Podcast appearances and mentions of Garth Greenwell

The queens talk with gay literary icon Edmund White about his new book, The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir. (Miguel Murphy joins in the fun, too!)Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.                            Miguel's SHORE DITCH is available from Barrow Street.You can purchase Edmund White's new book, The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir, at BookWoman here. Bookwoman was founded to increase access to queer and feminist literature in Texas nearly fifty years ago. Read Colm Tóibín's essay, "On the Casual Brilliance of Edmund White"Read a tribute to Gary Indiana  in The Guardian here. Need a quick definition refresher of auto fiction? Here you go! Miguel mentions that composer Arnold Schoenberg's archive destroyed in LA fires, and you can read more about that here. Here's a dishy roundup of Nabokov's insults of DostoevskyFor a bit more about Larry Kramer's objections to The Farewell Symphony, read on.Learn more about Richard Howard and his poetry here. Edmund White and Michael Carroll talk about their relationship, and their experiences writing gay fiction here.And here's the Interview Magazine article we mention in the episode, in which gay writers ask Edmund White a question: “Tall Blonde With a Big Dick”: 18 Men Ask Edmund White Some Sexy Questions" Finally, check out the fabulous Garth Greenwell's website: https://www.garthgreenwell.com  

Anna and Geoff review OUR EVENINGS  the new novel by Booker Prize-winning author Alan Hollinghurst. Dave Win is a Burmese-British actor reminiscing about his life, growing up as a gay man in the 1960s through to 2019. We loved the exact and beautiful prose but found it slow. The blurb also suggests a tension between Dave and bully Giles whereas the story is more of a (fictional) memoir of Dave and his mother. The Sunday Times called it 'the best novel that's been written about contemporary Britain in the past ten years.' An interesting read and much to discuss! If you enjoyed this book, we recommend: Garth Greenwell (his latest SMALL RAIN is on our TBR) Alan Hollinghurst's earlier work (Geoff's favourite: THE FOLDING STAR) Coming up: THE HUSBANDS with Holly Gramazio Follow us! Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras Substack: Books On The Go Credit Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Garth Greenwell unpacks his novel, Small Rain and Basi Affia discusses Iowa's first Black comic book publisher.

This week, we bring you a live interview with Garth Greenwell, conducted in October 2024 at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. Garth talks about growing up in Kentucky assuming that he would die young, the teacher who gave him a path toward being an artist, and the doggedness with which he has pursued his aesthetic practices (in both music and literature) ever since. Mentioned: Garth's new novel, Small Rain (FSG 2024)Frank BidartBenjamin BrittenCosì Fan TutteThe HIV/AIDS crisisGarth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His second book of fiction, Cleanness, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and Cleanness was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2020, a New York Times Critics Top 10 book of the year, and a Best Book of the year by the New Yorker, TIME, NPR, the BBC, and over thirty other publications. A new novel, Small Rain, is now out from FSG. He is the recipient of many honors for his work, including a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2021 Vursell Award for prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop, Grinnell College, the University of Mississippi, Princeton, and NYU. He writes regularly about literature, film, art and music for his Substack, To a Green Thought. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The American writer Garth Greenwell won widespread acclaim for his first novel, What Belongs to You, including the British Book Award for the Debut of the Year in 2016. This success would have surprised his high-school teachers in Kentucky. As a teenager, he failed English and decided to follow a very different path: he turned to singing and eventually trained as an opera singer. Studying music led him back to literature – writing poems, novels and working as a teacher in Bulgaria. His most recent novel, Small Rain, focuses on a severe medical emergency which leads to deep meditations on our vulnerability, life and love. Garth's musical passions include works by Mahler, Britten, Richard Strauss and the 16th century English composer John Taverner. Presenter Michael Berkeley Producer Clare Walker

In the latest novel from author Garth Greenwell, a poet's life is upended when he is struck suddenly by serious and intense pain. Greenwell joins us to discuss Small Rain.

In this episode, we speak to acclaimed poet and novelist Garth Greenwell about his latest novel, Small Rain. We speak about chambers of mind and body within the architecture of the novel, and touch as something with the power to both connect us with and alienate us from our animal corporeality. We explore the embodied nature of syntax in Garth's work, and the ways in which pain can shatter this. We question the 'arts of living' and discuss the necessity of uncertainty and contradictions within fiction, and the importance of sitting with discomfort. We speak about civility, neighbourliness, political division and the myriad ways in which our lives are dependent on others. Garth Greenwell is the author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the James Tait Black Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by over fifty publications in nine countries, and is being translated into a dozen languages. His novella Mitko won the Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and a Lambda Literary Award. His fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, A Public Space, and VICE, and he has written criticism for the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and the New York Times Book Review, among others. He lives in Iowa City. References Small Rain by Garth Greenwell Cleanness by Garth Greenwell What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell Introducing Myself by Ursula K. Le Guin Visit Storysmith for 10% discount on Garth's work. This conversation was recorded in person at Albatross Café in Bristol.

Medaya Ocher talks with Ramaan Alam about his new novel, Entitlement, that tells the story of Brooke, a product of the upper middle class, who works for an aging billionaire looking for places to give away his fortune. Brooke comes to recognize all that she could do with a vast fortune of her own. Entitlement captures the centrality of wealth and dreams of wealth in the contemporary American imagination. Also Garth Greenwell, author of Small Rain, returns to recommend Michael Gorra's Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece.      

On this edition of The Weekly Reader we review two new novels that blur the lines between what's real and what's not: Colored Television, by Danzy Senna, and Small Rain, by Garth Greenwell.     See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Garth Greenwell on shame, small acts of love, and the patch of snow inside us.

