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Writer and organizer Sarah Thankam Mathews All This Could Be Different joins Mira to discuss a brush with mortality in a rip-tide off the California coast discovering the sourdough starter...

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Sarah Thankam Mathews

Writer and organizer Sarah Thankam Mathews All This Could Be Different joins Mira to discuss a brush with mortality in a rip-tide off the California coast discovering the sourdough starter...

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S6 Ep. 25: Alone on the Range: Victor LaValle on Lone Women’s Homesteaders, History, and Horror

Fiction writer Victor LaValle joins co-hosts V V Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss his new novel Lone Women which tells the suspenseful story of Adelaide Henry a Black woman...

Future Fables

'Sleep is All Hers' by Mieko Kawakami

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Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

Every Family Has A Story with Julia Samuel

Psychotherapist Julia Samuel joins Roxanne to discuss transgenerational trauma They discuss the twelve touchstones for family well being and also explore the idea that the relationships that touch us the...

Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

Regina Kanyu Wang / Sheree Renée Thomas & Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki

For the last episode of this season it's time to think about collections -- story collections Even more specifically multi-author anthologies of new or new-to-the-readership work So let's take a...

The Maris Review

Episode 197: Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new novel Biography of X out now from FSG Catherine Lacey is the author of the novels Nobody Is Ever Missing The...

Literary Disco

Revisiting George Saunders

On today's episode we revisit a recent conversation with one favorite authors on the podcast George Saunders whose new story collection Liberation Day is out now This episode is brought...

Keen On

Digital McCarthyism: Keith Teare on the chilling anti=Chinese and anti-Communist hysteria in Washington DC against TikTok

EPISODE In our regular weekly round-up of tech news Andrew talks to THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare about the chilling anti-Chinese and anti-Communist hysteria in Washington DC...

Behind the Mic with AudioFile Magazine

THE WICKED BARGAIN by Gabe Cole Novoa, read by Vico Ortiz

Vico Ortiz narrates an action-packed fantastical pirate adventure with gusto Host Jo Reed and AudioFile s Emily Connelly discuss the excitement of listening to Gabe Cole Novoa s thrilling YA...

Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference

Louise Dennys: Stories from a Publishing Legend

In this episode of Beyond the Page host John Burnham Schwartz talks with editor and Canadian publishing titan Louise Dennys about her extraordinary career working side by side with writers...

Storybound

Elizabeth McCracken reads her short story, "It's Not You"

Elizabeth McCracken reads her short story, "It's Not You," backed by an original Storybound remix with Moon Hound, and sound design and arrangement by Jude Brewer.

Reading Women

Ep. 122 | Farewell, Dear Listeners

In Reading Women s final episode Kendra and a very special guest reminisce about episodes across Reading Women s six seasons Things MentionedTeam PageBooks Mentioned Plum Pudding Murder by Joanne...

Open Form

Episode 52: Zakiya Dalila Harrison The Wiz

Welcome to Open Form a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith Each week a different author chooses a movie a movie they love a movie they...

Otherppl with Brad Listi

823. Shannon McLeod

Shannon McLeod is the author of the Nature Trail Stories available from Thirty West Publishing McLeod is the author of the novella Whimsy Long Day Press Her writing has appeared...

Writer Types

Lee & Andrew Child, Wanda M. Morris, William Boyle & Goodbye

Best selling authors Lee amp Andrew Child join Eric to talk about the latest Jack Reacher novel Better Off Dead Wanda M Morris discusses her debut novel All Her Little...

Audiobook Break with AudioFile Magazine

WINNIE-THE-POOH Chapter 10

Our storytime ends with Chapter of WINNIE-THE-POOH Thank you for listening along as Golden Voice Barbara Rosenblat narrates A A Milne s beloved family classic In this final chapter spring...

So Many Damn Books

199: Idra Novey (TAKE WHAT YOU NEED) & César Aira's ON CONTEMPORARY ART

Idra Novey actually drops by the Damn Library IN PERSON to discuss her stunning new book Take What You Need creating an artist s practice torching things and short novels...

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

First Draft - Rebecca Makkai (Returns)

Rebecca Makkai is the Chicago-based author of the novels The Great Believers The Hundred-Year House and The Borrower as well as the short story collection Music for Wartime The Great...

The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

The Literary Life: In Conversation with the 2022 NBF 5 Under 35 Honorees

On this edition of The Literary Life join Ruth Dickey the Executive Director of the National Book Foundation and a live audience at Books and Books for an evening honoring...

WMFA

Enlarging People’s Perception of Sylvia Plath w. HEATHER CLARK

Heather Clark is the author of Red Comet The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath a Pulitzer Prize finalist now out in paperback from Knopf She and Courtney...

The NewberyTart Podcast

S8 E2: The Westing Game

In this episode, Marcy and Jennie discuss the 1979 Newbery Medal winner The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. 

Unlikeable Female Characters

Episode 100: Bitches on the Internet

On this very special Unlikeable Female Characters Kristen Layne and Wendy say goodbye for now with a look back at their favorite episodes and what they ve learned in four...

Damian Barr's Literary Salon

BOOK OF THE WEEK: Three Gifts by Mark A. Radcliffe

If you could save the life of a loved one by trading in years of your own life how many years would you give How many lives could you save...

Emergence Magazine Podcast

Valemon The Bear: Myth in the Age of the Anthropocene – featuring Martin Shaw

This week s episode is an audio adaptation of our multimedia experience Valemon the Bear Myth in the Age of the Anthropocene featuring mythologist Martin Shaw Martin s vivid telling...

Ursa Short Fiction

Nana Nkweti: ‘I Always Knew I Was Going to Write Stories’

On the Season One finale of Ursa Short Fiction co-hosts Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton talk to Nana Nkweti author of the acclaimed short story collection Walking on Cowrie Shells...

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