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⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ On this dive into the mailbag we come back with a fair number of actual ghost stories! Will wonders ever cease?! To keep things balanced, we also talk about wrestling, jazz, and Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Our musical guests are Canadian folk punk legends the Dreadnoughts, with their latest single, "Polka Pit", available now from Punkerton Records! If you like what you hear, you can check out more from the Dreadnoughts by following the links here. Tickets to their September 19th album release party in Columbis, Ohio are available via TicketWeb Also make sure to follow friends of the show Bangers and Mash on Instagram and, if you're in the area, check them out at the NJ Irish Festival in Monmouth Park on Sunday, June 8th, at 10am. For full shownotes, head to GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Sarvas is the award-winning author of the novels @UGMAN (ITNA Press), MEMENTO PARK (FSG, Picador) and HARRY, REVISED (Bloomsbury). MEMENTO PARK is the winner of a 2019 American Book Award (Before Columbus Foundation), and the 2019 American Jewish Library Association Fiction Award. It was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and was shortlisted for the JQ Wingate Literary Prize and longlisted for the Sophie Brody Medal. His debut novel, HARRY, REVISED, was published in more than a dozen countries around the world, earning raves from Le Monde to The Australian. A finalist for the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association's 2008 Fiction Award and a Denver Post 2008 Good Read, HARRY, REVISED has been called "A remarkable debut" by Booker Prize winner John Banville, and was compared to John Updike and Philip Roth by the Chicago Tribune. He was awarded a 2018 Santa Monica Arts Fellowship and is a 2021 Guild Hall Artist in Residence. Want to be a guest on Book 101 Review? Send Daniel Lucas a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/17372807971394464fea5bae3 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A keen student of the natural world and the workings of the human heart, Pacific Northwest author Cheryl Grey Bostrom captures the mystery and wonder of both in her lyrical, riveting fiction. Her novels Sugar Birds (Christy finalist, Amazon bestseller, and Book of the Year) and Leaning on Air have won more than two dozen industry honors, among which are CT's Fiction Award of Merit and American Fiction, Reader's Favorite, ACFW Carol, Nautilus, Best Book, Foreword Indies, and International Book Awards.An avid birder and nature photographer, Cheryl lives in rural Washington State with her husband and three irrepressible Gordon setters.Make sure to check out this author on Instagram @cherylgreybostrom

On this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, Dan Holloway explores Spotify's new $10,000 mental health fiction award, the fallout from the Paris AI Summit, and surprising revelations about Meta's stalled AI licensing talks with publishers. He also looks at the latest Kindle policy change that limits how readers can back up their e-books, raising concerns about digital ownership. Sponsors Self-Publishing News is proudly sponsored by Bookvault. Sell high-quality, print-on-demand books directly to readers worldwide and earn maximum royalties selling directly. Automate fulfillment and create stunning special editions with BookvaultBespoke. Visit Bookvault.app today for an instant quote. Self-Publishing News is also sponsored by book cover design company Miblart. They offer unlimited revisions, take no deposit to start work and you pay only when you love the final result. Get a book cover that will become your number-one marketing tool. Find more author advice, tips, and tools at our Self-publishing Author Advice Center, with a huge archive of nearly 2,000 blog posts and a handy search box to find key info on the topic you need. And, if you haven't already, we invite you to join our organization and become a self-publishing ally. About the Host Dan Holloway is a novelist, poet, and spoken word artist. He is the MC of the performance arts show The New Libertines, He competed at the National Poetry Slam final at the Royal Albert Hall. His latest collection, The Transparency of Sutures, is available on Kindle.

Winner of the 2024 Feature Fiction Award at the Adelaide Film Festival, director Jatla Siddartha's film In the Belly of a Tiger explores themes of rural poverty, debt, capitalist exploitation, and more in an Indian village. In an interview with SBS Hindi, he discusses the inspiration behind the story of an elderly poor couple, their struggles, and the tough choices they must make.

My guest today on the Online for Authors podcast is Cynthia Reeves, author of the book The Last Whaler. Cynthia Reeves is the author of three books of fiction: the Arctic novel The Last Whaler; the novel in stories Falling Through the New World, winner of Gold Wake Press's Fiction Award; and the novella Badlands, winner of Miami University Press's Novella Prize. Her short stories, essays, and poetry have appeared widely. Most recently, her short story “The Last Glacier” was featured in If the Storm Clears, an anthology that concerns the sublime in the natural world. Her lifelong interest in the Arctic began in childhood reading tales of doomed Arctic explorers. But it was her participation in the 2017 Arctic Circle Summer Solstice Expedition, which sailed Svalbard's western shores, as well as three subsequent residencies in Longyearbyen and a trip around Iceland's Ring Road, that have inspired her writing since then. Cynthia earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College and taught creative writing at Bryn Mawr and Rosemont Colleges. Find out more at cynthiareeveswriter.com. In my book review, I stated The Last Whaler is a historical fiction that looks at the will to survive in the harshest circumstances. We follow Astrid through her journal entries, while we follow her husband, Tor, through his journal entries ten years later. The back and forth allows the reader to see Astrid struggles in real time as well as Tor's reflections - and all the things he missed. Astrid is strong-willed and vibrant. She is educated and dedicated. She wants - very much - to move on beyond a tragedy. A summer spent with her husband, a whaler, on a remote island, seems to be the ticket. She will revive her relationship. She will study the flora. She will find forgiveness for herself. Except, the Arctic has other ideas. This story, beautifully told, explores mental illness, religious faith, man's impact on the environment, and the solace of storytelling. You won't want to miss it. Subscribe to Online for Authors to learn about more great books! https://www.youtube.com/@onlineforauthors?sub_confirmation=1 Join the Novels N Latte Book Club community to discuss this and other books with like-minded readers: https://www.facebook.com/groups/3576519880426290 You can follow Author Cynthia Reeves Website: https://www.cynthiareeveswriter.com/ FB: @cynthia.reeves.921 IG: @cynthia_p_reeves X: @cynthiapreeves   Purchase The Last Whaler on Amazon: Paperback: https://amzn.to/3WxCDBv Ebook: https://amzn.to/3WBlSpa   Teri M Brown, Author and Podcast Host: https://www.terimbrown.com FB: @TeriMBrownAuthor IG: @terimbrown_author X: @terimbrown1 #cynthiareeves #thelastwhaler #historicalfiction #terimbrownauthor #authorpodcast #onlineforauthors #characterdriven #researchjunkie #awardwinningauthor #podcasthost #podcast #readerpodcast #bookpodcast #writerpodcast #author #books #goodreads #bookclub #fiction #writer #bookreview *As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

