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Jenifer Debellis, "New Wilderness" (Cornerstone Press, 2023)
Jenifer DeBellis, M.F.A., is author of New Wilderness (Cornerstone Press, 2023), Warrior Sister, Cut Yourself Free from Your Assault (Library Tales Publishing…
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Meryl Ain, "Shadows We Carry" (Sparkspress, 2023)
Meryl Ain's Shadows We Carry (Sparkspress, 2023) is a follow-up to the author’s 2020 novel, The Takeaway Men, focuses on fraternal twins Bronka and JoJo…
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CK Westbrook, "The Shooting" (4 Horsemen Publications, 2022)
In The Shooting (4 Horsemen Publications, 2022), the first book in a trilogy, CK Westbrook superbly places real-life characters in a fantasy world filled with…
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Peter Mann, "The Torqued Man" (Harper Perennial, 2022)
Today I talked to Peter Mann about his book The Torqued Man (Harper Perennial, 2022). Berlin—September, 1945. Two manuscripts are found in rubble, each one…
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Ginny Kubitz Moyer, "The Seeing Garden" (She Writes Press, 2023)
Nineteen-year-old Catherine Ogden appears to have everything: youth, wealth, birth, breeding, and beauty. No one in New York high society is surprised when she…
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Victor LaValle, "Lone Women: A Novel" (One World, 2023)
Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide…
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Molly Lynch, "The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman" (Catapult, 2023)
Ada--a woman from Montreal living reluctantly in Michigan--vanishes from her bed one night while her husband Danny is asleep beside her, her young son, Gilles…
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Sarah Conover, "Set Adrift: A Mystery and a Memoir" (55 Fathoms Publishing, 2023)
Today I talked to Sarah Conover about her book Set Adrift: A Mystery and a Memoir (55 Fathoms Publishing, 2023). When racing yacht “The Revonoc” went down in…
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L. R. Lam, "Dragonfall" (DAW, 2023)
Today I talked to L. R. Lam about Dragonfall (DAW, 2023). Long ago, humans betrayed dragons, stealing their magic and banishing them to a dying world…
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Anna Lee Huber, "A Fatal Illusion" (Berkley Books, 2023)
A Fatal Illusion (Berkley Books, 2023)—the eleventh installment in Anna Lee Huber’s Lady Darby Mysteries featuring Kiera and Sebastian Gage—opens in Yorkshire…
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Joan Schweighardt, "Under the Blue Moon" (Five Directions Press, 2023)
Today I talked to Joan Schweighardt about her book Under the Blue Moon (Five Directions Press, 2023). An automobile accident in front of a homeless shelter…
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Michele Herman, "Just Another Jack: The Private Lives of Nursery Rhymes" (Finishing Line Press, 2022)
Michele Herman is author of the novel Save The Village (Regal House Publishing, 2022) and the poetry chapbook Victory Boulevard (Finishing Line Press) as well…
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Scott Russell Duncan, "El Porvenir, ¡Ya!: Citlalzazanilli Mexicatl" (2022)
Mexican American writers make their mark in Science Fiction literature! In this first of a kind anthology, written solely by Mexican Americans, we are taken…
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Mag Gabbert, "Sex Depression Animals" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
In Sex Depression Animals (Ohio State UP, 2023), Mag Gabbert redefines the bestiary in fiery, insistent, and resistant terms. These poems recast the traumas of…
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Anne Berest, "The Postcard" (Europa Editions, 2023)
Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest's The Postcard (Europa Editions, 2023) is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and…
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Gerardo Sámano Córdova, "Iceberg, Mine" The Common magazine (Fall, 2022)
Gerardo Sámano Córdova speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his story “Iceberg, Mine,” which appears in The Common’s fall 2022 issue. Gerardo talks…
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Tania James, "Loot: A Novel" (Knopf, 2023)
Abbas is just seventeen years old when his gifts as a woodcarver come to the attention of Tipu Sultan, and he is drawn into service at the palace in order to…
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A Forensic Level of Honesty: Aminatta Forna and Nicole Rizzuto (AV)
Aminatta Forna, author of Ancestor Stones (2006), Happiness (2018), and most recently The Window Seat (2021) joins Georgetown prof. Nicole Rizzuto and host…
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The Lost Journals of Sacajewea
Today’s book is: The Lost Journals of Sacajewea (Milkweed Editions, 2023), by Debra Magpie Earling, which is a devastatingly beautiful novel that challenges…
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Tania James, "Loot: A Novel" (Knopf, 2023)
Tania James' novel Loot (Knopf 2023) is about a young woodcarver who is ordered by Tipu Sultan, ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in late 18th century India to…
