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Jake and Ron are honored and thrilled to have author Catriona Ward on the podcast! Her latest novel is Looking Glass Sound published by Tor Nightfire.https://tornightfire.com/catalog/looking-glass-sound-catriona-ward/https://us.macmillan.com/author/catrionawardI recently caught Catriona Ward at the Brookline Booksmith in Massachusetts, where she sat on a panel with former Wrath of the iOtians guest Christopher Golden and the inimitable Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt. And it's obvious that Catriona's fan base is large and adoring, and rightly so. She has a generosity of spirit that's immediately palpable. Look no further than her willingness to talk with us in the midst of an exhausting cross country book tour.  Catriona's work is influenced by her globetrotting youth. She was born in Washington, D. C., but grew up, well, all over, with stops in Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, England, and Morocco. Catriona earned her undergraduate degree in English Literature at Oxford, and a Master's in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. In 2015, she brought her experience, education, and energy to bear on Rawblood. Published as The Girl from Rawblood in the U. S. in 2016,  the book signaled the arrival of a major new talent in horror fiction and won an August Derleth Award at the British Fantasy Awards to boot.  Catriona followed up in 2019 with Little Eve, which also won a Derleth and a Shirley Jackson Award. In 2022, Catriona blew readers, critics, and no less an authority than Stephen King himself away with The Last House on Needless Street, a mind bender of a novel that I hope every iOtian listener has already enjoyed.  The book won an amazing third Derleth Award for Catriona. And was also shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award, the British Book Award, and a Red Tentacle Kitschie, which, for those not in the know, is a juried prize awarded for elevating the tone of genre literature. 2023 brought us Sundial, which was nominated for the Bram Stoker and Locus Awards. Of its author, Danielle Trussoni of the New York Times remarked, “Ward is willing to go places so dark, so dismal, that it borders on sadism.” In our line of work, that's high praise.  Elevated horror indeed.  Catriona combines elements of the psychological thriller, the gothic, and a hallucinatory high strangeness to create a voice that is uniquely hers. No one else could have written Looking Glass Sound, her other 2023 release with Tor Nightfire. Which I might add continues to publish the best of the best of contemporary horror. Catriona spoke with us about this book from a hotel room in the Twilight Zone, en route to her next speaking gig. We were thrilled!The Wrath of the iOtiansEmail: thewrathoftheiotians@gmail.comInstagram: thewrathoftheiotiansLinktree: https://linktr.ee/wrathoftheiotianspodcastWebsite: https:/Small Ways To Live Well from The Simple ThingsGet a six week suggestion box of things to note and notice this spring.Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Dan and Ellen talk with Andy and Dee Hall, co-founders of Wisconsin Watch. Wisconsin Watch was launched in 2009 as the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. It's nonprofit and nonpartisan, and it has grown a lot over the last 14 years. Andy is retiring on December 31 of this year, and is helping the new CEO, George Stanley, with the transition.  Dee Hall, co-founder and former managing editor of Wisconsin Watch, is also moving  on, and is now editor-in-chief of Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom with a clear mission: Floodlight investigates "the powerful interests stalling climate action." Floodlight partners with local and national journalists to co-publish collaborative investigations.  The What Works podcast will resume after the holidays, and Dan fills listeners in on events surrounding the launch of our book, “What Works in Community News,” which is coming out on January 9. We'll be talking about the book that night at 7 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith in Coolidge Corner in Brookline, MA.  Ellen has a Quick Take on Signal Ohio, a well-funded nonprofit news startup in Ohio. It's expanding into Akron. We've worked with a Northeastern graduate student, Dakotah Kennedy (no relation to Dan), on this podcast. She is now a service journalism reporter for Signal Cleveland. For more reporting on the media meltdown of Akron's Devil Strip, check out Dan's story here and a NiemanLab story here. 

Today is the very last author interview of season three! Maggie sits down with Margarita Barresi to chat all about her debut novel, A Delicate Marriage. This book is a historical fiction piece following the marriage between Marco and Isa, and deals with class and oppression in Puerto Rico 40 years after it became a U.S. colony. We discuss research, how Margarita's family inspired the novel, and the balance of romance and politics in the book. For more on Margarita Barresi, check out her website: https://www.margaritabarresi.com/aboutTo purchase A Delicate Marriage from Brookline Booksmith: https://www.brooklinebooksmith.com/search/site/a%20delicate%20marriage Or purchase on Bookshop.org: https://uk.bookshop.org/categories/m/fictionAs always, thank you for being Novel Friend!Classics Out LoudWe take great books that have stood the test of time and make completely new recordings...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