After losing their young son in a tragic accident, Astrid, a Norwegian botanist specializing in Arctic flora, decides to join her husband, Tor, at a remote whaling station in the Arctic, where he spends every whaling season hunting belugas. In heartfelt journal entries, Astrid describes being stranded in a whaling hut through the dark season of 1937-38. She writes about the miscalculations, the terrible weather, the fear of polar bears and freezing to death, the people they've met on their journey, Tor's crew, and her slow disintegration after giving birth to another son, alone in the freezing, dark hut while Tor hunts for food. We know that Tor survived the ordeal, because he is reading Astrid's journal filled with letters to their dead son. The Last Whaler (Regal House, 2024) is a gorgeous, well-researched historical novel about endurance, isolation, the environment, the Nazi incursion into Norway, the pain of postpartum depression, and the human will to survive. Cynthia Reeves is the author of two previous books of fiction: the novel in stories Falling Through the New World (2024), winner of Gold Wake Press's Fiction Award; and the novella Badlands (2007), winner of Miami University Press's Novella Prize. Her fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared widely. Most recently, her short story “The Last Glacier” was included in If the Storm Clears (Blue Cactus Press, 2024), an anthology of speculative literature that concerns the sublime in the natural world. Her lifelong interest in the Arctic began in childhood reading tales of doomed Arctic explorers. But it was her participation in the 2017 Arctic Circle Summer Solstice Expedition, which sailed Svalbard's western shores, as well as two subsequent residencies in Longyearbyen, that have inspired her writing since then. In August 2024, she circumnavigated Svalbard aboard the icebreaker MV Ortelius carrying a hundred artists, scientists, and crew. A Hawthornden Fellow, Cynthia has also been awarded residencies to Vermont Studio Center and Art & Science in the Field. She taught creative writing at Bryn Mawr and Rosemont Colleges, and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson's low-residency program. She lives with her husband in Camden, Maine. Find out more at cynthiareeveswriter.com. 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

After losing their young son in a tragic accident, Astrid, a Norwegian botanist specializing in Arctic flora, decides to join her husband, Tor, at a remote whaling station in the Arctic, where he spends every whaling season hunting belugas. In heartfelt journal entries, Astrid describes being stranded in a whaling hut through the dark season of 1937-38. She writes about the miscalculations, the terrible weather, the fear of polar bears and freezing to death, the people they've met on their journey, Tor's crew, and her slow disintegration after giving birth to another son, alone in the freezing, dark hut while Tor hunts for food. We know that Tor survived the ordeal, because he is reading Astrid's journal filled with letters to their dead son. The Last Whaler (Regal House, 2024) is a gorgeous, well-researched historical novel about endurance, isolation, the environment, the Nazi incursion into Norway, the pain of postpartum depression, and the human will to survive. Cynthia Reeves is the author of two previous books of fiction: the novel in stories Falling Through the New World (2024), winner of Gold Wake Press's Fiction Award; and the novella Badlands (2007), winner of Miami University Press's Novella Prize. Her fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared widely. Most recently, her short story “The Last Glacier” was included in If the Storm Clears (Blue Cactus Press, 2024), an anthology of speculative literature that concerns the sublime in the natural world. Her lifelong interest in the Arctic began in childhood reading tales of doomed Arctic explorers. But it was her participation in the 2017 Arctic Circle Summer Solstice Expedition, which sailed Svalbard's western shores, as well as two subsequent residencies in Longyearbyen, that have inspired her writing since then. In August 2024, she circumnavigated Svalbard aboard the icebreaker MV Ortelius carrying a hundred artists, scientists, and crew. A Hawthornden Fellow, Cynthia has also been awarded residencies to Vermont Studio Center and Art & Science in the Field. She taught creative writing at Bryn Mawr and Rosemont Colleges, and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson's low-residency program. She lives with her husband in Camden, Maine. Find out more at cynthiareeveswriter.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

After losing their young son in a tragic accident, Astrid, a Norwegian botanist specializing in Arctic flora, decides to join her husband, Tor, at a remote whaling station in the Arctic, where he spends every whaling season hunting belugas. In heartfelt journal entries, Astrid describes being stranded in a whaling hut through the dark season of 1937-38. She writes about the miscalculations, the terrible weather, the fear of polar bears and freezing to death, the people they've met on their journey, Tor's crew, and her slow disintegration after giving birth to another son, alone in the freezing, dark hut while Tor hunts for food. We know that Tor survived the ordeal, because he is reading Astrid's journal filled with letters to their dead son. The Last Whaler (Regal House, 2024) is a gorgeous, well-researched historical novel about endurance, isolation, the environment, the Nazi incursion into Norway, the pain of postpartum depression, and the human will to survive. Cynthia Reeves is the author of two previous books of fiction: the novel in stories Falling Through the New World (2024), winner of Gold Wake Press's Fiction Award; and the novella Badlands (2007), winner of Miami University Press's Novella Prize. Her fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared widely. Most recently, her short story “The Last Glacier” was included in If the Storm Clears (Blue Cactus Press, 2024), an anthology of speculative literature that concerns the sublime in the natural world. Her lifelong interest in the Arctic began in childhood reading tales of doomed Arctic explorers. But it was her participation in the 2017 Arctic Circle Summer Solstice Expedition, which sailed Svalbard's western shores, as well as two subsequent residencies in Longyearbyen, that have inspired her writing since then. In August 2024, she circumnavigated Svalbard aboard the icebreaker MV Ortelius carrying a hundred artists, scientists, and crew. A Hawthornden Fellow, Cynthia has also been awarded residencies to Vermont Studio Center and Art & Science in the Field. She taught creative writing at Bryn Mawr and Rosemont Colleges, and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson's low-residency program. She lives with her husband in Camden, Maine. Find out more at cynthiareeveswriter.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/historical-fiction

