Podcasts about ecco books

Stephanie Gorton once fretted over her not-neat process of writing books and soon came to embrace her messiness as a feature, not a bug, while she wrote The Icon & the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America (Ecco). (Photo credit Sasha Israel)Pre-order The Front RunnerSponsor: The Power of Narrative Conference. Use CNF15 at checkout for a 15% discount.Newsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmShow notes: brendanomeara.comSupport: Patreon.com/cnfpod

Rumaan Alam is the bestselling author of the novel Leave the World Behind, available in trade paperback from Ecco Books. In 2020, it was a finalist for the National Book Award, and it is now a major motion picture, directed by Sam Esmail and starring Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, and Mahershala Ali. Alam's other books include Rich and Pretty and That Kind of Mother. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Bookforum, and the New Republic, where he is a contributing editor. He studied writing at Oberlin College and lives in New York with his family. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Twitter Instagram  TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tracey Rose Peyton is the author of the debut novel Night Wherever We Go, available from Ecco Books. Peyton received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica, American Short Fiction, Prairie Schooner, The Best American Short Stories 2021, and other outlets.  *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram  YouTube TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you ready for another apocalypse? Covid and nukes not enough for ya? Well here you go then. Something slightly different.  Mike Meginnis' Drowning Practice is an odder than usual end-of-days. It's a book in which everyone knows that time is up, and yet they just don't seem to care. There are few (I won't say zero) ravening lunatics in this book – but the more chilling realisation is that even at the end of the world, you still have to go to work.Mike and I talk about art and NFT monkeys, about poisoned capitalism and how his book mirrors our own pre-apocalyptic malaise. We also talk about the link between depression and creativity, and we have a friendly disagreement about whether the protagonist of this book is a deeply sinister character.This is a gentler end-of-days than most, but no less horrifying in its implications.Enjoy!Drowning Practice is published March 15th by Ecco Books. Other books mentioned in this conversation include:The Men (2022), by Sandra NewmanNever Let Me Go (2005), by Kazuo IshiguroLunar Park (2005), by Bret Easton EllisSupport Talking Scared on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/TalkingScaredPodCome talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, and TikTok or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com  Download Novellic on Google Play or Apple Store.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/talkingscaredpod)

(S5, EP 10) In honoring queer Cambodian-American writer Anthony Veasna So who suddenly passed away in December 2020 and to celebrate his posthumous short-stories fiction book, "Afterparties", I invited Anthony's long-time partner Alex Torres to be a guest on my show. In this episode, Alex shared many fond memories of Anthony during their travels together. He recalled many conversations that they had as writers, and reflected on what Anthony wanted to convey through his writing. Alex is currently working with Anthony's close friends and colleagues to honor Anthony's legacy as a writer. Don't forget to check out his "Afterparties" book wherever it's available! Bio: Anthony Veasna So (1992-2020) was a queer Cambodian-American writer, born to parents who survived the Khmer Rouge genocide. He grew up in Stockton, CA. He graduated with a Bachelor's in Art and English from Stanford University, and an MFA in Syracuse University. He was a Kundiman Fellow and Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow. He taught at Colgate University, Syracuse University, and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland, CA. Anthony was featured in the New Yorker for his short story "Three Women of Chuck's Donuts" in Feb 2020. His writings and comics have also appeared in publications such as n+1, Hobart, Ninth Letter. Before his death, Anthony signed a two-book deal with Ecco Books. His debut fiction short stories book, "Afterparties" is set for release this August 2021. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/banhmichronicles/support

@rolandsfoodcourt w| Roland Campos Gennaro Pecchia @paulofcharsky We luckily have the chance to dive into @nytimes #1 best selling writer | author | "lieutenant" Laurie Woolever Happily the timing is right for all of us to get up & get out & eat & travel like worldly enthusiast @anthonybourdain would want us to! Thanks to another #lauriewoolever & #anthonybourdain collaboration, it makes it easier.