In past years, Amanda and I would be at different romance conferences around this time, and it got me thinking. So we connected to talk about what we miss about romance-focused conferences, and what would our ideal book-focused conference look like?So! Many! Links! To share with you! I wrote about the RT cling-film signage back in 2013The episode where we are high: Episode 304. You Have a Type and It Might be Mullets: Sarah, Amanda and Elyse at RTEpisode 566: . The Blessings of Comfort Reads with KJ Charles Episode 371. Amanda and AJ Have Major Book Hangover from Gideon the NinthThe Unofficial Romantic Times IndexBack issues of RT sometimes appear on eBayMy review of A Most Agreeable MurderSteamy Lit ConFall in Love with New EnglandApollyconBrookline Booksmith  Join our Patreon for complete mayhem, shenanigans, and more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In past years, Amanda and I would be at different romance conferences around this time, and it got me thinking. So we connected to talk about what we miss about romance-focused conferences, and what would our ideal book-focused conference look like?So! Many! Links! To share with you! I wrote about the RT cling-film signage back in 2013The episode where we are high: Episode 304. You Have a Type and It Might be Mullets: Sarah, Amanda and Elyse at RTEpisode 566: . The Blessings of Comfort Reads with KJ Charles Episode 371. Amanda and AJ Have Major Book Hangover from Gideon the NinthThe Unofficial Romantic Times IndexBack issues of RT sometimes appear on eBayMy review of A Most Agreeable MurderSteamy Lit ConFall in Love with New EnglandApollyconBrookline Booksmith  Join our Patreon for complete mayhem, shenanigans, and more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Happy National Poetry Month! We kick off this episode with Emily reading Lucille Clifton's poem, “Climbing,” and end with an in-depth conversation with poet Shuly Cawood about her poem, “Starter Marriage.” [The full text of Shuly's poem is at the end of this description if you'd like to read it before or while listening to the episode.] Both of us have Writing and Creativity on our minds. Emily started Julia Cameron's THE ARTIST'S WAY, and Chris is listening to WRITING FOR IMPACT by Bill Birchard. And we have some reading/writing synchronicity going on with Natalie Goldberg. Emily is reading & listening to her classic, WRITING DOWN THE BONES, and when visiting McNally Jackson at Rockefeller Center in NYC Chris picked up WRITING DOWN THE BONES DECK. More recently read books include WHY AM I SO ANXIOUS by Tracey Marks, MY DEAREST DARLING by Lisa Franco, BOOKSELLING IN AMERICA AND THE WORLD, ed. by Charles B. Anderson. And thanks to listener Colleen's birthday book club tradition, we revisited a childhood favorite, Judy Blume's ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME, MARGARET. There's another #buddyread on our horizon: TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY IN SEARCH OF AMERICA. We're reading this for the Vintage Book Club which is sponsored by Book Club on the Go and will meet on Thursday, April 20, 1 pm at the Wood Memorial Library and Museum in South Windsor, CT. All are welcome. We had a fantastic biblioadventure together in Boston. After spending the day working in Simmons University's Beatley Library, we visited the amazing independent bookstore, Brookline Booksmith. Emily is going to be moderating two author sessions at the Newburyport Literary Festival, April 28-30: — The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us about Love, Life, and Mortality by Karen Fine, DVM —Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives by Robert D. Richardson with a foreword by Megan Marshall (Emily's conversation will be with Megan). Chris is bummed that she won't be able to attend the Newburyport Literary Festival or either of the two Willa Cather conferences this June. She is, however, planning to attend a series of four virtual events with author Benjamin Taylor that the National Willa Cather Center is offering beginning on April 27th. Taylor's new book, CHASING BRIGHT MEDUSAS: A LIFE OF WILLA CATHER, is to be published in November. Visit the episode show notes for more details and links to the books, places, and events listed above.https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2023/episode179 Happy Reading! Chris & Emily ______ Starter Marriage by Shuly Cawood after Erin Adair-Hodges* First there was the word and the word was trying. Trying the apartment with white walls, popcorn ceilings, footsteps heavy above, thudding over our days. Trying the job I took filing papers into squeaking cabinets, the one you took answering phones for dentists. Trying the brown bag lunches with limp sandwiches and sliced cheese, the softening apple, the room-temperature soda. Consuming it all on church steps, hunched below the overhang as it rained. Trying the cold pool after work with dead insects needing to be netted. Unraveling towels, TJ Maxx suits, the walk back on the no-car driveway. All heat evaporated. Empty stomachs. No one wanted what the other craved. Trying the red Chevrolet with the bad battery, no parking without pay, the bus rides to and from work, your stop, my stop, the sun hitting hard, us squinting at the sky. Your last day, the blue electric toothbrush they gave you as goodbye. Buzzing in your mouth with all those trapped words. Trying the new queen mattress we could not afford but bought anyway. Trying the laundry we toted to the next building, plastic hampers in our arms full of every day's dirt. Coffee but no creamer, bread but no toaster, sugar hardened in the bag. Day-old everything bagels, buy-one, get-one veggie burritos, dollar theater on Sundays. New job but less pay, new boss but no promotion. Saving for tickets for never vacations. Trying the places we gave up for each other: city salted by an ocean, all those fish and ferry rides; town with three stoplights, two policemen, a forest to get lost in. Your dreams, my dreams, weeds by the parking lot. Trying your face a broken banister, my hands an unused map. *The first nine words are borrowed from “Portrait of Mother: 1985” by Erin Adair-Hodges ______