Episode 12. Une voix terrifiante d'Hollywood et des hommes en jupe. Dans ce 12e épisode de “Et pourtant, personne n'en parle”, on se penche sur la Nuit Blanche parisienne de 2024 aux couleurs des Outre-mer, on fait un état des lieux du queerbaiting en ce deuxième jour du mois des fiertés et on découvre la voix la plus connue l'épouvante. Dans "A la page", la rubrique qui dépoussière des pages Wikipedia mystérieuses, Louise aborde cette semaine le Bad Sex in Fiction Award.Pour finir, dans "Vox Pop", la rubrique micro-trottoir, on rebondit sur le sujet consacré au queerbating pour interroger les Parisiens sur les différences entre les générations.Cet épisode est présenté par Anouk Aït Ouadda, avec cette semaine, la participation de Camille Pollo et Anthéa Claux. “À la page” est présenté par Louise Lemoine, et “VoxPop” est présenté par Valentine Vassel. Cet épisode est produit et réalisé par Anouk Aït Ouadda et Camille Pollo. Les musiques de fond, de transitions et les jingles sont composés par Julen Chavin. Visuel de l'épisode : Camille Pollo. Photo de couverture : Pontus Platin as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in Rocky Horror Show 1983 ©Wikipedia CommonsSa ou FéL'amant anonyme, Ouverture : I. Allegro presto - Chevalier Saint Georges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQn3C-3VfXk&list=OLAK5uy_n5ReFX2cBlP60ux_8XDWXW3Rxt48qJYhg Wélélé Bann - 2019 - Carnaval de Fort-de-France https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7M-lqOG8JA J'ai l'impression que…As It Was - Harry Styles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5v3kku4y6Q Le ClapMichael Jackson - Thriller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in5IYOatFb8&ab_channel=MichaelJackson-Topic Vincent - court métrage de Tim Burton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGp5z_2o2vs&ab_channel=FleryaVende Session studio d'enregistrement Michael Jackson & Vincent Price https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSip-frDcGM&ab_channel=stephenaltobello Alice Cooper- The Black Widowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIeAVBTeuV8&ab_channel=HorrorNHaunted Merci d'avoir écouté l'épisode 12 d'“Et pourtant personne n'en parle”. Si vous aimez notre podcast, soutenez-nous en vous abonnant au podcast sur votre plateforme et en nous donnant une note, en en parlant autour de vous et en laissant vos commentaires sur les réseaux sociaux.Suivez "Et pourtant personne n'en parle" sur Instagram et LinkedIn. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

I interviewed Turbulence: Jamais Vu creators Ben Joseph Andrews & Emma Roberts at IDFA DocLab 2023. See more context in the rough transcript below. Here are my 19 episodes from IDFA DocLab 2023: #1328: Kickoff of IDFA DocLab 2023: Natalie's Trifecta is a Virtual Tour of Natalie Paneng's Digital Art, Identity, & Imagination #1325: End of Tung-Yen Chou's Gay Sauna Trilogy with "Traversing the Mist" #1327: "Voice in My Head" Remixes Your Inner Monologue with AI #1329: Mixed Reality "PHANTOM" Installation Explores Dark Sides of Mental Illness with Gallows Humor #1330: Squeeker: The Mouse Coach Interspecies Fitness App Collaboration #1331: Recreating Spatial Presence in Caves with Point Clouds & Spatial Audio in "Buried in the Rock" Documentary #1332: Texada Tells the Story of Limestone Across Geologic Time With Animation and 360 Video #1333: AI Remix of 1982 Documentary "Koyaanisqatsi" with "The Vivid Unknown" Interactive Video Installation #1334: Anouschka Wins IDFA DocLab Digital Storytelling Award with AR Narrative Game about Cultural Heritage #1335: Retrospective on Lodz Film School's Visual Narratives Lab and "Whispers" with Jacek Nagłowski #1336: Close Uses Hand Gestures to Switch Between Audio Commentary Channels on Juitamai Dance Performance #1337: Using Night Vision Googles to Watch Viscerally Immersive Dance Performance "One Two" in Total Darkness #1338: Multi-Sensory Immersive Art Installation "Redemption" Deconstructs Brazil's History of Eugenics #1339: The School, a World uses Web Documentary to Profile Changes in the Small Polish Town of Chlebiotki #1340: Recreating the Social Dynamics of a Road Trip in "Yugo: The Non-Game" #1341: Performative Lecture "(this conversation is) Off the Record" uses AI & Theater to Critique Algorthmic Profiling #1342: Transforming a Book into an Interactive Experience with the Time-Based Edition of "Borderline Visible" #1343: Using 360 Video to Connect Women Prisoners in Chile with their Families in "Going Back Home: Mother VR" #1344: Turbulence: Jamais Vu Wins IDFA DocLab Immersive Non-Fiction Award with Embodied Mixed Reality Doc on Depersonalization & Derealization This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

This week on Black and Published, Nikesha speaks with Dolen Perkins-Valdez, the New York Times bestselling author of  Take My Hand. The novel was awarded a 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association, and Fiction Award from Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Dolen, who is an Associate Professor in the MFA Program at American University in Washington, D.C.,  is widely considered a pre-eminent chronicler of American historical life. In our conversation, Dolen discusses why telling the hard truths of history in a way that is easy for readers to stomach is her gift. How her love of archival research lays the foundation for her work as a historical fiction novelist. And the reason she believes she doesn't get enough credit for the doors she opened in historical Black writing. Support the showFollow the Show: IG: @blkandpublished Twitter: @BLKandPublished Follow Me:IG: @nikesha_elise Twitter: @Nikesha_Elise Website: www.newwrites.com