On today's episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplan talks to Russell Banks, author of Foregone, out now from Ecco Books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week our guest is Sam J. Miller, author of The Blade Between - a novel for anyone who loves or loathes their hometown. It’s a story of small-town ghosts, hidden hatreds and sudden violence. And behind it all looms the issue of gentrification, in all its ugliness and beauty. Listening to Sam talk, you may think differently about that cute little bistro that’s opened down the street. Y’know, the one that took over from that local place that had been there for years . . . Sam’s previous works include The Art of Starving (2017) and Blackfish City (2018), both novels that take no truck with easy ideas of genre. They, like The Blade Itself are freewheeling stories, and as you’ll here, Sam is more than willing go down some weird alleyways and to spill his own blood on the page.He’s also got a lot of things to say about queer identity in horror, about how no-one ever thinks they are the villain in the story, and the worry of how people in your hometown may feel when you savage it in your story. The Blade Between was published December 1st 2020, by Ecco Books.Books we mentioned include:The Art of Starving (2017), by Sam J. MillerNeedful Things (1991), by Stephen KingDrawing Blood (2010), by Poppy Z. BriteThe Cabin at the End of the World (2018), by Paul TremblayPlain Bad Heroines (2020), by Emily DanforthA Spectral Hue (2019), by Craig Lawrence GibneyNever Have I Ever (2021), by Isobel YapHomesick (2019) and Finna (2020), by Nino CipriCome talk books with us on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com.Thanks to Terry Smith Audio for sound editing and Adrian Flounders for graphic design.

This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss The Cold Vanish, The Voting Booth, Want, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community; TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes; and Ecco Books and The Son of Good Fortune by Lysley Tenorio. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America’s Wildlands by Jon Billman Into the Streets: A Young Person’s Visual History of Protest in the United States by Marke Bieschke The Color of Air: A Novel by Gail Tsukiyama The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert Want: A Novel by Lynn Steger Strong The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World by Sarah Stewart Johnson Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong WHAT WE’RE READING: My Eyes Are Up Here by Laura Zimmermann Leave the World Behind: A Novel by Rumaan Alam MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Once You Go This Far: A Mystery by Kristen Lepionka Alice Knott by Blake Butler Mother Daughter Widow Wife: A Novel by Robin Wasserman Separated: Inside an American Tragedy by Jacob Soboroff Marah Chase and the Fountain of Youth: A Novel by Jay Stringer After the Body: New & Selected Poems by Cleopatra Mathis Seekers of the Wild Realm (The Wild Realm) by Alexandra Ott Eight Lane Runaways by Henry McCausland Let Them Eat Pancakes: One Man’s Personal Revolution in the City of Light by Craig Carlson Breathing Through the Wound: A Novel by Víctor del Árbol, Lisa Dillman (translator) Memoirs and Misinformation: A novel by Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon Antkind: A Novel by Charlie Kaufman You’re Next by Kylie Schachte Katrina: A History, 1915–2015 by Andy Horowitz Long Story Short: Turning Famous Books into Cartoons by Mr. Fish Let them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality by Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson The Marked Volume 1: Fresh Ink by David Hine, Brian Haberlin, Geirrod Van Dyke Hard Wired by Len Vlahos Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust The Damned by Renée Ahdieh The Psychic Soviet by Ian F Svenonius Members Only by Sameer Pandya Paying the Land by Joe Sacco Coop Knows the Scoop by Taryn Souders Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World by Leslie Kern How to Take Awesome Photos of Cats by Andrew Marttila The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread–And Why They Stop by Adam Kucharski Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin, Hildegarde Serle (translator) The Hungover Games: A True Story by Sophie Heawood The Lost City: The Omte Origins (from the World of the Trylle) by Amanda Hocking The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature by Sue Stuart-Smith Rockaway: Surfing Headlong into a New Life by Diane Cardwell Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America’s Soul by A. J. Baime Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy by Larry Tye The Golden Thread: The Cold War and the Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjöld by Ravi Somaiya Live to Tell the Tale: Combat Tactics for Player Characters by Keith Ammann Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford Gatecrasher: How I Helped the Rich Become Famous and Ruin the World by Ben Widdicombe A Natural History of Color: The Science Behind What We See and How We See it by Rob DeSalle One to Watch: A Novel by Kate Stayman-London Random Sh*t Flying Through the