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Hester Fox, "A Lullaby for Witches" (Graydon House Books, 2022)
Augusta is a meek museum curator trapped in a dead-end job and relationship, when an employment offer to become the collections manager at Harlowe House…
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Sean Singer, "Today in the Taxi" (Tupelo Press, 2022)
The first poem in Sean Singers’ new collection of poetry, Today in the Taxi, published by Tupelo Press, begins with, “Today in the taxi, I brought a man from…
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Bede Scott, "Too Far from Antibes" (Penguin, 2022)
Jean-Luc Guéry is a man down on his luck. Middling journalist, gambling addict, alcoholic. Yet when news of his brother’s murder in Saigon reach him in France…
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Andy Bragen, "This Is My Office and Notes on My Mother's Decline: Two Plays" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
On this episode of New Books in Performing Arts, we talk with Andy Bragen about two plays of his published in a new volume by Northwestern University Press…
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Fernanda Melchor and Sophie Hughes, "Paradais" (New Directions, 2022)
An interview with Fernanda Melchor, finalist for the International Booker Prize, and author most recently of Paradais (New Directions, 2022). And Sophie…
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Amadou Hampâté Bâ, "Amkoullel: The Fula Boy" (Duke UP, 2021)
“In Africa, when an elder dies, a library burns.” We’ve all heard this phrase, or some version of it, but not all of us know who uttered it. It was the…
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R. Cathey Daniels, "Live Caught" (Black Lawrence Press, 2022)
In Live Caught (Black Lawrence Press 2022) by R. Cathey Daniels, we meet Lenny after he’s stolen money and a skiff in an attempt to escape his abusive older…
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Ta-wei Chi, "The Membranes: A Novel" (Columbia UP, 2021)
It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of…
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Ernest Hemingway, "The Sun Also Rises: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism" (Norton, 2022)
“Finally, the first of Norton’s long-awaited treatments of Ernest Hemingway, the American who, more than anyone, changed the look and sound of modern American…
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Romeo Oriogun, "The Sea Dreams of Us," Common magazine (Fall, 2021)
Romeo Oriogun speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his poem “The Sea Dreams of Us,” which appears in The Common’s fall issue. In this conversation…
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79* Madeline Miller on Circe (GT, JP)
In this rebroadcast, John and Brandeis neuroscientist Gina Turrigiano (an occasional host and perennial friend of Recall this Book) speak with Madeline Miller…
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Mikaela Nyman and Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen, "Sista, Stanap Strong!: A Vanuatu Women's Anthology" (Te Herenaa Waka UP, 2021)
Sista, Stanap Strong!: A Vanuatu Women's Anthology (Te Herenaa Waka UP, 2021) is an anthology of new writing from Vanuatu by three generations of women—and the…
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Farzana Doctor, "You Still Look the Same" (Freehand Books, 2022)
Farzana Doctor is a Toronto-based author, activist and a psychotherapist. She has written four critically acclaimed novels. Her latest, Seven, which Ms…
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Edith Saavedra, "The Lamps of Albarracin" (2018)
The Lamps of Albarracin tells the story of Sarita, who looks back on her life before and after the Inquisition arrived in her town. It’s 15th century Spain…
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Sigal Naor Perelman, "Machluta" (Pardes, 2020)
This episode is part of a series of recordings I do with artists and scholars from Israel and Palestine. To allow people from the conflict to make their voices…
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Book Talk 51: Ardythe Ashley on Oscar Wilde
Secretly his unconscious body, still flickering with life, is spirited away by to an island monastery in the Venetian lagoon where he recovers his health and…
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Natasha Brown, "Assembly" (Little Brown, 2022)
An interview with Natasha Brown, winner of the London Writers Award, and author of Assembly (Little Brown, 2021), the story of a young black British woman…
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Simon Armitage, "A Vertical Art: On Poetry" (Princeton UP, 2022)
In A Vertical Art: On Poetry (Princeton UP, 2022), acclaimed poet Simon Armitage takes a refreshingly common-sense approach to an art form that can easily lend…
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3.6 Why are you in bed? Why are you drinking? Colm Tóibín and Joseph Rezek in Conversation
Colm Tóibín, the new laureate for Irish fiction, talks to Joseph Rezek of Boston University, and guest host Tara K. Menon of Harvard. The conversation begins…
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David Maroto, "The Artist's Novel: A New Medium" (Mousse, 2020)
For better or worse, artists write. But why would a visual artist write a novel? How should such a novel be experienced? How does the artist’s novel compare or…
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Erica Ruth Neubauer, "Danger on the Atlantic" (Kensington, 2022)
