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Gloria Blizzard, "Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas" (Dundurn Press, 2025)
Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas (Dundurn Press, 2025) by Gloria Blizzard is a diasporic collection of essays on music, memory, and motion.In this…
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Julia Sanches, "The Advice," The Common magazine
Translator Julia Sanches speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about translating “The Advice,” a story by Irene Pujadas, which appears in The Common’s fall…
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Rufi Thorpe, "Margo's Got Money Troubles" (William Morrow, 2024)
As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet's always known she’d have to make it on her own. So she enrolls at her local junior…
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Brian Hioe, "Taipei at Daybreak" (Repeater, 2025)
Brian Hioe is a Taipei-based writer, editor, translator, activist, and DJ who is best known for his journalism regarding Taiwan’s social and political…
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Andrew Lipstein, "Something Rotten" (FSG, 2025)
Andrew’s debut novel Last Resort was published in 2022 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the US, and Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK. You can hear our interview…
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Louise Ells, "Lies I Told My Sister" (Latitude 46, 2024)
Lies I Told My Sister (Latitude 46, 2024) is Ells’ second novel and is a sensitive, poignant work of fiction. Taking place over just 17 hours and alternating…
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Ben Berman Ghan, "The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024)
Ben Berman Ghan is the author of the bestselling novel, The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024).The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits is a gorgeously…
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Rod Carley, "Ruff: A Novel" (Latitude 46, 2024)
RuFF (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2024) is Rod Carley’s highly-anticipated fourth novel. This historical fiction transports us to Elizabethan England, where we…
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Glenn Diaz, "Yñiga: A Novel" (Ateneo de Manila UP, 2022)
Yniga, the main character of Glenn Diaz’s novel of the same name, returns to her unnamed fishing town after her urban neighborhood burns down in a fire–what…
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Roberta Satow, "Our Time Is Up" (Ipbooks, 2024)
Today I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Roberta Satow about her new book Our Time Is Up (Ipbooks, 2024).In 1895 Freud noticed that his case histories…
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Tara Dorabji, "Call Her Freedom" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
In this episode, we explore one woman’s struggle to protect her culture and her family amidst the backdrop of a military occupation.Our book is: Call Her…
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Maria Zoccola, "Helen of Troy, 1993" (Scribner, 2025)
In the hills of Sparta, Tennessee, during the early nineties, Helen decides to break free from the life that stifles her: marriage, motherhood, the monotonous…
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Mariam Pirbhai, "Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2023)
In Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging (Wolsak and Wynn, 2023), author Mariam Pirbhai looks carefully at the pocket of land she has…
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Zeeva Bukai, "The Anatomy of Exile: A Novel" (Delphinium Books, 2025)
The Anatomy of Exile by Zeeva Bukai (Delphinium Books 2025) opens in the aftermath of the 1967 Six Day War, when Tamar Abadi’s sister-in-law is killed by what…
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Jami Nakamura Lin, "The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir" (Mariner Books, 2023)
Jami Nakamura Lin spent much of her life feeling monstrous for reasons outside of her control. As a young woman with undiagnosed bipolar disorder, much of her…
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Ariel Gordon, "Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2024)
Both personal and entertaining, Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024) is the highly anticipated second book of a trilogy and shows…
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Fiona Davis, "The Stolen Queen" (Dutton, 2025)
Charlotte Cross has built a satisfying career as assistant curator in the Department of Egyptian Art at New York’s Metropolitan Museum. It’s 1978, the museum…
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Barbara Nickless, "The Drowning Game" (Thomas and Mercer, 2025)
Today I talked to Barbara Nickless about The Drowning Game (Thomas and Mercer, 2025).Two sisters are heirs to a company that builds yachts for the super…
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Anna Moschovakis, "An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth" (Soft Skull, 2024)
After a seismic event leaves the world shattered, an unnamed narrator at the end of a mediocre acting career struggles to regain the ability to walk on ground…
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Harman Burns, "Yellow Barks Spider" (Radiant Press, 2024)
Up-and-coming Vancouver trans author Harman Burns joins NBN host Hollay Ghadery to talk about Burns’ novella, Yellow Barks Spider (Radiant Press, 2024).Yellow…