Air by Jackson Ford Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity by Tana Wojczuk Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook: A Novel by Celia Rees Of Mutts and Men (A Chet & Bernie Mystery) by Spencer Quinn The Ballad of Big Feeling by Ari Braverman Modern Witchcraft: Goddess Empowerment for the Kick-Ass Woman by Deborah Blake The Book of Fatal Errors (The Feylawn Chronicles) by Dashka Slater Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery by Erica C. Barnett The Lost and Found Bookshop: A Novel by Susan Wiggs Bonnie: A Novel by Christina Schwarz True Love: A Novel by Sarah Gerard In the Land of Good Living: A Journey to the Heart of Florida by Kent Russell The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide by Zerlina Maxwell Red Dust by Yoss, David Frye (translator) Say It Louder!: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy by Tiffany Cross The Good Luck Stone by Heather Bell Adams Monstress: Stories (Art of the Story) by Lysley Tenorio Craigslist Confessional: A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous Strangers by Helena Dea Bala Every Sky a Grave: A Novel by Jay Posey Watching You Without Me: A novel by Lynn Coady The Big Book of Mars by Marc Hartzman The Book of Dragons: An Anthology by Jonathan Strahan Sensation Machines by Adam Wilson Bright Precious Thing: A Memoir by Gail Caldwell Mapping Humanity: How Modern Genetics Is Changing Criminal Justice, Personalized Medicine, and Our Identities by Joshua Z. Rappoport Lake Life: A Novel by David James Poissant Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women’s Olympic Team by Elise Hooper You Again: A Novel by Debra Jo Immergut An Education in Ruin by Alexis Bass B*witch by Paige McKenzie and Nancy Ohlin Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone Survivor Song: A Novel by Paul Tremblay Last One Out Shut Off the Lights by Stephanie Soileau The Caiplie Caves: Poems by Karen Solie Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time by Ben Ehrenreich The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom by L.S. Dugdale American Follies by Norman Lock Scorpionfish by Natalie Bakopoulos 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love by Daphne Merkin Out of Time by David Klass Open Secrets by Sheila Kohler The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories by Mark Bowden The Party Upstairs by Lee Conell Haunted Heroine (Heroine Complex Book 4) by Sarah Kuhn Not Like the Movies by Kerry Winfrey The Princess Will Save You by Sarah Henning Accidental by Alex Richards A Peculiar Peril (The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead) by Jeff VanderMeer The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America’s Forgotten Capital of Vice by David Hill Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron All These Monsters by Amy Tintera The Bright Lands by John Fram Becoming Duchess Goldblatt by Anonymous Unravel the Dusk (The Blood of Stars) by Elizabeth Lim Not Your All-American Girl by Wendy Wan-Long Shang and Madelyn Rosenberg Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott Cool for America: Stories by Andrew Martin Florence Adler Swims Forever: A Novel by Rachel Beanland Vernon Subutex 2: A Novel by Virginie Despentes, Frank Wynne (translator) Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother by Douglas A. Martin Artifact by Arlene Heyman Scare Me by K. R. Alexander Cinderbiter: Celtic Poems by Martin Shaw and Tony Hoagland Hurry Home: A Novel by Roz Nay The Heir Affair (The Royal We) by Heather Cocks, Jessica Morgan Or What You Will by Jo Walton Ghost Hunter’s Daughter by Dan Poblocki Love, Jacaranda by Alex Flinn Not Another Love Song by Olivia Wildenstein The Golden Thread: The Cold War Mystery Surrounding the Death of Dag Hammarskjöld by Ravi Somaiya The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Finding Fulfillment by Frank Tallis The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper The Unleashed by Danielle Vega A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor: A Novel by Hank Green The Golden Cage by Camilla Läckberg, Neil Smith (translator) Finders Creepers (Half Past Peculiar Book 1) by Derek Fridolfs, Dustin Nguyen Fraternity: Stories by Benjamin Nugent The Last Wife by Karen Hamilton The Heart and Other Monsters: A Memoir by Rose Andersen Standoff: Race, Policing, and a Deadly Assault That Gripped a Nation by Jamie Thompson The Shadows: A Novel by Alex North The Patient by Jasper DeWitt The Son of Good Fortune: A Novel by Lysley Tenorio Muse Squad: The Cassandra Curse by Chantel Acevedo How to Write a Story by Kate Messner, Mark Siegel Danbi Leads the School Parade by Anna Kim History Smashers: The Mayflower by Kate Messner

On this episode Lainey Mays calls Meghan Deans, Senior Marketing Director of Ecco Books, to discuss some great fiction and nonfiction reads they have coming up! Watch Ivy Pochoda, a title discussed, on Facebook Live on Thursday (5/7) at 2 pm EDT here: https://www.facebook.com/events/708639926556218/ Find a list of the titles presented here: https://bit.ly/3d7Kmwj For more information, go to librarylovefest.com. You can find us on Facebook (@librarylovefest), Twitter (@librarylovefest), and Instagram (@harperlibrary).