From the years leading up to and into the French Revolution, we move forward in time to 1926. In Danger on the Atlantic (Kensington Publishing, 2022), Jane…
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78 Fantasy Then, Now, and Forever with Anna Vaninskaya
Elizabeth and John talk about fantasy's power of world-making with Edinburgh professor Anna Vaninskaya, author of William Morris and the Idea of Community…
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Chris Panatier, "Stringers" (Angry Robot, 2022)
Take an average-to-below-average man, his loyal best friend, a jar of pickles, and some bug sex facts, and what do you have? The answer to that is Stringers…
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Jeff Deutsch, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" (Princeton UP, 2022)
In In Praise of Good Bookstores (Princeton University Press, 2022), Jeff Deutsch, the director of the Seminary Co-op Bookstores in Chicago, aims to make the…
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Jennifer Egan, "The Candy House" (Scribner, 2022)
An interview with Jennifer Egan, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and author most recently of The Candy House…
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Sara A. Mueller, "Bone Orchard" (Tor Books, 2022)
Get ready for a cruel dark world of abnegation and revenge, featuring a woman who struggles to achieve psychic integration after a succession of betrayals…
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3.5 The Romance of Recovery: Ben Bateman talks to Shola von Reinhold (AV)
Shola von Reinhold is the author of LOTE, a novel about getting lost in the archives and finding what the archives have lost. LOTE won the 2021 James Tait…
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Phil Christman, "How to Be Normal: Essays" (Belt, 2022)
What does it mean to be normal? What even is normal? It’s a strange concept, dependent entirely on context and yet, in spite of this flexibility, it’s an…
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Joan Schweighardt, "River Aria" (Five Directions Press, 2020)
Today I talked to Joan Schweighardt about her novel River Aria (Five Directions Press, 2020). It’s 1928 and Estela Euquério Hopper, of Manaus, Brazil, is the…
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Ed Davis, "The Last Professional" (Artemesia Publishing, 2022)
This is a story of America! Lynden Hoover, a young man on the brink of a new beginning, cannot embrace it without confronting the traumas of his past. Help…
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Adam Wyeth, "about:blank" (Salmon Poetry, 2021)
The city of Dublin, with its ancient cobblestones, historic pubs, and legendary river Liffey, has been a source of inspiration for writers and poets for…
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Shubha Sunder, “A Very Full Day” The Common magazine (Fall 2021)
Shubha Sunder speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her story “A Very Full Day,” which appears in The Common’s fall issue. In this conversation, Shubha…
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Elaine Hsieh Chou, "Disorientation: A Novel" (Penguin, 2022)
In Disorientation: A Novel by Elaine Hsieh Chou (Penguin Press, 2022), we meet Ingrid Yang: an eighth-year PhD student in East Asian studies struggling to…
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Billy O'Callaghan, "Life Sentences" (Godine, 2022)
Life Sentences (Godine, 2022) tells three interconnected stories about a family in his home country of Ireland. In lyrical, moving prose, with characters that…
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Eva Stachniak, "The School of Mirrors" (William Morrow, 2022)
France in 1755 is a country of extremes. The streets of Paris are filled with the poor and downtrodden, whereas just a few miles away lies the Palace of…
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Ken Krimstein, "When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
When I Grow Up, the latest graphic nonfiction narrative from New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein, is based on six of hundreds of newly discovered…
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Leslie T. Grover, "The Benefits of Eating White Folks" (Jaded Ibis Press, 2022)
Today I talked to Leslie T. Grover about her book The Benefits of Eating White Folks (Jaded Ibis Press, 2022). The Sickness, a disease with unknown origins, is…
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Kenneth Hsien-y Pai and Susan Chan Egan, "A Companion to the Story of the Stone: A Chapter-By-Chapter Guide" (Columbia UP, 2021)
A Companion to The Story of the Stone: A Chapter-by-Chapter Guide (Columbia UP, 2021), co-authored by Susan Chan Egan and Pai Hsien-yung (Columbia University…
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3.4 The Work of Inhabiting a Role: Charles Yu speaks to Chris Fan (JP)
Charles Yu won the 2020 National Book Award for Interior Chinatown but some of us became fans a decade earlier, with How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional…
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Ra Page, ed., "The Cuckoo Cage" (Comma Press, 2022)
The superhero of comic books and blockbuster movies may be a quintessentially American invention, forever saving the world in skin-tight spandex. But the…
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Caitlin Barasch, "A Novel Obsession" (Dutton Book, 2022)
