Podcast appearances and mentions of george singleton

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Wes Browne at www.wesbrowneauthor.com or on IG at @browne_all_over This week we chat with Wes Browne, a Michigan transplant who has been a Kentucky attorney for over 20 years. When he's not lawyering, he writes crime fiction, and his most recent novel is called They All Fall the Same. In this novel, he picks up with a character who readers met in his first novel, Hillbilly Hustle. While Wes's new book is not a sequel, readers were so intrigued by the character, Burl Spoon, that Wes felt like he could make an entire book around him. Burl is a character you love to hate, but readers also feel his humanity, which always makes for a more interesting bad guy.  We chat with Wes about how his job as a defense attorney has prepared him to write books that make you root for a bad guy, his passion for soft serve ice cream, and why a timeshare ended up giving him a book idea.   And in the second half of the show, we each give you 3 book recommendations on the theme of books about the art world.   Books Mentioned in This Episode: 1- If You Lived Here, You'd Be Here by Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie by Christopher Ingraham 2- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 3- They All Fall the Same by Wes Browne   4- Hillbilly Hustle by Wes Browne   5- Asides: Occasional Essays on Dogs, Food, Restaurants, Bars, Hangovers, Jobs, Music, Family Trees, Robbery, Relationships, Being Bought Up Questionably, Et Cetera by George Singleton   6- Blizzard by Marie Vingtras   7- A Five Star Read Recommended by a Fellow Book Lover Amy Borchadt @rn_bookworm - The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal   8- Carrington: A Life by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina   9- The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith   10- Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough   11- The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose   12- Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet by Stephanie Cowell   13- Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Jourey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How To See by Bianca Bosker   14- All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley     Media mentioned— 1- Come From Away — https://comefromaway.com/   2- Zoltan Kaszas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vSGbslfLQM   3- Justified ( 2010-2015 HULU)   4- Carrington (1995)          

George Singleton is a Southern author who has written ten books of short stories, two novels, an instructional book on writing fiction and a collection of essays. He was born in Anaheim, California and raised in Greenwood, South Carolina. In 2011 he was awarded the Hillsdale Award for Fiction by The Fellowship of Southern Writers. Singleton was inducted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers in April 2015, and was awarded the John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence in 2016. His latest collection of short fiction is The Curious Lives of Nonprofit Martyrs from Dzanc Books of Michigan.https://www.dzancbooks.org/all-titles/p/nonprofit-martyrsAlso in this episode:  we want to briefly highlight an upcoming annual event in the Windsor literary community. It's the annual book launch evening for the Publishing Practicum program at the University of Windsor. It's a unique educational program where thirty students collaborate each year to edit, publish and launch a book. This year, the Practicum is publishing two books with Black Moss Press, both poetry anthologies about our local communities. Where the Map Begins explores our roots through the neighbourhoods of Windsor. The anthology What Time Can't Touch captures the spirit of Amherstburg through its history. Look for a full episode on the Publishing Practicum and these two anthologies  in an upcoming episode of All Write in Sin City. If you're looking to hear some talented local poets, the launch celebration for both books will take place on April 2nd at Mackenzie Hall, starting at 7 p.m. Admission is free. Now, we have two selections of the poetry in the books read by their authors. First, we have Peter Hrastovec. He is a Windsor-born University of Windsor law and literature grad, with three published poetry books, his most recent being There Will Be Fish (Black Moss Press, 2022). Previous books include Sidelines and In Lieu Of Flowers. He also contributed to the anthologies Because We Have All Lived Here and In The Middle Space with the University of Windsor Publishing Practicum. He is the current Poet Laureate for the City of Windsor. Peter teaches and practices law. He and his wife, Denise, have three children and four grandchildren.Peter reads his poem, Kanata House, from the Windsor anthology, Where the Map Begins. Rawand Mustafa, is a Palestinian Syrian writer living in Windsor, Ontario. She received her MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Windsor. Rawand draws inspiration from social justice causes, and she is particularly impassioned by the struggles and resilience of Palestinians living in exile or under occupation.Rawand reads her poem, Outside In, from the Amherstburg anthology, What Time Can't Touch.