In her first full-length collection, A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco Books, 2018), Emily Jungmin Yoon examines forms of violence against women. At its core these poems delves into the lives of Korean comfort women of the 1930s and 40s, reflecting on not only the history of sexual slavery, but also considering its ongoing impact. Her poems beautifully lift the voices of these women, helping to make them heard and remembered — while also providing insight into current events, environmentalism, and her own personal experiences as a woman in the world. During her interview, Emily Jungmin Yoon recommends Autobiography of Death (New Directions Books, 2018), written by Kim Hyesoon and translated by Don Mee Choi, and Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016) by Choi. Andrea Blythe is a co-host of the New Books in Poetry podcast. She is the author of Your Molten Heart / A Seed to Hatch (2018) a collection of erasure poems, and coauthor of Every Girl Becomes the Wolf (Finishing Line Press, 2018),  a collaborative chapbook written with Laura Madeline Wiseman. She serves as an associate editor for Zoetic Press and is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. Learn more at: www.andreablythe.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her first full-length collection, A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco Books, 2018), Emily Jungmin Yoon examines forms of violence against women. At its core these poems delves into the lives of Korean comfort women of the 1930s and 40s, reflecting on not only the history of sexual slavery, but also considering its ongoing impact. Her poems beautifully lift the voices of these women, helping to make them heard and remembered — while also providing insight into current events, environmentalism, and her own personal experiences as a woman in the world. During her interview, Emily Jungmin Yoon recommends Autobiography of Death (New Directions Books, 2018), written by Kim Hyesoon and translated by Don Mee Choi, and Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016) by Choi. Andrea Blythe is a co-host of the New Books in Poetry podcast. She is the author of Your Molten Heart / A Seed to Hatch (2018) a collection of erasure poems, and coauthor of Every Girl Becomes the Wolf (Finishing Line Press, 2018),  a collaborative chapbook written with Laura Madeline Wiseman. She serves as an associate editor for Zoetic Press and is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. Learn more at: www.andreablythe.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WEST PHILLY — Nicholas lives, and has for “about six years,” in West Philly. He is originally from Seattle. He read Don Quixote (1615) recently, finishing it within the past fortnight. I read the first half in the summer of 2016 and the second half in the fall of 2017. We both read the edition translated by Edith Grossman and published by Ecco Books in 2003. Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) published the "First Part of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha" in 1605, and the second in 1615, which he dedicated to his patron, Don Pedro Fernández Ruiz de Castro (1576–1622), the count of Lemos and viceroy of Naples from 1610–1616.