Eric Newman speaks with Garth Greenwell about his latest novel, Small Rain. The novel picks up the story of the same unnamed narrator from Greenwell's earlier novels, What Belongs to You and Cleanness, a poet and teacher now in his forties and settled down with his partner in the Midwest. Their placid life is upended when a sudden and excruciating pain sends the narrator to the hospital, where he's diagnosed with an aortic tear -- a life-threatening condition. Unfolding from this point, the novel explores how the narrator navigates his recovery as he's treated in a cramped hospital room in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic. Dilating on the power of art and intimacy to buoy us up in moments of extreme suffering, as well as the moments in which suffering overwhelms the transcendent capacity of art, Small Rain reckons with how we make our way through the agonies and ecstasies, unique and mundane, of life itself. Also, Sofia Samatar, author of Opacities, returns to recommend two books by Fleur Jaeggy, Sweet Days of Discipline and These Possible Lives.

Eric Newman speaks with Garth Greenwell about his latest novel, Small Rain. The novel picks up the story of the same unnamed narrator from Greenwell's earlier novels, What Belongs to You and Cleanness, a poet and teacher now in his forties and settled down with his partner in the Midwest. Their placid life is upended when a sudden and excruciating pain sends the narrator to the hospital, where he's diagnosed with an aortic tear -- a life-threatening condition. Unfolding from this point, the novel explores how the narrator navigates his recovery as he's treated in a cramped hospital room in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic. Dilating on the power of art and intimacy to buoy us up in moments of extreme suffering, as well as the moments in which suffering overwhelms the transcendent capacity of art, Small Rain reckons with how we make our way through the agonies and ecstasies, unique and mundane, of life itself. Also, Sofia Samatar, author of Opacities, returns to recommend two books by Fleur Jaeggy, Sweet Days of Discipline and These Possible Lives.

Garth Greenwell is the author of Cleanness. His novel What Belongs to You won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the James Tait Black Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by over fifty publications in nine countries, and is being translated into a dozen languages. His novella Mitko won the Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and a Lambda Literary Award. His fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, A Public Space, and VICE, and he has written criticism for the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and the New York Times Book Review, among others. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel Small Rain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Garth Greenwell discusses Small Rain (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Sept. 3), a profound new novel in which an unnamed narrator faces a medical emergency in Iowa City at the height of the pandemic. Kirkus: “Greenwell—such a finely tuned, generous writer—transforms a savage illness into a meditation on a vital life” (starred review). Then our editors share their top picks in books for the week.

Garth Greenwell's latest novel, Small Rain, is set in a midwestern ICU during the early days of the pandemic, as its unnamed narrator, a writer, experiences a health crisis and lies confined to his bed in excruciating pain.  In long pauses between visits with nurses and doctors, amid the weird dilations of ‘hospital time,' the narrator muses on his suffering and disappointments, but also the nature of art and the ‘adventure' of domestic life. On this episode, Greenwell joins Commonweal contributor Tony Domestico to talk about the novel.   For further reading: A review of Garth Greenwell's Cleanness Another interview with Garth Greenwell

Tom Sutcliffe is joined by David Benedict and Catherine McCormack to review Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers, the first exhibition the National Gallery has dedicated to the artist. They also discuss The Critic, which stars Ian McKellen as a fearsomely ruthless drama critic and Small Rain by Garth Greenwell, which focuses on the narrator's time and treatment in hospital after experiencing a sudden piercing pain.Chair of Judges Paddy O'Connell reveals the shortlisted authors for the BBC National Short Story Award 2024 with Cambridge University. The list includes Lucy Caldwell who talks about her short story Hamlet, a love story.Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Claire Bartleet

Today, we hear from RO Kwon whose latest novel, EXHIBIT, was released in May. We're talking to Reese about writing about what scares you.Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for one week. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your favorite podcast platform.To find Kwon's latest and many other books by our authors, visit our Bookshop page. Looking for a writing community? Join our Facebook page. R. O. Kwon is the author of the nationally bestselling Exhibit, a New York Times Editors' Choice, which published in May 2024 with Riverhead (US) and will be out in July 2024 with Virago/Little Brown (UK). Kwon's bestselling first novel, The Incendiaries, has been translated into seven languages and was named a best book of the year by over forty publications. The Incendiaries was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award. Kwon and Garth Greenwell co-edited Kink, a New York Times Notable Book and recipient of the inaugural Joy Award. Kwon's writing has appeared in The New York Times, New Yorker, Time, Vanity Fair, Guardian, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and awards from MacDowell, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Yaddo. Kwon was the 2024 Stein Visiting Writer at Stanford University. Born in Seoul, Kwon has lived most of her life in the United States.Photo: Jesse Dittmar This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 7amnovelist.substack.com