This week we have a fun conversation with author George Singleton about his new book Asides: Occasional Essays on Dogs, Food, Restaurants, Bars, Hangovers, Jobs, Music, Family Trees, Robbery, Relationships, Being Brought Up Questionably, Et Cetera. It's a collection of fascinating and curious essays, in which Singleton explains how he came to be a writer (he blames barbecue), why he still writes his first draft by hand (someone stole his typewriter), and what motivated him to run marathons (his father gave him beer). In eccentric world-according-to-George fashion, Laugh-In's Henry Gibson is to blame for Singleton's literary education, and Aristotle would've been a failed philosopher had he grown up in South Carolina.

This month's episode is about short stories! Host Kendra Winchester talks to special guests Halle Hill and George Singleton.Things MentionedShort Story Advent CalendarHub City PressBooks MentionedGuest InfoHalle Hill is from East Tennessee and lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A graduate of Maryville College and the M.F.A. Writing program at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), she is the winner of the 2021 Crystal Wilkinson Creative Writing Prize and was a finalist for the 2021 ASME Award for Fiction. Her short stories have been published in Joyland, New Limestone Review, Southwest Review, and Oxford American, where she won the 2020 Debut Fiction Prize. Good Women is her first book. X | Instagram | WebsiteGeorge Singleton has published ten collections of stories, two novels, a book of writing advice, and a collection of essays. His stories have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Story, One Story, Playboy, the Georgia Review, Zoetrope, Subtropics, and elsewhere. His personal essays have appeared in Garden and Gun, Bark, Best American Food Writing, Oxford American, and elsewhere He's received a Pushcart, and a Guggenheim fellowship. A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, he lives in South Carolina.---Show Your Love for Read Appalachia! You can support Read Appalachia by heading over to our merch store, tipping us over on Ko-fi, or by sharing the podcast with a friend! For more ways to support the show, head over to our Support page. Follow Read Appalachia Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok ContactFor feedback or to just say “hi,” you can reach us at readappalachia[at]gmail.comMusic by Olexy from Pixabay

Hi! I am so happy to share my podcast interview with the esteemed Southern writer George Singleton. We delved into some serious subjects: the legacy of racism in the South, gun control, and substance abuse, but despite all of that, we managed to laugh every now and then because he is hilarious! (And I said the word "interesting" about a gazillion times--Why? Why did I keep saying the same word over and over again as if I was malfunctioning?) Anyway, George taught me a lot about persevering despite the fact that he (like many of us) gets sick of his own voice. He shared an anecdote about working with C. Michael Curtis of "The Atlantic Monthly" that shocked and delighted me. We laughed about that too. Please read his story, "I'm Down Here on the Floor," before you listen to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Audible, or wherever you get your podcasts. My apologies to StorySouth. I forgot to mention where the story was published during the podcast, but this is actually the second story in a row from StorySouth. Check out Jason Ockert's story "The Peoplemachines" from the September 1st episode as well. Also, here's a link to The Atlantic Monthly story George mentioned called "Show and Tell." I think the paywall might be down now (?), but I subscribe to that magazine, so someone needs to let me know. *Warning: There is some profanity on this episode, folks. See you next month when I'll be talking to Bonnie Jo Campbell about her story, "Boar Taint," from The Kenyon Review. Cheers, Kelly Bio: George Singleton has published eight collections of stories, two novels, and a book of writing advice. Over 200 of his stories have appeared in magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Playboy, the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, the Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, the Hillsdale Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and the Corrington Award for Literary Excellence. He lives in Spartanburg, SC, where he holds the John C. Cobb Chair in Humanities at Wofford College. Please find his books on Bookshop or Amazon. Information about the podcast host, Kelly Fordon, as well as podcast updates and donation opportunities (we would be so grateful!) can all be found here. We are so grateful to sound engineer Elliot Bancel for his work on this episode. If you need help with your podcast, please find his contact information here.

