Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMarion Deeds, "Comeuppance Served Cold" (Tordotcom, 2022)
Episode 63
A clever magical mystery which needs your full attention, Comeuppance Served Cold (Tordotcom, 2022) challenges this podcaster to write a review witho…
3 years, 9 months ago
Steve Stern, "The Village Idiot" (Melville House, 2022)
Episode 281
The Village Idiot by Steve Stern (Melville House, 2022) opens with a marvelous boat race on the River Seine in 1917. The already well-known artist Am…
3 years, 9 months ago
Joma West, "Face" (Tordotcom, 2022)
Episode 145
People have always cared about their social status and how others perceive them, but advances in technology have changed how we ascend the social lad…
3 years, 9 months ago
Davida Breier, "Sinkhole" (U New Orleans Press, 2022)
Episode 129
Davida Breier talks about her debut novel Sinkhole (University of New Orleans Press, 2022). Humidity, lovebugs, and murder. Lies from the past and a …
3 years, 9 months ago
Laurie R. King, "Back to the Garden: A Novel" (Bantam, 2022)
Episode 147
Today I talked to Laurie R. King about her new novel Back to the Garden: A Novel (Bantam, 2022).
Inspector Raquel Liang of the San Francisco Police De…
3 years, 9 months ago
Joanna Campbell, "Instructions for the Working Day" (Fairlight Books, 2022)
Episode 279
In Instructions for the Working Day by Joanna Campbell (Fairlight Books, 2022), Neil Fischer has inherited his father's former hometown of Marschwald…
3 years, 9 months ago
Rebecca Bernard, "Our Sister Who Will Not Die: Stories" (Madcreek Books, 2022)
Episode 280
This stories in this collection ask the reader to evaluate the humanness of the characters as well as readers’ own humaneness and capacity for empath…
3 years, 9 months ago
Sarah Thankam Mathews, "All This Could Be Different" (Viking, 2022)
Episode 65
Sarah Thankam Mathews grew up between Oman and India, immigrating to the United States at seventeen. She is a recipient of a Best American Short Stor…
3 years, 9 months ago
Karinne Keithley Syers, "Astrs" (53rd State Press, 2022)
Episode 108
Karinne Keithley Syers is the founding editor of 53rd State Press, and Astrs is the play that inspired that long-running experiment in publishing ava…
3 years, 9 months ago
Ben Ackerman, "Open When You Are: A Mystical Novel" (2016)
Episode 277
Gabel's eatery is always open, feeding hungry hearts, bodies, and souls. When Strad, a young man at odds with life, wanders in, an uncanny encounter …
3 years, 9 months ago