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Vauhini Vara, "The Immortal King Rao: A Novel" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
33 mins; June 30, 2022
Joseph Boone, "Furnace Creek" (Eyewear Publishing, 2021)
57 mins; June 29, 2022
Jade Beer, "The Last Dress from Paris" (Berkley Books, 2022)
40 mins; June 27, 2022
Richard Swan, "The Justice of Kings" (Orbit, 2022)
46 mins; June 27, 2022
Sheila Lowe, "Proof of Life" (Write Choice Ink, 2021)
24 mins; June 24, 2022
William Ian Miller, "Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life" (Oxford UP, 2020)
53 mins; June 22, 2022
Elan Barnehama, "Escape Route" (Running Wild Press, 2022)
25 mins; June 21, 2022
Shelly Oria and Kirstin Valdez Quade, "I Know What's Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom" (McSweeney’s Books, 2022)
58 mins; June 21, 2022
Tracy Lawson, "Answering Liberty's Call: Anna Stone's Daring Ride to Valley Forge" (Gray Lion Books, 2021)
35 mins; June 17, 2022
83* Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz on Zadie Smith
27 mins; June 16, 2022
David Wright Faladé, "Black Cloud Rising" (Grove Press, 2022)
34 mins; June 14, 2022
Marcy Dermansky, "Hurricane Girl" (Knopf, 2022)
43 mins; June 14, 2022
Adrienne G. Perry, "Flashé Sur Moi" The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)
47 mins; June 10, 2022
John Scalzi, "The Kaiju Preservation Society" (Tor Books, 2022)
54 mins; June 09, 2022
Tajja Isen, "Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service" (Atria/One Signal, 2022)
35 mins; June 07, 2022
Zhanna Slor, "At the End of the World, Turn Left" (Agora Books, 2021)
18 mins; June 07, 2022
Keith Gessen, "Raising Raffi: The First Five Years" (Viking, 2022)
55 mins; June 07, 2022
82* Zadie Smith in Focus (JP)
54 mins; June 02, 2022
Peter C. Baker, "Planes" (Knopf, 2022)
43 mins; June 01, 2022
Eleanor Lerman, "Watkins Glen" (Mayapple Press, 2021)
49 mins; June 01, 2022
Catherine Lloyd, "Miss Morton and the English House Party Murder" (Kensington, 2022)
36 mins; May 31, 2022
Peter McDade, "Songs by Honeybird" (Wampus Multimedia, 2022)
28 mins; May 31, 2022
Cheryl Collins Isaac, "Spin," The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)
33 mins; May 27, 2022
Cassandra Rose Clarke, "The Beholden" (Erewhon Books, 2022)
27 mins; May 26, 2022
Fiona Vigo Marshall, "The House of Marvellous Books" (Fairlight Books, 2022)
22 mins; May 24, 2022
Diana McCaulay, "Daylight Come" (Peepal Tree Press, 2020)
36 mins; May 24, 2022
Elif Batuman, "Either/Or" (Penguin, 2022)
61 hours 43 mins; May 24, 2022
Elizabeth Boyle, "Fierce Appetites: Loving, Losing and Living to Excess in my Present and in the Writings of the Past" (Sandycove, 2022)
55 mins; May 23, 2022
Jeanne Baker Guy, "You'll Never Find Us: A Memoir" (She Writes Press, 2021)
62 hours 8 mins; May 20, 2022
Caitlin Hamilton Summie, "Geographies of the Heart" (Fornite, 2022)
20 mins; May 17, 2022
Alison Calder, "Synaptic" (U Regina Press, 2022)
46 mins; May 17, 2022
Nathan Jordan Poole, "Idlewild," The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)
48 mins; May 13, 2022
Cynthia Parker-Ohene, "Daughters of Harriet: Poems" (UP of Colorado, 2022)