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Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart, "The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature" (Rose Metal Press, 2023)
Today I interview Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart about their new collaboration, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature (Rose Metal Press, 2023)…
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Anne Berest, "The Postcard" (Europa Editions, 2023)
January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front, a photo of the Opéra Garnier…
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Liisa Kovala, "Sisu's Winter War" (Latitude 46, 2022)
Today I talked to Liisa Kovala about her new novel Sisu's Winter War (Latitude 46, 2022). Meri Saari made a promise to her dying mother she would keep the…
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Emily Hockaday, "Naming the Ghost" (Cornerstone Press, 2022)
Emily Hockaday is a poet from Queens who writes about ecology, astronomy, and the city landscape, alongside more personal subjects. Her first collection Naming…
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Sara Alvarado, "Dreaming in Spanish: An Unexpected Love Story In Puerto Vallarta" (Little Creek Press, 2023)
In Dreaming in Spanish: An Unexpected Love Story In Puerto Vallarta (Little Creek Press, 2023), Sara Alvarado tells the story of growing up in Madison…
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Katharine Beutner, "Killingly" (Soho Press, 2023)
In 1897, a Mount Holyoke College junior named Bertha Mellish disappears from campus overnight, leaving no word for her family. It’s a time when female college…
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Monica Macias, "Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity" (Duckworth, 2023)
Monica Macias, the youngest daughter of Equatorial Guinea’s first president at just seven years old, lands in Pyongyang, North Korea in 1979. Her father had…
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They’re Not Metaphorical Demons: Mariana Enriquez and Magalí Armillas-Tisyera
Booker Prize shortlister Mariana Enriquez, author of Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, joins Penn State professor Magalí…
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Emma Mieko Candon, "The Archive Undying" (Tordotcom, 2023)
The Archive Undying (Tordotcom, 2023) is Emma Mieko Candon’s ambitious epic science fiction novel about intertwined human survivors following the violent fall…
New Books in LiteratureNeighbor George
Tariq Goddard (author, publisher and co-founder of Repeater Books) speaks with Victoria Nelson about her forthcoming book Neighbor George. Do you know the…
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Claudia H. Long, "Our Lying Kin" (Kasva Press, 2023)
The story of middle-aged sisters Zara and Lilly begins in Long’s fast-paced, first novel in this witty series, Nine Tenths of the Law, when Zara recognizes a…
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Susan Stinson, "Martha Moody" (Small Beer Press, 2020)
Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award in Fiction, Susan Stinson's Martha Moody (Small Beer Press, 2020) is a speculative western that follows Amanda, a woman…
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Ray Nayler, "The Mountain in the Sea" (MCD, 2022)
Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the…
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Jane Roper, "The Society of Shame" (Anchor, 2023)
In this timely and witty combination of So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Where'd You Go, Bernadette? a viral photo of a politician's wife's "feminine hygiene…
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Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky, "In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine" (Arrowsmith Press, 2023)
Ukraine may be the only country on earth that owes its existence, at least in part, to a poet. Ever since the appearance of Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar in 1840…
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Anne-Marie Oomen, "As Long As I Know You: The Mom Book" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
In As Long As I Know You: The Mom Book (U Georgia Press, 2022), Ann-Marie Oomen offers a real-time narrative of walking her mother through dementia to the end…
New Books in LiteratureGirls Against God
Cathi Unsworth, journalist and author of Bad Penny Blues, as well as numerous other novels, speaks with artists and author Jenny Hval about her recent book…
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Jessica Stilling, "After the Barricades" (DX Varos, 2023)
Today I talked to Jessica Stilling about her new novel After the Barricades (DX Varos, 2023). After her mother dies in a tragic accident, Anna cleans out her…
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Andrew Porter, "The Disappeared: Stories" (Knopf, 2023)
A husband and wife hear a mysterious bump in the night. A father mourns the closeness he has lost with his son. A friendship with a married couple turns into a…
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David Plotz: Books in Dark Times (JP)
Aside from being John’s (younger, suaver and beardier) brother, what has the inimitable David Plotz done lately? Only hosted “The Slate Political Gabfest“…
