Podcast appearances and mentions of Jennifer Haigh

Writer's Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. Episode Summary Novelist Jennifer Haigh joins us to talk about Rabbit Moon, her atmospheric and emotionally complex novel set in Shanghai. It follows an estranged American family reuniting after a tragedy—and a daughter living a secret life abroad. “Writing is having a conversation with … Continue reading Jennifer Haigh on RABBIT MOON and L. Annette Binder on CHILD OF EARTH AND STARRY HEAVEN →

Jennifer Haigh's latest novel Rabbit Moon opens with a hit and run accident in pre-dawn Shanghai. The victim is a 22-year-old American woman named Lindsey. Her parents immediately fly into Shanghai while Lindsey's sister awaits news from a New England summer camp – and the accident scars an already-fractured family. In today's episode, Haigh speaks with Here & Now's Scott Tong about their impressions of Shanghai, her interest in turning the idea of studying abroad on its head, and how she approached the topic of international adoption.To listen to Book of the Day sponsor-free and support NPR's book coverage, sign up for Book of the Day+ at plus.npr.org/bookofthedayLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Jennifer Haigh's first novel, Mrs. Kimble, won the PEN Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Mercy Street, was named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker and won the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. Her short stories have been published widely, in the Atlantic, Granta, The Best American Short Stories, and many other places. Published in eighteen languages, her work has been recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation, the Michener Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Boston. Her new novel, Rabbit Moon, is the focus of our talk today. Jennifer joins Barbara DeMarco-Barrett. They talk about her time in Shanghai and how being there inspired the novel, why she wrote a novel about sisters, writing multiple points of view, writing minor characters, what she reads when she's writing fiction, how much she knows going in, why she doesn't plot, and more. For more information on Writers on Writing and to become a supporter, visit our Patreon page. For a one-time donation, visit Ko-fi. You can find hundreds of past interviews on our website. You can help out the show and indie bookstores by buying books at our bookstore on bookshop.org. It's stocked with titles by our guest authors, as well as our personal favorites. And on Spotify, you'll find an album's worth of typewriter music like what you hear on the show. It's perfect for writing. Look for the artist, Just My Type. Email the show at writersonwritingpodcast@gmail.com. We love to hear from our listeners! (Recorded on April 4, 2025) Host: Barbara DeMarco-BarrettHost: Marrie StoneMusic: Travis Barrett (Stream his music on Spotify, Apple Music, Etc.)

Rabbit Moon by Jennifer Haigh is a story of sisterhood, secrets and complicated family mythologies. Jennifer joined us to talk about writing in public spaces, visiting Shanghai, chance encounters, how well we really know our parents and more with guest host Brenda Allison. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Brenda Allison and mixed by Harry Liang.                     New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books (Episode): Rabbit Moon by Jennifer Haigh Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh Faith by Jennifer Haigh The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride

Primeiro episódio da terceira temporada e nós trouxemos tu-do. Falamos (muito) do que nos passou pelas mãos durante o mês de férias. Houve também a habitual discussão dos livros do Clube do Livra-te (COM SPOILERS) — desta vez dos escolhidos de Agosto, tudo sem deixar de fora a antevisão dos selecionados para Setembro. Livros mencionados neste episódio: - All the Lovers in the Night, Mieko Kawakami (1:46) - Mr. Wilder & Me, Jonathan Coe (2:32) - Exes & O's, Amy Lea (6:39) - Girl Friends, Holly Bourne (7:59) - Send Nudes, Saba Sams (9:59) - Cursed Bread, Sophie Mackintosh (10:54) - Done and Dusted, Lyla Sage (12:11) - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin (12:52) - A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf (15:01) - Mercy Street, Jennifer Haigh (15:55) - Natureza Urbana, Joana Bértholo (18:11) - She and Her Cat, Makoto Shinkai & Naruki Nagakawa (19:20) - Pageboy, Elliot Page (20:13) - Nightcrawling, Leila Mottley (21:51) - A História de Roma, Joana Bértholo (24:22) - Craigslist Confessional, Helena Dea Bala (24:29) - As Primas, Aurora Venturini (24:40) - Last Summer in the City, Gianfranco Calligarich (27:01) - We Had to Remove this Post, Hanna Bervoets (28:05) - The Prisoner, B. A. Paris (29:47) - Joan is Okay, Weike Wang (30:59) - Do Outro Lado, Mafalda Santos (32:58) - A Visão das Plantas, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida (34:30) - To Paradise, Hanya Yanagihara (36:44) Sobre os livros de Agosto: - The Summer of Broken Rules (O Verão em que Quebrámos Todas as Regras), K. L. Walther (42:54) - Um Muro e Uma Cerca, Elisabete Martins de Oliveira (49:04) ✨ Livros de Setembro do Clube do Livra-te: ✨ - Half of a Yellow Sun (Meio Sol Amarelo), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (52:18) - Talking at Night (Falar Pela Noite Dentro), Claire Daverley (55:40) ________________ Enviem as vossas questões ou sugestões para livratepodcast@gmail.com. Encontrem-nos nas redes sociais: www.instagram.com/julesdsilva www.instagram.com/ritadanova twitter.com/julesxdasilva twitter.com/RitaDaNova Identidade visual do podcast: da autoria da talentosa Mariana Cardoso, que podem encontrar em marianarfpcardoso@hotmail.com. Genérico do podcast: criado pelo incrível Vitor Carraca Teixeira, que podem encontrar em www.instagram.com/oputovitor.

