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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:

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 …
Literature October 1, 2020

Seconds and Inches

Carly Israel

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Carly Israel about her bold new memoir, Seconds and Inches (Jaded Ibis Press). In the opening sentence of her introduction, Israel writes, “My last name, Israel, means …
Literature May 5, 2020

Courting the Wild Twin

Martin Shaw

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Martin Shaw. In Shaw’s new book, Courting the Wild Twin (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020), he writes, “Here’s a secret I don’t share very often. Myths are not …
Literature March 25, 2020

Come of Age

The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble

Stephen Jenkinson

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interviewed Stephen Jenkinson. He’s not only an author, an activist, a musician, and the founder of a school, but also an inspired etymologist, a spiritual trickster, and a …
Literature March 10, 2020

Hall of Waters

Berry Grass

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Berry Grass, an essayist with a powerful new collection of linked essays called Hall of Waters (Operating System, 2019). Grass’s aim is nothing less than to demythologize …
Literature February 12, 2020

The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun

A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form

Martín Prechtel

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Martín Prechtel, whose work ranges from painting and drawing to overlooked histories and living languages to farming and blacksmithing and cooking to the six books he’s written …
Literature January 23, 2020

Camel Crazy

A Quest for Miracles in the Mysterious World of Camels

Christina Adams

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I’m speaking with author Christina Adams, and Adams has something of a surprising muse: camels. That’s right, camels. One hump, two humps, crossing the Egyptian desert or the Siberian …
Literature January 8, 2020

Impetuous Sleeper

Donald Morrill

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Usually on the New Books Network we do exactly what our name says: we talk about new books. Today, however, we’re doing something a little different. I’m interviewing Donald Morrill …
Literature September 12, 2019

Dear Current Occupant

Chelene Knight

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today, I’m talking with Chelene Knight. She’s written a new memoir called Dear Current Occupant (Book*hug, 2018). And as her title suggests, it’s a letter of sorts, one written to …
Literature June 26, 2019

I’m Trying to Tell You I’m Sorry

An Intimacy Triptych

Nina Boutsikaris

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today, I’m talking with Nina Boutsikaris. Her new book is called I’m Trying to Tell You I’m Sorry: An Intimacy Triptych (Black Lawrence Press, 2019). And if you’ve ever said …
Literature May 21, 2019

Watchfires

Hilary Plum

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today, I speak with Hilary Plum. She’s the author of Watchfires (Rescue Press, 2016), which isn’t so much a book as an exploratory biopsy of our body politic and our …