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The Meat and Bones of Life
With the publication of her most recent novel, White Horse, Erika T. Wurth breaks from the realism that characterized her earlier fiction and ventures into…
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Aaron Hamburger, "Hotel Cuba" (Harper Perennial, 2023)
Today I talked to Aaron Hamburger about his new novel Hotel Cuba (Harper Perennial, 2023). Two sisters fleeing the horror of the Soviet Revolution and…
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Jolene McIlwain, "Sidle Creek" (Melville House, 2023)
In her debut short story collection, Sidle Creek (Melville House, 2023), Jolene McIlwain skillfully interrogates the myths and stereotypes of the mining, mill…
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Eirinie Carson, "The Dead are Gods" (Melville House, 2023)
After an unexpected phone call on an early morning in 2018, writer and model Eirinie Carson learned of her best friend Larissa's death. In the wake of her…
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Heather Bourbeau, "Monarch" (Cornerstone Press, 2023)
Heather Bourbeau’s poetry and fiction appeared in 100 Word Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, Meridian, The Stockholm Review of Literature, and…
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Marian O'Shea Wernicke, "Out of Ireland" (She Writes Press, 2023)
Today I talked to Marian O’Shea Wernicke about her new novel Out of Ireland (She Writes Press, 2023). Most people have heard of the Irish famine in 1848 and…
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Robin Lee Carlson, "Reading the Ashes," The Common Magazine (Fall, 2022)
Robin Lee Carlson speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her essay “Reading the Ashes,” which appears in The Common’s fall 2022 issue. Robin talks about…
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Aleksandar Hemon, "The World and All That It Holds" (MCD, 2023)
Today I talked to Aleksandar Hemon about his new novel The World and All That It Holds (MCD, 2023). As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one…
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Gareth L. Powell, "Descendant Machine" (Titan Books, 2023)
Gareth L. Powell’s Descendant Machine (Titan Books, 2023) is set about 200 years in the future, and yet the recent explosion in A.I. technology suggests…
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Melvin Burgess, "Loki: A Novel" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
In his new novel Loki (Pegasus Books, 2023), Melvin Burgess follows the antics of Norse mythology’s trickster god as he takes the reader on a wild ride through…
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Edgar Gomez, "High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir" (Soft Skull, 2022)
Writing Latinos, from Public Books, is a new podcast featuring interviews with Latino (a/x/e) authors discussing their books and how their writing contributes…
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Helen Sword, "Writing with Pleasure" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Listen to this interview of Helen Sword, professor emerita in the School of Humanities and the Centre for Arts and Social Transformation at the University of…
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Lavinia Singer, "Artifice" (Prototype, 2023)
Artifice (Prototype, 2023), the debut collection by Lavinia Singer, is an exploration of the art of making. Its poems celebrate the artistry of craftsmanship…
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Evie Shockley, "Suddenly We" (Wesleyan UP, 2023)
In her new poetry collection Suddenly We (Wesleyan UP, 2023), Evie Shockley mobilizes visual art, sound, and multilayered language to chart routes towards…
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Jenny Jackson, "Pineapple Street" (Pamela Dorman Books, 2023)
A deliciously funny, sharply observed debut of family, love, and class, this zeitgeisty novel follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn clan... Darley, the…
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Rachel Heng, "The Great Reclamation" (Riverhead Books, 2023)
In the 1940s, Singapore was controlled by the British occupied by the Japanese and comprised of rubber plantations and decrepit fishing villages. A timid…
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Tawanda Mulalu, "Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die (Princeton UP, 2022) explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year…
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Volodymyr Rafeyenko, "The Length of Days: An Urban Ballad" (HURI, 2023)
The Length of Days: An Urban Ballad (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2023) is set mostly in the composite Donbas city of Z--an uncanny foretelling of…
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Elizabeth Bradfield in Dark Times (JP)
For the RtB Books in Dark Times series back in 2021, John spoke with Elizabeth Bradfied, editor of Broadsided Press, poet, professor of creative writing at…
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Mai Nardone, "Welcome Me to the Kingdom: Stories" (Random House, 2023)
Mai Nardone’s Welcome Me to the Kingdom (Random House, 2023) opens with two migrants from Thailand’s northeast who travel to Bangkok to make a new life for…