Colette Hemingway honors 2023 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel finalists and winner Oscar Hokeah, author of “Calling for a Blanket Dance,” at this celebration. Award-winning author Jennifer Haigh delivers the keynote address. The Kennedy Library is the major repository of Ernest Hemingway's personal papers. This program is co-presented with The International Hemingway Foundation and Society.  

Rencontre animée par Elise Lépine Interprète : Marie Furthner Dans la ville de Boston, la clinique de Mercy Street offre un nouveau départ aux femmes désireuses d'avorter. C'est là que Claudia travaille depuis des années. Chaque jour, elle affronte la peur et la détresse de nombreuses patientes aux destinées bouleversées. À cela s'ajoute la détermination des militants anti-avortement dont la présence quotidienne aux alentours de la clinique rend l'ambiance tendue, sinon dangereuse. Pour faire face à cette pression constante, Claudia fréquente un sympathique dealer d'herbe, Timmy, qui compte parmi ses clients un jeune homme introverti et solitaire. Sur une plateforme en ligne, ce dernier se met au service d'un gourou pro-vie qui commence à développer une fixation sur Claudia.Poignant, juste et d'une actualité brûlante, Mercy Street explore les ambiguïtés et les failles d'une société au bord de l'explosion. Un livre salué par l'enthousiasme de Richard Ford “Jennifer Haigh est la meilleure romancière de notre époque” dit-il. À lire – Jennifer Haigh, Mercy Street, trad. de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Janique Jouin-de Laurens, éd. Gallmeister, 2023.

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In this episode, Gayle and Nicole give us numerous memoir book recommendations. If you are into this genre you will find this show exciting and surely you will hear some good reads to get on your shelf. The hosts also do the book club discussion about 'Mercy Street' by Jennifer Haigh. As always you can find below the whole booklist they run through during the episode: The Missing Treasures of Amy Ashton by Eleanor Ray | https://amzn.to/3Dw2i4v (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781982163532 (Bookshop) This Is Not A Pity Memoir by Abi Morgan | https://amzn.to/3Dw2i4v (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781982163532 (Bookshop) All of This by Rebecca Woolf by https://amzn.to/3LrDBrS (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780063052673 (Bookshop) Normal Family by Chryta Bilton | https://amzn.to/3BO8kfC (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780316536547 (Bookshop) Solito by Javier Zamora | https://amzn.to/3Lkwh12 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593498064 (Bookshop) A Place Called Home by David Ambroz | https://amzn.to/3xub5js (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780306903540 (Bookshop) Firebrand: A Tobacco Lawyer's Journey by Joshua Knelman | https://amzn.to/3dkaH01 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780735243811 (Bookshop) The It Girl by Ruth Ware | https://amzn.to/3xul8oA (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781982155261 (Bookshop) Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Crosby | https://amzn.to/3dhXJjm (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250252692 (Bookshop) Razorblade Tears by S.A. Crosby | https://amzn.to/3qLc9Mc (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250252708 (Bookshop) Notes on A Silencing by Lacy Carwford | https://amzn.to/3eYcBUI (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780316491532 (Bookshop) Know My Name by Chanel Miller | https://amzn.to/3SeBA4t (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780735223721 (Bookshop) Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Tretheway | https://amzn.to/3QKx38x (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780062248572 (Bookshop) Reading Lolita In Tehran by Nazar Afisi | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780062248572 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780812971064 (Bookshop) Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Nazar Afisi | https://amzn.to/3xtocRU (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780062947369 (Bookshop) Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper Jones | https://amzn.to/3eKOoAW (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781982151997 (Bookshop) Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh | https://amzn.to/3fF9G08 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780061763304 (Bookshop)

Jennifer Haigh, author of Mrs. Kimble and Mercy Street, joins us to talk about her one true sentence from the short story "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot."