An interview with Caitlin Barasch, author of A Novel Obsession (Dutton Books, 2022), a debut novel about a young woman convinced that she must be a writer, but…
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Peng Shepherd, "The Cartographers" (William Morrow, 2021)
Nell Young, a dedicated cartographer, once had it all—a dream job in the New York Public Library, a stylish boyfriend, Felix, who understood her obsession with…
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Ruta Sepetys, "I Must Betray You" (Philomel Books, 2022)
Ruta Sepetys is a an acclaimed “crossover” author (read by both young people and adults) of historical novels. In her latest novel I Must Betray You (Philomel…
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Tania Bayard, "Murder in the Cloister" (Severn House Publishers, 2021)
There is a great temptation, when writing about the past, to sanitize its circumstances and attitudes to make the characters more palatable to present-day…
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Tom Sleigh, “Last Cigarette” and “Apology to My Daughter,” The Common magazine (Fall 2021)
Tom Sleigh speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his poems “Last Cigarette” and “Apology to My Daughter,” which appear in The Common’s fall issue. In…
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Mike Chen, "Light Years from Home: A Novel" (Mira Books, 2022)
Literature is full of families torn apart by tragedy—death, war, crime. But what if the members of a family can’t agree on the cause of the tragedy that…
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Allegra Hyde, "Eleutheria" (Vintage, 2022)
An interview with Allegra Hyde, author of Eleutheria (Vintage, 2020), a debut novel about an idealist who comes face to face with the allure and pitfalls of…
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Sara Goudarzi, "The Almond in the Apricot" (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2022)
Today I talked to Sara Goudarzi about her novel The Almond in the Apricot (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2022). Emma lives in New Jersey, works as a civil engineer…
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Sherry Scott, "Playhouses: Sexuality and Fundamentalism" (Black Rose Writing, 2022)
In this episode of Queer Voices of the South I talk to Dr. Sherry Scott about her new book Playhouses: Sexuality and Fundamentalism, released in February 2022…
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Nandi Timmana, "Theft of a Tree" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Legend has it that the sixteenth-century Telugu poet Nandi Timmana composed Theft of a Tree, or Pārijātāpaharaṇamu, which he based on a popular millennium-old…
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3.3 In the Editing Room with Ruth Ozeki and Rebecca Evans (EH)
Ruth Ozeki, whose most recent novel is The Book of Form and Emptiness, speaks with critic Rebecca Evans and guest host Emily Hyde. This is a conversation about…
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Ira Mukhoty, "Song of Draupadi" (Aleph Book Company, 2021)
The Mahabharata is one of the central works of Indian literature—its characters, lessons, and tropes are widely known and referenced in Indian popular culture…
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Sandra Cavallo Miller, "Where No One Should Live" (U Nevada Press, 2021)
Today I talked to Sandra Cavallo Miller about her novel Where No One Should Live (U Nevada Press, 2021). Dr. Maya Summer works at Arizona Public Health…
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Mazey Eddings, "A Brush with Love: A Novel" (St. Martin's Griffin, 2022)
Nine out of ten dentists agree, Mazey Eddings's rom-com A Brush with Love (St. Martin's Griffin, 2022) makes your smile brighter!* *not scientifically proven…
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Sequoia Nagamatsu, "How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel" (William Morrow, 2022)
Today I talked to Sequoia Nagamatsu about his novel How High We Go in the Dark (William Morrow, 2022). In 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic…
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Bryn Turnbull, "The Last Grand Duchess: A Novel" (Mira, 2022)
Interest in the events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 has only increased since the centenary of the Romanovs’ assassination in 1918. Bryn…
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Julia Cooke, “Past and Future on Rapa Nui," The Common magazine (Fall, 2021)
Julia Cooke speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her essay “Past and Future on Rapa Nui,” which appears in The Common’s fall issue. In this…
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Claudio Sopranzetti and Sara Fabbri, "King of Bangkok" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Bangkok, as Thailand’s largest and most economically-important cities, attracts migrants from all over the country. Drawn to its economic opportunities…
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Eghosa Imasuen, "Fine Boys: A Novel" (Ohio UP, 2021)
In Fine Boys: A Novel (Ohio University Press, 2021), Ewaen is a Nigerian teenager, bored at home in Warri and eager to flee from his parents’ unhappy marriage…
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Mia P. Manansala, "Homicide and Halo-Halo" (Berkley, 2022)
Homicide and Halo-Halo (Berkley, 2022) is the second cozy mystery in the Tita Rosie’s Kitchen mystery series. Written in first person, baker Lila Macapagal is…