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The Common Magazine
February 26, 2021
Weeds and Flowers
Bina Shah
Hosted by Emily Everett
Bina Shah speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her short story “Weeds and Flowers,” which appears in Issue 19 of The Common magazine. In this conversation, Shah talks about …
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Science Fiction
February 25, 2021
The Phlebotomist
Chris Panatier
Hosted by Rob Wolf
Humans have found many ways to divide and stratify—by skin color, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, health status, body type or size, and so on. The list is …
Literature
February 23, 2021
The Good Luck Stone
A Novel
Heather Bell Adams
Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Heather Bell Adams’ first novel, Maranatha Road (West Virginia University Press 2017), won the gold medal for the Southeast region in the Independent Publisher Book Awards and was selected for …
History
February 19, 2021
The Way of Bach
Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano
Dan Moller
Hosted by Zachary McCulley
A tale of passion and obsession from a philosophy professor who learns to play Bach on the piano as an adult. Dan Moller grew up listening to heavy metal in the …
Literature
February 16, 2021
The Lost Shtetl
A Novel
Max Gross
Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Today I spoke with Max Gross about his book The Lost Shtetl (HarperCollins, 2020). Imagine a Jewish village hidden in the forests of Poland that somehow escapes the Holocaust. Eighty years …
The Common Magazine
February 12, 2021
Translations from Portuguese
Jethro Soutar
Hosted by Emily Everett
Translator Jethro Soutar speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about three pieces he translated from Portuguese for Issue 20 of The Common magazine. These pieces appear in a special portfolio …
German Studies
February 11, 2021
Berlin
Jason Lutes
Hosted by Michael O'Sullivan
In his pathbreaking graphic novel, Berlin (Drawn and Quarterly, 2018), Jason Lutes creates a multifaceted exploration of urban life during the Weimar Republic. The book contains a variety of mostly fictional …
Historical Fiction
February 9, 2021
Vindicated
A Novel of Mary Shelley
Kathleen Williams Renk
Hosted by C. P. Lesley
Mary Godwin Shelley had yet to reach her nineteenth birthday when she had the dream that gave rise to the classic Gothic horror tale Frankenstein. The daughter of a dissenting …
Latin American Studies
February 8, 2021
Magdalena, River of Dreams
A Story of Colombia
Wade Davis
Hosted by Akash Ondaatje
Travelers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free. For Wade Davis, it was Colombia. In his new book Magdalena, River …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
February 4, 2021
Arias
Sharon Olds
Hosted by Dan Hill
This episode covers a range of topics from Old’s use of line breaks (enjambment that runs contrary to the tedious, end-stopped rhyming lines of hymnals) to the degree to which …
Science Fiction
February 4, 2021
The Light Years
R. W. W. Greene
Hosted by Rob Wolf
Arranged marriages have been around for centuries, and in The Light Years (Angry Robot, 2020), R.W.W. Greene imagines they’ll be around for centuries more. With the addition of speed-of-light travel, Greene’s …
Literature
February 2, 2021
The Merciful
Jon Sealy
Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
In The Merciful (Haywire Books, 2021) by Jon Sealy nineteen-year-old Samantha James is killed while riding her bike home from work in a small coastal town one dark summer night in South …
Fantasy
February 2, 2021
We Could Be Heroes
Mike Chen
Hosted by Gabrielle Mathieu
This quirky, offbeat novel introduces us to two people, Zoe and Jamie, who both have amnesia and super-powers. While Jamie is a criminal who holds up banks, Zoe is a …
The Common Magazine
February 1, 2021
Brother Love
Tanya Coke
Hosted by Emily Everett
Tanya Coke is a lawyer, writer, and philanthropy executive at the Ford Foundation. She speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about “Brother Love,” her essay from Issue 19 of The …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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