Author Jennifer Haigh discusses her latest novel, "Mercy Street." Set at an abortion clinic in Boston, it tells the stories of the patients, employees, and protesters whose lives intersect there.

In this episode of our WIM3 series, Jennifer Haigh CEng CEnv FIMMM, Industrial Water Business Development Manager at Veolia Water China talks to Dr Fiona Robinson FIMMM, Vice-Chair of WIM3 about a globetrotting career and some of the issues women face in what remains a male dominated industry. Contact us: podcast@iom3.org Music: Pamgaea by Kevin MacLeod Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4193-pamgaea License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Zibby is joined by New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh to talk about her seventh novel, Mercy Street, which was inspired by her experience volunteering at a women's clinic. The two discuss the impact Jennifer's upbringing had on her opinions on reproductive rights and class, as well as why it is so important — especially right now — to talk frankly about abortions. Jennifer also shares how she got her start as an author, why she needs to fully disconnect from the outside world to write, and the effects teaching at UMass Boston has had on her own writing.Purchase on Amazon or Bookshop.Amazon: https://amzn.to/38a75LwBookshop: https://bit.ly/3LBCzrzSubscribe to Zibby's weekly newsletter here.Purchase Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books merch here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

NoViolet Bulaweyo on her new novel Glory. And Jennifer Haigh discusses Mercy Street. The post NoViolet Bulaweyo, GLORY & Jennifer Haigh, MERCY STREET appeared first on Writer's Voice.

Episode 83. Author spotlight. Jennifer Haigh discusses her latest, MERCY STREET, with Rachel Barenbaum. This book is INCREDIBLE. Do not miss it. And don't miss the bonus - writing advice and tips from Jennifer. 

This week, I recommend Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh and Quiet in Her Bones by Nalini Singh as well as other great books! I also announce my next guest author and host a book giveaway for Let's Get Back to the Party. Books Recommended:This Golden State – Marit WeisenbergLet's Get Back to the Party by Zak SalihMercy Street – Jennifer HaighQuiet in her Bones – Nalini SinghEssays Two - Lydia DavisFridge Love – Kristen Hong Up next for me:Farenheit 451 by Ray BradburyFind me on TikTok @jennifercaloyerasInstagram @jennifercaloyerasBook Giveaway: Go to my Instagram account and find the Let's Get Back to the Party Book Giveaway post. Comment and tag friends and post in your stories by 3/15/22 to enter. US Mailing addresses only. Link to my May UCLA One-Day Writing Course on SceneSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=22705533)

Jennifer Haigh's new novel, “Mercy Street” — which Richard Russo calls “extraordinary” in his review — is about a woman named Claudia who works at a women's clinic in Boston. It's also about the protesters outside. On this week's podcast, Haigh says the novel was inspired in part by her own time working on a clinic's hotline.“Obviously I am strongly pro-choice or I wouldn't have been volunteering at this clinic,” Haigh says. “But until this experience, I knew very little about what abortion actually means in a person's life. And I think that's true for many people who have strong convictions about abortions. Most people don't know very much about it. It's ironic when you consider, this is such a common experience, right? We know that about one in four American women will at some point have an abortion. And yet there's such a climate of secrecy around this procedure that most of them don't feel free to talk about it honestly. And many never tell anyone that they've done this. The result being that the average person knows very, very little about this experience.”Megan Walsh visits the podcast to talk about her new book, “The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters.”And why does it matter? “We tend to think about China in quite binary terms these days, as friend or foe,” Walsh says. “If we do properly pay attention to what people are genuinely trying to process and think about in China — which is peculiar, diverse, strange, innovative, some of it's terrible, some of it's amazing — I feel like we get an alternative way of understanding the complexities at the heart of a country which we are defining ourselves against, and we have an opportunity to also understand without seeing it as a sort of monolith.”Also on this week's episode, Elizabeth Harris has news from the publishing world, and Jennifer Szalai and Molly Young talk about books they've recently reviewed. Pamela Paul is the host.Here are the books discussed by The Times's critics this week:“The Power Law” by Sebastian Mallaby“Eating to Extinction” by Dan SaladinoWe would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general. You can send them to books@nytimes.com.