Our dreams came true! We were beyond honoured to speak with Tony Award winner Lena Hall all about starring as Kenna in the new musical In Dreams now playing at the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre in Toronto. In Dreams tells the story of Kenna - a country-rock singer who brings her old bandmates back together for "the party of a lifetime" while keeping her true motivations a secret. Set in a Mexican restaurant in New Mexico that specializes in tacos, margaritas, and memorial services, this unexpected and moving new musical explores our longing for love and connection - all through the iconic songs of Roy Orbison. Lena Hall is a Tony Award winner and Grammy nominee. Lena received widespread critical acclaim for her performance of the title role in the feature film Becks, (winner of the U.S. Fiction Award at the L.A. Film Festival). Hall stared as Miss Audrey in the hit sci-fi drama “Snowpiercer” alongside Jennifer Connelly and has been seen on HBO's “Girls,” Amazon Prime's “Good Girls Revolt,” and Paramount Plus' “Evil.” Following Lena's Tony-winning Broadway run in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Lena toured North America with Josh Groban on his “Stages” tour, and portrayed the dual starring roles of both Hedwig and Yitzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Lena originated the role of Nicola in the Kinky Boots on Broadway, she appeared as Sloane in the New York Premiere of Jim Steinman's Bat Out of Hell, starred opposite Marisa Tomei in Lincoln Center Theatre's “How To Transcend A Happy Marriage,” and most recently played Audrey in the hit Off-Broadway revival of “Little Shop Of Horrors.”  CLICK HERE TO BOOK TICKETS FOR IN DREAMS

Simon and Rachel speak with the author and screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce. "Millions", his debut children's novel, published in 2004, won the CILIP Carnegie Medal. He is also the author of "Noah's Gold", "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again", "Cosmic", "Framed", "The Astounding Broccoli Boy" and "Runaway Robot". His books have been shortlisted for numerous other prizes, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Whitbread Children's Fiction Award (now the Costa Book Award) and the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Along with Danny Boyle, Frank also devised the Opening Ceremony for the London Olympics in 2012. He has written for the hit TV series "Dr Who" and was the screenwriter for films including "Goodbye Christopher Robin" and "Millions". We spoke to Frank about his career as a screenwriter - moving from soap operas to feature films - his work on the Olympic Opening Ceremony, and his new novel, "The Wonder Brothers". “Always Take Notes: Advice From Some Of The World's Greatest Writers” - a book drawing on our podcast interviews - is published by Ithaka Press on October 12th. You can order it via Amazon, Bookshop.org, Hatchards or Waterstones. You can find us online at ⁠alwaystakenotes.com⁠, on Twitter @takenotesalways and on Instagram @alwaystakenotes. Our crowdfunding page is ⁠patreon.com/alwaystakenotes⁠. Always Take Notes is presented by Simon Akam and Rachel Lloyd, and produced by Artemis Irvine. Our music is by Jessica Dannheisser and our logo was designed by James Edgar.

Über eines sind sich doch eigentlich immer alle einig: Richtig gelungene Sexstellen gibt es in der Literatur so gut wie keine, der alljährlich verliehene »Bad Sex in Fiction Award« macht es sich sogar zur Aufgabe, die besonders misslungenen zu küren. Aber stimmt das eigentlich? Gibt es wirklich keine guten Sexstellen? Und Moment, was heißt denn eigentlich: »gut«? Zusammen mit Jovana Reisinger versuchen die Hanser-Lektor*innen Emily Modick und Florian Kessler diese Frage zu ergründen, es geht um Tabus, das Patriarchat (kleiner geht's nun mal nicht), den »male gaze« und die »Tussi« als performativen Akt. Wenn euch diese Folge gefallen hat, bewertet sie doch gerne auf der Podcast-Plattform eurer Wahl! Bei Fragen, Meinungen oder Anmerkungen schreibt uns gerne an rauschen@hanser.de. Show Notes: Jovana Reisinger, Enjoy Schatz. Korbinian Verlag 2022 McKenzie Wark, Reverse Cowgirl. Aus dem Englischen von Johanna Davids. August Verlag 2023 Katherine Angel, Morgen wird Sex wieder gut: Frauen und Begehren. Aus dem Englischen von Zoë Beck und Annika Domainko. Hanser 2022

Brooke Young is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate the amazing work being done by the dedicated crew of volunteers at Hindi's Library. This amazing non profit organization is making a huge difference in the literacy lives of hundreds of thousands of kids around the World. Brooke is especially excited to tell us about their Females Of Fiction Award. This program recognizes outstanding female authors and illustrators of children's books and strives to empower and support women who are building their literary portfolio and creating stories containing powerful messages of inspiration.  Winners receive a $100 Barnes & Noble gift card, various promotional opportunities on the organization's social media networks and more! All books collected from Females of Fiction Award submissions are donated to our recipients after being reviewed for the Award, and all submission fees are utilized to continue the organization's mission.  Click here to learn more about this exciting award program - https://www.hindislibraries.org/femalesoffiction  Click here to visit the Hindi's Library website - https://www.hindislibraries.org/our-story  Click here to visit our website - www.readingwithyourkids.com 

Anne and I had a historical discussion and she is a great person to interview. We had an amazing time. She loves writing and traveling, this helps her have the ability to have the experience to share in her novels. Speaking with Anne, it was fun conversating about different topics. Her novel Dollybird is a great novel for people to read. Anne has great reviews on her novel "Dollybird." Dollybird, the WILLA Literary Award-winning first historical novel by Anne Lazurko, whose latest book, What is Written on the Tongue (ECW Press), was a finalist for the 2022 Glengarry Book Prize, now has a new home with Shadowpaw Press Reprise, which publishes new editions of notable, previously published work. Anne is so grateful to have Dollybird given a new life by Shadowpaw Press. To have her characters and her story available to new readers is simply a gift. For Anne as an author, she hopes to have readers who can now find the format of their choice. Dollybird is a page-turner for every character who is fully realized, crippled by pains specific and universal. Anne's writing is shot with poetry. Dollybird explores parents and children, men and women, siblings and female friends, and how these connections are complicated in the face of an indifferent, natural environment. Dollybird is available for order through most bookstores, online or off. It can also be purchased directly from Shadowpaw Press at shadowpawpress.com/product/dollybird. Shadowpaw Press, founded in Regina, Saskatchewan, by award-winning author Edward Willett in 2018, publishes new work by established and emerging authors through its Premiere imprint and new editions of notable, previously published work through its Reprise imprint. For more information, contact publisher@shadowpawpress.com or visit www.shadowpawpress.com. More about the book "Dollybird" Winner: 2014 WILLA Literary Award for historical fiction Shortlisted: 2014 Fiction Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards Twenty-year-old Moira, the daughter of a Newfoundland doctor, dreams of becoming a doctor herself; but when she becomes pregnant out of wedlock, she is banished to the bleak landscape of southern Saskatchewan in 1906. There, she must come to terms with her predicament, her pioneer environment, and her employment as a “dollybird,” a term applied to women who might be housekeepers, whores—or both. A saga of birth, death, and the violent potential of both men and the elements, Dollybird explores the small mercies that mean more than they should under a vast prairie sky that waits, not so quietly, for people to fail. Anne Lazurko's second novel, What is Written on the Tongue, was released in the spring of 2022 by ECW Press and was shortlisted for the 2022 Glengarry Book Award. A graduate of the Humber Creative Writing Program, Anne has had short fiction and poetry published in literary magazines and anthologies and is active in the prairie writing community as a mentor, editor, and teacher. She writes from her farm near Weyburn, Saskatchewan. To can find Anne Lazurko on her website at www.annelazurko.com or on social media as Anne Lazurko. Anne Lazurko is available for interviews, media appearances, speaking engagements, and/or book review requests. Please contact mickey.creativeedge@gmail.com by email or by phone at 403.464.6925 Thank you for listening to and supporting the podcast. If you want to be heard email mscaramellucas@gmail.com or follow me on Instagram @mscaramellucas --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caramel-lucas/message