"For me, there is something so solid and comforting in stone" says Sassan Tabatabai in our conversation, and in his poem "Firestones" the words roll, weigh and satisfyingly click together. Firestones I was collecting rocks on the Cardiff coast, a testimony to centuries of silt left on the shore, of sediment pressed into stone: sandstone, shale, tufa, travertine, jasper, flint. There was the stone that knew the sadness of the sea, that saved its secrets. It was pock-marked with holes and lay half-buried in sand eager to save the ocean's spray, like tears, in its miniature pools. There was the stone that always rolled in place. It had rolled round and round with each wave, desperately trying to control the tide. The was the stone that shoe rings upon rings placed by the seas over the years, that kept time for the Pacific. There were stones that breathed sulfur, that sparked when they touched. Unremarkable in luster or shine, they were the lovers of the ocean, firestones whose sparks were not dampened by salty waves (but they only made sense in pairs). And there was this one, more white, more brilliant, more polished than any stone. But it was once upon a shell; it needed centuries to become stone. It was a counterfeit firestone: it did not breathe sulfur, it could not make sparks. I traced my steps back along the Cardiff coast and the stones I returned to the sands. The ocean's secrets would be well-kept by the stones: its tears would be stored in pools, its tides kept in check, its years measured in rungs. But love itself I could not leave on the beach. I kept the firestones. Discussing this poem with Sassan, we touched on Scholar's stones came up and also Gerard Manley Hopkins's journals full of words/names. From here we moved to other poems and poems and Sassan's work in different languages (Persian, English), poetic traditions (haiku, Sufi poetry, ghazal) and activities (writing, translation, teaching). His dissertation on Persian poet Rudaki is mentioned. His "messy" practice across these many boundaries expresses a kind of playful profusion, ultimately rooted in sound, word, and the music of the lines. *Qazal* As a boy, I waited for the smile to appear in you. Listened for echoes of the sigh I could hear in you. You are the mirror where I have sought the beloved: Her hyacinth curls, a nod, a wink. a tear, in you. In the marketplace you can learn your future for a price. They are merchants of fate; I see the seer in you. What had been buried under the scriupture's weight, Its truth, without words or incense, becomes clear in you. They who bind you on the altar of sacrifice Hide behind masks; don't let them smell the fear in you. As I approach the house lit by dawn's blue light, Step by step, I lose myself, I disappear in you. We closed out our talk with a reading of Sassan's translation of David Ferry's "Resemblance" (also featured in episode 55), with the Persian and English stanzas alternating. Sassan's book Ferry to Malta will be out in April, and you can hear him read and discuss his work April 27th at Brookline Booksmith. Read the transcript here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"For me, there is something so solid and comforting in stone" says Sassan Tabatabai in our conversation, and in his poem "Firestones" the words roll, weigh and satisfyingly click together. Firestones I was collecting rocks on the Cardiff coast, a testimony to centuries of silt left on the shore, of sediment pressed into stone: sandstone, shale, tufa, travertine, jasper, flint. There was the stone that knew the sadness of the sea, that saved its secrets. It was pock-marked with holes and lay half-buried in sand eager to save the ocean's spray, like tears, in its miniature pools. There was the stone that always rolled in place. It had rolled round and round with each wave, desperately trying to control the tide. The was the stone that shoe rings upon rings placed by the seas over the years, that kept time for the Pacific. There were stones that breathed sulfur, that sparked when they touched. Unremarkable in luster or shine, they were the lovers of the ocean, firestones whose sparks were not dampened by salty waves (but they only made sense in pairs). And there was this one, more white, more brilliant, more polished than any stone. But it was once upon a shell; it needed centuries to become stone. It was a counterfeit firestone: it did not breathe sulfur, it could not make sparks. I traced my steps back along the Cardiff coast and the stones I returned to the sands. The ocean's secrets would be well-kept by the stones: its tears would be stored in pools, its tides kept in check, its years measured in rungs. But love itself I could not leave on the beach. I kept the firestones. Discussing this poem with Sassan, we touched on Scholar's stones came up and also Gerard Manley Hopkins's journals full of words/names. From here we moved to other poems and poems and Sassan's work in different languages (Persian, English), poetic traditions (haiku, Sufi poetry, ghazal) and activities (writing, translation, teaching). His dissertation on Persian poet Rudaki is mentioned. His "messy" practice across these many boundaries expresses a kind of playful profusion, ultimately rooted in sound, word, and the music of the lines. *Qazal* As a boy, I waited for the smile to appear in you. Listened for echoes of the sigh I could hear in you. You are the mirror where I have sought the beloved: Her hyacinth curls, a nod, a wink. a tear, in you. In the marketplace you can learn your future for a price. They are merchants of fate; I see the seer in you. What had been buried under the scriupture's weight, Its truth, without words or incense, becomes clear in you. They who bind you on the altar of sacrifice Hide behind masks; don't let them smell the fear in you. As I approach the house lit by dawn's blue light, Step by step, I lose myself, I disappear in you. We closed out our talk with a reading of Sassan's translation of David Ferry's "Resemblance" (also featured in episode 55), with the Persian and English stanzas alternating. Sassan's book Ferry to Malta will be out in April, and you can hear him read and discuss his work April 27th at Brookline Booksmith. Read the transcript here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

"For me, there is something so solid and comforting in stone" says Sassan Tabatabai in our conversation, and in his poem "Firestones" the words roll, weigh and satisfyingly click together. Firestones I was collecting rocks on the Cardiff coast, a testimony to centuries of silt left on the shore, of sediment pressed into stone: sandstone, shale, tufa, travertine, jasper, flint. There was the stone that knew the sadness of the sea, that saved its secrets. It was pock-marked with holes and lay half-buried in sand eager to save the ocean's spray, like tears, in its miniature pools. There was the stone that always rolled in place. It had rolled round and round with each wave, desperately trying to control the tide. The was the stone that shoe rings upon rings placed by the seas over the years, that kept time for the Pacific. There were stones that breathed sulfur, that sparked when they touched. Unremarkable in luster or shine, they were the lovers of the ocean, firestones whose sparks were not dampened by salty waves (but they only made sense in pairs). And there was this one, more white, more brilliant, more polished than any stone. But it was once upon a shell; it needed centuries to become stone. It was a counterfeit firestone: it did not breathe sulfur, it could not make sparks. I traced my steps back along the Cardiff coast and the stones I returned to the sands. The ocean's secrets would be well-kept by the stones: its tears would be stored in pools, its tides kept in check, its years measured in rungs. But love itself I could not leave on the beach. I kept the firestones. Discussing this poem with Sassan, we touched on Scholar's stones came up and also Gerard Manley Hopkins's journals full of words/names. From here we moved to other poems and poems and Sassan's work in different languages (Persian, English), poetic traditions (haiku, Sufi poetry, ghazal) and activities (writing, translation, teaching). His dissertation on Persian poet Rudaki is mentioned. His "messy" practice across these many boundaries expresses a kind of playful profusion, ultimately rooted in sound, word, and the music of the lines. *Qazal* As a boy, I waited for the smile to appear in you. Listened for echoes of the sigh I could hear in you. You are the mirror where I have sought the beloved: Her hyacinth curls, a nod, a wink. a tear, in you. In the marketplace you can learn your future for a price. They are merchants of fate; I see the seer in you. What had been buried under the scriupture's weight, Its truth, without words or incense, becomes clear in you. They who bind you on the altar of sacrifice Hide behind masks; don't let them smell the fear in you. As I approach the house lit by dawn's blue light, Step by step, I lose myself, I disappear in you. We closed out our talk with a reading of Sassan's translation of David Ferry's "Resemblance" (also featured in episode 55), with the Persian and English stanzas alternating. Sassan's book Ferry to Malta will be out in April, and you can hear him read and discuss his work April 27th at Brookline Booksmith. Read the transcript here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