Author Jennifer Haigh's new novel "Mercy Street" centers around a women's health clinic in Boston that performs abortions. She joins us. And, earlier this week, the U.S. sent its top cybersecurity official to NATO in a joint mission to prevent and thwart cyberattacks on Ukraine. John Arquilla, a defense analyst at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, joins us.

Nicole and Gayle discuss whether they achieved 2021 reading goals and talk about 2022 objectives for their reading routine. After giving us an update on what books they've finished, both present 7 books they want to read this year. As always you can find below the whole booklist they run through during the episode: Ghosts by Dolly Alderton | https://amzn.to/3EHyQpI (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593319857 (Bookshop) We Are Not Like Them by Jo Piazza and Christine Pride | https://amzn.to/3lG7AQa (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781982181031 (Bookshop) The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deeshaw Philyaw | https://amzn.to/3fFBzFx (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781949199734 (Bookshop) Fault Lines by Emily Itami | https://amzn.to/3AmsgCW (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780063099807 (Bookshop) Crying In H Mart by Michelle Zauner | https://amzn.to/3jI7Hd5 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780525657743 (Bookshop) Klara in the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro | https://amzn.to/33tNGmF (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593318171 (Bookshop) Win Me Something by Kyle Lucia Wu | https://amzn.to/3kkXvbP (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781951142735 (Bookshop) Last Resort by Andrew Lipstein | https://amzn.to/3fEneJo (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780374602703 (Bookshop) Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh | https://amzn.to/3fF9G08 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780061763304 (Bookshop) Honor by Thrity Umrigar | https://amzn.to/3fNbTqg (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781616209957 (Bookshop) Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins | https://amzn.to/3GTmCve (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250274250 (Bookshop) The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman | https://amzn.to/3FSU5oA (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780735217959 (Bookshop) Booth by Karen Joy Fowler | https://amzn.to/32jLX2u (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593331439 (Bookshop) Foreverland by Heather Havrilesky | https://amzn.to/3qKCLxx (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780062984463 (Bookshop) Read Dangerously by Azar Nafisi | https://amzn.to/3FQgfYz (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780062947369 (Bookshop) The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka | https://amzn.to/3fHZd45 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593321331 (Bookshop) The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh | https://amzn.to/3tKFuZR (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593296998 (Bookshop) Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso | https://amzn.to/3Ie0tIu (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593241226 (Bookshop) The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont | https://amzn.to/3fL5n3C (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250274618 (Bookshop) Ocean State by Stewart O'Nan | https://amzn.to/3fEcieR (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780802159274 (Bookshop) Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka | https://amzn.to/3fMQddW (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780063052734 (Bookshop)  

In this episode, Gayle and Nicole go over their vacation reads, and they discuss how traumatic events in fiction books tend to be happening more often than it usually does in real life, which can lead to a feeling of being overfed with trauma while reading the story. Towards the second half of the episode, they talk about their current reading challenges and their picks. Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny | https://amzn.to/3ycKqVX (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780525659341 (Bookshop) Single Carefree Mellow by Katherine Heiny | https://amzn.to/3j8mkHv (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780804173155 (Bookshop) The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller | https://amzn.to/37AvO7W (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593329825 (Bookshop) The Maidens by Alex Michaelides | https://amzn.to/3jKbFBW (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250304452 (Bookshop) The Idea Of You by Robinne Lee | https://amzn.to/3B5PkWy (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250125903 (Bookshop) The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz | https://amzn.to/3jLfkiT (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250790767 (Bookshop) We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz | https://amzn.to/3E2fNH0 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781984820464 (Bookshop) The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse | https://amzn.to/3hbSVuw (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593296677 (Bookshop) The Guest List by Lucy Foley | https://amzn.to/3jNVt2O (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780062868930 (Bookshop) The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave | https://amzn.to/3iLfKXb (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781501171345 (Bookshop) This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel | https://amzn.to/3iKLCeP (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250088567 (Bookshop) Heat & Light by Jennifer Haigh | https://amzn.to/3nfeLS2 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780061763496 (Bookshop) The Hunting Wives by May Cobb | https://amzn.to/2WXFLe1 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593101131 (Bookshop) A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins | https://amzn.to/3zeAfS2 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780735211230 (Bookshop) The woman in the Window (Netflix) by A.J. Finn | https://amzn.to/3m3xOhe (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780062678423 (Bookshop) Forever . . . by Judy Blume | https://amzn.to/3ttAC99 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781481414432 (Bookshop) Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume | https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KPVMAPM/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781481409933 (Bookshop) The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook | https://amzn.to/3l7c81D (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780307948571 (Bookshop) At the Wolf's Table by Rosella Postorino | https://amzn.to/3yV4s7B (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250179166 (Bookshop) Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty | https://amzn.to/3l3UNXE (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250069832 (Bookshop) The Lost Boys of Montauk by Amanda M. Fairbanks | https://amzn.to/3jR9ayW (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781982103231 (Bookshop) American Pastoral by Philip Roth | https://amzn.to/2YEVSgY (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780375701429 (Bookshop) Support this podcast