The summer is not over yet, and to prove it, we’re talking all about ice cream! We’ll look into the history of the beloved frozen treat, as well as the many variations on flavor, sweetness and texture that have developed over the years. We’ll also find out how to make ice cream (with and without dairy) and the science behind the perfect scoop from Laura O’Neill, Co-Founder Van Leeuwen Ice Cream, based in Greenpoint, and Ben Van Leeuwen, Co-Founder. They’re the co-authors of the Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream cookbook.  Do you have questions about ice cream? Write in the comments section below, write to us on Twitter or Facebook, or call us at 212-433-9692.  Recipes Roasted Banana Ice Cream (Reprinted with permission from Van Leeuwen's Artisan Ice Cream, published by Ecco Books, 2015.)  Believe it or not, even people who say they don’t like bananas love this ice cream—it tastes just like banana bread pudding. We roast the bananas with dark brown sugar and butter until they are golden and caramelized, and then we fold them into our ice cream base. The ice cream that comes out is elegant and luscious, rich with caramelized bananas, and is one of our favorite winter flavors to make. The roasting of the bananas gives the ice cream such a creamy, almost burnt-caramel flavor; we can’t think of a better way to round out a Christmas dinner. MAKES ABOUT 1 QUART SPECIAL EQUIPMENTImmersion blender FOR THE ROASTED BANANAS4 medium bananas, preferably somewhat speckled but not brown, peeled and cut into1/4 inch thick slices2 tablespoons (28 grams) unsalted butter2 tablespoons (14 grams) dark brown sugarPinch of kosher salt FOR THE ICE CREAM BASE2 cups heavy cream1/2 cup whole milk3/4 cup (150 grams) granulated sugar1/2 teaspoon (2 grams) kosher salt6 large egg yolks 1. To make the roasted bananas, preheat the oven to 400˚F; position the rack in the middle. Line a shallow baking sheet with parchment paper. 2. In a large bowl, toss the bananas, butter, sugar, and salt. Spread the ingredients on the prepared baking sheet and bake for 10 to 15 minutes, or until caramelized. Transfer to a cooling rack and let cool completely. 3. To make the roasted banana ice cream, pour the cream and milk into a double boiler or a heatproof bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water (the bottom of the bowl should not touch the water). Whisk in 1⁄2 cup (100 grams) of the sugar and the salt and stir until they have dissolved. Warm the mixture until you see steam rising from the top. 4. Meanwhile, prepare an ice bath in a large bowl and set another bowl over it. Set aside. 5. In a medium bowl, with a kitchen towel underneath it to prevent slipping, whisk together the egg yolks with the remaining 1⁄4 cup (50 grams) sugar until uniform. While whisking, add a splash of the hot dairy mixture to the yolks. Continue to add the dairy mixture, whisking it in bit by bit, until you’ve added about half. Add the yolk mixture to the remaining dairy mixture in the double boiler. Set the heat under the double boiler to medium and cook the custard, stirring continuously with a wooden spoon and reducing the heat to medium-low as necessary, until steam begins to rise from the surface and the custard thickens enough to coat the back of the spoon. Hold the spoon horizontally and run your finger through the custard. If the trail left by your finger stays separated, the custard is ready to be cooled. 6. Strain the custard into the bowl sitting over the prepared ice bath and stir for 3 to 5 minutes, or until the custard has cooled. Transfer the custard to a quart-size container and add the roasted bananas. Using an immersion blender, buzz the custard until emulsified. Cover the custard and refrigerate for at least 4 hours or, preferably, overnight.  

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney is the guest. Her debut novel, The Nest, is available now from Ecco Books.  Cynthia is living the dream. Or at least one kind of dream. It's a common dream: write novel, sell novel for big advance, watch as novel becomes New York Times bestseller, do media tour for novel, feel somewhat weird and even at times guilty that novel is doing so well. And so on. Really good time talking with Cynthia. Very candid conversation. And one of the best conversations I've ever had about what it really takes to make a book a bestseller. In today's monologue, I talk about moving, and customer service representatives, and spiritual depletion at the hands of customer service representatives. And also my dog's bleeding anus.      Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Wild West of Zane Grey and John Wayne movies, with its clear divisions between good guys and bad guys, cowboys and Indians (never called Native Americans in this narrative), bears little resemblance to the brawling, boozy refuge for every Civil War-displaced vagabond, seeker of gold (copper, tin, silver, oil), and would-be financier that once constituted the US frontier. In two novels about Doc Holliday and his friends the Earps, Mary Doria Russell pulls back the curtain to reveal the social, economic, and political divides that in the 1870s and 1880s kept the land beyond the Mississippi a hotbed of lawlessness and vice mixed with occasional acts of heroism. Doc begins the story in Dodge City, Kansas, in 1878. Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral (Ecco Books, 2015) continues it a few years later in the Arizona Territory, focusing on the events leading up to and the aftermath of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Tombstone, Arizona, is an example of everything right and wrong on the frontier. The silver mines have made huge fortunes for the businessmen and speculators who have flocked to town, especially in the aftermath of the Panic of 1873—a recession as, if not more, dramatic than that of 2008. The flood of money into politics has had its usual corrupting effect, and tension is brewing between those from the postbellum South seeking a better future and entrepreneurs arriving from the North. Cattlemen and gamblers, miners and ladies of the evening, thieves and lawmen—Tombstone has them all. So when the Clantons and their friends the McLaurys decide that the Earps and Doc Holliday are the source of their troubles and, after a long night of drinking, set out to even the score, thirty seconds of violence become a touchstone for both sides of what was wrong with the other. But that was not the end of the story. Tombstone had “legs,” as journalists say, becoming a symbol of the Wild West at its wildest. Here, in Epitaph, Mary Doria Russell recovers the story behind and beyond the gunfight, with compassion for those who saw their lives changed by it, whether they stood with the Earps or against them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Wild West of Zane Grey and John Wayne movies, with its clear divisions between good guys and bad guys, cowboys and Indians (never called Native Americans in this narrative), bears little resemblance to the brawling, boozy refuge for every Civil War-displaced vagabond, seeker of gold (copper, tin, silver, oil), and would-be financier that once constituted the US frontier. In two novels about Doc Holliday and his friends the Earps, Mary Doria Russell pulls back the curtain to reveal the social, economic, and political divides that in the 1870s and 1880s kept the land beyond the Mississippi a hotbed of lawlessness and vice mixed with occasional acts of heroism. Doc begins the story in Dodge City, Kansas, in 1878. Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral (Ecco Books, 2015) continues it a few years later in the Arizona Territory, focusing on the events leading up to and the aftermath of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Tombstone, Arizona, is an example of everything right and wrong on the frontier. The silver mines have made huge fortunes for the businessmen and speculators who have flocked to town, especially in the aftermath of the Panic of 1873—a recession as, if not more, dramatic than that of 2008. The flood of money into politics has had its usual corrupting effect, and tension is brewing between those from the postbellum South seeking a better future and entrepreneurs arriving from the North. Cattlemen and gamblers, miners and ladies of the evening, thieves and lawmen—Tombstone has them all. So when the Clantons and their friends the McLaurys decide that the Earps and Doc Holliday are the source of their troubles and, after a long night of drinking, set out to even the score, thirty seconds of violence become a touchstone for both sides of what was wrong with the other. But that was not the end of the story. Tombstone had “legs,” as journalists say, becoming a symbol of the Wild West at its wildest. Here, in Epitaph, Mary Doria Russell recovers the story behind and beyond the gunfight, with compassion for those who saw their lives changed by it, whether they stood with the Earps or against them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Wild West of Zane Grey and John Wayne movies, with its clear divisions between good guys and bad guys, cowboys and Indians (never called Native Americans in this narrative), bears little resemblance to the brawling, boozy refuge for every Civil War-displaced vagabond, seeker of gold (copper, tin, silver, oil), and would-be financier that once constituted the US frontier. In two novels about Doc Holliday and his friends the Earps, Mary Doria Russell pulls back the curtain to reveal the social, economic, and political divides that in the 1870s and 1880s kept the land beyond the Mississippi a hotbed of lawlessness and vice mixed with occasional acts of heroism. Doc begins the story in Dodge City, Kansas, in 1878. Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral (Ecco Books, 2015) continues it a few years later in the Arizona Territory, focusing on the events leading up to and the aftermath of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Tombstone, Arizona, is an example of everything right and wrong on the frontier. The silver mines have made huge fortunes for the businessmen and speculators who have flocked to town, especially in the aftermath of the Panic of 1873—a recession as, if not more, dramatic than that of 2008. The flood of money into politics has had its usual corrupting effect, and tension is brewing between those from the postbellum South seeking a better future and entrepreneurs arriving from the North. Cattlemen and gamblers, miners and ladies of the evening, thieves and lawmen—Tombstone has them all. So when the Clantons and their friends the McLaurys decide that