"For me, there is something so solid and comforting in stone" says Sassan Tabatabai in our conversation, and in his poem "Firestones" the words roll, weigh and satisfyingly click together. Firestones I was collecting rocks on the Cardiff coast, a testimony to centuries of silt left on the shore, of sediment pressed into stone: sandstone, shale, tufa, travertine, jasper, flint. There was the stone that knew the sadness of the sea, that saved its secrets. It was pock-marked with holes and lay half-buried in sand eager to save the ocean's spray, like tears, in its miniature pools. There was the stone that always rolled in place. It had rolled round and round with each wave, desperately trying to control the tide. The was the stone that shoe rings upon rings placed by the seas over the years, that kept time for the Pacific. There were stones that breathed sulfur, that sparked when they touched. Unremarkable in luster or shine, they were the lovers of the ocean, firestones whose sparks were not dampened by salty waves (but they only made sense in pairs). And there was this one, more white, more brilliant, more polished than any stone. But it was once upon a shell; it needed centuries to become stone. It was a counterfeit firestone: it did not breathe sulfur, it could not make sparks. I traced my steps back along the Cardiff coast and the stones I returned to the sands. The ocean's secrets would be well-kept by the stones: its tears would be stored in pools, its tides kept in check, its years measured in rungs. But love itself I could not leave on the beach. I kept the firestones. Discussing this poem with Sassan, we touched on Scholar's stones came up and also Gerard Manley Hopkins's journals full of words/names. From here we moved to other poems and poems and Sassan's work in different languages (Persian, English), poetic traditions (haiku, Sufi poetry, ghazal) and activities (writing, translation, teaching). His dissertation on Persian poet Rudaki is mentioned. His "messy" practice across these many boundaries expresses a kind of playful profusion, ultimately rooted in sound, word, and the music of the lines. *Qazal* As a boy, I waited for the smile to appear in you. Listened for echoes of the sigh I could hear in you. You are the mirror where I have sought the beloved: Her hyacinth curls, a nod, a wink. a tear, in you. In the marketplace you can learn your future for a price. They are merchants of fate; I see the seer in you. What had been buried under the scriupture's weight, Its truth, without words or incense, becomes clear in you. They who bind you on the altar of sacrifice Hide behind masks; don't let them smell the fear in you. As I approach the house lit by dawn's blue light, Step by step, I lose myself, I disappear in you. We closed out our talk with a reading of Sassan's translation of David Ferry's "Resemblance" (also featured in episode 55), with the Persian and English stanzas alternating. Sassan's book Ferry to Malta will be out in April, and you can hear him read and discuss his work April 27th at Brookline Booksmith. Read the transcript here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

"For me, there is something so solid and comforting in stone" says Sassan Tabatabai in our conversation, and in his poem "Firestones" the words roll, weigh and satisfyingly click together. Firestones I was collecting rocks on the Cardiff coast, a testimony to centuries of silt left on the shore, of sediment pressed into stone: sandstone, shale, tufa, travertine, jasper, flint. There was the stone that knew the sadness of the sea, that saved its secrets. It was pock-marked with holes and lay half-buried in sand eager to save the ocean's spray, like tears, in its miniature pools. There was the stone that always rolled in place. It had rolled round and round with each wave, desperately trying to control the tide. The was the stone that shoe rings upon rings placed by the seas over the years, that kept time for the Pacific. There were stones that breathed sulfur, that sparked when they touched. Unremarkable in luster or shine, they were the lovers of the ocean, firestones whose sparks were not dampened by salty waves (but they only made sense in pairs). And there was this one, more white, more brilliant, more polished than any stone. But it was once upon a shell; it needed centuries to become stone. It was a counterfeit firestone: it did not breathe sulfur, it could not make sparks. I traced my steps back along the Cardiff coast and the stones I returned to the sands. The ocean's secrets would be well-kept by the stones: its tears would be stored in pools, its tides kept in check, its years measured in rungs. But love itself I could not leave on the beach. I kept the firestones. Discussing this poem with Sassan, we touched on Scholar's stones came up and also Gerard Manley Hopkins's journals full of words/names. From here we moved to other poems and poems and Sassan's work in different languages (Persian, English), poetic traditions (haiku, Sufi poetry, ghazal) and activities (writing, translation, teaching). His dissertation on Persian poet Rudaki is mentioned. His "messy" practice across these many boundaries expresses a kind of playful profusion, ultimately rooted in sound, word, and the music of the lines. *Qazal* As a boy, I waited for the smile to appear in you. Listened for echoes of the sigh I could hear in you. You are the mirror where I have sought the beloved: Her hyacinth curls, a nod, a wink. a tear, in you. In the marketplace you can learn your future for a price. They are merchants of fate; I see the seer in you. What had been buried under the scriupture's weight, Its truth, without words or incense, becomes clear in you. They who bind you on the altar of sacrifice Hide behind masks; don't let them smell the fear in you. As I approach the house lit by dawn's blue light, Step by step, I lose myself, I disappear in you. We closed out our talk with a reading of Sassan's translation of David Ferry's "Resemblance" (also featured in episode 55), with the Persian and English stanzas alternating. Sassan's book Ferry to Malta will be out in April, and you can hear him read and discuss his work April 27th at Brookline Booksmith. Read the transcript here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry

