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Back to SearchJoseph Boone, "Furnace Creek" (Eyewear Publishing, 2021)
Episode 264
Taking its inspiration from Great Expectations, Furnace Creek (Eyewear Publishing, 2021) teases us with the question of what Pip might have been like…
3 years, 11 months ago
Jade Beer, "The Last Dress from Paris" (Berkley Books, 2022)
Episode 143
London, 2017. Lucille will do anything for her beloved grandmother. So when Granny Sylvie volunteers to send her to Paris to retrieve a beloved Dior …
4 years ago
Richard Swan, "The Justice of Kings" (Orbit, 2022)
Episode 61
The Justice of Kings (Orbit, 2022) opens with our young narrator, Helena, traveling from town to town as clerk to the King’s Justice, a learned and i…
4 years ago
Sheila Lowe, "Proof of Life" (Write Choice Ink, 2021)
Episode 263
Proof of Life (Write Choice Ink 2021) is the second book in author Sheila Lowe’s Beyond the Veil paranormal suspense series. In the first book (What …
4 years ago
William Ian Miller, "Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 260
In Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life (Oxford UP, 2020), William Ian Miller offers his reflections on the perverse consequences,…
4 years ago
Elan Barnehama, "Escape Route" (Running Wild Press, 2022)
Episode 262
In Elan Barnehama’s new novel, Escape Route (Running Wild Press 2022), it’s 1968 and 13-year-old Zach is about to become a bar mitzvah. That’s when h…
4 years ago
Shelly Oria and Kirstin Valdez Quade, "I Know What's Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom" (McSweeney’s Books, 2022)
Episode 44
Shelly Oria has just produced an anthology of writings on reproductive freedom that is available now from McSweeney’s Books, in partnership with The …
4 years ago
Tracy Lawson, "Answering Liberty's Call: Anna Stone's Daring Ride to Valley Forge" (Gray Lion Books, 2021)
Episode 142
Today I talked to Tracy Lawson about her novel Answering Liberty's Call: Anna Stone's Daring Ride to Valley Forge (Gray Lion Books, 2021).
In 1778, wa…
4 years ago
83* Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz on Zadie Smith
Episode 83
John and Elizabeth look back at Recall This Book’s terrific 2019 conversation with Zadie Smith , so you may want to listen to that again before proce…
4 years ago
David Wright Faladé, "Black Cloud Rising" (Grove Press, 2022)
Episode 260
In Black Cloud Rising (Grove Press 2022), author and scholar David Wright Faladé tells the story of Richard Etheridge, who towards the end of the Civ…
4 years ago