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R.O. Kwon is the author of the nationally bestselling novel The Incendiaries, which was named a best book of the year by more than forty publications. On today's show, Annmarie and R.O. discuss her new book, Exhibit, an exhilarating novel that's been called “the sexiest book of the year.” They also talk about photography, the torture and timelessness of ballet, and what it means for women to put voice to their desires both in and out of the bedroom. Episode Sponsors: Duende District – We make tiny bookstores for & by people of color— where all are welcome. What you'll find at each Duende District is a lovingly curated selection of new & used adult & children's books by authors of color in English & Spanish. Each boutique partnership offers a uniquely crafted & inviting literary space focused on engaging communities of color, while also inviting all people to participate in the experience. Visit our locations in Albuquerque & Brooklyn, or find us online at duendedistrict.com. Loyalty Bookstores – A Black, Asian, and Queer owned bookstore, which aims to be the Mid-Atlantic's neighborhood spot for books, gifts, and programming. At Loyalty, we highlight the diverse voices and creatives who make our communities great. We work to create an inclusive, welcoming environment because, well, books are home. Visit our DC and Silver Spring locations or find us online at loyaltybookstores.com. Yu and Me Books – A bookstore / café / and bar that showcases strong, diverse voices, with a focus on immigrant stories, in a space where we can dream together, strive for change, and push systems closer to justice. Come to our NYC location to sip, read, and share amazing conversations, or find us online at yuandmebooks.com. Titles Mentioned in this Episode: Exhibit, by R.O. Kwon The Incendiaries, by R.O. Kwon Kink: Stories, edited by Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon Small Rain, by Garth Greenwell Follow R.O. Kwon: Twitter: @rokwon Instagram: @ro.kwon ro-kwon.com Photo credit: Jesse Dittmar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nocturnes for the King of Naples by Edmund White with a foreword by Garth Greenwell reflects on love, life and time in this stunning epistolary novel. Both authors joined us to talk to us about bringing back this novel from 1978, the evolution of style and themes, musicality in creative writing and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.                     New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.           Featured Books (Episode): Nocturnes for the King of Naples by Edmund White with Garth Greenwell A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White Dancer From the Dance by Andrew Halloran Faggots by Larry Kramer Cleanness by Garth Greenwell The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt Small Rain by Garth Greenwell The Loves of My Life by Edmund White

The University of Richmond's Modlin Center for the Arts has received a ,500 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts that will support three performances commissioned by the center during its 2024-25 season, including two world premiers. The grant is the first from the NEA received by the Modlin Center. It will support the Sept. 26 and 28 performances of 'What Belongs to You,' composed by David T. Little and directed by Mark Morris, based on the debut novel of the same name by Garth Greenwell, which will be performed by tenor Karim Sulayman and the contemporary instrumental ensemble...Article LinkSupport the Show.

Writer and curator Legacy Russell joins Kate Wolf to discuss her new book, Black Meme, which theorizes the history of viral images of Blackness in America from the dawn of the 20th century to the present. The book argues for the centrality of Black culture in the formation of the digital sphere; it also points to the many ways images of Black people have been exploited, decontextualized, and abused both before and after the internet. Russell draws on a variety of examples, from the open-casket photos of Emmet Till that appeared in Jet Magazine, to the phenomena of Michael Jackson's Thriller video, which helped popularize the VCR, to more recent viral videos of police violence and Black social death. Calling for a reexamination of notions of private and public property, Black Meme urges a reconsideration of what an equitable exchange might look like for Black creators online, as well as engagement on the internet that goes beyond a reshare. Also, Miranda July, author of All Fours, returns to recommend Small Rain by Garth Greenwell.

Writer and curator Legacy Russell joins Kate Wolf to discuss her new book, Black Meme, which theorizes the history of viral images of Blackness in America from the dawn of the 20th century to the present. The book argues for the centrality of Black culture in the formation of the digital sphere; it also points to the many ways images of Black people have been exploited, decontextualized, and abused both before and after the internet. Russell draws on a variety of examples, from the open-casket photos of Emmet Till that appeared in Jet Magazine, to the phenomena of Michael Jackson's Thriller video, which helped popularize the VCR, to more recent viral videos of police violence and Black social death. Calling for a reexamination of notions of private and public property, Black Meme urges a reconsideration of what an equitable exchange might look like for Black creators online, as well as engagement on the internet that goes beyond a reshare. Also, Miranda July, author of All Fours, returns to recommend Small Rain by Garth Greenwell.

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 626, my conversation with author Garth Greenwell. The episode first aired on February 26, 2020. Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by over fifty publications in nine countries, and is being translated into fourteen languages. His second book of fiction, Cleanness, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the L.D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize, and France's Prix Sade (Deuxième sélection). Cleanness was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2020, a New York Times Critics Top 10 book of the year, and a Best Book of the year by the New Yorker, TIME, NPR, the BBC, and over thirty other publications. It is being translated into eight languages. A new novel, Small Rain, is forthcoming from FSG in 2024. Greenwell is also the co-editor, with R.O. Kwon, of the anthology KINK, which appeared in February 2021, was named a New York Times Notable Book, won the inaugural Joy Award from the #MarginsBookstore Collective, and became a national bestseller. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, A Public Space, and VICE, and he has written nonfiction for The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and Harper's, among others. He writes regularly about literature, film, art and music for his Substack, To a Green Thought. He is the recipient of many honors for his work, including a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2021 Vursell Award for prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop, Grinnell College, the University of Mississippi, and Princeton. Greenwell currently lives in New York, where he is a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at NYU. *** 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 @otherppl Instagram  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

If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining our Patreon. Your support helps us keep the show running. Find out more at http://www.patreon.com/whyisthisgoodpodcast In this episode, we discuss “The Frog King” by Garth Greenwell. What can we learn from this quiet portrait of a human relationship? Is there conflict in this story? Does a story need […]

Ein schwuler amerikanischer Expat betritt die öffentlichen Toiletten des Kulturpalasts von Sofia, Bulgarien. Dort unten geht eigentlich niemand einfach nur so hin. Er trifft dort auf Mitko, der Charisma ausstrahlt und Gefahr.

