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S1E73 073: Hollywood's Others: Love And Limitation In The Star System by Katherine Fusco
Katherine Fusco discusses and read from Hollywood's Others: Love And Limitation In The Star System (Columbia University Press, 2025), which explores the non-normative undercurrents of some of the…
S1E72 072: Full Of Beans: A Back-In-Time Mystery by Mark J. Wilson
Mark J. Wilson discusses and reads from his debut novel, Full Of Beans: A Back-In-Time Mystery (Redwood Publishing, LLC, 2025), about a private detective who solves crime and creates plenty of…
S1E71 071: No Great Tragedy: An Academic Novel by Bernard Schopen
Bernard Schopen discusses his latest, No Great Tragedy: An Academic Novel (Luminaire Press, 2025), which follows a "neither heroic nor tragic, merely academic" Classics professor as he stumbles…
S1E70 070: Rebels And Outliers: Real Stories Of The American West by John M. Glionna
John M. Glionna discusses and reads from Rebels And Outliers: Real Stories Of The American West (University Of Nevada Press, 2025), a collection of pieces written while a roving reporter for the LA…
S1E69 069: The Whyte Python World Tour by Travis Kennedy
Travis Kennedy discusses and reads from his debut novel, The Whyte Python World Tour (Doubleday, 2025), wherein the CIA exploits a glam metal band as part of a psy-op to destabilize communist…
S1E68 068: Infernulls: The Golden Letter by Zeggy
Zeggy discusses and reads from Infernulls: The Golden Letter (Zeggy, 2025), a light novel homage to anime, role playing games, and classic fantasy, following the adventures of Lamya Cade and an…
S1E67 067: Refraction: An Arctic Memoir by Bruce Rettig
Bruce Rettig discusses and reads from Refraction: An Arctic Memoir (Wayfarer Books, 2022), about three summers worked in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, home of one of the largest oilfield in America, where an…
S1E66 066: Seven Tears Into The Sea by Terri Farley
Terri Farley discusses and reads from Seven Tears Into The Sea (Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, 2005), a coming-of-age novel in which seventeen-year-old Gwen revisits her seaside…
S1E65 065: O'Ceagan's Legacy by Lillian I. Wolfe
Lillian I. Wolfe discusses and reads from O'Ceagan's Legacy (Pynhaven Press, 2016, 2025), a star-faring adventure in which the crew of a family-run cargo ship must contend with space pirates, Celtic…
S1E64 064: The Mansion by Bill Brown
Bill Brown discusses and reads from The Mansion (Lobos Coast Media, 2025), a haunted house yarn in which a team of scientists sets out to prove the existence of ghosts and find something far more…
S1E63 063: The Darling Of The Black Rock Desert by Laura Newman
Laura Newman discusses and reads from The Darling Of The Black Rock Desert (Delphinium Books, 2025), a collection of three novellas of the West, which explores how diverse characters forge…
S1E62 062: The Shining Mountains by Alix Christie
Alix Christie discusses and reads from her novel, The Shining Mountains (High Road Books, 2023), which begins in the Rocky Mountain west of the 1830s and tells the story of a Scottish fur trader and…
S1E61 061: Past Crimes by John Jacob Dawson
John Jacob Dawson discusses and reads from his debut novel, Past Crimes (John Jacob Dawson, 2024), which uses the development of time travel as a means of examining the ramifications of trauma,…
S1E60 060: Muslim Comics And Warscape Witnessing by Esra Mirze Santesso
Esra Mirze Santesso discusses and reads from Muslim Comics And Warscape Witnessing (The Ohio University Press, 2023), which looks at the growing body of Muslim graphic narratives, and how these…
S1E59 059: The Mad, Mad Murders Of Marigold Way by Raymond Benson
Raymond Benson discusses and reads from The Mad, Mad Murders Of Marigold Way (Beaufort Books, 2022), a comic mystery in the vein of the Coen Brothers thrillers, set in the strange setting of the…
S1E58 058: Reno's Big Gamble: Image And Reputation In The Biggest Little City by Alicia Barber
Alicia Barber discusses and reads from Reno's Big Gamble: Image And Reputation In The Biggest Little City (University Press Of Kansas, 2008), which explores the history of this Northern Nevada city,…
S1E57 057: Bull Rider by Suzanne Morgan Williams
Suzanne Morgan Williams discusses and reads from her YA/middle grade novel, Bull Rider (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2009), in which fourteen-year-old Cam O'Mara must face the fears of riding bulls…
S1E56 056: Naked City by Eric Drooker
Eric Drooker discusses his graphic novel Naked City (Dark Horse Books, 2024), which follows a painted, a musician, and a dancer, as they ponder – and experience! – what it means to be an artist in…
S1E55 055: Uncommon Allies: American Jews And Christians Uniting Against Hitler, 1933-1945 by Alan M. Shore
Alan M. Shore discusses and reads from Uncommon Allies: American Jews And Christians Uniting Against Hitler, 1933-1945 (Syracuse University Press, 2024), which looks at the development of interfaith…
S1E54 054: Sync by Ellen Hopkins
Ellen Hopkins discusses and reads from her latest YA novel in verse, Sync (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2024), a story of twins, as close as they can be, until they're separated within the foster system and…
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