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Literature
Interviews with writer of creative fiction and non-fiction about their new books.
October 24, 2024
Earlyfate
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 mor…
October 22, 2024
The Adventures of Cancer Bitch
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 can…
October 20, 2024
The Aftermath
It's been almost five years since a wrathful extraterrestrial called Rex perpetrated a mass shooting that caused hundreds of millions of people to tak…
October 17, 2024
Landed
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 …
October 15, 2024
The Last Whaler
After losing their young son in a tragic accident, Astrid, a Norwegian botanist specializing in Arctic flora, decides to join her husband, Tor, at a r…
October 14, 2024
P. Djèlí Clark on Why He Writes
P. Djèlí Clark is the author of acclaimed and award-winning speculative fiction, including the much-loved Dead Djinn universe books, Ring Shout, and h…
October 14, 2024
On Shaky Ground
In this episode host, Andrea Talabér (CEU Press) sits down with Oksana Rosenblum, the translator of the new addition to our CEU Press Classics series,…
October 13, 2024
The Stone Witch of Florence
Anna Rasche's debut novel A Stone Witch of Florence (2024, Park Row) brings reader on a historical fiction adventure to Florence. As the Black Plague …
October 11, 2024
Like Happiness
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,…
October 10, 2024
The Enclave
Maya, the protagonist of Rohit Manchanda’s novel The Enclave (Fourth Estate: 2024), should be happy with her life. She’s newly single, her net worth s…
October 10, 2024
Dirt Bag Novels
What does it mean for a novel to think globally? And can a global novel concerned with the macro movements of capital and labor still exist in the for…
October 8, 2024
Blood on the Brain
Today I talked to Esinam Bediako about here novel Blood on the Brain (Red Hen Press, 2024). When Akosua, a 24-year-old grad student in New York, fall…
October 4, 2024
The Knowing
In the slums of 19th-century New York. A tattooed mystic fights for her life. Her survival hangs on the turn of a tarot card. Powerful, intoxicating …
October 4, 2024
Part 2 of Linda Schlossberg on Alice Munro's "Miles City, Montana" (JP)
You will want to start with Part 1 of episode 135; it can be found right here. Linda Schlossberg, author of Life in Miniature, who teaches at Harvard…
October 3, 2024
From Pashas to Pokemon
From Pashas to Pokemon (Vishwakarma Publications, 2024), Maaria Sayed’s first novel, is a coming-of-age story. Aisha grows up in the Muhammad Ali Road…
October 3, 2024
Part 1 of Linda Schlossberg on Alice Munro's "Miles City, Montana" (JP)
Linda Schlossberg, author of Life in Miniature, who teaches at Harvard, joins RTB to read and explore one of her favorite Alice Munro stories, "Miles …
October 1, 2024
Anyone But Her
Today I talked to Cynthia Swanson about Anyone But Her (Columbine York, 2024). In 1979 during her freshman year at Denver East High School in 1979, S…
September 28, 2024
In the Shadow of Dora
In the Shadow of Dora: A Novel of the Holocaust and the Apollo Program (Stephen F. Austin UP, 2020) spans two very different decades from the Nazi con…
September 27, 2024
"Patron Saints"
Kevin Dean speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his story “Patron Saints,” which appears in The Common’s most recent issue. Kevin talks abou…
September 25, 2024
A Daughter of Fair Verona
It takes a certain gall to update one of William Shakespeare’s most enduring and most beloved tragedies. Anyone who has survived an English literature…