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances and Dorian as they discuss THE WILD IRIS by Louise Glück, and chat about their current reading. For our next episode, we will discuss DURING THE REIGN OF THE QUEEN OF PERSIA by Joan Chase. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in late April. Want to support the show? Visit us at Bookshop.org or click on the links below and buy some books! Books mentioned: The Wild Iris by Louise Glück Poems 1962-2012 by Louise Glück Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Glück Proof and Theories: Essays on Poetry by Louise Glück American Originality: Essays on Poetry by Louise Glück Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü, translated by Maureen Freely Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil, translated by Joshua L. Freeman Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz The Details by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae Not a River by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare, translated by John Hodgson Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, translated by Julia Sanches Lost On Me by Veronica Raimo, translated by Leah Janeczko What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase You might also be interested in: Louise Glück Nobel Lecture - https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2020/gluck/lecture/ Remembering Louise Glück by Garth Greenwell - https://garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/remembering-louise-gluck-1943-2023 Further resources and links are available on our website at onebrightbook.com. Browse our bookshelves at Bookshop.org. Comments? Write us at onebrightmail at gmail Find us on Twitter at @pod_bright Frances: @nonsuchbook Dorian: @ds228 Rebecca: @ofbooksandbikes Dorian's blog: https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/ Rebecca's newsletter: https://readingindie.substack.com/ Our theme music was composed and performed by Owen Maitzen. You can find more of his music here: https://soundcloud.com/omaitzen.

New York Times bestselling memoirist turned novelist, Garrard Conley, spoke with me about going from activist to fictionist, the isolation of being an artist, and his debut novel All the World Beside. Garrard Conley is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Boy Erased, as well as the creator and co-producer of the podcast UnErased: The History of Conversion Therapy in America. His memoir became a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, and Lucas Hedges, directed by Joel Edgerton. His debut novel is titled All the World Beside and described as “... an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England.” Tess Gunty, National Book Award-winning author of Rabbit Hutch, called the book an “... accomplishment of breathtaking prose, expert pacing, and extraordinary psychological intelligence...” Garth Greenwell wrote, “... this novel contains some of the finest writing I've encountered in recent American fiction.” Garrard's work has been published by The New York Times, Oxford American, Time, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Conley is a graduate of Brooklyn College's MFA program, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow specializing in fiction, and he is an assistant professor of creative writing at Kennesaw State University. [Discover The Writer Files Extra: Get 'The Writer Files' Podcast Delivered Straight to Your Inbox at writerfiles.fm] [If you're a fan of The Writer Files, please click FOLLOW to automatically see new interviews. And drop us a rating or a review wherever you listen] In this file Garrard Conley and I discussed: What it was like to work with Radiolab on a podcast Setting out to write “The Queer Scarlett Letter” His intense historical research process  How he inhabits his stories Why writers can't skimp on what the audience wants How to un-Tik-Tok-ify your brain And a lot more! Show Notes: garrardconley.com All the World Beside: A NOVEL By Garrard Conley (Amazon) Garrard Conley Amazon Author Page Garrard Conley on Instagram Garrard Conley on Twitter Kelton Reid on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Notes and Links to Martha Anne Toll's Work         For Episode 221, Pete welcomes Martha Anne Toll, and the two discuss, among other topics, her early reading and writing and written word-heavy household, her love of music and other artistic pursuits, and the way muses have worked in her life and in her novel, ideas of grief, survivor's guilt and connection, real-life tragedies and heroes from the Holocaust that informed her writing, and other salient themes from her book like permanence, memory, and connection.     Martha Anne Toll's debut novel, THREE MUSES, was shortlisted for the Gotham Book Prize and won the Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction. THREE MUSES has received glowing tributes since it came out in September 2022. She writes fiction, essays, and book reviews, and reads anything that's not nailed down.     She brings a long career in social justice to her work covering authors of color and women writers as a critic and author interviewer at NPR Books, the Washington Post, Pointe Magazine, The Millions, and elsewhere. She also publishes short fiction and essays in a wide variety of outlets. Toll is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and serves on the Board of Directors of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. ' Her second novel, DUET FOR ONE, will be out in early 2025. Buy Three Muses   Martha's Website   New York Journal of Books Review of Three Muses     At about 2:00, Martha provides a cool definition At about 2:25, Martha talks about her future project-her book coming out in 2025, and she shouts out places to buy Three Muses At about 4:20, Martha discusses her early reading and writing life, and the ways in which her parents influenced her habits At about 7:15, Martha traces her writing journey At about 8:40, Martha talks about inspiring and beloved writers (like Alex Chee, Garth Greenwell, Kiese Laymon, Vikram seth and shirley hazzard) and writing in contemporary times, as well as how working as a book reviewer affects her own reading for pleasure At about 10:55, Martha speaks to Pete's questions  At about 12:10, Martha gives seeds for Three Muses, including how she had ideas based on a real-life story from the Holocaust and the Greek view of three muses At about 14:10, Pete and Martha lay out some of the book's exposition  At about 15:30, Martha responds to Pete wondering about how the protagonist John was roused by a dance from Katya/Katherine At about 16:45, Martha reflects on Katya's problematic and ongoing collaboration and personal relationship with the director Boris At about 20:05, Pete lays out some of Katya's traumas At about 20:50, Martha talks about Janko/John's horrific childhood and the loss of his family in Mainz, Germany, in the Holocaust-Martha describes how her cousin Alan Boucher's memoir informed some parts of the book At about 22:25, Martha speaks about the guilt-inducing “Sophie's Choice” that afflicts and saves John/Janko's; she expounds upon his survivor's guilt At about 24:30, Pete and Martha compare Janko's story with that of Elie Wiesel and the ways in which iit was so gutting to see people killed in the camps so close to Liberation  At about 26:30, The two discuss the idea of reinvention as seen through John in the book, and Martha expands on “unlikely heroes” who helped John to survive At about 29:20, Martha discusses Barney and Selma Katz, who “adopt” John, and she talks about John's own psychoanalysis and psychologist training At about 31:05, The two discuss themes in the book of memorializing, living “in the present tense,” and how memory guides the characters' actions At about 33:05, Pete traces John and Katya's connections, and Martha debates how and if the “innate” connections are there At about 36:00, Pete asks Martha about any responsibilities/urgency to get Holocaust stories on the page  At about 37:45, Martha speaks of art and its “incredibl[e] importan[ce]” and the power of fiction At about 38:55, Martha shouts out Forgottenness by Tanja Maljartschuk as an example of the power of memory At about 39:55, Martha responds to Pete's question about the emotional toll of writing her book    You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. 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His first book, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight, about the world of blindness (and figuring out his place in it), was published in July 2023 by Penguin Press, to great acclaim and receiving many awards.    The episode will air on January 31.