What is Autofiction? What barriers between genres does it allow us to break? How does it allow us to simply follow what is happening on the page as our book grows and becomes what the writer wants or even needs it to be? Writers Shuchi Saraswat and Stacy Mattingly help us explore the form.For a list of my fave craft books and most recent works by our guests, go to our Bookshop page.Shuchi Saraswat is a writer and editor based in Boston. Her work has appeared in AGNI, The Boston Globe, The Boston Art Review, Ecotone, Coffee House Writers' Project, Tin House online, Arrowsmith and elsewhere. Her essay "The Journey Home" received a special mention in Pushcart XLII 2018 and is anthologized in Trespass: Ecotone Essayists Beyond the Boundaries of Place, Identity, and Feminism. For ten years she worked as an independent bookseller in Massachusetts. During that time she founded The Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith, a reading series focused on stories of migration, the intersection of politics & literature, and works in translation, and in 2019 she served as a judge for the National Book Award in Translated Literature. She's now the associate editor and a co-nonfiction editor at the literary journal AGNI, and she teaches classes in creative nonfiction at GrubStreet.Stacy Mattingly is coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Unlikely Angel, an Atlanta hostage story now a feature film, Captive, starring David Oyelowo (Selma) and Kate Mara (House of Cards). Stacy's work has appeared in Guernica, Literary Hub, Oxford American, Off Assignment, EuropeNow, and elsewhere. In 2012, she launched the Sarajevo Writers' Workshop in Bosnia and Herzegovina and later helped lead the first Narrative Witness exchange (Caracas-Sarajevo) for the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. An Atlanta native, Stacy teaches at Boston University, where she received an MFA in fiction, and she is an assistant professor at Berklee College of Music. Her recently completed first novel is set in the present-day Balkans.  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 7amnovelist.substack.com

Creative Writing alum Nathan Tavares talks about his debut novel, "A Fractured Infinity," a sci-fi love story that's "like the movie 'Arrival,' but really gay." In this episode, Nathan gives us a view into writing sci-fi, his career as a freelance journalist, and what he learned in his MFA program.Read more about Nathan and our MFA in Creative Writing program.P.S. See Nathan speak about his book live at Brookline Booksmith on Dec. 7.

Frederick Reiken's discovery of what ailed his creative writing students: the Author, Narrator, Character merge, when the author doesn't envision an identity, intention, perspective, and range of knowledge about the story for their narrator and character as separate from one another and separate from the author themselves. To help us out with this difficult topic, we've got authors who are working in the thick of things, both in nonfiction and fiction: Shuchi Saraswat and Karen Wilfrid.Shuchi Saraswat is a writer and editor based in Boston. Her work has appeared in AGNI, The Boston Globe, The Boston Art Review, Ecotone, Coffee House Writers' Project, Tin House online, Arrowsmith and elsewhere. Her essay "The Journey Home" received a special mention in Pushcart XLII 2018 and is anthologized in Trespass: Ecotone Essayists Beyond the Boundaries of Place, Identity, and Feminism. For ten years she worked as an independent bookseller in Massachusetts. During that time she founded The Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith, a reading series focused on stories of migration, the intersection of politics & literature, and works in translation, and in 2019 she served as a judge for the National Book Award in Translated Literature. She's now the associate editor and a co-nonfiction editor at the literary journal AGNI, and she teaches classes in creative nonfiction at GrubStreet.Karen Wilfrid is seventh-grade English teacher and author of the forthcoming middle-grade novel JUST LIZZIE, about an asexual teenager who is trying to figure out her place in world. She specializes in fiction, essays, and teaching middle schoolers the finer points of comma usage. After receiving her degree in Creative Writing and Spanish from Oberlin College, she taught English in Spain for two years on a Fulbright grant before settling in Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in Cicada magazine, Publishers Weekly, and Embark literary journal. JUST LIZZIE is Karen's first novel. You can find Reiken's own words about this topic in the first essay of his book on craft: A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their Craft. Among others of my fave craft books, it's available here: https://bookshop.org/lists/best-craft-books-for-wanna-be-wanna-be-better-writers This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 7amnovelist.substack.com

In this episode I chat with Liza Gozashti, co-owner and manager of Brookline Booksmith, a family-owned and locally run independent bookshop in New England.  Since opening in 1961, they have played a vital role in shaping the world of independent bookselling and nurturing connection with their community's curious minds through books and social discourse. Their mission is to foster community through the written word, represent a diverse range of voices and histories, and inspire conversations that enrich our lives.Dear Friend, from My Life I Write To You In Your Life, Yiyun Li Support the show

