Fast Five Interview: Jamie Sumner
Author Jamie Sumner joins us to talk about her new middle grade novel, SCHOOLED.| Teen Librarian Toolbox
Laura Goode is the author of a collection of poems, Become a Name, and a YA novel, Sister Mischief, which was a Best of the Bay pick by the San Francisco Bay Guardian and a selection of two ALA honor lists. With director Meera Menon, she wrote and produced the feature film Farah Goes Bang, which premiered at the Tribeca [...] The post Laura Goode Talks <em>Pitch Craft</em> appeared first on She Writes.| She Writes
Glenn Hughes (1951–2024) was professor emeritus at St. Mary’s University. He was the inaugural holder of the St. Mary’s Chair in Catholic Philosophy. He was the author of several books... READ MORE The post An Interview with James Greenaway about Glenn Hughes’s “Inherent Human Dignity” appeared first on University of Notre Dame.| University of Notre Dame
Newbery Medal winner Meg Medina, it meant fifteen years of returning to her "graveyard file" before finally bringing Graciela in the Abyss to life. The post Meg Medina Discusses Her New Fantasy Novel ‘Graciela in the Abyss’ first appeared on The Children's Book Review.| The Children's Book Review
Jeff Greenwald shares insights from The Mental Edge for Young Athletes—from the mastery mindset to managing fear and supporting kids in sport. The post Interview with Jeff Greenwald, MFT, Author of ‘The Mental Edge for Young Athletes’ first appeared on The Children's Book Review.| The Children's Book Review
Vicky Pinpin-Feinstein is a writer, former college lecturer, communications technology and society professional, and author of A Thousand Little Deaths, an account of her experience growing up under the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines. With graduate degrees in the Social Sciences, her career focused on media and society at various institutions. Working with refugees inspired her to write Beyond Fear and Suspicion. She received an Individual Artist and Scholar Award from the Montgomery ...| Atmosphere Press
Norman Coutts was born on May 6, 1953, and grew up on a farm just outside Toronto. He studied Radio and Television at Ryerson Polytechnical University and went on to work in the television and film industry, holding roles such as stage carpenter, stagehand, floor director, and eventually first assistant director in film. He comes from a large family with three brothers and two sisters. His mother passed away when he was just two years old—a loss that continues to shape his reflections and w...| Atmosphere Press
Riley Ray is a poet, writer, and published author whose work delves deep into love, loss, and healing. His poetry collections, Cliffhanger and Swimming in Chaos, unravel the raw aftermath of losing a loved one to suicide, blending prose and poetry to tell his story unfiltered and unapologetically. The post An Interview with Riley Ray appeared first on Atmosphere Press.| Atmosphere Press
Shannon Mori is an internationally sold children's book author. Her Pawsome Pals book series features pets with problems and their pals that help their pets sort through them. Shannon has had a passion for writing and a love of animals since she was a child. Combining both into books that children and their parents not only will love to read, but also will learn something about themselves, others, and the world around them at the same time is her dream come true! Her incredibly supportive hus...| Atmosphere Press
For over twenty-six years, Travis Hupp has been writing poetry about resilience, God, breaking free of oppressive structures, good trips, bad trips, love in its myriad forms, quantum physics, nature and the color blue, among other topics. American Entropy is his third book. His other two, Faster, Annihilators! and Sin and I, are also available on Amazon.com and wherever books are sold. The post An Interview with Travis Hupp appeared first on Atmosphere Press.| Atmosphere Press
Kole Kealey is a poet renowned for her brave and vulnerable explorations of the human experience. Her second poetry collection, Sunflowers Sting, continues the powerful narrative established in her debut, Perfume and Cigarettes, by navigating the complex terrain of trauma, mental illness, and the path to self-acceptance. The post An Interview with Kole Kealey appeared first on Atmosphere Press.| Atmosphere Press
Author Jamie Sumner joins us to talk about her new middle grade novel, SCHOOLED.| Teen Librarian Toolbox
