Episodes

  • Check This Out: Morgan Talty & 'Fire Exit'

    Check This Out: Morgan Talty & 'Fire Exit'
    Oct 31 2024
    In a novel about belonging, the shifting nature of memory, and bloodlines, one man’s family is divided like the river that separates him from his childhood home on Maine’s Penobscot Reservation.
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    50 mins
  • Check This Out: Marjan Kamali & 'The Lion Women of Tehran'

    Check This Out: Marjan Kamali & 'The Lion Women of Tehran'
    Oct 18 2024
    A heartfelt epic about friendship, betrayal, and redemption during three transformative decades in Iran. This surprisingly timely novel serves as a reminder of the fragility of freedom.
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    50 mins
  • Check This Out: Kaliane Bradley & 'The Ministry of Time'

    Check This Out: Kaliane Bradley & 'The Ministry of Time'
    Jun 29 2024
    Kaliane Bradley's debut is a time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy and a testament to what we owe each other in a changing world.
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    50 mins
  • Check This Out: Andrew Boryga & 'Victim'

    Check This Out: Andrew Boryga & 'Victim'
    Jun 22 2024
    In Andrew Boryga's debut "Victim," the protagonist is a hustler from a family of hustlers. He learns to talk about his background in just the right way to open doors to an elite college and writing gigs. The novel asks: What does real diversity look like?
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    50 mins
  • Check This Out: Zibby Owens & 'Blank'

    Check This Out: Zibby Owens & 'Blank'
    Jun 15 2024
    “Blank” by Zibby Owens follows the story of Pippa Jones, a fortyish former literary sensation who fears she will be a one-hit wonder. Her solution to writer's block is an idea her 12-year old son came up with as a joke.
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    50 mins
  • Check This Out: Jennifer Croft & 'The Extinction of Irena Rey'

    Check This Out: Jennifer Croft & 'The Extinction of Irena Rey'
    Jun 8 2024
    "The Extinction of Irena Rey" is the new novel by famed translator Jennifer Croft. Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they are there to translate her magnum opus, Gray Eminence. But within days of their arrival, Irena disappears without a trace.
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    50 mins
  • Check This Out: Inci Atrek & 'Holiday Country'

    Check This Out: Inci Atrek & 'Holiday Country'
    Jun 1 2024
    Inci Atrek brings readers a seductive and lyrical debut novel. “Holiday Country" follows a young woman’s dangerous summer romance during an idyllic vacation on the Aegean coast.
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    50 mins
  • Check This Out: Aube Rey Lescure & 'River East, River West'

    Check This Out: Aube Rey Lescure & 'River East, River West'
    May 25 2024
    Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, Aube Rey Lescure’s “River East, River West” is part coming-of-age tale and part family and social drama. It follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world.
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    55 mins