Chad B. Anderson's story "The Kelley Street Disappearances" has been lodged in my brain for almost a decade, so I decided to track him down, and I was so grateful when he agreed to be on the podcast. I'm sure if you are an avid reader like me, you know how rare it is to have a story resonate for that long. I hope you feel the same way I do about this one! Thanks also to LDAS-featured writer, Robin Martin, for sending me the story many years ago. For the first time with this podcast, in the interest of fostering our community of writers, I sent the story to all of my previous guests. LDAS-featured writers, Desiree Cooper and Renee Simms weighed in with a couple of really compelling questions for Chad. You can check out my interviews. with Desiree and Renee here as well. Also, I'm grateful to Renee for mentioning the story, Recitatif by Toni Morrison, which I had not read, and the stunning New Yorker essay about the story by Zadie Smith. Salamander Magazine has kindly removed the paywall for "The Kelley Street Disappearances." Please find it here. Thanks so much to the managing editor, Katie Sticca, for helping us keep this podcast accessible. **Salamander runs a fiction contest every year that runs from May 1 - June 1, with results announced by early September. Anyone interested can find more information on the website salamandermag.org. Please check out the Let's Deconstruct a Story podcast on Spotify, Apple, Audible, or wherever you get your podcasts after you read the story, and if you have a chance to rate the show, I would really appreciate it. See you on October 1st, when we'll be talking about "I'm Down Here on the Floor" in StorySouth by George Singleton. Thanks to Dan Wickett of Dzanc Books for suggesting George's work. On November 1st, Bonnie Jo Campbell visits to talk about her short story, "Boar Taint" in The Kenyon Review. Chad has just finished editing this wonderful anthology. Check it out here. Bio: Chad B. Anderson has published fiction in Salamander Review, Black Warrior Review, Nimrod International Journal, The Best American Short Stories 2017, Clockhouse, and Burrow Press Review, and he has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He has had residencies at the Ledig House International Writers' Colony, the Jack Kerouac House in Orlando, Florida, and the Carolyn Moore Writers House in Portland, Oregon. He has served as an acting managing editor for Callaloo: Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters and a guest editor for Burrow Press Review and is currently an associate fiction editor for Orison Books. He edited and penned the introduction for an anthology of art, poetry, and prose titled What's Mine of Wilderness?, published by Burrow Press in 2023. Born and raised in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, he earned his B.A. in American Studies and English from University of Virginia and his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Indiana University, where he served as fiction editor for Indiana Review. He currently lives in Michigan. If you would like to donate the show (and even earmark it for transcription services), you can make a donation here. Thank you so much! Kelly.

Hi Everyone, I'm happy to welcome Jason Ockert to show! We discussed his story, "The Peoplemachines" in StorySouth Spring 2023. It blew me away! Who reminds me of a modern-day ⁠Agathocles⁠??...hmmmm....I can't imagine. Please read the story (available below) before listening to our discussion. Thank you SO MUCH to storySouth for publishing this thought-provoking dystopian story. It will stay with me. Thanks also to Dan Wickett of ⁠Dzanc Books⁠ for recommending Jason's work. ⁠The Peoplemachines by Jason Ockert ⁠ Afterward, look for the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Audible, or wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks to ⁠Elliot Bancel⁠, audio engineer extraordinaire for his meticulous work. *** In other news... Coming up in the near future: Interviews with Chad B. Anderson and George Singleton. Also, I was thrilled to visit the podcast ⁠Homespun Haints⁠, where I tried hard but didn't even make it through half of my Irish ghost stories. Saving a few for a later date! Becky and Diana are so fun--if you have any ghost stories, you should definitely contact them ⁠here⁠. One last thing I wanted to mention, Susan Perabo (a past guest and extraordinary writer) is featured on Symphony Space here. This story is not to be missed. Cheers, Kelly PSS: Looking for ways to support LDAS? Send us a one-time or recurring donation. We (meaning me...it's just me) would ⁠really appreciate it! ⁠ Bio: Jason Ockert is the author of the novel Wasp Box and three collections of short stories: Shadowselves, Neighbors of Nothing, and Rabbit Punches. His fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Granta, Oxford American, One Story, and McSweeney's. He teaches at Coastal Carolina University. You can purchase Jason's books here on my ⁠Bookshop⁠. Your Host: Kelly Fordon's latest short story collection I Have the Answer (Wayne State University Press, 2020) was chosen as a Midwest Book Award Finalist and an Eric Hoffer Finalist. Her 2016 Michigan Notable Book, Garden for the Blind, (WSUP), was an INDIEFAB Finalist, a Midwest Book Award Finalist, Eric Hoffer Finalist, and an IPPY Awards Bronze Medalist. Her first full-length poetry collection, Goodbye Toothless House, (Kattywompus Press, 2019) was an Eyelands International Prize Finalist and an Eric Hoffer Finalist and was adapted into a play, written by Robin Martin, which was published in The Kenyon Review Online. www.kellyfordon.com Find her books here on Bookshop, Amazon, or Audible.