Bonus content! Why interview just one author when you can interview a slew? Today we speak with a host of different nonfiction creators of children's books to figure out how they make their difficult topics child appropriate.| A Fuse #8 Production
Grief and humor mixing and melding in middle grade is a delicate thing to establish. We talk with author Joanne Levy on how to make this very secret sauce.| A Fuse #8 Production
This month, we’re thrilled to welcome Lindsay H. Metcalf to the Only Picture Books Author interview series! Lindsay’s lyrical nonfiction and activist poetry have won plenty of awards—including the Green Earth Book Award and the ILA Social Justice Literature Award—and her growing body of work continues to inspire young readers to care about the world and their place in it.| Only Picture Books
In his detailed two-volume commentary on 1 & 2 Kings, John N. Oswalt highlights the prophetic value of Old Testament narrative. In our interview below, Oswalt discusses the unique contribution these EEC volumes make. John N. Oswalt is visiting distinguished professor of Old Testament at A| Lexham Press
"I knew the book had to be accessible for children. I also wanted it to have a point of view, to be specifically Black (as much as I could manage in 100 poems), and to be honest." Traci N. Todd talks about her latest poetry collection.| A Fuse #8 Production
Marian Schwartz is a prizewinning translator of Russian fiction and nonfiction, including works by Nina Berberova, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Shishkin, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The University of Notre Dame Press is... READ MORE The post An Interview with Marian Schwartz, Translator of “Between Prison and Freedom” appeared first on University of Notre Dame.| University of Notre Dame
"I understand the value of escapism for kids, but I also understand the value of representation." Craig Kofi Farmer goes deep with his latest book on what toxic mentorship can do to a kid.| A Fuse #8 Production
“Anything less is not good enough for a child.” Those would be the words of the irascible editor, Ursula Nordstrom. Now she's getting a middle grade nonfiction book on her life, and author Nancy Hudgins is here to tell us more.| A Fuse #8 Production
Were you aware that ghosts are the hot trend of 2025? Not sure what that says about the state of the world today, but it does give me an excuse to talk to the creator of the ghost with the most.| A Fuse #8 Production
Today, we sit down with Wendi Schuller to talk about The Adventures of Margo: Girl Detective and the art of crafting mysteries for young readers.| The Children's Book Review
We were very excited to be able to catch up with author Essa Hansen and chat about her new novella Casthen Gain, the world of The Graven, and what she's getting up to next.| Grimdark Magazine
Losing a baby in the womb is common, but that doesn't make it any less painful. The grief of losing any child feels unbearable. Lost Gifts: Miscarriage, Grief, and the God of All Comfort laments the grief of miscarriage, discovers God’s gifts in spite of loss, and remembers our Good Shepherd, who we| Lexham Press
We continue our ode to science fiction this week with the delightful Rebecca Stead in discussion about her latest title, tails and all.| A Fuse #8 Production
Is there life on Mars? Who cares! It's the Moon we're focusing on today, in this ribald conversation about one of my (already) favorite middle grades of 2026.| A Fuse #8 Production
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/on-the-record/paper Jennifer Chacon: You note in the book that when immigrant residents want to avail themselves of various forms of relief from the threat of deportation (or, to be more legally precise, removal), they often have to establish their own exceptionality, demonstrating why they are deserving of legal relief that is not more widely available. Could you […]| CaMP Anthropology
Got a-hankering for more Penderwicks? Then get the next best thing! Jeanne Birdsall has an all new book out and it involves libraries, fairies, and terrible terrible parents.| A Fuse #8 Production
Look, I don’t see much of a point in beating around the bush. You read the title of this post. You know what the deal is. Our dear, beloved, Dan Santat, Caldecott Award-winner, nice feller, and man-about-town, has the kickoff to a new graphic novel series coming out in 2026. It’s called Sashimi (ISBN: 9781250359995 and out April 14, 2026 ). It’s hilarious. And, yes, you’re going to want to read it the minute it comes out. Your kids? They will love it. Adults everywhere? They’ll stea...| A Fuse #8 Production
