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Asian Review of Books January 21, 2021

These Violent Delights

Chloe Gong

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
“These violent delights have violent ends. And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which as they kiss, consume.” These Violent Delights (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2020) is the …

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Literature January 20, 2021

I'll Go

War, Religion, and Coming Home, From Cairo to Kansas City

Alexs Thompson

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Alexs Thompson about his new memoir, I'll Go: War, Religion, and Coming Home, from Cairo to Kansas City (2020). Let me begin with a moment of honesty …
Psychoanalysis January 20, 2021

Memory's Eyes

A New York Oedipus Novel

Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau

Hosted by Philip Lance
Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau's Memory’s Eyes is a contemporary New York Oedipus novel. It is written for readers who enjoy playing with concepts and storylines, here namely the classical Oedipus myth, Sophocles’ three …
Literature January 19, 2021

Song of the Sisters

Songs of Steppe and Forest 3

Five Directions Press

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Everywhere young Russian noblewoman Darya Sheremeteva turns, someone in her circle of family and friends reminds her that she exists to serve a single purpose: to marry a powerful man …
The Common Magazine January 15, 2021

Stories from Sudan in Translation

Elisabeth Jaquette

Hosted by Emily Everett
Translator Elisabeth Jaquette speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about four stories she translated from Arabic for Issue 19 of The Common magazine. These stories appear in a special portfolio …
Science Fiction January 14, 2021

Black Sun

Rebecca Roanhorse

Hosted by Rob Wolf
The first chapter of Rebecca Roanhorse’s new novel, Black Sun (Gallery/Saga Press, 2020), features a mother and child sharing a tender moment that takes an unexpected turn, ending in violence. It’s …
Poetry January 12, 2021

Descent

Lauren Russell

Hosted by Philip Lance
In 2013, poet Lauren Russell acquired a copy of the diary of her great-great-grandfather, Robert Wallace Hubert, a Captain in the Confederate Army. After his return from the Civil War …
Literature January 12, 2021

The Tenth Muse

A Novel

Catherine Chung

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Katherine recalls being young and friendless. While growing up in the 40’ and 50’s, she remembers when her mother packed up and left, her father remarried, and she was left …
Performing Arts January 12, 2021

The Trade Federation or Let's Explore Globalization Through the Star Wars Prequels

Andy Boyd

Hosted by Toney Brown
New Books in Performing Arts own Andy Boyd has written a new play about a young experimental playwright named Andy Boyd who pitches Georges Lucas his screenplay for a new …
Fantasy January 6, 2021

Emerald Blaze

A Hidden Legacy Novel

Ilona Andrews

Hosted by Gabrielle Mathieu
Today I talked to Ilona Andrews about her book Emerald Blaze: A Hidden Legacy Novel (Avon Books, 2020). Catalina Baylor is the titular Prime of House Baylor, where she and her crew, including …
Literature January 5, 2021

Art Is Everything

A Novel

Yxta Maya Murray

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
In Art Is Everything (TriQuarterly Books, 2021), L.A. native Amanda Ruiz is a successful Chicana performance artist who is madly in love with her girlfriend, Xochitl. Amanda is about to enjoy a …
Historical Fiction January 4, 2021

The Heiress

The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh

Molly Greeley

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
The world created by Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice has established a place for itself in contemporary culture that few other novels can match, yet amid the countless spinoffs …
The Common Magazine December 31, 2020

Operation Tamar

Omer Friedlander

Hosted by Emily Everett
Writer Omer Friedlander speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his story “Operation Tamar,” which appears in Issue 19 of The Common magazine. “Operation Tamar” is set in Israel …
Literature December 30, 2020

Anything Will Be Easy After This

A Western Identity Crisis

Bethany Maile

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
There is something quintessentially American about the idea of the west. Though the time of western expansion has long since passed, stories about cowboys on horses and pioneers panning for …
Literature December 29, 2020

Dreaming the Marsh

Elizabeth McCulloch

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Elizabeth McCulloch was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and lived in New England, the Midwest, Canada, and the South, before putting down roots in Gainesville, Florida, almost forty years ago …
Science Fiction December 24, 2020

The Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson

Hosted by Rob Wolf
The Ministry for the Future (Orbit, 2020) is a sweeping novel about climate change and how people of the near future start to slow, stop and reverse it. The story opens with …
LGBTQ+ Studies December 22, 2020

The Lonely Letters

Ashon T. Crawley

Hosted by John Marszalek
In The Lonely Letters (Duke UP, 2020), A tells Moth: “Writing about and thinking with joy is what sustains me, daily. It nourishes me. I do not write about joy primarily because …
The Common Magazine December 18, 2020

Offering

Tara Skurtu

Hosted by Emily Everett
Tara Skurtu is an American poet and writer, writing coach, and public speaker. She speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about “Offering,” her poem from Issue 19 of The Common …
Asian Review of Books December 17, 2020

White Ivy

A Novel

Susie Yang

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
“Ivy Lin was a thief but you would never know it to look at her” White Ivy (Simon & Schuster: 2020), the debut novel by Susie Yang, is the story …
Literature December 15, 2020

Zahara and the Lost Books of Light

A Novel

Joyce Ruth Yarrow

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Seattle journalist Alienor Crespo flies to Spain to apply for citizenship as a descendant of Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula during the Inquisition, in 1492. She meets a long-lost …