Erin on IG asked for "some more queer books that aren't romance or historical fiction". Episode 45 tackles this question Open Throat by Henry Hoake, Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White, Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby, and Cleanness by Garth Greenwell.Shelf Help is a collaboration between the Book Jam, a nonprofit designed to inspire readers; CATV Upper Valley media community (NOW LOCATED AT JAM, Junction Arts & Media); three Upper Valley bookstores: Yankee Bookshop in Woodstock, VT; the Norwich Bookstore in Norwich, VT; and Still North Books & Bar in Hanover, NH.

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: In this episode, host Megan Cole talks to return guest, Danny Ramadan. Danny's novel The Foghorn Echoes is a finalist for the 2023 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. In their conversation Danny talks about how he approaches structure, and gives tips on writing good sex scenes, and why there are so many bad sex scenes. On the episode Danny mentions the book Cleanness by Garth Greenwell: http://www.garthgreenwell.com/ And Megan and Danny both gush over francesca ekwuyasi's Butter Honey Pig Bread, published by BC publisher Arsenal Pulp Press: https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/B/Butter-Honey-Pig-Bread Visit BC and Yukon Book Prizes: https://bcyukonbookprizes.com/ About The Foghorn Echoes: https://bcyukonbookprizes.com/project/the-foghorn-echoes/ ABOUT DANNY RAMADAN: Danny Ramadan (he/him) is a Syrian-Canadian author, public speaker, and advocate for LGBTQ+ refugees. His debut novel, The Clothesline Swing, was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award, longlisted for Canada Reads, and named a Best Book of the Year by The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and currently lives in Vancouver with his husband. ABOUT MEGAN COLE: Megan Cole the Director of Programming and Communications for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes. She is also a writer based on the territory of the Tla'amin Nation. Megan writes creative nonfiction and has had essays published in Chatelaine, This Magazine, The Puritan, Untethered, and more. She has her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of King's College and is working her first book. Find out more about Megan at megancolewriter.com ABOUT THE PODCAST: Writing the Coast is recorded and produced on the territory of the Tla'amin Nation. As a settler on these lands, Megan Cole finds opportunities to learn and listen to the stories from those whose land was stolen. Writing the Coast is a recorded series of conversations, readings, and insights into the work of the writers, illustrators, and creators whose books are nominated for the annual BC and Yukon Book Prizes. We'll also check in on people in the writing community who are supporting books, writers and readers every day. The podcast is produced and hosted by Megan Cole.

This week on Redefining Family Jonathan interviews author Jonathan Alexander.   Jonathan first talks about his struggles growing up in the deep south, especially once he decided he wanted to come out.  He turned 18 at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic and he tried to come out in college, however there was no real support or community for LGBTQ+ individuals.  Jonathan then discusses how he ended up marrying a woman and the realizations they both came to about their relationship before the split.   Additionally, Jonathan talks about learning to love himself as a kid and his close relationship with his mother.******About Jonathan AlexanderJonathan Alexander is a writer living in Southern California where he is Chancellor's Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author, co-author, or editor of twenty-one books. His cultural journalism has been widely published, especially in the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) for which he is the Special Projects Editor. He is also the host of LARB's “Writing Sex,” a YouTube series of short interviews with contemporary writers on sex and sexuality. (Previous guests include Garth Greenwell, Andre Aciman, and Dennis Cooper.) LARB founding editor Tom Lutz has called Alexander one of “our finest essayists.” He lives with his husband and cat, and when not writing, dabbles in watercolors and plays piano in a music ensemble with friends. For more about Jonathan Alexander and his books please visit www.thecreeptrilogy.com and www.the-blank-page.com.Twitter: @profjalexanderInstagram: profjalexanderART

Today, Caroline and I are here to share a bunch of short book recommendations (under 250 pages). We love short books because you're dropped right into the action and it's full steam ahead until all is revealed. If you're looking for something quick and easy to read or need some smaller books to pack for your next trip consider picking up one of these. Also make sure you check out our additional recommendations on today's Instagram post @talkbookishpodcast Caroline's YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnt_sb8PUlFD6_0CBeec_5A Caroline's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/carekipland/ Books Mentioned Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Distress Signals by Catherine Ryan Howard We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (52 pages) The Grownup by Gillian Flynn (64 pages) Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid (86 pages) Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca (102 pages) You've Lost a Lot of Blood by Eric LaRocca The Test by Sylvain Neuvel (108 pages) The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka (192 pages) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (200 pages) What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell (208 pages) Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me by Mindy Kaling (222 pages) Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (224) My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (226 pages) I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid (240 pages) Confessions by Kanae Minato (240 pages) Penance by Kanae Minato (240 pages) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (244 pages) Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (245 pages) When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen (237 pages) Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix (248 pages) Wayward Children Series by Seanan McGuire - - - - - - - - - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/talkbookishpodcast Email: talkbookishpodcast@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talkbookishpodcast YouTube: https://bit.ly/3tx08dR YouTube (personal): https://www.youtube.com/user/BeautifulBooksbyGwen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/talk-bookish-to-me/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/talk-bookish-to-me/support