the Earps and Doc Holliday are the source of their troubles and, after a long night of drinking, set out to even the score, thirty seconds of violence become a touchstone for both sides of what was wrong with the other. But that was not the end of the story. Tombstone had “legs,” as journalists say, becoming a symbol of the Wild West at its wildest. Here, in Epitaph, Mary Doria Russell recovers the story behind and beyond the gunfight, with compassion for those who saw their lives changed by it, whether they stood with the Earps or against them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, maDCap visits with the profound and prolific novelist T.C. Boyle. His 25th work of fiction is titled "The Harder They Come," and if you're already humming Jimmy Cliff, keep listening because it's in here. If you think T.C. Boyle didn't do that on purpose, you don't yet know him well enough. The Hudson Valley native has been going westward for many years, first earning a Master's degree at the Iowa Writer's Workshop and eventually planting roots in Southern California, where he was crucial to the founding of USC's Creative Writing Program in 1978. Above all, T.C. Boyle wants to create and refine his art every day. He wants to do it his way, unabashedly so, and with such ability to translate our world's paradoxes to the page, we hope he keeps on going for 25 more...at least. This conversation was enabled by the good folks at the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, hosting an event in Washington DC with T.C. Boyle on Friday, March 27th at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation, located across the street from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The event begins at 7 PM and the address is 212 East Capitol Street, NE Washington DC. For more information visit http://PenFaulkner.org http://penfaulkner.org/2014/08/28/tc-boyle/ "The Harder They Come" is available on Ecco books, an imprint of HarperCollins, in hardback, digital and @harperaudio_us on March 31st. http://harpercollins.com/9780062349378/the-harder-they-come Special thanks to T. C. Boyle, PEN/Faulkner, Ecco Books, and especially Lily Meyer, Ashley Garland and our narrator, Andy Duke. photo credit: Jamieson Fry -- madcapdc.org | twitter.com/madcapdc | fb.com/madcapdc

Today, maDCap visits with the profound and prolific novelist T.C. Boyle. His 25th work of fiction is titled "The Harder They Come," and if you're already humming Jimmy Cliff, keep listening because it's in here. If you think T.C. Boyle didn't do that on purpose, you don't yet know him well enough. The Hudson Valley native has been going westward for many years, first earning a Master's degree at the Iowa Writer's Workshop and eventually planting roots in Southern California, where he was crucial to the founding of USC's Creative Writing Program in 1978. Above all, T.C. Boyle wants to create and refine his art every day. He wants to do it his way, unabashedly so, and with such ability to translate our world's paradoxes to the page, we hope he keeps on going for 25 more...at least. This conversation was enabled by the good folks at the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, hosting an event in Washington DC with T.C. Boyle on Friday, March 27th at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation, located across the street from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The event begins at 7 PM and the address is 212 East Capitol Street, NE Washington DC. For more information visit http://PenFaulkner.org http://penfaulkner.org/2014/08/28/tc-boyle/ "The Harder They Come" is available on Ecco books, an imprint of HarperCollins, in hardback, digital and @harperaudio_us on March 31st. http://harpercollins.com/9780062349378/the-harder-they-come Special thanks to T. C. Boyle, PEN/Faulkner, Ecco Books, and especially Lily Meyer, Ashley Garland and our narrator, Andy Duke. photo credit: Jamieson Fry -- madcapdc.org | twitter.com/madcapdc | fb.com/madcapdc

On this episode we bring you TWO amazing novelists—Elle Cosimano and Laura Zigman.Elle Cosimano is a USA Today bestselling author, an International Thriller Award winner, a Bram Stoker Award finalist, and an Edgar Award nominee. Also an acclaimed young adult author, Elle's debut novel for adults, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It, was a People Magazine Pick, named one of New York Public Library's Best Books of 2021, and kicked off a witty, fast-paced contemporary mystery series. She joins us to discuss the hilarious and heart-pounding third installment in the series, FINLAY DONOVAN JUMPS THE GUN, out January 31st from Minotaur Books.Laura Zigman is the author of five novels, including Separation Anxiety (optioned by Julianne Nicholson and the production team behind Mare of Easttown for a limited television series); Animal Husbandry (made into the movie “Someone Like You,” starring Hugh Jackman and Ashley Judd), Dating Big Bird, Her, and Piece of Work. The recipient of a Yaddo residency, she has ghostwritten/collaborated on several works of non-fiction, been a contributor to the New York Times and Washington Post, and produced a popular online series of animated videos called Annoying Conversations. She joins us to discuss her sixth novel, SMALL WORLD, released on January 10th by Ecco Books.