I had an amusing moment recently. I was speaking on my podcast the other day about being a bit of a “nonfiction stickler”. This made it into the show notes of the episode and when someone brought the post up in Google, they got one of those annoying AI related questions… about “the nonfiction stickler”. I found this amusing. As the official Nonfiction Stickler, I have certain things I loathe in children’s works of nonfiction. Things like faux dialogue and unsubstantiated sources. | A Fuse #8 Production
Proof positive that sometimes the best books for kids come from the unlikeliest of sources about the unlikeliest of people.| A Fuse #8 Production
Interview with Dylan Thuras and Jennifer Swanson, authors of The Atlas Obscura Guide to Inventing the World| From The Mixed Up Files
An interview with Jeanne Birdsall about her new middle-grade novel, THE LIBRARY OF UNRULY TREASURES.| From The Mixed Up Files
On Monday, June 28th, I'll be joined by Я.R. HARROW on After Hours for a live interview. This is one of the few occasions that I get a horror author on the show, and I'm really looking forward to asking a few questions. Horror was my initial genre of choice for a reason.| WriterSanctuary
Sometimes we can’t find the right words to express our grief, longings, or even our joy. But in the Psalms, God gives us words to give back to him. In When You Don’t Have the Words: Praying the Psalms, Reed S. Dunn shows how the Psalms enrich our prayer lives. In our interview below, Dunn discuss| Lexham Press
Interviewed by Kristina Jacobsen Kristina Jacobsen: Your book takes up two longstanding interests of anthropology: Indigeneity and modernity. Did you originally set out to study these topics or did…| CaMP Anthropology
Former journalist for a short time before I married. Studied journalism (dah) and international politics. Taiji player. Bridge bum. Genealogist focusing on family stories. Cat lover. Destroyer of almost any houseplant. Hockey fan. Bite at poetry but I have written a novel that's in the drawer and am halfway through with another. Student of Don Maass and Lorin Oberweger and graduate of their Breakout Novel Intensives, which is my version of getting an MFA.| Atmosphere Press
Kristina Elyse Butke joins me on After Hours for a live interview on July 14th on YouTube. Come and meet the author and bring your questions!| WriterSanctuary
Rachel Apone: Thank you for this creative, rich, and thought-provoking book! The book offers a fascinating argument about the history of Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and speaks to foundation…| CaMP Anthropology
SummaryAuthor/Illustrator Interview with Casey Lyall and Sara Faber: The League of Littles We’re excited to have Casey Lyall and Sara Faber on here today to talk about their new release: The League of Littles. Hi, Casey and Sara, let’s start with learning a bit more about you, and then we’ll talk more about your book. Did you have any childhood dreams for when you became an adult? If so, did they come true? Casey: For sure! I went through a ton of different dreams for myself, but the on...| From The Mixed Up Files
On June 30, 2025, I'm joined by Shawn McCarthy for a live interview on After Hours. He has quite a history of publishing books, both fiction and non-fiction, as well as holding a couple of degrees. Plus, he has been working on perfecting the art of writing with a cat perched on his shoulder.| WriterSanctuary
Come and hang out with DJ Cook and myself as we talk about his development of Immane, the high-fantasy horror RPG they are working on.| WriterSanctuary
Erika Taylor is a fantasy writer who also works as a ghostwriter. She discusses her...| WRITERFUL BOOKS
This month on the OPB Author-Illustrator Interview Series, we’re thrilled to feature Donna Janell Bowman—a writer, researcher, and storyteller who brings history to life for young readers. Donna’s award-winning picture books, including Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World About Kindness, King of the Tightrope: When the Great Blondin Ruled Niagara, and Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills (co-authored with Billy Mills), shine a light on incredib...| Only Picture Books
