Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLarry F. Sommers, "Price of Passage: A Tale of Immigration and Liberation" (DX Varos, 2022)
Episode 278
Price of Passage: A Tale of Immigration and Liberation (DX Varos, 2022), Larry Sommers opens in 1853 in Norway, where only firstborn sons inherited t…
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Lan Samantha Chang, "The Family Chao: A Novel" (Norton, 2022)
Episode 97
The Fine Chao, a Chinese restaurant in the town of Haven, is known for its food and its boisterous owner, Big Leo Chao. Leo is loud, assertive and ag…
3 years, 10 months ago
Liesl Schwabe, "The Marching Bands of Mahatma Gandhi Road," The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)
Episode 42
Liesl Schwabe speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her essay “The Marching Bands of Mahatma Gandhi Road,” which appears in The Common’s spri…
3 years, 10 months ago
Geetanjali Shree, "Tomb of Sand" (Tilted Axis Press, 2021)
Episode 276
Today I talked to Daisy Rockwell, translator of Geetanjali Shree's novel Tomb of Sand (Tilted Axis Press, 2021)
An eighty-year-old woman slips into a …
3 years, 10 months ago
R. F. Kuang, "Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution" (Harper Voyager, 2022)
Episode 275
In R. F. Kuang’s Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution (Harper Voyager in 2022), we meet Robin…
3 years, 10 months ago
His Sister, Her Monologue: A Discussion with Hilton Als
Episode 44
In this 2011 episode from The Vault, Hilton Als reads from, and discusses, His Sister, Her Monologue, a novella he published in Mcsweeney's #35. Als …
3 years, 10 months ago
Howard Jay Smith, "Meeting Mozart: A Novel Drawn From the Secret Diaries of Lorenzo Da Ponte" (Sager Group, 2020)
Episode 274
Today I talked to Howard Jay Smith about his new novel Meeting Mozart (The Sager Group, 2020).
It’s 1946, and a young army intelligence officer is awa…
3 years, 10 months ago
Elaine Hsieh Chou, "Disorientation: A Novel" (Penguin, 2022)
Episode 52
Elaine Hsieh Chou is a Taiwanese American writer from California. A 2017 Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow at NYU and a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow, her short fi…
3 years, 10 months ago
Meenal Shrivastava, "Amma’s Daughters: A Memoir" (Athabasca UP, 2018)
Episode 204
Today I talked to about Amma’s Daughters: A Memoir (Athabasca UP, 2018). This book is available open access here.
As a precocious young girl, Surekha…
3 years, 10 months ago
Megan Giddings, "The Women Could Fly" (Amistad, 2022)
Episode 144
The Women Could Fly (Amistad, 2022) is set in our contemporary world with one big difference. A belief in witches gives rise to laws and a culture th…
3 years, 10 months ago