Hi Everyone, I'm thrilled to host fiction writer, Anna Caritj this month on "Let's Deconstruct a Story." The Sewanee Review has graciously taken down the paywall for Anna's story for the month of June so you can read the story all month for free! They have also offered readers/listeners of LDAS 10% off a subscription to The Sewanee Review with the code: SISTER. I am definitely going to take advantage of the offer, and hope you will too. We are so grateful to them! Before listening to our discussion, please read the story "Ugly Sister" here at The Sewanee Review. And then enjoy our discussion below on Spotify, Apple, Audible, or wherever you get your podcasts. In the coming months, I will be talking with Caroline Kim, George Singleton, Jason Ockerts, and Bonnie Jo Campbell, so make sure to sign up for the newsletter here if you would like to be notified about upcoming episodes. I'm always looking for new writers, so if you have any suggestions, or a book coming out, you can reach me at kfordon450@gmail.com. Thanks so much! Kelly PS: The audiobook edition of my short story collection I Have the Answer is out on Audible. I was thrilled to read four of the stories and the other nine are narrated by incredible voice actors. You can access the audiobook at the link above, but I also have a few free promo codes left. Feel free to email me if you are interested. Thanks!

This tale about a young man named Novel, set in the town of Gruel, South Carolina.

Don is joined by South Carolina writer George Singleton.

“You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop—H2O. The reader will get it.” —George Singleton. Keep those creative sparks firing, here's this weekend's writing prompt to give you a break from your work in progress manuscript! Join the author conversation: https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors/ Learn more about YDWH and catch up on old episodes: www.yourdailywritinghabit.com

Fan favorite Echo Park Jimmy contributes a series of calls on a variety of topics (we wouldn't have it any other way). Plus, we open a box from listener George Singleton. Episode editor: Jim Lenahan Become a Rockin' the Suburbs patron - support the show and get bonus content - at Patreon.com/suburbspod Subscribe to Rockin' the Suburbs on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or other podcast platforms, including audioBoom, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Stitcher and TuneIn. Or listen at SuburbsPod.com. Please rate/review the show on Apple Podcasts and share it with your friends. Visit our website at SuburbsPod.com Email Jim & Patrick at rock@suburbspod.com Follow us on the Twitter, Facebook or Instagram @suburbspod If you're glad or sad or high, call the Suburban Party Line — 612-440-1984. Theme music: "Ascension," originally by Quartjar, covered by Frank Muffin. Visit quartjar.bandcamp.com and frankmuffin.bandcamp.com (c) Artie S. Industries LLC

George Singleton joins Walter Edgar to talk about his new collection of short stories, You Want More, some of his favorite stories, and his life as a writer.

George Singleton joins Walter Edgar to talk about his new collection of short stories, You Want More, some of his favorite stories, and his life as a writer.