How can war stories, farming proverbs, and strange visions draw you closer to Jesus? In Four Mountains: Encountering God in the Bible from Eden to Zion, Michael Niebauer shows how to see the Bible’s big story and meet with God in his word. In our interview below, Niebauer discusses the inspiratio| Lexham Press
In Created for Communion with God: The Promise of Genesis 1 and 2, Harrison Perkins explains that the creation account of Genesis 1–2 is primarily about God and his relationship with human beings. These chapters are God’s word for God’s people, to summon us into communion with him. In our interview below, Perkins discusses how the goal| Lexham Press
A resident of the West for most of her adult life, DeAnna Beachley has grown to love the Mojave Desert and the Colorado River Basin. She is a bird watcher, hiker, teacher, historian, poet, and essayist. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Red Rock Review, Sandstone & Silver, The Nature of Our...Read More| Black Fox Literary Magazine
Kadupul Flower by poet Kimberly Vargas Agnese will be released in October 2025, published by Green Writers Press. Agnese is an accomplished Chicana poet whose work has been featured in publications such as Anacua Literary Arts Journal, The Seventh Wave, Awakened Voices, Rappahannock Review, and The Clay Jar Review. For over 30 years, she has resided in Fresno, California, where she continuously writes and is an active member of her community. She shares a home with her daughter. This collecti...| Black Fox Literary Magazine
A number of our authors have had distinguished careers in business, government, academia, and non-profit organizations; and their avocations, besides genealogy, have been wide-ranging.| Genealogical.com
A conversation with a desert conservationist about giant sandworms, toad tripping, and more.| The Science of Fiction
Maine is where Robert McCloskey plied his trade. It's where Miss Rumphius planted all those lupines. And it's where we head today for chowder, thick sweaters, and the occasional Whoopie Pie.| A Fuse #8 Production
Sara Pennypacker's books always pack a punch, but her latest goes into previously uncharted territory. We talk with her and then get to see a Jon Klassen cover like you've never seen him before.| A Fuse #8 Production
Arms! Tentacles! Real estate in the board book format! I'm talking with two picture book-turned-board book creators about how you create a title for the littlest of readers.| A Fuse #8 Production
In Lost Words and Forgotten Worlds: Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls, Andrew B. Perrin reintroduces readers to the scrolls while correcting common misunderstandings and highlighting overlooked issues. In our interview below, Perrin discusses goal of bringing the highly technical world of the De| Lexham Press
Today’s conversation is one that I’ve been looking forward to for some time. Richard Michelson is an old friend. If ever you’ve been to the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, MA, it would behoove you to also check out the R. Michelson Gallery in nearby Northampton. There, located in an old bank, you will find perhaps the finest gallery of fine children’s illustration available to you anywhere in the continental United States. | A Fuse #8 Production
Protecting younger siblings everywhere? This super spy graphic novel aims to do just that. A talk with the creators of this newest comic creation.| A Fuse #8 Production
When I had the pleasure of meeting Emma Otheguy, I got a taste of her passion for introducing history to young readers. In addition to writing early readers and picture books, she is the author of middle grade novels, Silver Meadows (Knopf, 2019) and Sofia Acosta Makes a Scene (Knopf, 2022). I am excited to share our recent discussion featuring the launch, both in English and in Spanish, of her upcoming book, Cousins in the Time of Magic. (February 25, 2025). In this time travel adventure, th...| From The Mixed Up Files
Michael Colon is a freelance writer and novelist, born and raised in New York City....| WRITERFUL BOOKS
Award-winning author, Professor Paul Crawford tells us about his latest novel, The Wonders of Doctor...| WRITERFUL BOOKS
Tony Robles speaks with David Jauss, Author of The Craft of Fiction. We feature poetry by Badawi, read by Sun Ra. We remember and listen to Nikki Giovanni. Also, Christy Lowman, Leila McMichael, Margaret Langley, Marissa Eller and Michael Hardy speak during Authors Day at the Morganton Public Library.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Tony Robles interviews author William Giraldi (Hold the Dark and The Hero's Body.) Their conversation ranges from manhood and body building to the masculinity of speed. We celebrate poetry month with Tony Robles, Joseph Jason Santiago Lacour, Tommi Avicolli Mecca and Sabrena Taylor. Martha Cinader on the path to publication.| Listen & Be Heard Network