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Akwaeke Emezi is the author of the New York Times best seller The Death of Vivek Oji, which was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, Pet, a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's literature and Freshwater, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and shortlisted for the PEN/Hemmingway Award, the New York Public Library Young Lion's Fiction Award and The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. They were selected as a 5 Under 35 Honoree by the National Book Foundation. Emezi's new novel is called You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, which is a literary romance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Betsy Bird online:Betsy Bird's WebsiteA Fuse #8 Production blog at School Library Journal#46 Betsy Bird - FUNNY GIRL Unraveled on The Yarn Podcast@FuseEight on Twitter@fusenumber8 on InstagramFuse 8 n' Kate Podcast  Mentioned in this episode:When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff and Kaylani JuanitaCall Me Max by Kyle LukoffBlack and White by Tana HobanGoodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement HurdThe Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric CarleMy Parents Won't Stop Talking! by Emma Hunsinger and Tillie WaldenDog Man by Dav PilkeyInterview with Patrick on SCBWI Michigan's Mitten BlogInterview with Kelly on SCBWI Michigan's Mitten BlogThe Society of Midland Authors Children's Fiction Award for Kelly's The Swag is in the SocksOur Books for Children and Young Adults:Flying Lessons & Other Stories Edited by Ellen Oh- Kelly's short story in this middle grade anthology is “The Beans and Rice Chronicles of Isaiah Dunn.”Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero by Kelly J. BaptistThe Electric Slide and Kai by Kelly J. Baptist; Illustrated by Darnell JohnsonThe Swag is in the Socks by Kelly J. BaptistSee You in the Cosmos by Jack ChengJumped In by Patrick Flores-ScottAmerican Road Trip by Patrick Flores-ScottThe Griffins of Castle Cary by Heather ShumakerFind us online:Kelly J. Baptist: kellyiswrite.comJack Cheng: jackcheng.comPatrick Flores-Scott: patrickfloresscott.comHeather Shumaker: heathershumaker.comEmail us hello@booksmitten.us@booksmittenpod Follow our progress on Twitter this season with #booksmittenchallenge

How do we promote science fiction from the developing world? Do we expect that science fiction to be different? Five years ago, Tehseen Baweja c-founded a science fiction award named after Professor Abdus Salam. Here Salman Hameed and Tehseen Baweja have a conversation about the awards and more.Also, please check out the Salam Awards page here: http://thesalamaward.com/And check out a past winning story - The Puppet Master here: http://thesalamaward.com/winning-story-of-2019/For the video, please visit: https://youtu.be/jq75mT2IWyI

In this episode of Mississippi Stories, Mississippi Today Editor-at-Large (and cartoonist) Marshall Ramsey sits down with cartoonist Paige Braddock. Braddock tells how she decided at the age of 7 that she wanted to be a cartoonist.  After moving around the country and attending 17 schools (!),  she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 1985. Early in her career she worked as an illustrator for several newspapers, including The Orlando Sentinel, The Chicago Tribune, and The Atlanta Constitution. Braddock began crafting her long-standing comic, Jane's World, in 1991. After a 20-year run, Braddock stepped away decided to end the strip. But her book Love Letters to Jane's World recently won her the Mississippi Library Association's Mississippi Writer's Fiction Award. Paige attended elementary school in Wiggins, Mississippi. In 1999, Braddock assumed the position of Chief Creative Officer and in this role is charged with overseeing the visual and editorial direction for all Peanuts licensed products worldwide. The Schulz studio works in tandem with the licensing office in New York, Peanuts Worldwide.  As a professional cartoonist, she has illustrated several Peanuts children's books. The Snoopy U.S. postage stamp issued in April 2001 was designed by Braddock.

