A feral boy comes of age on a campus decadent with starched sheets, sweating
cocktails, and homemade jams. Stub is the cause of that missing sweater, the
pie that disappeared off the cooling rack. Then Stub meets Billy, who takes
him in, and Asthma, who enchants him, ...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Grant Bywaters about his debut mystery novel The
Red Storm.
The Red Storm won the Minotaur Books/PWA Best First Private Eye Novel
Competition, and tells the story of a black heavyweight boxer turned private
investigator in 1930’s New Orleans. T...
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In Lina Meruane's Seeing Red, fiction and autobiography intertwine. An
intense, visceral novel about the relation between the body, illness, and
human relationship by one of Chile’s brightest young authors. “Lina
Meruane’s prose has great literary force: it emerges ...
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Host Bethany Grabow talks with Laura O. Foster, author of the new book
Walking with Ramona: Exploring Beverly Cleary’s Portland. Part walking
tour, part history lesson, this guidebook is a unique look at life when
author Beverly Cleary was a young girl in the 1920s an...
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“If you’ve ever been young, in love, and desperate to live an authentic
life, this book is for you: a ravishing memoir about a young man’s quest
for art, meaning, and a place to call home.”—Anthony Doerr, author of All
the Light We Cannot See
Rob Spillman, the award-...
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Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with writer Danielle Dutton about her novel,
"Margaret the First," which dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the
eccentric 17th-century Duchess. Margaret wrote and published volumes of
poems, philosophy, feminist plays, and utopi...
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Host Pamela Santos speaks with writer Helen Oyeyemi about her new short story
collection "What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours."
Helen Oyeyemi has lived in London for most of her life. She wrote her first
novel, The Icarus Girl, while she was still at school, her second nove...
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Host Bethany Grabow talks with Jesse Andrews, author of the new book The
Haters. This hilarious and touching story follows Wes Doolittle and his
friends as they escape the oppression of jazz band camp and set off on a road
trip in search of a venue to play an epic con...
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A go-for-broke essay collection that blends cultural close reading and dicey
autobiography. Past compunction, expressly unbeholden, these twenty-four
single-subject essays train focus on a startling miscellany of topics —Foot
Washing, Dossiers, Br’er Rabbit, Housesitt...
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