Our monthly conversation with Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke. From our archive: South Carolina author George Singleton. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss Piranesi, Watch Over Me, Legendborn, and more great books. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community, Ritual, and Find Layla by Meg Elison. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour Legendborn by Tracy Deonn  Three Keys (A Front Desk Novel) by Kelly Yang  Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World’s Most Infamous Items by J. W. Ocker Making Friends with Alice Dyson by Poppy Nwosu Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson WHAT WE’RE READING: Bent Heavens by Daniel Kraus Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: More Than a Woman by Caitlin Moran Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter by Lan Cao and Harlan Margaret Van Cao Self Evident Truths: 10,000 Portraits of Queer America by iO Tillett Wright The City of Palaces by Michael Nava Never Look Back by Lilliam Rivera The Future of Science is Female: The Brilliant Minds Shaping the 21st Century by Zara Stone Magdalena: River of Dreams by Wade Davis  Anatomica: The Exquisite and Unsettling Art of Human Anatomy by Joanna Ebenstein  Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre  Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas by Glenn Kenny Black Heroes of the Wild West: Featuring Stagecoach Mary, Bass Reeves, and Bob Lemmons: A TOON Graphic by James Otis Smith and Kadir Nelson The Spymasters: How the CIA’s Directors Shape History and the Future by Chris Whipple A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son by Michael Ian Black The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley Finding My Father: His Century-Long Journey from World War I Warsaw and My Quest to Follow by Deborah Tannen  Adventures in Opting Out: A Field Guide to Leading an Intentional Life by Cait Flanders  The Glass House: A Novel by Beatrice Colin Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters How to Astronaut: An Insider’s Guide to Leaving Planet Earth by Terry Virts  Dick Gregory's Political Primer by Dick Gregory and James R. McGraw We Need To Talk: A Memoir About Wealth by Jennifer Risher Skunk and Badger (Skunk and Badger 1) by Amy Timberlake and Jon Klassen Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Identity, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen Polar Vortex by Shani Mootoo  Lionheart (Richard the Lionheart) by Ben Kane Homeland Elegies: A Novel by Ayad Akhtar The Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike America: An Anthology of France and the United States by François Busnel The Paris Secret by Natasha Lester The White Coat Diaries by Madi Sinha The Roommate by Rosie Danan  You Want More: Selected Stories of George Singleton by George Singleton Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross If Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America by Elliott Currie Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution by Mark Eisner (Editor), Tina Escaja (Editor) My Life in 100 Objects by Margaret Randall Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix by Philip Norman  Post-Apocalypto by Tenacious D, Jack Black, Kyle Gass  City of Sparrows by Eva Nour Fly on the Wall by Remy Lai The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke Straight from the Horse’s Mouth by Meryem Alaoui, Emma Ramadan (translator) Igifu by Scholastique Mukasonga, Jordan Stump (translator) The Orphan of Cemetery Hill: A Novel by Hester Fox The Land of the Cranes by Aida Salazar These Violent Delights: A Novel by Micah Nemerever Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream by Mychal Denzel Smith  Aseroë by François Dominique, Richard Sieburth and Howard Limoli (translators) Like a Bird by Fariha Róisín The Distance by Ivan Vladislavic Mirror Thinking: How Role Models Make Us Human by Fiona Murden Nature Matrix: New and Selected Essays by Robert Michael Pyle The Art of Saving the World by Corinne Duyvis    It’s My Party and I Don’t Want to Go by Amanda Panitch To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini  Don’t Look for Me by Wendy Walker Aquatlantic by Giorgio Carpinteri The True Definition of Neva Beane by Christine Kendall Sisters of the War: Two Remarkable True Stories of Survival and Hope in Syria (Scholastic Focus) by Rania Abouzeid Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass Hide and Seeker by Daka Hermon My Life in the Fish Tank by Barbara Dee K-Pop Confidential by Stephan Lee Who I Was With Her by Nita Tyndall The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett  Even If We Break by Marieke Nijkamp Every Life Is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things by Jeremy England Horrid by Katrina Leno A Kingdom of Tender Colors by Seth Greenland The Vanderbeekers Lost and Found by Karina Yan Glaser Hotel Almighty by Sarah J. Sloat Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro The Séance Tea Party by Reimena Yee Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez    The Trials of Koli (The Rampart Trilogy (2)) by M. R. Carey High as the Waters Rise: A Novel by Anja Kampmann, Anne Posten (translator) An Unnatural Life by Erin K. Wagner See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