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Kim Fahner, "The Donoghue Girl" (Latitude 46, 2024)
The Donoghue Girl (Latitude 46, 2024) is heart-wrenching historical fiction from beloved Canadian author, Kim Fahner. .With her incomparable ability to create…
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Steven Mayoff, "The Island Gospel According to Samson Grief" (Radiant Press, 2023)
PEI author Steven Mayoff's newest book, The Island Gospel According to Samson Grief (Radiant Press, 2023) masterfully disrupts the idyllic picture often…
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Aruni Kashyap, "The Way You Want to Be Loved: Short Stories" (Gaudy Boy, 2024)
At a New Delhi conference, an Assamese writer is interrogated on why he writes about magical folktales instead of the insurgencies. A mother splashes around in…
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Rob Osler, "The Case of the Missing Maid" (Kensington, 2024)
Set in 1898, Harriet Morrow is 21, supports her 16-year-old brother, and has been accepted as the first female detective at the Prescott Agency. She’s given…
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Suzy Krause, "I Think We've Been Here Before" (Radiant Press, 2024)
Suzy Krause’s latest speculative fiction novel, I Think We’ve Been Here Before (Radiant Press, 2024) is a compulsively readable and cosy story.Marlen and Hilda…
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Peter Darbyshire, "The Mona Lisa Sacrifice" (Poplar Press, 2024)
With this dry observance Peter Darbyshire introduces us to Cross, a man who has lived thousands of years, though he’d prefer not to have, and who is now…
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Serkan Görkemli, "Sweet Tooth and Other Stories" (UP of Kentucky, 2024)
Queerness, labels, and allyship are central themes in this moving collection of stories set in Turkey, where Middle Eastern and Euro-American expressions of…
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Emily A. Weedon, "Autokrator" (Cormorant Books, 2024)
Born nameless, in a rigid, autocratic society that has relegated all women to non-person status — Unmales — two women fight against their invisibility in…
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Booksellers’ Best 2024
Lisa Swayze has been the General Manager at Buffalo Street Books for 7 years and will transition to becoming the Executive Director of the bookstore’s new…
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Robert G. Penner, "The Dark King Swallows the World" (Radiant Press, 2024)
Robert Penner’s best-selling novel, The Dark King Swallows the World (Radiant Press, October 2024) is a phenomenal genre-bending read.A coming-of-age…
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Suzanne Allain, "The Wrong Lady Meets Lord Right" (Berkley Books, 2024)
Arabella Grant doesn’t want to deceive London high society. It’s her cousin Lady Isabella, known as Issie, who convinces Arabella to take over so that Issie…
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Christine Coulson, "One Woman Show" (Avid Reader Press, 2023)
Author Christine Coulson spent twenty-five years writing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her final project was to write wall labels for the museum's new…
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Wayne Ng, "Johnny Delivers" (Guernica Editions, 2024)
Set in 1977, Johnny Delivers (Guernica Editions, 2024) tells the absorbing story of 18-year-old Johnny Wong—the son of Chinese immigrants to Canada—who calls…
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Recall This Story: Ivan Kreilkamp on Sylvia Townsend Warner's "Foxcastle" (JP)
Ivan Kreilkamp, Indiana University English professor and no stranger to Recall This Book, is the author of two books on Victorian literature and one about…
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Book Chat: Home & Queer Writing – "Ghost Town," with Kevin Chen
In this episode, our host, Ti-han, invited Taiwanese Queer author, Kevin Chen, to talk about his LGBTQ novel, Ghost Town (Europa Editions, 2022) 鬼地方 and its…
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Lisa Williamson Rosenberg, "Mirror Me" (Little a, 2024)
Today I talked to Lisa Williamson Rosenberg about Mirror Me (Little a, 2024)Eddie Asher has always lost chunks of time, and the novel opens as he checks…
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S. A. McLain, "Blood on the Veld" (Elevin Books, 2024)
When seventeen-year-old Christian Bekker killed a poacher, he claimed it was self-defense. But the judge disagreed. He gave Christian a choice: go to prison or…
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Vikas Swarup, "The Girl with the Seven Lives" (Simon & Schuster India, 2024)
Vikas Swarup’s new novel, The Girl With the Seven Lives (Simon & Schuster India: 2024), opens with its main character Devi locked in a room, forced to retell…
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Chikodili Emelumadu, "Dazzling" (Harry N. Abrams, 2023)
Today I talked to Chikodili Emelumadu about Dazzling (Harry N. Abrams, 2023).Treasure and Ozoemena are young Nigerian girls forced to deal with spirits after…
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Sam Sax, "Yr Dead" (McSweeney’s Books, 2024)
Sam Sax is a queer, jewish, writer and educator. They're the author of Yr Dead (McSweeney's Books, 2024), longlisted for The National Book Award and PIG named…
