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Episode 127
How does identity and experience inform your writing? This episode explores:
Professor Talty’s journey from community college student to college prof…3 years, 7 months ago
Mark Vanhoenacker, "Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World" (Knopf, 2022)
Episode 107
How does a pilot see the cities of the world? Unlike residents, who live there full-time, or tourists, who travel once and perhaps never again, pilot…
3 years, 7 months ago
Alastair Reynolds, "Eversion" (Orbit, 2022)
Episode 147
In Alastair Reynolds’ Eversion (Orbit, 2022), the setting keep changing—the epoch, location, and technology—but the characters remain more or less th…
3 years, 7 months ago
Robert J. Lloyd, "The Poison Machine" (Melville House, 2022)
Episode 153
London, 1679. Combining the color and adventure of Alexandre Dumas and the thrills of Frederick Forsyth, early scientists Harry Hunt and Robert Hooke…
3 years, 7 months ago
Eileen Pollack, "Maybe It's Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman" (Delphinium Books, 2022)
Episode 289
In her new essay collection, Maybe It’s Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman (Delphinium Books 2022), Eileen Pollack covers her life in snippets or b…
3 years, 7 months ago
May-lee Chai, "Tomorrow in Shanghai and Other Stories" (Blair, 2022)
Episode 22
In a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, May-lee Chai's latest collection Tomorr…
3 years, 7 months ago
Tess Gunty, "The Rabbit Hutch: A Novel" (Knopf, 2022)
Episode 61
Born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, Tess holds a B.A. in English with an Honor’s Concentration in Creative Writing from the University of Notre D…
3 years, 8 months ago
Kimberly Garrett Brown, "Cora's Kitchen" (Inanna Publications, 2022)
Episode 288
Cora’s Kitchen by Kimberly Garrett Brown (Inanna Publications 2022) is a striking novel told in letters, journal entries, and a series of stories wri…
3 years, 8 months ago
Maaz Bin Bilal, "Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan" (India Penguin Classics, 2022)
Episode 118
Today I talked to Maaz Bin Bilal about Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan (India Penguin Classics, 2022).
The poem ‘Chirag-e-D…
3 years, 8 months ago
Andrea Barrett, "Natural History: Stories" (Norton, 2022)
Episode 60
Andrea Barrett began writing fiction seriously in her thirties and published her first novel, Lucid Stars, in 1988. She’s particularly well known as …
3 years, 8 months ago