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Back to SearchJon Hickey's "Big Chief"
Eric Newman speaks with Jon Hickey about his debut novel Big Chief. The book is a gripping political thriller about the struggle for power, belonging…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Sarah LaBrie's "No One Gets to Fall Apart"
Medaya Ocher is joined by TV writer, memoirist and librettist Sarah Labrie, author of the book No One Gets to Fall Apart. The book is a memoir of LaB…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Sarah Schulman's "The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity"
Eric Newman and Kate Wolf speak with Sarah Schulman about her latest book, The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity. With a focus on practical politic…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Maggie Nelson's "Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth"
Maggie Nelson joins Kate Wolf to discuss her new book Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth. It is at once a compressed record of her long struggle wi…
1 year ago
Katie Kitamura's "Audition"
Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher speak with writer Katie Kitamura about her recent novel, "Audition," which explores a tense, complex relationship betwee…
1 year ago
Andrea Long Chu's "Authority"
Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher speak with Andrea Long Chu about Authority a collection of previously published and new essays and criticism. Authority …
1 year ago
Lynne Tillman's "Thrilled to Death"
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak to Lynne Tillman about her latest book, Thrilled to Death, a collection of short stories selected from over four dec…
1 year ago
Pankaj Mishra's "The World After Gaza: A History"
The writer Pankaj Mishra joins Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to discuss his new book, The World After Gaza: A History. It probes how the legacy of the H…
1 year, 1 month ago
Bruce Robbins's "Atrocity: A Literary History"
Eric Newman speaks with Bruce Robbins about his latest book, Atrocity: A Literary History, which explores how literary accounts of mass killing came …
1 year, 1 month ago
Torrey Peters' "Stag Dance"
Eric Newman speaks with Torrey Peters about her new story collection, Stag Dance, which spans genre, time, and place to explore the shifting sands of…
1 year, 1 month ago