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Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, "Prayers of a Heretic: Poems" (Plain View Press, 2015)
In the poetry collection Prayers of a Heretic (Plain View Press, 2015), Yermiyahu Ahron Taub explores the "crime" of heresy and the condition of existential…
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All of Our Stories Were War Stories: Jamil Jan Kochai and Kalyan Nadiminti (AV)
Imagine growing up between Sacramento, California and Logar, Afghanistan; you hear stories about war, watch coverage of the United States’ War on Terror on…
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Cornelia M. Spelman, "Solace" (Jackleg Press, 2024)
How do we become the persons we are? Cornelia Maude Spelman's Solace (Jackleg Press, 2024) seeks to answer that question. A portrait of the emotional legacies…
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Emily Dinova, "The Antagonist" (Bruce Scivally, 2024)
Today I spoke with Emily Dinova about her new novel The Antagonist (Bruce Scivally, 2024). Dinova, a psychoanalytic candidate working towards a license to…
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Monica Chenault-Kilgore, "The Jewel of the Blues" (Graydon House, 2024)
Life is tough for people of color in the early twentieth century—not only in the Southern states, which have put Reconstruction firmly behind them in favor of…
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Eric Drooker, "Naked City: A Graphic Novel" (Dark Horse Books, 2024)
Born and raised on Manhattan Island, Eric Drooker began to slap his art on the streets at night as a teenager. Since then, his drawings and posters have become…
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Megan Tennant, "Little Women," The Common magazine
Megan Tennant speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her story “Little Women,” which appears in The Common’s brand new fall issue. Megan talks about the…
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Ruth Vanita, "A Slight Angle" (India Viking, 2024)
A Slight Angle (India Viking: 2024), the newest novel from Indian writer Ruth Vanita, is a story about love. Difficult love–her six characters are growing up…
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Benjamin Resnick, "Next Stop" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
Today I talked to Benjamin Resnick about his novel Next Stop (Simon and Schuster, 2024)A hole opens in the universe and suddenly consumes a building, then a…
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8.3 Aspire to Magic but End Up With Madness: Adam Ehrlich Sachs speaks with Sunny Yudkoff (JP)
What happens when a novelist wants “nonsense and joy” but his characters are destined for a Central European sanatorium? How does the abecedarian form (i.e…
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Megan Staffel, "The Causative Factor" (Regal House, 2024)
Sparks fly in Megan Staffel’s novel, The Causative Factor (Regal House 2024), when Rachel is randomly paired with Rubiat, a fellow student, for an assignment…
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Tim Ecott, "Sigmundur and the Golden Ring" (Sprotin, 2024)
Tim Ecott, who is well-known as a journalist and writer, has, in his last several books, turned his attention to the history and culture of the Faroe Islands…
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Bonnie Jo Campbell, "The Waters: A Novel" (Norton, 2024)
Hermine “Herself” Zook is a healer who rules over an island in a swampy area of Michigan known as “The Waters.” People, including her three grown daughters…
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Kristopher Jansma, "Our Narrow Hiding Places" (Ecco, 2024), "Revisionaries" (Quirk Books, 2024)
Kristopher grew up in Lincroft, New Jersey. He received his B.A. in The Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University and an M.F.A. in Fiction from Columbia…
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To Gallop Again and Again into Failure: Kaveh Akbar and Pardis Dabashi (SW)
An unforgettable horse gallops through the pages of Kaveh Akbar’s best-selling novel Martyr! (2024), but it is a figurative hastening toward failure and the…
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Nat Reeve, "Earlyfate" (Cipher Press, 2024)
Pip Property is no stranger to disaster. Typically, they’ve got a plan, but now Dallyangle’s favourite dandy & part-time criminal is locked in the morgue of…
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S. L. Wisenberg, "The Adventures of Cancer Bitch" (Tortoise Books, 2024)
It’s 2006, and S. L. Wisenberg is teaching writing at one of Chicago’s great universities and living a busy life when she’s gobsmacked by a sudden cancer…
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Vanessa Kelly, "Murder in Highbury" (Kensington, 2024)
For a woman who published only four novels during her lifetime, with two others appearing shortly after her death and several incomplete or shorter works…
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CK Westbrook, "The Aftermath" (4 Horsemen Publications, 2024)
It's been almost five years since a wrathful extraterrestrial called Rex perpetrated a mass shooting that caused hundreds of millions of people to take their…
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Jennifer Lang, "Landed: A Yogi's Memoir in Pieces & Poses" (Vine Leaves Press, 2024)
In her latest memoir, Landed: A Yogi's Memoir of Places & Poses (2024, Vine Leaves Press), American-born Jennifer traces her journey-both on and off the yoga…