cranes Dance, and Blind Sight. She is also the coauthor, writing under the pen-…
3 years, 6 months ago
Hiron Ennes, "Leech" (Tordotcom, 2022)
Episode 148
“Soft sci-fi, gothic body horror” is how Hiron Ennes describes their debut novel, Leech (Tordotcom, 2022). But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Set…
3 years, 6 months ago
Richard Fulco, "There Is No End to This Slope" (Wampus Multimedia, 2014)
Episode 296
Today I talked to Richard Fulco about his novel There Is No End to This Slope (Wampus Multimedia, 2014).
Stephen Cane is a guitarist – he’s already wa…
3 years, 7 months ago
Ursula Villarreal-Moura, "Math for the Self-Crippling" (Gold Line Press, 2022)
Episode 68
Ursula Villarreal-Moura is the author of Math for the Self-Crippling (2022), selected by Zinzi Clemmons as the Gold Line Press fiction contest winner…
3 years, 7 months ago