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NBN Episodes hosted by Novel Dialogue:

Novel Dialogue November 30, 2023

Attention is Love

A Discussion with Lauren Groff and Laura McGrath (SW)

Lauren Groff and Laura McGrath

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Just days before the release of her latest novel, The Vaster Wilds (Riverhead Books, 2023), three-time National Book Award Finalist and The New York Times-bestselling author Lauren Groff sat down …
Novel Dialogue November 16, 2023

“We All Relate to Each Other’s Dystopias”

A Discussion with Shehan Karunatilaka and Sangeeta Ray

Shehan Karunatilaka and Sangeeta Ray

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Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Norton, 2022), which won the Booker Prize in 2022, is a thriller that begins in the afterlife, an uproarious murder mystery set …
Novel Dialogue November 2, 2023

Narrative, Database, Archive

A Discussion with Tom Comitta and Deidre Lynch (AV)

Tom Comitta and Deidre Lynch

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12 tables; 300 novels, 1500 pages of nature description: This is how Tom Comitta created The Nature Book, a one-of-a-kind novel cut from 300 years of English literary tradition. It …
Novel Dialogue October 19, 2023

What Would Undo the Maxim Gun? Magic

A Discussion with P. Djèlí Clark and andré carrington

P. Djèlí Clark and andré carrington

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Locus- and Nebula- award-winning author P. Djèlí Clark joins critic andré carrington (UC Riverside) and host Rebecca Ballard for a conversation about the archives, methods, and cosmologies that inform his …
Novel Dialogue October 5, 2023

Desolation Tries to Colonize You

A Discussion with Jeff VanderMeer and Alison Sperling (CH)

Jeff VanderMeer and Alison Sperling

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Our season of the weird starts off with a conversation between the writer The New Yorker called “the weird Thoreau”, Jeff VanderMeer, and a scholar of the modernist weird, Alison …
Novel Dialogue September 21, 2023

Weirding Out with Kate Marshall

Novel Dialogue Season 6 Preview

Kate Marshall

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We kick off Season 6 with Kate Marshall, friend of the show and author of the forthcoming book Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century. Hosts and producers …
Novel Dialogue June 15, 2023

A Forensic Level of Honesty

A Discussion with Aminatta Forna and Nicole Rizzuto (AV)

Aminatta Forna and Nicole Rizzuto

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Aminatta Forna, author of Ancestor Stones (2006), Happiness (2018), and most recently The Window Seat (2021) joins Georgetown prof. Nicole Rizzuto and host Aarthi Vadde for a wide-ranging conversation about …
Novel Dialogue May 18, 2023

The Meat and Bones of Life

A Discussion with Erika T. Wurth, Leif Sorensen, and Rebecca Evans

Erika T. Wurth, Leif Sorensen, and Rebecca Evans

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With the publication of her most recent novel, White Horse (Flatiron Books, 2022), Erika T. Wurth breaks from the realism that characterized her earlier fiction and ventures into horror. White …
Novel Dialogue May 4, 2023

“It’s on the Illabus”

A Discussion with Jean-Christophe Cloutier and John Jennings (SW)

Jean-Christophe Cloutier and John Jennings

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John Jennings—Hugo Award winner, New York Times bestselling author, curator, scholar, and Artist—is keenly aware that in adapting novels for the graphic format, his decisions turn what has only been …
Novel Dialogue April 20, 2023

Writing the Counter-Book

Joshua Cohen with Eugene Sheppard

Joshua Cohen

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Eugene Sheppard joins his Brandeis colleague John Plotz to speak with Joshua Cohen about The Netanyahus. Is the 2021 novel a Pulitzer-winning bravura story of the world's worst job interview …
Novel Dialogue April 6, 2023

We Have This-ness, Y’all!

A Discussion with Ocean Vuong and Amy E. Elkins

Ocean Vuong and Amy E. Elkins

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Season 5 of Novel Dialogue opens with an impassioned refresher course in literary theory brought to you by Ocean Vuong, poet and author of the bestselling novel On Earth We’re …
Novel Dialogue November 17, 2022

Translation is the Closest Way to Read

A Discussion with Ann Goldstein and Saskia Ziolkowski

Ann Goldstein and Saskia Ziolkowski

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In our season finale, Ann Goldstein, renowned translator of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, gives a master class in the art and business of translation. Ann speaks to Duke scholar Saskia …
Novel Dialogue November 3, 2022

The Best Error You Can Make

Brent Hayes Edwards and Jean-Baptiste Naudy on Claude McKay

Brent Hayes Edwards and Jean-Baptiste Naudy

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What can a French translator do with a novelist who writes brilliantly about the “confrontation between Englishes?” How can such a confrontation be made legible across the boundaries of language …
Novel Dialogue October 20, 2022

“A short, sharp punch to the face”

José Revueltas’ "The Hole" (El Apando) with Alia Trabucco Zerán and Sophie Hughes

Alia Trabucco Zerán and Sophie Hughes

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Alia Trabucco Zerán, award-winning author of The Remainder (La Resta), and Women Who Kill (Las Homicidas), and Sophie Hughes, Alia’s translator and finalist for the International Booker Prize talk with …
Novel Dialogue October 6, 2022

Strange Beasts of Translation

Yan Ge and Jeremy Tiang in Conversation

Yan Ge and Jeremy Tiang

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Yan Ge and Jeremy Tiang are both writers who accumulate languages. Sitting down with host Emily Hyde, they discuss their work in and across Chinese and English, but you’ll also …
Novel Dialogue September 22, 2022

Light and Sound: Boubacar Boris Diop with Sarah Quesada

Boubacar Boris Diop and Sarah Quesada

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Boubacar Boris Diop is the author of Murambi: The Book of Bones, (Indiana UP, 2016; translated by Fiona McLaughlin), an unforgettable novel of the Rwandan genocide that blends journalistic research with finely …
Novel Dialogue September 8, 2022

“Sometimes I’m just a little disappointed in English”

Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell, and Kate Briggs Tackle Translation

Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell, and Kate Briggs

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A novelist, a translator and a theorist of translation walk into a Zoom Room......Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell, and Kate Briggs provide the perfect start to Season 4 of Novel Dialogue …
Novel Dialogue September 1, 2022

Novel Dialogue Season 4

Transitions and Translations

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Introducing Season 4.0 of Novel Dialogue! Hosts John Plotz and Aarthi Vadde welcome new lead hosts Emily Hyde and Chris Holmes. This will be Novel Dialogue’s first themed season focusing …