Join us as we celebrate WANA LIVE!'s first birthday! Our writer this week is the incomparable Jennifer Haigh AND we will be announcing an exciting new WANA LIVE! initiative as a thank you for being here with us this past year. JENNIFER HAIGH is a novelist and short story writer. Her novel HEAT AND LIGHT won a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was named a Best Book of 2016 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and NPR. Her previous books include FAITH, THE CONDITION, BAKER TOWERS and MRS. KIMBLE, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction, and the short story collection NEWS FROM HEAVEN, winner of the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN New England Award in Fiction. Her short stories have been published in Granta, The Atlantic, The Best American Short Stories and many other places. Jennifer Haigh has been awarded grants by the James Michener Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She lives in Boston. https://www.jennifer-haigh.com/

Topics: Treefort, Storyfort, A Diamond In The Slushpile, Zenith Man, Bakerton, PA, Boston, Class, Titles, Catholicism, Accurate, Fair, Journalism, Crime, Irish Boston, Heartbreaking, Idaho Review, Iowa Writers Workshop, Caucus

Topics: Treefort, Storyfort, A Diamond In The Slushpile, Zenith Man, Bakerton, PA, Boston, Class, Titles, Catholicism, Accurate, Fair, Journalism, Crime, Irish Boston, Heartbreaking, Idaho Review, Iowa Writers Workshop, Caucus

Episode 53 - Writer’s Block On our December 2019 episode of CJSW Writer’s Block, we have guest host Courtney Dingreville chatting with Calgary poet Rosemary Griebel, and we have an in-depth interview recorded at the Banff Centre with acclaimed American author Jennifer Haigh about her novel Heat & Light, writing about the working class, and the power of story.

The great race to connecting with air cargo customers on a real-time and all day basis, is nice work if you can get it. Enter Vanya Bukova and Jennifer Haigh. Both are part of an account executive team that reports to Helen Kristensen, United Cargo’s Manager Strategic Accounts. When writing of the Hong Kong conflict going on right now in the former Crown Colony, (now a special district) we cannot help but wonder what’s next for air cargo? So, we figure why not go to someone who carries the credentials of experience, knowledge, passion and air cargo building, Stan Wraight, CEO of Strategic Aviation Solutions (SASI). www.sasi.com.hk Ex-DSV executive Steve Walker called on FIATA to “become a safe haven for forwarders to discuss a wider new industry strategy,” in the face of vertical consolidation by shipping lines, and the attempt to control data via platforms such as TradeLens, a join partnership between IBM and Maersk. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/geoffrey-arend/support