In this episode Pope talks about phone abstinence, flies without anuses, piercings and the Bad Sex in Fiction Award. // Please pre-order 'I'll Die After Bingo' here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/283398/pope-lonergan.html --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“Anything humans make of an artistic nature has to be literally brought into some kind of physical existence. Even if it is a lone person talking outside there has to be some kind of preparation of sorts, both the internal preparation of the one speaking, as well as how the physical setting is to be negotiated, the question of audience, if that is to be planned at all, the start and stop times of the speaking and so on. Interestingly we are very well aware of this when it comes to life outside the arts, the most prosaic or necessary things in life like housing or buildings in general. I believe we lose sight of this fact when its comes to the arts. That is, we tend to regard the arts as magically falling out of the sky and not a humanly made thing in the world like anything else, and one of the many missions of our podcast is to bring such matters into focus. I think Jaimee Wriston makes a wonderful representative of this principle, both because she has come out with a brand new novel, with a new publisher and we could discuss one of the most important aspects of being artist: getting a particular work out there. She also is so very articulate about such matters and that is important. It has been most interesting to follow the work of one particular writer like Jaimee Wriston. When first I encountered her novel Shark Girls on a long Amtrak ride alongside the Easter regional in a sleeper car I certainly had no idea about ever having a podcast or having its author on an episode. I am thankful for this opportunity and hope you enjoy hearing her discuss this aspect of being a writer in the world as much as you do reading her.” Jaimee's Bio,links to her beautiful worksJaimee Wriston Colbert is the author of seven books of fiction: How Not to Drown (2021), Vanishing Acts, Wild Things, Shark Girls, Dream Lives of Butterflies, Climbing the God Tree, and Sex, Salvation, and the Automobile. Her books won the 2021 and 2018 International Book Awards, CNY 2017 Fiction Award, Willa Cather Fiction Prize, Zephyr Prize, IPPY Gold Medal, Ian MacMillan Fiction Award, and more. Her stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, New Letters, and many other venues. She is a recipient of the 2019 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities and delivered the 2020-2021 Harpur Dean's Distinguished Lecture. Originally from Hawaii, she lives in upstate New York, where she is Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at SUNY Binghamton University. When you reference How Not to Drown in any promo, this is a good way to introduce it: Winner of the 2021 International Book Award in General Fiction! My website link: www.jaimeewristoncolbert.com New novel links: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/653401/how-not-to-drown-by-jaimee-wriston/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1643855573?tag=randohouseinc7986-20 It's available at a large number of online venues but I don't want to “drown" you in links—the Penguin-Random House link has tabs for a bunch of others, and of course Amazon…. My other Books (Amazon Links): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1604890444/ref=cm_sw_su_dp Shark Girls https://www.amazon.com/Vanishing-Acts-Jaimee-Wriston-Colbert/dp/1944388257 Vanishing Acts https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Things-Jaimee-Wriston-Colbert/dp/1943491054 Wild Things https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Butterflies-Jaimee-Wriston-Colbert/dp/1886157596/ref=pd_lpo_2?pd_rd_i=1886157596&psc=1 Dream Lives of Butterflies Two interviews about How Not to Drown, one in Hypertext Magazine the other on a premier website for eco-fiction: Sirens & Selkies – An Interview with Jaimee Wriston about her new book, How Not to Drown. Anita Gill, Hypertext Magazine. May 2021. https://www.hypertextmag.com/sirens-and-selkies-an-in --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mitch-hampton/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mitch-hampton/support

Jennifer Jenkins's first novel, American Bourbon, was released by Northampton House Press in June 2021. She has written for NonBinary Review, Hippocampus Magazine, Up North Lit, Canopy Review, and Parentheses Journal. She has been nominated for a PEN America Short Story Award and earned two honorable mentions for the Fiction Award from Glimmer Train. She has an essay in the upcoming book anthology Breaking Silence from McFarland & Co.  www.jenniferjenkinsauthor.com

Jennifer Jenkins's first novel, American Bourbon, was released by Northampton House Press in June 2021. She has written for NonBinary Review, Hippocampus Magazine, Up North Lit, Canopy Review, and Parentheses Journal. She has been nominated for a PEN America Short Story Award and earned two honorable mentions for the Fiction Award from Glimmer Train. She has an essay in the upcoming book anthology Breaking Silence from McFarland & Co.  www.jenniferjenkinsauthor.com

Lara Ehrlich is the author of the short story collection Animal Wife (Red Hen Press, Sept 2020), which won Red Hen's Fiction Award, judged by Ann Hood. Lara lives in Connecticut with her husband and daughter.Animal WifeRed Hen Press, 2020A World Without Books was created to help writers connect with readers during the pandemic. This Micro-Podcast provides authors a platform to share stories about writing, discuss current projects, and consider life without books. Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you podcast.Without Books®, a division of Heritage Future, is an author-centric book initiative. Our resources support authors. We also provide access to millions of books.

Lara Ehrlich is the author of the short story collection Animal Wife (Red Hen Press, Sept 2020), which won Red Hen's Fiction Award, judged by Ann Hood. Lara lives in Connecticut with her husband and daughter.* * *Animal WifeRed Hen Press, 2020

This week we read and discuss The Collection by Nina Leger which is about a lady who commits her sexual partners penises to memory. It's explicit. I literally cannot imagine any of you listen to this with children, but just in case you normally do, don't this time. There's also a quiz about the Bad Sex in Fiction Award at the end of the episode, plus a Mad Lib. So, what I'm saying is. This one is fun. Our next book discussion is going to be Weather by Jenny Offill. We mean this always, but this time we really mean it when we say get it from a local independent bookseller. They need you now more than ever. www.thebookstorepodcast.com www.patreon.com/thebookstore    

Three story enthusiasts (Stephanie, Kayla, and Jordyn) cuddle up in a blanket fort, drink tea, and dive into different genres of writing each month. A good portion of the romance genre includes sex, so we have dedicated an entire episode to it. If you'd like to know how to write a good one, and hear some examples of ones so bad they won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, given by Literary Review, this is the right episode for you. We hold nothing back in this episode, so it is for listeners over 18 years of age. Next week we return to our usual clean content. If you'd like more recommendations that aren't so intense, let Jordyn know. She has compiled a much larger list since we recorded this episode.Referenced Material: The List of the Lost by Morrissey Things to Make and Break by May-Lan Tan Birthday Girl by Penelope Douglas Chemical by Lexa Kline Another by Lexa Kline that is equally as magnificent, but less intense in the content is Sgàile Leannan: Book One of The McClary Chronicles. I wasn't up for pronouncing the gaelic words during recording so I left it out, but I'm throwing it in here. She's a brilliant author. Intro by Ronnie SmithJoin us on social media! Facebook - Writers Emerging www.facebook.com/groups/854830511295760/ Twitter - @3mergingwriters Instagram - Writers Emerging Podcast www.tinyurl.com/writersemerging Tumblr - Writers Emerging www.writersemergingpodcast.tumblr.com/Find out more at https://writers-emerging.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Are all bald crime writers gobby and succinct? Is a true crime not a true crime when its a podcast? Why has Bob never been to Newcastle until now and did the Partners In Crime predict the Bad Sex in Fiction Award winner?  Adam Croft and returning host Bob Daws answer these pressing crime related questions on the latest episode.   *Spoiler for the last question: yes they did. John Harvey’s Pax was Joint winner of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award with Didier Decoin.* Bob is back from being a travelling actor – sorry – vagabond of the road, for now at least. To celebrate, he uses his impressive acting talents on John Harvey’s entry in the Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Brace yourselves listeners, this rendition is not to be missed.  Adam has his OCD tendencies exposed and also realises that he has much in common with James Ellroy. Also discussed are Sky Crime’s The Disappearance of Susan Cox Powell, Martin Scorsese’s Netflix crime drama, The Irishman and True-Crime Podcast Angel of Vine. ~ Moriarty ~ Recommendations The Understudy by Sophie Hannah, Clare Mackintosh, B A Paris, Holly Brown https://www.kobo.com/ebook/the-understudy-13 Don't forget your exclusive Partners in Crime discounts through Kobo. Get 90% off your first purchase using the code CRIME at checkout. And you can also get 40% off all books using the code PARTNERS when you shop using this link: bit.ly/PartnersKobo CONTACT US Email: hello@partnersincrime.online Facebook: facebook.com/groups/crimefictionpodcast/ Twitter: twitter.com/crimeficpodcast Website: partnersincrime.online iTunes: croft.link/PIC-podcast Stitcher: bit.ly/PIC-Stitcher Google Play: bit.ly/PIC-GooglePlay YouTube: bit.ly/PIC-YouTube