di Matteo B. Bianchi | In questa nuova puntata un errata corrige e tanti ospiti, a cominciare dallo scrittore e libraio Andrea Donaera della libreria Macaria di Gallipoli. In Altre voci, altre stanze, Marco Drago ci racconta il suo tardivo ma non per questo meno appassionato approdo alla traduzione; infine, lo scrittore Marco Amerighi ci consiglia una lettura molto attuale.Libri consigliati: STANOTTE SONO UN'ALTRA di Chelsea Hodson, PidginPUREZZA di Garth Greenwell, EinaudiFREEMAN'S – CAMBIAMENTO, Black coffeeLA FERITA di Lucio Leone, PolidoroBATMAN HUSH, Panini ComicsPECCATI GLORIOSI di Lisa McInerney, BompianiIL CONVITTO di Serhij Žadan, Voland

This month Bryan, Christina, and Jules take a break from talking about the hostile legislation queer and trans people are fighting against to talk about what they're fighting for. Brooklyn kindergarten teacher Eliza Cutler joins the hosts to share what it looks like when teachers are free to speak about LGBTQ lives in the classroom. Then they discuss the queer family drama at the heart of the new genre-bending, multiverse-hopping film Everything Everywhere All at Once. (NOTE: If you don't want to hear spoilers for Everything Everywhere All at Once, you can jump from the 33-minute mark to the 59-minute point, but come back after you've seen the movie. You don't want to miss this conversation.) Items discussed in the show: Robbie Pierce's Twitter thread about the homophobic harassment his family endured while riding Amtrak Queers responding to homophobic legislation with … merch The long life and sad demise of Bitch Media. They She He Me: Free to Be, by Maya Christina Gonzalez and Matthew SG Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress, by Christine Baldacchino and Isabelle Malenfant Jacob's New Dress, by Sarah and Ian Hoffman and Chris Cage Introducing Teddy, by Jessica Walton and Dougal MacPherson Pugdog, by Andrea U'Ren “Everything Everywhere All at Once Is a Queer Masterpiece of Colossa Sincerity,” by Drew Gregory, in Autostraddle  “Everything Everywhere All at Once Is an Emotional Gut Punch About Queer Erasure, Acceptance,” by Patrick Ryan, in USA Today “This One Stale Joke Won't Let Everything Everywhere All at Once Be Great,” by Kyle Turner, in W “On Being Trans and Watching Everything Everywhere All at Once,” by Linda Codega, in Gizmodo Gay Agenda Christina: “Sex, Love, and Art in the Suburbs,” by Garth Greenwell, in Esquire Bryan: “This Beach in Mexico Is an L.G.B.T.Q. Haven. But Can It Last?” by Oscar Lopez and Lisette Poole, in the New York Times Jules: Manhunt, by Gretchen Felker-Martin This podcast was produced by June Thomas. Please send feedback, topic ideas, and advice questions to outwardpodcast@slate.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This month Bryan, Christina, and Jules take a break from talking about the hostile legislation queer and trans people are fighting against to talk about what they're fighting for. Brooklyn kindergarten teacher Eliza Cutler joins the hosts to share what it looks like when teachers are free to speak about LGBTQ lives in the classroom. Then they discuss the queer family drama at the heart of the new genre-bending, multiverse-hopping film Everything Everywhere All at Once. (NOTE: If you don't want to hear spoilers for Everything Everywhere All at Once, you can jump from the 33-minute mark to the 59-minute point, but come back after you've seen the movie. You don't want to miss this conversation.) Items discussed in the show: Robbie Pierce's Twitter thread about the homophobic harassment his family endured while riding Amtrak Queers responding to homophobic legislation with … merch The long life and sad demise of Bitch Media. They She He Me: Free to Be, by Maya Christina Gonzalez and Matthew SG Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress, by Christine Baldacchino and Isabelle Malenfant Jacob's New Dress, by Sarah and Ian Hoffman and Chris Cage Introducing Teddy, by Jessica Walton and Dougal MacPherson Pugdog, by Andrea U'Ren “Everything Everywhere All at Once Is a Queer Masterpiece of Colossa Sincerity,” by Drew Gregory, in Autostraddle  “Everything Everywhere All at Once Is an Emotional Gut Punch About Queer Erasure, Acceptance,” by Patrick Ryan, in USA Today “This One Stale Joke Won't Let Everything Everywhere All at Once Be Great,” by Kyle Turner, in W “On Being Trans and Watching Everything Everywhere All at Once,” by Linda Codega, in Gizmodo Gay Agenda Christina: “Sex, Love, and Art in the Suburbs,” by Garth Greenwell, in Esquire Bryan: “This Beach in Mexico Is an L.G.B.T.Q. Haven. But Can It Last?” by Oscar Lopez and Lisette Poole, in the New York Times Jules: Manhunt, by Gretchen Felker-Martin This podcast was produced by June Thomas. Please send feedback, topic ideas, and advice questions to outwardpodcast@slate.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This month Bryan, Christina, and Jules take a break from talking about the hostile legislation queer and trans people are fighting against to talk about what they're fighting for. Brooklyn kindergarten teacher Eliza Cutler joins the hosts to share what it looks like when teachers are free to speak about LGBTQ lives in the classroom. Then they discuss the queer family drama at the heart of the new genre-bending, multiverse-hopping film Everything Everywhere All at Once. (NOTE: If you don't want to hear spoilers for Everything Everywhere All at Once, you can jump from the 33-minute mark to the 59-minute point, but come back after you've seen the movie. You don't want to miss this conversation.) Items discussed in the show: Robbie Pierce's Twitter thread about the homophobic harassment his family endured while riding Amtrak Queers responding to homophobic legislation with … merch The long life and sad demise of Bitch Media. They She He Me: Free to Be, by Maya Christina Gonzalez and Matthew