s2e38 Big Business on Your Bookshelf, Authors Day at the Library. Martha speaks with Dan Sinykin about Big Fiction, How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature. Tony Robles visits novelist, Beth Revis, and poet, Kyra Freeman, at Morganton Public Library in North Carolina. Also, we persist in resisting book bans and give thanks for your community radio station.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Anne Enright, writer, critic, Booker winner, kindly made time back in 2023 for Irish literature maven Paige Reynolds and for John Plotz in his role as host for our sister podcast, Novel Dialogue. In this conversation, she reads from The Wren, The Wren and says we don’t yet know if the web has become a space of exposure or … Continue reading "134* Etherized: Anne Enright in a Novel Dialogue conversation (Paige Reynolds, JP)"| Recall This Book
An Interview With 'Queen City Detective Agency' Author Snowden Wright.| Deep South Magazine
Self-proclaimed science geek, award-winning author, speaker, and teacher, Jennifer Swanson talks about her picture book, Footprints Across the Planet.| The Children's Book Review
Embark on a journey of wonder and creativity with award-winning children's author and illustrator Loren Long in this captivating episode about The Yellow Bus.| The Children's Book Review
An interview with native Savannah writer Leigh Ebberwein as she tells the tale behind her writing and future plans for her "Saints of Savannah" series.| Deep South Magazine
Children's author Beth Anderson discusses her latest book, Thomas Jefferson's Battle for Science: Bias, Truth, and a Mighty Moose.| The Children's Book Review
BOOKPLACES Nell Dixon Author Interview The Writer's Life| BOOKPLACES
A delightful talk with Samantha van Leer full of aliens, dogs that act like aliens, science fiction for kids, and more.| A Fuse #8 Production
Our 20th-anniversary celebrations continue with another Author Spotlight interview. Today, we're shining a light on the very beloved Beatriz Hausner. We've had the great fortune to publish three wonderfully unique and brilliant poetry collections from Beatriz: Enter the Raccoon, Beloved Revolutionar| Book*hug Press | 15 Years of Literary Publishing
Debut creator Cherry Mo takes a well-loved idea and renders it bright, shiny, and new in this vibrant take on a tale as old as lunchtime.| A Fuse #8 Production
Happy Father's Day! We're highlighting my favorite daddy book of 2024 and talking about it (though I do get a little distracted by these creators' killer headshots).| A Fuse #8 Production
Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison talks about her new book, "Paradise," what she learned from her marriage and why O.J. Simpson is innocent.| Salon
We debut a new feature: Recall This Story, in which a contemporary writer picks out a bygone story to read and to analyze. Surely there is no better novelist to begin with than RTB’ shouse sage, Steve McCauley. And not just because he’s got the pipes to power through a whole fantabulous John Cheever story. … Continue reading "128 Recall This Story: Steve McCauley excavates John Cheever’s “The Five-Forty-Eight” (JP)"| Recall This Book
Sordidez, by E.G. Condé, Stelliform Press, 2023 In this episode, Elizabeth talks with Steven Gonzalez, anthropologist and author of speculative fiction under the pen name E.G. Condé. They discuss the entanglement of politics, Taíno animism, and weather events in the form of a hurricane named Teddy. Steve describes the suffusion of sound he has experienced … Continue reading "126 E.G. Condé / Steve Gonzalez on Hurricanes, Fiction, and Speculative Ethnography (EF)"| Recall This Book
In this fantastic recent episode from our colleagues at Novel Dialogue, Sheila Heti sits down with Sunny Yudkoff and John to discuss her incredibly varied oeuvre. She does it all: stories, novels, alphabetized diary entries as well as a series of dialogues in the New Yorker with an AI named Alice. Drawing on her background in Jewish Studies, Sunny … Continue reading "123* Sheila Heti speaks about awe with Sunny Yudkoff (JP)"| Recall This Book