It’s the most wonderful time of the year which can only mean one thing - the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award! Join Graham, Andrew, Sarah and Rob for this final episode of 2018 which is top-filled with enough filth and innuendo to carry our jolly listeners well into the new year.  After that it’s time to unwrap our presents as we do our own book-based version of a Secret Santa.  Hold on to your strange seasonal jumpers because things are going to get weird (and possibly sticky). If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for [The Geek Show](http://thegeekshow.co.uk). If you want to show your support then head over to [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can, or you can head over to [The Geek Shop](http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop/) and partake in some of our lovely wares. Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #LiteraryReview #BadSexInFictionAward #BadSexAward #HarukiMurakami #KillingCommendatore #JamesFrey #Katerina #Connect #JulianGough #Kismet #LukeTredget #GracesDay #WilliamWall #ThePaperLovers #GerardWoodward #Scoundrels #TheHuntForHansclapp #MajorVictorCornwall #MajorArthurStJohnTrevelyan #WiffleLeverToFull #DaleksDeathStarsAndDreamyEyedNostalgiaAtTheStrangestSciFiConventions #BobFischer #CollectibleSpoonsOfThe3rdReich #JamesAYannes #BeingABeast #CharlesFoster #CunkOnEverything #PhilomenaCunk #TheEncyclopediaPhilomena 

Is this the most awful sex writing 2017 can offer? Erotica writers and editors Betina and T.C. do a close reading of excerpts from The Literary Review's "Bad Sex in Fiction Award", featuring: bizarre word choice! Awful details! Strained metaphors! Painful dialogue! "Erotic" scenes that beg for psychoanalysis! And, most shocking of all...several pieces of sex writing that we really, really liked! But why don't you listen and judge for yourself?

Story: “Standoff" by Reed Benson Genre: Science Fiction Rating: PG  A police snake in a mechanized suit of armor faces a peculiar reaction from a hostage during a standoff. ----more---- Credits: "Standoff" by Reed BensonDeviantARTWorks by Reed Benson"Manhunt" by Reed Benson winner of the 2007 Fiction Award in Scop Magazine   "Standoff" was written and produced for the Good Snakes Flash Fiction Contest hosted by Untold Podcast

We speak with Linda LeGarde Grover about her new essay collection Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year. Her short fiction collection The Dance Boots received the Flannery O’Connor Award; her novel The Road Back to Sweetgrass received the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers 2016 Fiction Award, and her poetry collection The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives, received the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award. And because it's Halloween, we'll have a few appropriately themed readings to celebrate the occasion.

It’s the last show of 2017 and we’ve swapped our Graham for a Mick. In other news, the winner of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award has been announced, a 12 year-old photographer causes giraffe-based flashbacks for Andrew, selfies get their own museum and Texas prisons have some rather strange policies on books … Speaking of which, our featured books are The Dark North by Martin Dunellind (with artwork by Peter Bergting, Henrik Petterson, Jaokim Ericsson, Magnus Olsson and Lukas Thelin), and The Legion Prophecy (Book 3 of the Apollonian Case Files), by Mark A. Latham. Oh, and we’re ending the year with a quiz about gestures around the world. How’s that for avant-garde podcasting? #TheDarkNorth #Horror #Scandinavia #Mythology #NorseMythology #DarkHorse #TheLegionProphecy #TheApollonianCaseFiles #MarkALatham #Quiz #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #Arts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #Culture #Art

This week, we take a look at the truly tremendous contenders for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, clearly the most prestigious fiction prize in all the land. Then, in light of a recent heated discussion in online book circles about the relationship between small presses and agents, we try to answer: why might a small press dislike working with agents, and are those reasons good ones? (Spoiler alert: they almost always aren’t.) Join us!

When Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang (Hooligan Sparrow) first came to America, Florida seemed like an exotic frontier full of theme parks, prehistoric swamp creatures, and sunburned denizens. As she travels wide-eyed from one city to another, she eventually encounters a charismatic young drifter named Dylan. Fascinated by his rejection of society's rules and unsure of his past, Nanfu follows Dylan with her camera on a journey that spans years, takes her across America, and explores the meaning of freedom. But as Nanfu delves deeper into Dylan’s world, she discovers something that calls her entire worldview into question. Director, Producer, Cinematographer & Editor Nanfu Wang is an award-winning filmmaker based in New York City. Her feature debut Hooligan Sparrow was shortlisted for the 2017 Academy Award for best documentary feature. Since its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2016, Hooligan Sparrow has screened at more than 100 festivals in over 25 countries including Hot Docs, Sheffield, Full Frame, and Human Rights Watch Film Fest. It opened theatrically across North America and was later released on POV, Netflix, Amazon, and iTunes. It has won over twenty awards internationally including a Cinema Eye Honor for the Best Debut Film, the George Polk Award for the journalistic achievement, and the Truer than Fiction Award at the Independent Spirit Awards. Wang was honored by the International Documentary Association with the 2016 Emerging Filmmaker Award. Director Nanfu Wang joins us to talk about Dylan, freedom, travel and her own experience on the streets. For news and updates go to: iamanotheryoufilm.com facebook.com/iamanotheryoufilm

Faith sits down with author and Proust scholar, André Aciman to discuss his new novel Enigma Variations: A Novel. They discuss his new character’s life of all consuming, covetous love and the difference between remorse and regret. Plus, Frank Brinkley of Literary Review talks about the Bad Sex in Fiction Award.