SG Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress, by Christine Baldacchino and Isabelle Malenfant Jacob's New Dress, by Sarah and Ian Hoffman and Chris Cage Introducing Teddy, by Jessica Walton and Dougal MacPherson Pugdog, by Andrea U'Ren “Everything Everywhere All at Once Is a Queer Masterpiece of Colossa Sincerity,” by Drew Gregory, in Autostraddle  “Everything Everywhere All at Once Is an Emotional Gut Punch About Queer Erasure, Acceptance,” by Patrick Ryan, in USA Today “This One Stale Joke Won't Let Everything Everywhere All at Once Be Great,” by Kyle Turner, in W “On Being Trans and Watching Everything Everywhere All at Once,” by Linda Codega, in Gizmodo Gay Agenda Christina: “Sex, Love, and Art in the Suburbs,” by Garth Greenwell, in Esquire Bryan: “This Beach in Mexico Is an L.G.B.T.Q. Haven. But Can It Last?” by Oscar Lopez and Lisette Poole, in the New York Times Jules: Manhunt, by Gretchen Felker-Martin This podcast was produced by June Thomas. Please send feedback, topic ideas, and advice questions to outwardpodcast@slate.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have a remarkable novel to share with you this week. At Certain Points We Touch by Lauren John Joseph is lyrical, sexy, and will appeal to readers of Garth Greenwell's Cleanness, which, if you haven't read the book, is highly rated by everyone at the Literary Salon!  At Certain Points We Touch is a story of first love and last rites, conjured against a vivid backdrop of London, San Francisco and New York - a riotous, razor-sharp coming-of-age story that marks the arrival of an extraordinary new talent. 'A stone-cold masterpiece' OLIVIA LAING Published by Bloomsbury, the book is available now. We recommend ordering from your local indie bookshop or you can support us by buying a copy from our shop on Bookshop.org Podcast produced and edited by Megan Bay Dorman. Programmed by Matt Casbourne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Acclaimed novelist Garth Greenwell joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about book banning, writing about sex, and the different (and often coded) reasons people talk about limits to reading. A former high school teacher, Greenwell discusses the ideological roots of book bans targeting Black and LGBTQIA+ writers and describes how books like Giovanni's Room gave him hope and inspiration as an isolated queer teenager in the South. Finally, he talks about the need for generosity and patience in this debate and why we should all be willing to have hard conversations about what is, and is not, appropriate reading material for students. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf. Selected Readings: Garth Greenwell Kink, edited with R.O. Kwon Cleanness What Belongs to You Others: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison All Boys Aren't Blue by George Matthew Johnson Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado 'Banning My Book Won't Protect Your Child,' by Carmen Maria Machado, The New York Times  Carmen Maria Machado Edinburgh by Alexander Chee Another Country by James Baldwin Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin Just Above My Head by James Baldwin Anonymous Sex eds. Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters Skinned Alive by Edmund White Edmund White and Emily Temple on Literary Feuds, Social Media, and Our Appetite for Drama Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 2, Episode 4 R.O. Kwon and Paul Harding Talk God and Faith in American Fiction Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 2, Episode 9 A Streetcar Named Desire dir. Elia Kazan Judy Blume: 'I thought, this is America: we don't ban books. But then we did' Children and teenagers, The Guardian Brontez Purnell Ocean Vuong “Why book banning is back” | Vox “A Texas lawmaker is targeting 850 books that he says could make students feel uneasy” | NPR Cleanness | Work in Progress Garth Greenwell & Mitzi Angel on Writing About Sex Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Katie Kitamura's writing is taut, morally complex, beguiling, and gets under your skin. Garth Greenwell described her as ‘among the most brilliant and profound writers at work today' and as Evie Wyld said she's ‘one of the best living writers I've read, and she gives the dead ones a run for their money'. Katie has written for publications like the New York Times, The Guardian and Granta, and teaches creative writing at New York University. Her first novel was The Longshot and then came Gone To The Forest. Katie's third novel, A Separation, was a finalist for the Italian award Premio von Rezzori, was translated into sixteen languages, and is being adapted for film. Her new novel, Intimacies has just come out and was recently one of Barak Obama's summer reading selections. The narration has an elegance and deceptive distance at first, then it pulls you in til you're utterly hooked. It's a beautifully written and thought-proving book with astute observations about human nature, performance, language, and how we grapple with a world that doesn't have clear cut edges. Find Katie's novels in all good bookshops such as: Readings in Melbourne https://www.readings.com.auLRB in London https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.ukCity Lights in San Francisco http://www.citylights.com

Novelist Garth Greenwell and scholar Daniel Wright join our host, Nicholas Dames, to consider how novels expand our understanding of sex and intimacy in the digital age. In our image-saturated culture, it can be easy to fixate on a surface while overlooking the consciousness—the thinking, feeling subject—under the (pixelated) skin. How can novels, like Barbara Browning’s The Gift, remind us that bodies are, well, embodied? You can find complete show notes here and purchase books from our independent-bookshop partner, Harvard Book Store, here.

