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About Eric LeMay

Eric LeMay is the author of several books and other works of digital art.

Eric LeMay is on the creative writing faculty at Ohio University. He is the author of five books, most recently Remember Me. He can be reached at eric@ericlemay.org.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Eric:

Literature July 29, 2023

Faltas

Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My Rapist

Cecilia Gentili

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Cecilia Gentili about her new book, Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist (LittlePuss Press, 2022). In this poignant and powerful and sometimes …
Psychology June 23, 2023

The Others Within Us

Internal Family Systems, Porous Mind, and Spirit Possession

Robert Falconer

Hosted by Eric LeMay
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Today I interview Bob Falconer about his new book, The Others Within Us: Internal Family Systems, Porous Mind, and Spirit Possession (Great Mystery Press, 2023). Falconer’s book is the result …
Literature June 10, 2023

The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature

Artists and Writers on Creating Graphic Narratives, Poetry Comics, and Literary Collage

Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart

Hosted by Eric LeMay
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Today I interview Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart about their new collaboration, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature (Rose Metal Press, 2023). The book brings together 2 …
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work May 20, 2023

Sexed Up

How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back

Julia Serano

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Julia Serano about her new book, Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us and How We Can Fight Back (Seal, 2022). Serano is an activist, performer, and acclaimed author of Whipping …
LGBTQ+ Studies April 24, 2023

The Transgender Studies Reader Remix

Susan Stryker and Dylan McCarthy Blackston

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Hello, this is Eric LeMay, a host on the New Books Network. Today I interview Susan Stryker and Dylan McCarthy Blackston about The Transgender Studies Reader Remix (Routledge, 2023). This …
Literature April 2, 2023

Halfway from Home

Essays

Sarah Fawn Montgomery

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Sarah Fawn Montgomery about her new collection of essays, Halfway from Home (Split Lip Press, 2022). These essays explore, in nuanced and beautiful prose, Montgomery’s journey to find …
LGBTQ+ Studies February 6, 2023

Erin in the Morning

An Interview with Erin Reed, LGBTQ+ Activist and Substacker

Erin Reed

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Erin Reed. Reed is an activist, public speaker, and writer across multiple platforms, including a Substack newsletter, all of which she gathers under the title “Erin in …
Literature December 21, 2022

Reckoning

Stephen Jenkinson and Kimberly Johnson

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Kimberly Johnson and Stephen Jenkinson about their new book, Reckoning (Iron God of Mercy, 2022). Reckoning is an encounter, not only of two people trying to make …
Literature July 28, 2022

Where are the Snows

Poems

Kathleen Rooney

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Hello, this is Eric LeMay, a host on New Books in Literature, a channel on the New Books Network. Today I interview Kathleen Rooney about her new collection of poems, Where …
Spiritual Practice and Mindfulness June 8, 2022

Maiden to Mother

Unlocking Our Archetypal Journey Into the Mature Feminine

Sarah Durham Wilson

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Hello, this is Eric LeMay, a host on the New Books Network. Today I interview Sarah Durham Wilson, whose new book Maiden to Mother: Unlocking Our Archetypal Journey into the …
Psychology May 6, 2022

No Bad Parts

How the Internal Family Systems Model Changes Everything

Richard Schwartz

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Richard Schwartz. His friends know him as Dick. And while this is my first time speaking with him, I can’t help but feel friendly toward him. Dick …
Literature November 17, 2021

Motherhood

Facing and Finding Yourself

Lisa Marchiano

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Lisa Marchiano. Marchiano is a mother of two children. She’s also a Jungian analyst and a host of the podcast called This Jungian Life. She brings these …
Literature October 8, 2021

Slim Confessions

The Universe as a Spider or Spit

Sarah Minor,

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Sarah Minor, a brilliant and exciting author and artist. Minor has written a new book that looks into—in fact, I might even say sinks us or maybe …
Literature September 22, 2021

A Generation's Worth

Spirit Work While the Crisis Reigns

Stephen Jenkinson

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Stephen Jenkinson. Jenkinson has a new book. It's entitled A Generation's Worth: Spirit Work While the Crisis Reigns (Orphan Wisdom, 2021) and it's a rarity among books …
Literature August 25, 2021

Paper Concert

A Conversation in the Round

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Amy Wright. Wright is an essayist and artist, one who works across a dizzying and dazzling range of subjects and media. However, in her new book, Paper …
Literature August 5, 2021

The Mare and the Mouse

Stories of My Horses Vol. I

Martín Prechtel

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Hello, this is Eric LeMay, a host on the New Books Network. Today I interview Martín Prechtel, who's written a book about horses called The Mare and the Mouse (North …
Literature August 5, 2021

Rescuing the Light

Quotes from the Oral Teachings of Martín Prechtel

Martín Prechtel

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Hello, this is Eric LeMay, a host on the New Books Network. Today I interview Martín Prechtel, who's an author and so much more than an author. He's a teacher …
Literature July 5, 2021

A Glossary of Urban Voids

Sergio Lopez-Pineiro

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Hello, this is Eric LeMay, a host on the New Books Network. Today I interview Sergio Lopez-Pineiro about his new book, A Glossary of Urban Voids (2020). It's one of …
Literature May 14, 2021

The Best of Brevity

Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction

Zoë Bossiere and Dinty W. Moore

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Dinty W. Moore and Zoë Bossiere, the editors of the new anthology The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction (Rose Metal Press, 2020). The …
Literature March 12, 2021

Disparates

Essays

Patrick Madden

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Patrick Madden, an essayist. Now, for most of us, an essay—that thing we were assigned to write in high school or maybe that thing we stayed up all …
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 …
Anthropology January 5, 2021

How God Becomes Real

Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others

T. M. Luhrmann

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Tanya Luhrmann about her new book, How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others (Princeton University Press, 2020). Luhrmann is the Watkins University Professor at …
Literature December 1, 2020

Lecture

Mary Cappello

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Mary Cappello about her new book, Lecture (Transit Books, 2020). Although I almost hesitate to call it a book. It’s much more—like all great lectures are—a performance …
Medicine October 26, 2020

Growing Young

How Friendship, Optimism, and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100

Marta Zaraska

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Marta Zaraska about her book Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism, and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100 (Appetite/Random House, 2020). Now you may be thinking to …