Two incredible authors discuss their debuts. First, Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne tells James about her Tennessee-set HOLDING ON TO NOTHING (Blair), reading while driving (?), Dolly Parton, time machines, and two beer guitars. Then Amy Kurzweil on her depiction of three generations, including her grandmother surviving the Holocaust, in FLYING COUCH: A GRAPHIC MEMOIR (Black Balloon Books). They go over the deceptive naïveté of comics, how she learned to depict her story, and the inside dirt on NEW YORKER cartoons.   - Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne: http://ecshelburne.com/ Buy HOLDING ON TO NOTHING: Buy HOLDING ON TO NOTHING Elizabeth and James discuss:  Blair Publishing  Amherst College  James Patterson  TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee  THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY  Mark Barr  The Novel Incubator at Grub Street  Lisa Borders  Michelle Hoover  FREEDOM by Jonathan Franzen  "Little Sparrow" by Dolly Parton  "Down in the Valley" by The Head and the Heart  Grand Ole Opry  TRAMPOLINE by Robert Gipe  ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare William Gay  George Singleton  - Amy Kurzweil: http://amykurzweil.com/ Buy FLYING COUCH: A GRAPHIC MEMOIR: Buy FLYING COUCH Amy and James discuss:  BART SIMPSON'S GUIDE TO LIFE: A WEE HANDBOOK FOR THE PERPLEXED by Matt Groening  CALVIN AND HOBBES by Bill Watterson  MAUS by Art Spiegelman FUN HOME: A FAMILY TRAGICOMIC by Alison Bechdel  PERSEPOLIS by Marjane Satrapi  Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive at University of Michigan  "What the son wishes to forget the grandson wishes to remember." - Marcus Lee Hansen  THE NEW YORKER  MOBY DICK by Nathaniel Hawthorne  Marcel Proust    Bob Mankoff  - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

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With the long road of a novel ahead of her, Julia Phillips mined her obsessions, and based her debut, DISAPPEARING EARTH, on her love of Russia's Kamchatka peninsula and her desire to portray the effects of violent acts on women. She and James talk about the cost of being horrified, the surprising realization that not everyone loves Soviet architecture, the book that unlocked her book, and the need to keep readers from chopping the vegetables. Then James talks to Jon Sealy about his new press, Haywire Books.  - Julia Phillips: http://www.juliaphillipswrites.com/ Buy DISAPPEARING EARTH: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780525520412 Julia and James discuss:  JONESTOWN: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PEOPLES TEMPLE  Kamchatka Peninsula  THE JOURNEY OF NATTY GANN  Fulbright Fellowship  Yaddo  Emerson College  PT Anderson  THE ANATOMY OF STORY by John Truby  GOOD TALK by Mira Jacob  ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac - Jon Sealy: http://www.jonsealy.com/ Haywire Books: https://www.haywirebooks.com/ Jon and James discuss:   THE WHISKEY BARON by Jon Sealy  Hub City press  THE UNMADE WORLD by Steve Yarbrough  Unbridled Books   George Singleton  LSU Press The Southern Voices Festival  Mark Powell  Baker & Taylor  Ingram  Consortium  Publishers Group West  Itasca  THE EDGE OF AMERICA by Jon Sealy  HUMMINGBIRD HOUSE by Patricia Henley  FIREBIRD by Mark Powell  Heather Bell Adams  WVU Press  - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss The Manic Pixie Dream Boy Improvement Project, Survival Math, The Lady from the Black Lagoon, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Libro.fm, Blinkist, and FabFitFun. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid  Dealing in Dreams by Lilliam Rivera A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum   Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen   The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara   The Manic Pixie Dream Boy Improvement Project by Lenore Appelhans   Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family by Mitchell Jackson  Lovely War by Julie Berry  What we're reading: King of Scars (King of Scars Duology) by Leigh Bardugo The Reign of the Kingfisher by T.J. Martinson  More books out this week: Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T. Kira Madden   Flashback Hotel by Ivan Vladislavic Goya: The Terrible Sublime: A Graphic Novel by El Torres and Fran Galán A Stranger Here Below: A Gideon Stoltz Mystery by Charles Fergus The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See Between the Lies by Michelle Adams Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story by Jacob Tobia   Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake Topgun: An American Story by Dan Pedersen Villanelle: No Tomorrow: The basis for Killing Eve by Luke Jennings The Wall by John Lanchester The Shadowglass (The Bone Witch) by Rin Chupeco When All Is Said by Anne Griffin When I Hit You: Or a Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy The Wolf and the Watchman: A Novel by Niklas Natt och Dag   She/He/They/Me: For the Sisters, Misters, and Binary Resisters by Robyn Ryle The Pioneer by Bridget Tyler Today I Am Carey by Martin L. Shoemaker The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit in by Ayser Salman Star Wars Queen's Shadow by E. K. Johnston