Over the course of her impressive career, Julianna Margulies has starred on some wildly popular television shows. She played Nurse Carol Haloway on the definitive medica drama, ER. She starred as the disgraced politician's wife, Alicia Florrick, in The Good Wife. And coming this September she'll be joining the stellar cast of “The Morning Show.” The award-winning actress, and producer, is going behind the scenes of some of those shows and taking a look at the impact of her nomadic childhood and upbringing in her memoir: “Sunshine Girl: An unexpected life.” On this episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie and Julianna dive into all of that — Julianna's cross-continental childhood, her complicated hippie mom, the backlash she experienced leaving ER (and turning down a $27 million contract), why she just couldn't shake Alicia Florrick and so much more. Find out more about Julianna's memoir, “Sunshine Girl: An unexpected Life,” and where to get your copy at Penguin Random House. Katie and Julianna's conversation was recorded by the Wilbur Theater in Boston, on behalf of Brookline Booksmith, as part of Julianna's virtual book tour. And if you're interested in seeing Katie when she goes on her book tour (“Going There” is out Oct. 26) you can go to Ticketmaster.com/goingthere to find out when and where she's headed and get your tickets.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Brookline Booksmith is an independent bookstore, committed to bringing a wide selection of literature from across the world to your home. From book clubs to live author events, Brookline Booksmith is dedicated to building a community of literature enthusiasts and casual readers alike. Find out more about the store’s upcoming plans and their experience in the last year. Website: brooklinebooksmith.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brooklinebooksmith YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQBYk5oLniZjtkBKHc5BqQA Instagram: @brooklinebooksmith Twitter: @booksmithtweets

“All Boston all the time.“ Jamie McIntyre and Torie are joined by Lydia McOscar of Brookline Booksmith (thanks Eric Londergan!) They gush about seven time Super Bowl winner Tom Brady (yes, Boston misses him!), Indies in the time of pandemics and Simon Winchester love pouring in. Best selling crime author Lisa Gardner joins to talk about her latest, Before She Disappeared.  A recovering alcoholic spends her life looking for missing people everyone else has forgotten.  Deserted Island gets royal.

I'm a fan of the author Julia Cameron; she's the reason I do these solo dates each week. Millions of people use her tools, Artist Dates being one of them, to spark ideas, gain clarity and become a better human, parent, writer...anything! It was sweet to hear someone that has inspired me, field questions and speak live. Re: the pandemic she said, “It takes some ingenuity to execute Artist Dates within the confines of our own homes, and yet the effort pays off.” Brookline Booksmith in Brookline, MA hosted the virtual event. Supporting independent shops always feels good. I should be receiving my copy of her newest book any day now. Resources:  The Listening Path  The book that inspired these dates with myself About Lena Instagram: @datinglena Personal Styling

The Attack Surface Lectures were a series of eight panel discussions on the themes in my’s novel Attack Surface, each hosted by a different bookstore and each accompanied by a different pair of guest speakers. This program is “Cross-Media Sci Fi” hosted by the Brookline Booksmith in Brookline, MA, with guest-hosts John Rogers and Amber... more

Episode One Hundred Eight Show Notes – Currently Reading –Looking for Lorraine – Imani Perry (CW)(audio)Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who’s Been There – Tara Schuster (EF)(audio) The New York Public Library Book – Henry Hope Reed, Francis Morrone, and Anne Day (CW)Clap When You Land – Elizabeth Acevedo (EF)Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Most Dangerous Man – Mary Trump, Ph.D. (CW)– Just Read –Saving Ruby King – Catherine Adel West (EF) Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia (CW) Impersonation – Heidi Pitlor (EF) release date 8/18/20The Enchanted Bluff – Willa Cather (CW)Be a part of the Willa Cather Short Story Project HERECher Ami and Major Whittlesey – Kathleen Rooney (CW) release date 8/11/20– 14th Readalong discussion– Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)Her next book to be translated into English is Earthlings which will be released in October 2020She has two short stories that are available online: A Clean Marriage and Lover on the Breeze– Biblio Adventures – Chris went on a Couch Biblio Adventure via the New York Chapter of the The Historical Novel Society with Alaya Dawn Johnson about her new book, Trouble the Saints.Emily watched a Glam Cam debut spotlight via A Might Blaze with Nancy Johnson introducing Catherine Adel West, author of Saving Ruby King. You can watch it HERE.Chris visited the Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library in Old Lyme, CT. Read more about the adventure on her blog.Emily went on a Couch Biblio Adventure via Politics and Prose with Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning, and C. Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills is Gold.– Upcoming Jaunts –Tuesday, August 4 the New York Public Library will be hosting Fiona Davis as her new book, The Lions of Fifth Avenue, is launched. You can register here.Wednesday, August 5 the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture will be hosting Isabel Wilkerson, author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents and The Warmth of Other Suns. You can register for the event here.Wednesday, August 19 Brookline Booksmith will host Heidi Pitlor, author of Impersonation, in conversation with Caroline Leavitt, author of With or Without You.– Upcoming Reads –The Jane Austen Society – Natalie Jenner (EF)Intimations: Six Essays – Zadie Smith (EF)Persuasion – Jane Austen (CW)The film The People’s Palace – produced, directed, and written by Graham Judd (CW)– Author Spotlight with Fiona Davis – We chat about her new book The Lions of Fifth Avenue. You can follow Fiona and her book tour here – Also Mentioned –W.E.B. DuboisThe Poet X – Elizabeth AcevedoThe Ghostwriter – Alessandra Torre, A.R. TorreThe Shining – Stephen KingMrs. America with Cate BlanchettThe Frick Collection

Author John Scalzi joined me to discuss his latest novel: The Last Emperox, narrated by Wil Wheaton. He also shares his thoughts on the growing popularity of audiobooks and how they have influenced his writing. The Last Emperox is the third book of The Interdependency series and follows as Emperox Grayland II and her allies strive to save the planets of the Interdependency from isolation as The Flow, an interstellar connection between star systems, begins to collapse.   The Last Emperox [Audible] The Interdependency series [Audible]   **Other Referenced John Scalzi Titles:** Lock In series [Audible] Old Man's War series [Audible] The Dispatcher [Audible] Redshirts [Audible]   **Other Links:** For signed copies of The Last Emperox, contact: Jay and Mary's Book Center Virtual Event (Tuesday April 14th, 6:00pm): Brookline Booksmith   **Connect with John Scalzi:** Website: Whatever Twitter: Scalzi Facebook:John Scalzi

WBZ's Jordan Rich talks with Marc Hurwitz, founder of HiddenBoston.com and writer for DigBoston.com, about the expansion of Brookline Booksmith.

