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Burned by Books March 21, 2023

American Mermaid

A Novel

Julia Langbein

Hosted by Chris Holmes
Broke English teacher Penelope Schleeman is as surprised as anyone when her feminist novel American Mermaid becomes a best-seller. Lured by the promise of a big payday, she quits teaching …

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A podcast for writers and readers who are obsessive about their books. Interviews with established and up-and-coming writers, and recommendations for the best in contemporary fiction, poetry, and drama. Hosted by Chris Holmes. Chris is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro as World Literature, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. You can visit the "Burned by Books" website here.

Burned by Books March 7, 2023

The Survivalists

A Novel

Kashana Cauley

Hosted by Chris Holmes
Kashana is the author of the novel The Survivalists, which was published in January 2023 by Soft Skull Press. She’s also a TV writer who has written for The Great …
Burned by Books March 3, 2023

The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir

Priscilla Gilman

Hosted by Chris Holmes
Growing up on the Upper West Side of New York City in the 1970s, in an apartment filled with dazzling literary and artistic characters, Priscilla Gilman worshiped her brilliant, adoring …
Burned by Books February 21, 2023

Age of Vice

A Novel

Deepti Kapoor

Hosted by Chris Holmes
Today I talked to Deepti Kapoor about her new novel Age of Vice (Riverhead, 2023). Deepti Kapoor grew up in northern India and worked for several years as a journalist in New Delhi …
Burned by Books February 17, 2023

My Last Innocent Year

A Novel

Daisy Alpert Florin

Hosted by Chris Holmes
Today I talked to Daisy Alpert Florin about her new novel My Last Innocent Year (Henry Holt, 2023). Daisy Alpert Florin attended Dartmouth College and received graduate degrees from Columbia University and …
Burned by Books February 7, 2023

The Revivalists

Christopher M. Hood

Hosted by Chris Holmes
Christopher M. Hood is the Director of the Creative Writing Program at the Dalton School in New York City and lives nearby with his wife and daughter. He received an …
Burned by Books January 30, 2023

The Margot Affair

A Novel

Sanaë Lemoine

Hosted by Chris Holmes
Sanaë Lemoine is the author of The Margot Affair and a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow. She was born in Paris to a Japanese mother and …
Burned by Books January 24, 2023

The Sense of Wonder

A Novel

Matthew Salesses

Hosted by Chris Holmes
MATTHEW SALESSES is the author of eight books, including The Sense of Wonder, which comes out in January 2023 from Little, Brown. Most recent are the national bestseller Craft in …
Burned by Books January 11, 2023

Vintage Contemporaries

A Novel

Dan Kois

Hosted by Chris Holmes
Dan Kois is the author of three nonfiction books: How to Be A Family, a memoir; The World Only Spins Foward, an oral history of Tony Kushner's Angels in America (with …
Burned by Books January 4, 2023

Home Bound

An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging

Vanessa A. Bee

Hosted by Chris Holmes
Vanessa A. Bee is a consumer protection lawyer with a freelancing habit. Primarily interested in inequality, corporate power, the American Left, and Washington D.C. She also loves a good meandering …
Burned by Books December 27, 2022

Booksellers' Best of 2022

Lisa Swayze, Hillary Smith, and Hannah Oliver Depp

Hosted by Chris Holmes
Lisa Swayze is the General Manager and Buyer at Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca’s cooperatively owned independent bookstore. You’ve heard me mention Buffalo Street Books on all episodes—and it is Lisa …
Burned by Books December 21, 2022

The Long Answer

A Novel

Anna Hogeland

Hosted by Chris Holmes
Today I talked to Anna Hogeland about her new novel The Long Answer (Riverhead Books, 2022). Hogeland is a psychotherapist in private practice, with an MSW from Smith College School of Social Work …
Burned by Books December 9, 2022

Normal Family

On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

Chrysta Bilton

Hosted by Chris Holmes
Chrysta Bilton is an American writer who lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children. Her first book, the memoir Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met …
Burned by Books December 6, 2022

If I Survive You

Jonathan Escoffery

Hosted by Chris Holmes
Jonathan Escoffery is the author of the linked story collection, If I Survive You, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and an Indie National Bestseller. If I Survive You was …
Burned by Books December 2, 2022

They're Going to Love You

A Novel

Meg Howrey

Hosted by Chris Holmes
Meg Howrey is the author of the novels They're Going to Love You, The Cranes Dance, and Blind Sight. She is also the coauthor, writing under the pen-name Magnus Flyte …
Burned by Books November 28, 2022

Math for the Self-Crippling

Ursula Villarreal-Moura

Hosted by Chris Holmes
Ursula Villarreal-Moura is the author of Math for the Self-Crippling (2022), selected by Zinzi Clemmons as the Gold Line Press fiction contest winner, and Like Happiness (forthcoming with Celadon Books) …
Burned by Books November 21, 2022

The Means

A Novel

Amy Fusselman

Hosted by Chris Holmes
Amy Fusselman is the author of five books. Her latest, The Means (Mariner Books, 2022), is her first novel. Fusselman’s previous four books, all nonfiction, have been translated into several languages …
Burned by Books November 18, 2022

Flight

A Novel

Lynn Steger Strong

Hosted by Chris Holmes
Lynn Steger Strong is the author of the novels Hold Still, Want, and Flight (Mariner Books, 2022). Her non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New …
Burned by Books November 15, 2022

Mother In the Dark

A Novel

Kayla Maiuri

Hosted by Chris Holmes
Kayla Maiuri holds an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. Born in the greater Boston area, she now lives in Brooklyn. Mother in the Dark (Riverhead Books, 2022) is her first …
Burned by Books November 9, 2022

Now Is Not the Time to Panic

A Novel

Kevin Wilson

Hosted by Chris Holmes
Today I talked to Kevin Wilson about his new novel Now Is Not the Time to Panic (Ecco Press, 2022). Kevin Wilson is the author of two collections, Tunneling to the …