Sal and Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez Famous Men Who Never Lived by K. Chess   So Here's the Thing . . .: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut by Alyssa Mastromonaco, Lauren Oyler (Contributor) Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter by Veronica Chambers Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote by Tina Cassidy If You’re Out There by Katy Loutzenhiser The New Me by Halle Butler The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal. by Evan Ratliff The Last 8 by Laura Pohl Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi   The Parting Glass by Gina Marie Guadagnino The Salt Path: A Memoir by Raynor Winn  Alice Payne Rides by Kate Heartfield Black Souls by Gioacchino Criaco, Hillary Gulley (Translator) The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain's Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War by Aaron Shulman That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour by Sunita Puri A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself by William Boyle   Call Me Evie by JP Pomare The River by Peter Heller   Baby of the Family by Maura Roosevelt The Silk Road by Kathryn Davis The Volunteer by Salvatore Scibona The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths   An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz Instructions for a Funeral: Stories by David Means The Gardener of Eden by David Downie Little Faith by Nickolas Butler   The Devil Aspect by Craig Russell The Story Prize: 15 Years of Great Short Fiction by Larry Dark and Anthony Doerr   Deaf Republic: Poems by Ilya Kaminsky Labrador by Kathryn Davis We Were Rich and We Didn’t Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood by Tom Phelan The Revenge of Magic by James Riley The Last Woman in the Forest by Diane Les Becquets   The Altruists: A Novel by Andrew Ridker Ancestral Night (White Space) by Elizabeth Bear You Asked for Perfect by Laura Silverman A Question of Holmes by Brittany Cavallaro Minutes of Glory: And Other Stories by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights by Doug Jones Death in Ten Minutes: The Forgotten Life of Radical Suffragette Kitty Marion by Fern Riddell The Necessary Hunger by Nina Revoyr A Student of History by Nina Revoyr King of Joy by Richard Chiem   The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland Woman 99 by Greer Macallister   Blood Feud by Anna Smith Allmen and the Pink Diamond by Martin Suter When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History by Hugh Ryan   The Women's War by Jenna Glass Mahimata by Rati Mehrotra the mermaid's voice returns in this one by Amanda Lovelace Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel by Matti Friedman Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone by Brian Switek   Smoke and Ashes: A Novel by Abir Mukherjee Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve Mitochondrial Night by Ed Bok Lee Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant by Joel Golby The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things -― Stories from Science and Observation (The Mysteries of Nature Trilogy) by Peter Wohlleben and Jane Billinghurst The Everlasting Rose (The Belles) by Dhonielle Clayton L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron" by Lucasta Miller The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges by Aatish Taseer Infinite Detail: A Novel by Tim Maughan Ronan Boyle and the Bridge of Riddles (Ronan Boyle 1) by Thomas Lennon, John Hendrix (Illustrator) She the People: A Graphic History of Uprisings, Breakdowns, Setbacks, Revolts, and Enduring Hope on the Unfinished Road to Women's Equality by Jen Deaderick and Rita Sapunor Homeland by Fernando Aramburu, Alfred Macadam (translator) Barely Missing Everything by Matt Mendez Staff Picks: Stories (Yellow Shoe Fiction) by George Singleton and Michael Griffith City of Jasmine by Olga Grjasnowa, Katy Derbyshire (translator)  

Cameron Pierce is the guest. He is the author of several books and the editor of Lazy Fascist Press. Vol. 1 Brooklyn says "Whether he's describing a grandmother who gets pulled into a watery grave by an almost mythological fish or telling the creepy story of a creature that wouldn't be out of place in an H.P. Lovecraft story, Pierce constantly pulls together concepts from the outmost edges of outré fiction and the kind of unassumingly profound storytelling that made authors like Flannery O'Connor and George Singleton household names." And Beach Sloth says “Black humor has never been darker than this; this is the absolute pitch black of humor." Monologue topics: war, war on terror, word usage, Charlie Hebdo, terrorism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week's a Mike pick: George Singleton's new story collection, which is set in small-town South Carolina and populated by men who use their intelligence toward questionable ends. Plus a monkey, and lots of dogs. We also bring back our Judge A Book By Its Cover feature, take a couple potshots at Tucker Max, and read blurbs for a few more supporters of our fund drive. The episode is spnsored by Cobalt; you can get their new print issue for 1/2 price at the following link: cobaltreview.com/purchase/bookfight.