A reversal of the movie "You've Got Mail." The little bookstore around the corner fought a challenge from a big box store...and won. She went from a one-woman brokerage to managing 700 million dollars in investments. Actually getting the keys to a candy store - your own. The Language of Business looks at small businesses that made it. Host Greg Stoller interviews Dana Brigham, retired Co-Owner of Brookline Booksmith; Debra Brede, CEO of DK Brede Investment Management; Linda Gilman, owner of Indulge!

SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 16:Jaipur Literature Festival websiteThe JLF programme - Click on Watch Session under each and you can see complete video - Colson Whitehead, Mary Beard and so many more incredible speakers, enough to keep you occupied until next year's festival!Jaipur Bytes podcast where you can hear most sessions from the festivalSohaila Abdulali's Session “What we talk about when we talk about rape” video and audioFull Circle Bookstore & Cafe in New DelhiOxford Bookstore in Calcutta and Maina BhagatSpecial thanks to Mohit Shandilya & Aman Moroney @ Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

Have you stopped into your local independent bookstore this holiday season? Lisa Gozashti joins me this week to chat about one of my favorites: Brookline Booksmith in Brookline, Massachusetts. Lisa gives us the inside scoop on bookstore life and recommends some of her favorite reads.     You can also listen on iTunes or wherever you … Continue reading Ep. 18: Lisa Gozashti, Owner and Manager of Brookline Booksmith →

SHOWNOTES FROM EPISODE 12:Shuchi's website where you can find links to her writing and beautiful instagramThe Brookline Booksmith Transnational Literature Series website which includes their past selections and the WGBH Forum link of recorded author eventsThe Wellspring House Writer's retreatBOOKS and films we discussed:Salt Houses by Hala AlyanWajib the fantastic film by Annemarie Jacir (with an incredible real life father-son duo starring!)Disoriental by Negar DjavadiExit West by Mohsin HamidAmerican Fictionary by Dubrakva UgresicPoso Wells by Gabriela AlemanSabrina by Nick Drnaso - 1st graphic novel longlisted for the Man Booker!Edward Said's Reflections on Exile and Other EssaysSHUCHI'S BOOKSTORE PICKS:Titcomb's Bookshop if you're ever in East Sandwich on Cape CodEducational Bookshop in JerusalemSkylight Books in LACity Lights in San FranciscoSpecial thanks to Mohit Shandilya & Rajat Upadhyay @ Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

Lydia Kiesling tricked herself into writing a novel by starting with small vignettes about her feelings as a new parent and setting them in a northern California that's rarely explored in literature. The result of tying those scenes together is her excellent debut, THE GOLDEN STATE. She and James talk about her work as editor of THE MILLIONS, spreadsheets, local newspapers, present tense, and barfing toddlers. Plus, Shuchi Saraswat from Brookline Booksmith talks about the Transnational Literature Series and book sales.  - Lydia Kiesling: http://www.lydiakiesling.com/ Lydia and James Discuss:  CAL SUNDAY MAGAZINE  Sarah Smarsh  Hamilton College  OFF COURSE by Michelle Huneven  MODOC COUNTY RECORD  David Lodge  Sarah Blackwood  LUCKY JIM by Kingsley Amis  Tobias Wolff  Brandon Taylor  THE MILLIONS  Laura van den Berg  Emily Bell  Charles Dickens  THE GRADUATE dir by Mike Nichols  C. Max Magee  THE LAST SAMURAI by Helen DeWitt  - Shuchi Saraswat: https://www.shuchisaraswat.com/ Shuchi and James discuss:  Brookline Booksmith  The Transnational Literature Series  KINGDOM OF OLIVE AND ASH ed by Chabon & Waldman  THIS IS NOT A BORDER ed by Soueif & Hamilton  Ru Freeman  Khury Petersen-Smith BEACON PRESS  Tom Hallock  HILLBILLY ELEGY by J.D. Vance  VISITATION by Jenny Erpenbeck  GO WENT GONE by Jenny Erpenbeck  Laura van den Berg  DISORIENTAL by Negar Djavadi POSO WELLS by Gabriela Aleman Coolidge Corner Theatre  PERSEPOLIS dir by Marjane Satrapi  Words Without Borders  The Forum Network  Bob Woodward  EXIT WEST by Mohsin Hamid  HOME FIRE by Kamila Shamsie  PACHINCO by Min Jin Lee  THE INCENDIARIES by R.O. Kwon  THE MARS ROOM by Rachel Kushner  CIRCE by Madeline Miller  SONG OF ACHILLES by Madeline Miller  BookScan   - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

Your Hotties are back to school, or at least, back in your feeds! This week: Avital Ronell & NYU [1:15], Hey Facts Tho [14:08], and a conversation about everyone's fave: To All the Boys I've Loved Before [27:45]. Of course, CT and KW end the show with culture and exciting news for you to get involved with [41:40]. Koin them, won't you?  This episode contains swearing. Music is courtesy of Ryan Little. Find more of his work here: freemusicarchive.org/music/Ryan_Little/. Find links and sources at theblackhotties.com. Follow CT & KW on Twitter jointly @theblackhotties, and individually @c_gracet & @thatblasiangirl. Things and Thots "I Worked With Avital Ronell. I Believe Her Accuser." Vox on the allegations against Ronell Alleged 1990s misconduct at NYU Florida is fucked, y'all. If wild dogs can vote, so can you JUPITER IS TOO BIG?  Maaaaaaaad honey Mad STDs, damn.  Subscribe to Pop Culture Happy Hour to hear CT's debut next Friday, Sept. 14!  Boston area folks, get tickets to see CT moderate a panel at the Brookline Booksmith here!   The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch

Live from Brookline Booksmith, authors Caroline Kepnes and Paul Tremblay talk to Sean Tuohy about Providence and The Cabin at the End of the World. To learn more about Caroline Kepnes, visit her official website, like her Facebook page, or follow her on Twitter and Instagram. Read Sean’s review of Providence in June’s “Books That Should Be On Your Radar.” To learn more about Paul Tremblay, visit his official website, like his Facebook page, or follow him on Twitter and Instagram. Also listen to our first interview with the author at Brookline Booksmith. Today's episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, OneRoom, NovelClass, and Film Freaks Forever!