This talk took place on July 7, 2016 at the Moss Theatre in Santa Monica and is part of the Live Talks Los Angeles series. Terry McMillan is the bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, A Day Late and a Dollar Short, and The Interruption of Everything and the editor of Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction. Each of Ms. McMillan’s seven previous novels was a New York Times bestseller, and four have been made into movies: Waiting to Exhale (Twentieth Century Fox, 1995); How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Twentieth Century Fox, 1998); Disappearing Acts (HBO Pictures, 1999); and A Day Late and a Dollar Short (Lifetime, 2014). McMillan fell in love with books as a teenager while working at the local library. She studied journalism at UC Berkeley and screenwriting at Columbia before making her fiction debut with Mama, which won both the Doubleday New Voices in Fiction Award and the American Book Award.Visit her website. In I Almost Forgot About You, Dr. Georgia Young’s wonderful life–great friends, family, and successful career–aren’t enough to keep her from feeling stuck and restless. When she decides to make some major changes in her life, quitting her job as an optometrist, and moving house, she finds herself on a wild journey that may or may not include a second chance at love. Like Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back, I Almost Forgot About You shows what can happen when you face your fears, take a chance, and open yourself up to life, love, and the possibility of a new direction. Lisa Napoli is a career journalist who has worked at The New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, and has covered arts and culture for KCRW.  She’s the author of the book, Radio Shangri-La, about her time in and around the kingdom of Bhutan, where she went to start a radio station at the dawn of democratic rule.  She is the author of the upcoming book, The Man Who Made the McDonald’s Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away, to be published November 2016. She is the proud recipient of the 2014 Halo Award from the Deutsch Family Foundation for a monthly volunteer cooking group she leads at the Downtown Women’s Center on Skid Row.

It's that time of the year again, and Santa has delivered us a sack full of goodies thanks to the Literary Review's “Bad Sex in Fiction Award”. We also somehow (we're still not sure how), wind up investigating old insults. #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #Arts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts

I veckans avsnitt av Tramsningsnämnden så tramsar Sara om Ben Okris Age of Magic som i veckan vann priset "Bad Sex in Fiction Award". Allt för att sedan hamna i mystiska fenomen på en norrländsk sjö och hjärnstölder i USA.En sjuk Michael snuddar vid extravalet och försöker även utan manus att ta upp Marcus Perssons personliga korståg mot Göteborgs svartklubbar. Sedan rundas allting av med vår julkalender. Lucka 5: TV-spel Medverkande:Sara Bäcklund, Michael Landén

I veckans avsnitt av Tramsningsnämnden så tramsar Sara om Ben Okris Age of Magic som i veckan vann priset "Bad Sex in Fiction Award". Allt för att sedan hamna i mystiska fenomen på en norrländsk sjö och hjärnstölder i USA.En sjuk Michael snuddar vid extravalet och försöker även utan manus att ta upp Marcus Perssons personliga korståg mot Göteborgs svartklubbar. Sedan rundas allting av med vår julkalender. Lucka 5: TV-spel Medverkande:Sara Bäcklund, Michael Landén

Owen King is the guest. His new novel, Double Feature, is now available from Scribner. Karen Russell raves “What a kinetic, joyful, gonzo ride—Double Feature made me laugh so loudly on a plane that I had to describe the plot of Sam's Spruce Moose of a debut film (it stars a satyr) to my seatmate by way of explanation. Booth and Sam are an unforgettable Oedipal duo. A book that delivers walloping pleasures to its lucky readers.” And Larry McMurtry says “Double Feature is a beautiful, wrenching beginning, and Owen King is a young writer of immense promise.” Monologue topics: listener feedback, overdoing gender politics, Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BERNICE MCFADDEN is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels including the classics Sugar and Glorious, which was featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, selected as the debut title for the One Book, One Harlem program, and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. She is a three-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of the 2011 Fiction Award  the BCALA. Her sophomore novel, The Warmest December, was praised by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison as “searing and expertly imagined.” McFadden lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her latest novel is Gathering of Waters. Gathering of Waters is a deeply engrossing tale narrated by the town of Money, Mississippi--a site both significant and infamous in our collective story as a nation. Money is personified in this haunting story, which chronicles its troubled history following the arrival of the Hilson and Bryant families.   Tass Hilson and Emmett Till were young and in love when Emmett was brutally murdered in 1955. Anxious to escape the town, Tass marries Maximillian May and relocates to Detroit.   Forty years later, after the death of her husband, Tass returns to Money and fantasy takes flesh when Emmett Till's spirit is finally released from the dank, dark waters of the Tallahatchie River. The two lovers are reunited, bringing the story to an enchanting and profound conclusion.  http://www.bernicemcfadden.com/

Kendra Norman-Bellamy and her award winning titles have been featured in such magazines as Essence, Upscale, EKG Literary, and HOPE for Women. She has been a contributing writer for HOPE for Women, Precious Times, and Global Women magazines. Kendra is the author of One Prayer Away, Crossing Jhordan's River, and A Love So Strong. She was the winner of the 2008 Best Christian Fiction Award and the 2008 Best Anthology Award from the African American Literary Award Show in Harlem, New York. Hear her on the Chocolate Pages show as she discusses her new title: Fifteen Years! Visit her website: Kendra's Website # Paperback: 288 pages # Publisher: Lift Every Voice/Moody Publishers; (February 1, 2010)

FORSAKEN is Vanessa's newest book, due out in October 2009. Forsaken is the story of a fallen pastor's journey back to God. Vanessa believes that each of her books will touch readers across the country in a special way. It is, after all her God-given destiny to write novels that bring deliverance to God's people. www.vanessamiller.com for free excerpt