Three novels and an illustrator who uses his pencil like a sword

Show Notes and Links to Christian Kiefer's Work On Episode 28, Part II, Pete is thrilled to speak with Christian Kiefer, master author of among other masterpieces, Phantoms, a 2019 tour de force novel. Pete and Christian discuss Phantoms in greater detail, including the characters' motivations and origins, the book's impeccable ending, the "community of writers"/being a mentor and being mentored, what Christian is reading and writing these days, and much more. The listeners are also gifted by hearing Christian read from the ending of Phantoms.    Dr. Christian Kiefer grew up in the foothills of California (Auburn). Director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Joined Ashland University as the new director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing in January 2017 He is the author of The Infinite Tides (Bloomsbury), The Animals (W.W. Norton), One Day Soon Time Will Have No Place Left to Hide  (Nouvella Books), and 2019s Phantoms: A Novel (Liveright/W.W. Norton), in addition to other works in poetry, fiction, and drama Kiefer's scholarly publications focus on American literature As a professional musician, has released a number of albums primarily in the folk rock and avant garde traditions Came to Ashland from American River College in Sacramento, California, and has taught fiction in the Sierra Nevada College low-residency MFA Christian Kiefer's Author Page Interview with Four Way Review Dr. Christian Kiefer's Homepage for Ashland Twitter and IG: @xiankiefer-Twitter and IG Christian discusses the research and background on the Vietnam War needed to make John Frazier, the narrator of Phantoms, and his experience ring true -at beginning of episode   Christian discusses the generosity and kindness of The OG/Il Padrino of The Chills at Will Podcast, Tobias Wolff-at about 1:20 (and Pete tries to play it cool when Christian says that Pete should have Tobias Wolff as a guest on the podcast)   Pete and Christian discuss Ray Takahashi from Phantoms, and the ironically beautiful writing about war in the novel-at around 3:15   Slight plot spoilers (but not really) about Homer Wilson and others from Phantoms-from around 4:15 to about 7:40   Christian discusses how an innocuous choice about enchiladas speaks to a larger point about full-bodied characters-at around 7:40   Pete asks Christian about the balancing of art and commerce-at around 11:15   Shouts out Katie Adams, his wonderful editor, for cutting some 30K words considered to be “extraneous”-at around 13:30   Pete and Christian talk about the “community of writers” and how he is simply a fan of so many writers who are part of this “Golden Age of Writing,” including Lauren Groff, C. Pam Zhang, Garth Greenwell, Michelle de Kretser, Leslie Jamison, and Michael Ondaaatje-at around 14:45   Christian talks about being mentored and being a mentor-at around 17:40   Christian reads from Phantoms-at around 19:40   Christian discusses his thought process regarding the book's ending and the interesting idea of  writers as being “in the business of breaking hearts”-at around 22:25   Christian discusses epiphanies and ignorance displayed by John Frazier, narrator of Phantoms, and quotes Viet Thanh Nguyen in describing how John Frazier “fails up” as a white man-at around 24:15   Christian talks about teaching writing/literature-at around 26:55   Chrsitian shouts out American River College and its diversity and wonderful staff and student body-at around 30:15   Christian talks about what he's reading and writing these days, including work by Timothy Morton and Michelle de Kretser, Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes, and a manuscript by Reyna Grande, who has written an interesting book about the Irish in Mexico-at around 33:05   Pete talks about his connection to excellent writer and generous spirit, Reyna Grande, who often visited Pete's SoCal high school to speak to his students after they read her page-turner, Across a Hundred Mountains-at around 34:10   Christian talks about the four novels he is currently editing/shopping around-at around 35:10

Joining Miles on the podcast are Peter J. Conradi FRSL, author of the authorised biography, 'Iris Murdoch: A Life', as well as his own memoir 'Family Business' (2019); the novelist Garth Greenwell, author of 'What Belongs to You' and 'Cleanness' (2020); and the literary critic and former Deputy Director of PEN, Catherine Taylor. Peter's Memoir: https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/family-business-memoir Garth's New Novel: https://www.waterstones.com/book/cleanness/garth-greenwell/9781509874637 Catherine's Latest work in the Times Literary Supplement: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/reduced-to-body-parts/

Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by over fifty publications in nine countries, and is being translated into a dozen languages. A new book of fiction, Cleanness, is forthcoming from FSG in early 2020. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, A Public Space, and VICE, and he has written criticism for The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and the New York Times Book Review, among others. He lives in Iowa City.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reviews and discussion of Garth Greenwell's Cleanness, Jeanine Cummins' American Dirt and Isabel Allende's A Long Petal of the Sea. New fiction, every week

In which editor Adam Ross interviews Garth Greenwell, the author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You. In this episode, Greenwell is crowned King of MFA Programs and decrees mandatory reading in a second language and deeply in translated works.

click to subscribe in Spotify, GooglePlayMusic, iTunes, or  Stitcher. SHOW NOTES Our Current Reads Christa The Bride Test, by Helen Hoang Carrie How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, by Jenny Odell Announcements Subscribe to our companion TinyLetter for this (and every) episode here; and visit us on Facebook here. This episode’s excerpt is from What Belongs To You, by Garth Greenwell. … Continue reading Episode 24: What Belongs To You by Garth Greenwell

The boys get into Garth Greenwell's beautiful story of new love, travel, and the inevitable end to said love. The discuss the merits, or lack thereof, of live albums, specifically Queen's 1979 release entitled "Live Killers!" The end this celebration of all the is different and beautiful during this month of pride with Anderson Valley's "Summer Solstice." Stay loving, stay lovely, and be you, beautiful. Happy Pride!