Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchInquisition for Blood: The Making of a Black Female Serial Killer in the Jim Crow South with Lauren Nicole Henley (LSU Press, 2026)
Episode 2074
For three years in the early 1900s, a serial killer zigzagged across the rice belt region of the United States, using an everyday ax to slaughter Bla…
1 week, 5 days ago
A Room of His Own: Joseph Brodsky and the Making of a Bilingual Poet with Daria S. Smirnova (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
Episode 2073
A Room of His Own: Joseph Brodsky and the Making of a Bilingual Poet (Academic Studies Press, 2025) makes the original and persuasive claim that Brod…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Flannery and Regina: The Andalusia Chronicles with Carol Loeb Shloss
Episode 2072
The story of two women in the mid-twentieth-century South navigating financial independence, a changing rural landscape, and social norms.
Flannery an…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder: Giacomo Matteotti in Myth and Memory, 1924-2024 with Amy King (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 2071
In this episode, I speak with Dr Amy King of Bristol University about her book, The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder: Giacomo Matteotti in Myth and Memo…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Bernardo de Gálvez: Spanish Hero of the American Revolution with Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia (UNC Press, 2026)
Episode 2069
Although Spain was never a formal ally of the United States during the American Revolution, its entry into the war definitively tipped the balance ag…
3 weeks ago
Our Common Life: Folksong from the Front Porch to the Concert Hall with Stephen Wade
Episode 2070
Our Common Life: Folk Song from the Front Porch to the Concert Hall (U Illinois Press, 2026) by Stephen Wade is part memoir, part meditation on Ameri…
3 weeks ago
Cool Heat: Anita O'Day and Her Dangerous Jazz Life with James Gavin (Equinox, 2026)
Episode 2067
How did Anita O'Day-the legendary jazz singer who, along with Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, and Stan Getz, led the so-called "cool school"…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night with Julian Sancton
Episode 2068
I spoke with writer and The Hollywood Reporter editor Julian Sancton about his New York Times bestselling book, Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington with Marcia Chatelain
Episode 2065
There is no shortage of footage immortalizing the men who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, when 250,000 Americans gathered…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
The Last of the Ellis Island Jews: A Brooklyn Memoir with Joel Dinerstein (SUNY Press, 2026)
Episode 2066
Joel Dinerstein's The Last of the Ellis Island Jews (SUNY Press, 2026) is a tragicomic memoir of a dysfunctional, working-class Brooklyn Jewish famil…
3 weeks, 5 days ago