A reversal of the movie "You've Got Mail." The little bookstore around the corner fought a challenge from a big box store...and won. She went from a one-woman brokerage to managing 700 million dollars in investments. Actually getting the keys to a candy store - your own. Greg Stoller interviews Dana Brigham, Co-Owner of Brookline Booksmith; Debra Brede, CEO of DK Brede Investment Management; Linda Gilman, owner of Indulge!

Dan talks to James about his remarkable new collections of plays, PLAYS ONE, and poetry, NEW LIFE, made even more remarkable by Dan's fight with colon cancer. The afternoon after a clean scan, he and James discuss the illness, young writers, and their shared affinity for not reading reviews. Then, Shuchi Saraswat talks about her excellent essay for Tin House and, as a book buyer for Brookline Booksmith, recommends her favorite summer reads and fall books to look forward to. - Dan O'Brien: http://www.danobrien.org/ Dan and James Discuss: ILLNESS AS METAPHOR by Susan Sontag  Sewanee Writers' Conference  Middlebury College  THE VOYAGE OF THE CARCASS by Dan O'Brien (DO)  THE DEAR BOY (DO)  Andra Harbold  Blake Montgomery  School Jacques Lecoq  Vassar College  New York Stage and Film  Williamstown Theatre Festival  Brown University  Jessica St. Clair  Pauline Kael  THE NEW YORKER  INDIANA JONES  THE BODY OF AN AMERICAN (DO)  ICE GHOSTS by Paul Watson  Sam Shepard  Eugene O'Neill Theater Center: National Playwrights Conference  Patti Smith BREAD LOAF WRITERS' CONFERENCE  Thomas Mallon Pinckney Benedict  NEW LIFE: POEMS (DO) WAR REPORTER (DO) THE HOUSE IN HYDESVILLE (DO)  THE CHERRY SISTERS REVISITED (DO)  - Shuchi and James discuss: RUNNING IN THE FAMILY by Michael Ondaatje  TIN HOUSE  Emma Komlos-Hrobsky  Teju Cole  John Berger  W.G. Sebald  IN THE SKIN OF A LION by Michael Ondaatje  DIVISADERO by Michael Ondaatje  IN THE DISTANCE by Hernan Diaz  MEEK'S CUTOFF dir by Kelly Reichardt  THE CAT'S TABLE by Michael Ondaatje  THE BURNING GIRL by Clare Messud  SMALL TREASONS by Mark Powell  THE MOUNTAIN by Paul Yoon  HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES by Carmen Maria Machado  Kelly Link Aimee Bender  Laura van den Berg  Karen Russell  AT NIGHT WE WALK IN CIRCLES by Daniel Alarcon  THE KING IS ALWAYS ABOVE THE PEOPLE by Daniel Alarcon FIVE-CARAT SOUL by James McBride  THE GOOD LORD BIRD by James McBride  Jeffrey Eugenides  Tom Hanks  Steve Martin  Junot Diaz  Alice Munro  Jim Shepard  Brookline Booksmith  NOBODY IS EVER MISSING by Catherine Lacey   - ttp://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

Horror authors Joe Hill, Kat Howard, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, and Paul Tremblay talk to Daniel Ford and Sean Tuohy before their recent appearance at Brookline Booksmiths in Brookline, Mass. The panel discusses how they got into storytelling, why they decided to dive into the horror genre, and what inspired their recent novels.

The author of the new novel The Fireman, as well asHorns, NOS4A2, and Heart-Shaped Box, the shortstory collection 20th Century Ghosts, and the comic bookseries Locke & Key talks candidly about his process,his influences, horror and genre, his famous writer parents StephenKing and Tabitha King, failure, and more.Recorded at Brookline Booksmith in Brookline, Massachusetts onNovember 14, 2015.

Joanna Rakoff reads from My Salinger Year and Edan Lepucki reads from California at Brookline Booksmith. Listen in as these two writers read from their work and answer questions about driving through LA during a blackout that seems to presage apocalypse, about the experience of working in J.D. Salinger's agency, and about the shift from novel to memoir, third-person to first.

Booker-Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle reads from his latest novel The Guts in this recording of an event at Brookline Booksmith on February 6, 2014. Jimmy Rabitte, the protagonist of Doyle's first novel The Commitments, is now middle-aged and facing the difficult task of telling his wife he has cancer. Doyle's trademark spare and witty dialogue anchors the scene. Following the reading, Doyle discusses topics ranging from how he writes dialogue, the Irish recession, and footballer Wayne Rooney, all in his inimitably wry style.

In this recording of her June 19 appearance at Brookline Booksmith, acclaimed novelist Lionel Shriver reads from her new novel Big Brother and discusses issues surrounding obesity in our culture. In her introduction to a short reading, and in her answers to audience questions, Shriver speaks with passion and insight about such topics as personal responsibility, government missteps, and the power of family and sibling relationships.