To mark the publication of John’s book Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea (My Reading), with Oxford University Press, John and Elizabeth take to the airways to share their love of Le Guin’s “speculative anthropology,” gender politics, and goats. And we share a delight we’ve been holding back for just this occasion, a series of clips from … Continue reading "112 Earthsea, and other realms: Ursula Le Guin as social inactivist (EF, JP, [UKL])"| Recall This Book
. John Plotz talked with Samuel Delany, living legend of science fiction and fantasy back in 2019. You probably know him best for breakthrough novels like Dhalgren and Trouble on Triton, which went beyond “New Wave” SF to introduce an intense and utterly idiosyncratic form of theory-rich and avant-garde stylistics to the genre. Reading him means leaving Earth, … Continue reading "111* Samuel R Delany, Nevèrÿon and beyond (JP)"| Recall This Book
In this episode (originally aired by our partner Novel Dialogue) John and his Brandeis colleague Eugene Sheppard speak with Joshua Cohen about The Netanyahus. Is the 2021 novel a Pulitzer-winning bravura story of the world’s worst job interview? Or is it a searing indictment of ethno-nationalist Zionism–and the strange act of pretense whereby American Jewish writers and thinkers … Continue reading "110* Novel Dialogue: Joshua Cohen (JP, Eugene Sheppard)"| Recall This Book
Kim Stanley Robinson, SF novelist of renown, has three marvelous trilogies: The Three Californias, Science in the Capital and Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars. But lately it is The Ministry for the Future, his “science fiction nonfiction novel” (Jonathan Lethem) that has politicians, Eurocrats and the rest of us pondering how policy might fight climate change. In this Books in … Continue reading "95* Kim Stanley Robinson, Books in Dark Times (JP)"| Recall This Book
Charles Yu won the 2020 National Book Award for Interior Chinatown but some of us became fans a decade earlier, with How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (2010). That novel brilliantly uses SF conventions to uncover the kind of self-deceptive infilling that we all do every day, the little stories we tell ourselves to make our … Continue reading "89* Charles Yu with Chris Fan: The Work of Inhabiting a Role (Novel Dialogue Crossover, JP)"| Recall This Book
Dana Stevens joins Elizabeth and John to discuss Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema and the Invention of the Twentieth Century. Her fantastic new book serves as occasion to revel in the work and working world of Buster Keaton, that “solemn, beautiful, perpetually airborne man.” Although packed with fascinating tidbits from Keaton’s life, … Continue reading "86 Dana Stevens Keaton (JP EF)"| Recall This Book
Our first August rebroadcast was John and Pu’s 2019 interview with SF superstar Cixin Liu (you may want to re-listen to that episode before this one!). Here, they reflect on the most significant things that Liu had said, and to ponder the political situation for contemporary Chinese writers who come to the West to discuss their … Continue reading "*85 Pu Wang and JP unpack their Cixin Liu interview"| Recall This Book
John and Pu Wang, a Brandeis professor of Chinese literature, spoke with science-fiction genius Cixin Liu back in 2019. His most celebrated works include The Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death’s End. When he visited Brandeis to receive an honorary degree, Liu paid a visit to the RTB lair to record this interview. Liu spoke … Continue reading "*84 Cixin Liu (JP, Pu Wang)"| Recall This Book
In this 2019 conversation, rebroadcast now to follow up RTB 82, Elizabeth and John try their best to unpack Zadie Smith’s take on sincerity, authenticity and human sacredness; the “golden ticket” dirty secret behind our hypocritical academic meritocracy; surveillance capitalism as the “biggest capital grab of human experience in history;” and her genealogy of the … Continue reading "*83 Plotz and Ferry on Zadie Smith"| Recall This Book
In this 2019 episode, John interviews the celebrated British writer Zadie Smith. Zadie’s horror at the idea of rereading her own novels opens the show; she can more easily imagine rewriting one (as John’s beloved Willa Cather once did) than having to go through them all again. From there the conversation quickly moves through Brexit (oh, … Continue reading "*82 Zadie Smith in Focus (JP)"| Recall This Book