24 mins; May 13, 2022
Ariela Freedman, "Lea" (Linda Leith Publishing, 2022)
27 mins; May 10, 2022
Grant Ginder, "Let's Not Do That Again" (Henry Holt, 2022)
55 mins; May 09, 2022
W. Jeff Barnes, "Mingo" (Little Star, 2021)
31 mins; May 06, 2022
Kim Hyun, "Glory Hole" (Seagull Books, 2022)
60 hours 59 mins; May 06, 2022
Behind the Scenes at a Literary Magazine: The Common
53 mins; May 05, 2022
80 We are Not Digested: Rajiv Muhabir (Ulka Anjaria, JP)
50 mins; May 05, 2022
Khan Wong, "The Circus Infinite" (Angry Robot, 2022)
34 mins; May 05, 2022
Irina Shapiro, "Murder on the Sea Witch: A Redmond and Haze Mystery Book 7" (2022)
28 mins; May 03, 2022
Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood, "Constellations of Eve" (Texas Tech UP, 2022)
24 mins; May 03, 2022
Hester Fox, "A Lullaby for Witches" (Graydon House Books, 2022)
22 mins; May 02, 2022
Sean Singer, "Today in the Taxi" (Tupelo Press, 2022)
42 mins; April 29, 2022
Bede Scott, "Too Far from Antibes" (Penguin, 2022)
31 mins; April 28, 2022
Andy Bragen, "This Is My Office and Notes on My Mother's Decline: Two Plays" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
48 mins; April 27, 2022
Fernanda Melchor and Sophie Hughes, "Paradais" (New Directions, 2022)
77 hours 2 mins; April 27, 2022
Ta-wei Chi, "The Membranes: A Novel" (Columbia UP, 2021)
75 hours 7 mins; April 26, 2022
Amadou Hampâté Bâ, "Amkoullel: The Fula Boy" (Duke UP, 2021)
47 mins; April 26, 2022
R. Cathey Daniels, "Live Caught" (Black Lawrence Press, 2022)
24 mins; April 26, 2022
Ernest Hemingway, "The Sun Also Rises: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism" (Norton, 2022)
55 mins; April 22, 2022
Romeo Oriogun, "The Sea Dreams of Us," Common magazine (Fall, 2021)
36 mins; April 22, 2022
79* Madeline Miller on Circe (GT, JP)
47 mins; April 21, 2022
Mikaela Nyman and Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen, "Sista, Stanap Strong!: A Vanuatu Women's Anthology" (Te Herenaa Waka UP, 2021)
62 hours 35 mins; April 21, 2022
Farzana Doctor, "You Still Look the Same" (Freehand Books, 2022)
36 mins; April 20, 2022
Sigal Naor Perelman, "Machluta" (Pardes, 2020)
63 hours 19 mins; April 19, 2022
Edith Saavedra, "The Lamps of Albarracin" (2018)
29 mins; April 19, 2022
Book Talk 51: Ardythe Ashley on Oscar Wilde
70 hours 24 mins; April 18, 2022
Natasha Brown, "Assembly" (Little Brown, 2022)
50 mins; April 18, 2022
Simon Armitage, "A Vertical Art: On Poetry" (Princeton UP, 2022)
63 hours 40 mins; April 14, 2022
3.6 Why are you in bed? Why are you drinking? Colm TĂłibĂ­n and Joseph Rezek in Conversation
46 mins; April 14, 2022
Erica Ruth Neubauer, "Danger on the Atlantic" (Kensington, 2022)
35 mins; April 11, 2022
David Maroto, "The Artist's Novel: A New Medium" (Mousse, 2020)
74 hours 1 min; April 11, 2022
Chris Panatier, "Stringers" (Angry Robot, 2022)
51 mins; April 07, 2022
78 Fantasy Then, Now, and Forever with Anna Vaninskaya
47 mins; April 07, 2022
Jennifer Egan, "The Candy House" (Scribner, 2022)
66 hours 31 mins; April 05, 2022
Jeff Deutsch, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" (Princeton UP, 2022)
48 mins; April 05, 2022
