Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchColleen Cambridge, "A Trace of Poison" (Kensington Publishing, 2022)
Episode 151
Agatha Christie hardly needs an introduction. The Queen of Mystery has reigned since the 1920s, and the recent release of films based on her books sh…
3 years, 8 months ago
Mally Becker, "The Counterfeit Wife: A Revolutionary War Mystery" (Level Best Books, 2022)
Episode 287
Today I talked to Mally Becker about her new book The Counterfeit Wife: A Revolutionary War Mystery (Level Best Books, 2022).
Philadelphia, June 1780.…
3 years, 8 months ago
Clay Vagrant, "The Empire's Bladesmen: Forbidden Relics" (Armored History, 2021)
Episode 152
Set during the Ming Dynasty that ruled over China, The Empire's Bladesmen: Forbidden Relics (Amored History, 2021) by Clay Vagrant is a gripping stor…
3 years, 8 months ago
Chelsea Martin, "Tell Me I'm An Artist" (Soft Skull Press, 2022)
Episode 59
Today I talked to Chelsea Martin's new book Tell Me I'm An Artist (Soft Skull Press, 2022).
Martin's first novel, tell me i'm an artist, is published…
3 years, 8 months ago
Faleeha Hassan, "War and Me" (Amazon Crossing, 2022)
Episode 286
An intimate memoir about coming of age in a tight-knit working-class family during Iraq's seemingly endless series of wars.
Faleeha Hassan became inti…
3 years, 8 months ago
Bruce Holsinger, "The Displacements: A Novel" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
Episode 185
Bruce Holsinger’s novel The Displacements (Riverhead Books, 2022) is a gripping saga about what might happen in a world in which climate change can w…
3 years, 8 months ago
Steven Kotler, "The Devil's Dictionary" (St. Martin's Press, 2021)
Episode 285
Hard to say exactly when the human species fractured. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn, protagonist of Last Tango in Cybersp…
3 years, 8 months ago
Tanvi Berwah, "Monsters Born and Made" (Sourcebooks Fire, 2022)
Episode 64
Today I talked to Tanvi Berwah about Monsters Born and Made (Sourcebooks Fire, 2022).
In our narrator Koral’s world—an oceanic world full of sea monst…
3 years, 8 months ago
Karen Heenan, "Coming Apart: A Novel of the Great Depression" (2022)
Episode 150
Today I talked to Karen Heenan about Coming Apart: A Novel of the Great Depression (2022).
Ava has always been poor, so she doesn't think the Great De…
3 years, 8 months ago
Ellen Doré Watson, “In Which Raging Weather is a Gift," The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)
Episode 44
Ellen Doré Watson speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her poem “In Which Raging Weather is a Gift,” which appears in The Common’s spring is…
3 years, 8 months ago