Rajiv Mohabir is a dazzling poet of linguistics crossovers, who works in English, Bhojpuri, Hindi and more. He is as prolific as he is polyglot (three books in 2021!) and has undertaken a remarkable array of projects includes the prizewinning resurrection of a forgotten century-old memoir about mass involuntary migration. (If you don’t need to … Continue reading "80 We are Not Digested: Rajiv Mohabir (Ulka Anjaria, JP)"| Recall This Book
In this rebroadcast, John and Brandeis neuroscientist Gina Turrigiano (an occasional host and perennial friend of Recall this Book) speak with Madeline Miller, author of the critically acclaimed bestseller Circe. They discuss Circe’s place in Greek mythology and in a retelling of the Odyssey “from below” or “from the side,” the concept of “mythological realism,” and the influence … Continue reading "79* Madeline Miller on Circe (GT, JP)"| Recall This Book
Our second January Novel Dialogue conversation is with Caryl Phillips, professor of English at Yale and world-renowned for novels ranging from The Final Passage to 2018’s A View of the Empire at Sunset. He shares his thoughts on transplantation, on performance, on race, even on sports. Joining him here are John and the wonderful comparatist Corina Stan, author of The … Continue reading "72 Caryl Phillips speaks with Corina Stan (Novel Dialogue Crossover, JP )"| Recall This Book
This week on Recall this Book, another delightful crossover episode from our sister podcast Novel Dialogue, which puts scholars and writers together to discuss the making of novels and what to make of them. (If you want to hear more, RtB 53 featured Nobel Orhan Pamuk, RtB 54 brought in Helen Garner, and in RtB … Continue reading "71 Jennifer Egan with Ivan Kreilkamp: fiction as streaming, genre as portal (Novel Dialogue crossover, JP)"| Recall This Book
Book Industry Month continues with a memory-lane voyage back to a beloved early RtB episode. This conversation with Martin Puchner about the very origins of writing struck us as perfect companion to Mark McGurl’s wonderful insights (in RtB 67, published earlier this month) about the publishing industry’s in 2021, or as Mark tells it, the … Continue reading "68* Martin Puchner: Gilgamesh to Amazon (EF, JP)"| Recall This Book
RtB Book Industry month kicks off with a simple question: What do you make of Amazon? Is it the new Sears Roebuck? A terrifying monopoly threat? Satisfaction (a paperback in your mailbox, a Kindle edition on your tablet) just a click away? John and Elizabeth speak with Stanford English prof Mark McGurl, whose previous books … Continue reading "67 Everything and Less: Mark McGurl on Books in the Age of Amazon (JP, EF, 11/4)"| Recall This Book
Janie, a practicing osteopath, lives in Eastbourne, UK, with her teenage daughter, and a music producer son. She won the Faber & Faber ‘Hard Lines’ short story competition at the age of 19 while training to be a journalist in London. But she left journalism to study psychology and philosophy at Middlesex University. Her non-governmental […]| Bookish Bubble
Suyog Ketkar is a certified technical writer who specializes in content-design interoperability. He has published two books, ‘The Dogfight and the Lone Peacekeeper’ in 2021 and ‘The Write Stride – A Conversation with Your Writing Self’ in 2017. His articles and poems have appeared in national and international books, poetry anthologies, and magazines. He has […]| Bookish Bubble
Hey Guys! Special post today, I got the honour to interview the lovely Jenn Bennett all about her new novel Starry Eyes – huge thanks to Simon and Schuster for sending me the novel to read early and for allowing me to interview Jenn, keep reading below to find all about Jenn’s latest novel. 1. […]|
Hey Guys! Today I have the honor of starting off the first day of the It Came From The Deep by Maria Lewis Blog Tour! Today you will find some questions that the ever so lovely Maria answered about her new book and also about some fun random shiz towards the end! What is one […]|
Micro Activism author and activist coach Omkari Williams reflects on Black History Month and offers advice on how to support causes that are important to you.| David Sedaris Books
Timothy Robare will join us on After Hours with WriterSanctuary on February 19th. Bring your questions and meet the author!| WriterSanctuary
Author Ryan Britt discusses his new book Phasers on Stun! How the Making (and Remaking) of Star Trek Changed the World| The Science of Fiction