Sara A. Mueller, "Bone Orchard" (Tor Books, 2022)
40 mins; April 04, 2022
3.5 The Romance of Recovery: Ben Bateman talks to Shola von Reinhold (AV)
37 mins; March 31, 2022
Phil Christman, "How to Be Normal: Essays" (Belt, 2022)
89 hours 47 mins; March 30, 2022
Joan Schweighardt, "River Aria" (Five Directions Press, 2020)
23 mins; March 29, 2022
Ed Davis, "The Last Professional" (Artemesia Publishing, 2022)
22 mins; March 28, 2022
Shubha Sunder, “A Very Full Day” The Common magazine (Fall 2021)
39 mins; March 25, 2022
Adam Wyeth, "about:blank" (Salmon Poetry, 2021)
55 mins; March 25, 2022
Elaine Hsieh Chou, "Disorientation: A Novel" (Penguin, 2022)
51 mins; March 23, 2022
Billy O'Callaghan, "Life Sentences" (Godine, 2022)
30 mins; March 22, 2022
Leslie T. Grover, "The Benefits of Eating White Folks" (Jaded Ibis Press, 2022)
48 mins; March 22, 2022
Eva Stachniak, "The School of Mirrors" (William Morrow, 2022)
39 mins; March 22, 2022
Ken Krimstein, "When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
43 mins; March 22, 2022
Kenneth Hsien-y Pai and Susan Chan Egan, "A Companion to the Story of the Stone: A Chapter-By-Chapter Guide" (Columbia UP, 2021)
53 mins; March 21, 2022
3.4 The Work of Inhabiting a Role: Charles Yu speaks to Chris Fan (JP)
46 mins; March 17, 2022
Ra Page, ed., "The Cuckoo Cage" (Comma Press, 2022)
62 hours 20 mins; March 16, 2022
Peng Shepherd, "The Cartographers" (William Morrow, 2021)
25 mins; March 15, 2022
Caitlin Barasch, "A Novel Obsession" (Dutton Book, 2022)
59 mins; March 15, 2022
Ruta Sepetys, "I Must Betray You" (Philomel Books, 2022)
30 mins; March 14, 2022
Tom Sleigh, “Last Cigarette” and “Apology to My Daughter,” The Common magazine (Fall 2021)
63 hours 5 mins; March 11, 2022
Tania Bayard, "Murder in the Cloister" (Severn House Publishers, 2021)
41 mins; March 11, 2022
Mike Chen, "Light Years from Home: A Novel" (Mira Books, 2022)
42 mins; March 10, 2022
Sherry Scott, "Playhouses: Sexuality and Fundamentalism" (Black Rose Writing, 2022)
44 mins; March 08, 2022
Allegra Hyde, "Eleutheria" (Vintage, 2022)
46 mins; March 08, 2022
Sara Goudarzi, "The Almond in the Apricot" (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2022)
22 mins; March 08, 2022
Nandi Timmana, "Theft of a Tree" (Harvard UP, 2022)
69 hours 4 mins; March 07, 2022
Ira Mukhoty, "Song of Draupadi" (Aleph Book Company, 2021)
47 mins; March 03, 2022
3.3 In the Editing Room with Ruth Ozeki and Rebecca Evans (EH)
41 mins; March 03, 2022
Sandra Cavallo Miller, "Where No One Should Live" (U Nevada Press, 2021)
16 mins; March 02, 2022
Mazey Eddings, "A Brush with Love: A Novel" (St. Martin's Griffin, 2022)
57 mins; March 01, 2022
Sequoia Nagamatsu, "How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel" (William Morrow, 2022)
27 mins; March 01, 2022
Julia Cooke, “Past and Future on Rapa Nui," The Common magazine (Fall, 2021)
34 mins; February 25, 2022
Bryn Turnbull, "The Last Grand Duchess: A Novel" (Mira, 2022)
41 mins; February 25, 2022
Claudio Sopranzetti and Sara Fabbri, "King of Bangkok" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
50 mins; February 24, 2022
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