Today's guest on the Readerly Report – Diane LaRue, longtime bookish friend of Gayle and Nicole and author of the blog https://bookchickdi.blogspot.com/ (Book Chick Di), to talk about Libraries, Book Events and What To Read In August. Links mentioned in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/thebookcellarnyc/ (The Book Cellar) https://www.politics-prose.com/ (Politics & Prose) https://www.eastcitybookshop.com/ (East City Bookshop) https://www.solidstatebooksdc.com/ (Solid State Books) Books mentioned in this episode: https://amzn.to/2YQzI5D (The Dearly Beloved) by Cara Hall https://amzn.to/2Yz4DrT (Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland) by Patrick Radden Keefe https://amzn.to/2KoosJQ (See You In The Piazza: New Places To Discover In Italy) by Frances Mayes https://amzn.to/2GV30dn (The Bookish Life Of Nina Hill) by Abbi Waxman (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2019/08/the-bookish-life-of-nina-hill-by-abbi-waxman/ (Gayle's review here)) https://amzn.to/2YSu6YT (Ask Again, Yes) by Mary Beth Keane https://amzn.to/2YTKlZI (The Walking People) by Mary Beth Keane https://amzn.to/2YQJeWB (Fever) by Mary Beth Keane https://amzn.to/2Yz5IQt (The Need) by Helen Philips https://amzn.to/2GXeRYt (Mrs. Kimble) by Jennifer Haigh (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2008/10/mrs-kimble-by-jennifer-haigh/ (Gayle's review here)) https://amzn.to/2YROCso (Heat And Light) by Jennifer Haigh https://amzn.to/2GTRij4 (Faith) by Jennifer Haigh (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2012/03/faith-by-jennifer-haigh/ (Gayle's review here)) https://amzn.to/31pfd1D (The Shoemaker's Wife) by Adriana Trigiani https://amzn.to/2KoQZig (Memoirs Of A Geisha) by Arthur Golden https://amzn.to/2YPSqdS (Eat, Pray, Love) by Elizabeth Gilbert https://amzn.to/2YOiTfP (The Silent Patient) by Alex Michaelides https://amzn.to/2GXCznc (The Escape Room) by Megan Goldin https://amzn.to/2YVU2Xm (The Lager Queen Of Minnesota) by J. Ryan Stradal (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2019/07/the-lager-queen-of-minnesota-by-j-ryan-stradal/ (Gayle's review here)) https://amzn.to/2YW3kP8 (Fleishman Is In Trouble) by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2019/07/fleishman-is-in-trouble-by-taffy-brodesser-akner/ (Gayle's review here)) https://amzn.to/2YSsdeK (My Friend Anna) by Rachel Deloache Williams https://amzn.to/2YUQtRk (The Dutch House) by Ann Patchett https://amzn.to/2YQkLAv (There Will Be No Miracles Here) by Casey Gerald https://amzn.to/2KpW1eB (Time After Time) by Lisa Grunwald https://amzn.to/2KphDaY (The Leavers) by Lisa Koh https://amzn.to/2YQTbTL (The Swallows) by Lisa Lutz https://amzn.to/2GWNrBO (Careful What You Wish For) by Hallie Ephron *Books linked above are our affiliate links. There's no additional expense you, but if you make a purchase through us a small portion of that contributes to the costs associated with making our podcast. Thanks so much for listening and for your support! Please help support the podcast and take a few minutes to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-readerly-report/id1141898658?mt=2 (leave a review and/or rating) for the podcast on  Support this podcast

Gayle and Nicole talk to prolific audiobook narrator http://www.thereseplummer.com/ (Therese Plummer) about our favorite books set in summertime. We also get into the relationship between audiobook narrators and listeners, and weigh in on the eternal debate: does listening to a book count as reading it? (YES!) Books mentioned on this show: https://amzn.to/2LBx8Ob (Sunburn) by Laura Lipman https://amzn.to/2XlB87I (More News Tomorrow) by Susan Richards Shreve https://amzn.to/2J9PhAU (Cygnet) by Season Butler https://amzn.to/2XhECYM (The Summer That Made Us) by Robyn Carr https://amzn.to/2LBNm9O (Little Blog On The Prairie) by Cathleen Davitt Bell https://amzn.to/2XKnE9G (The Mother-in-Law) by Sally Hepworth (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2019/06/the-mother-in-law-by-sally-hepworth/ (Gayle's review here)) https://amzn.to/2J7Z6iB (Searching For Sylvie Lee) by Jean Kwok (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2019/06/searching-for-sylvie-lee-by-jean-kwok/ (Gayle's review here)) https://amzn.to/2XKPJ0D (The Perfect Stranger) by Megan Miranda https://amzn.to/2FQB2id (Virgin River Collection) by Robyn Carr https://amzn.to/2LwlbJk (Daring Greatly) by Brene Brown https://amzn.to/2RON9kM (Educated) by Tara Westover (Gayle's review here) https://amzn.to/309RJwN (Wild) by Cheryl Strayed https://amzn.to/2LwlELA (The Glass Castle) by Jeannette Walls https://amzn.to/2XrBK0f (Devotion) by Madeline Stevens https://amzn.to/30cWlm1 (The Interestings) by Meg Wolitzer (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2013/09/the-interestings-by-meg-wolitzer/ (Gayle's review here)) https://amzn.to/326LhIX (Little Children) by Tom Perrotta https://amzn.to/2Xq8QxL (The Smart One) by Jennifer Close (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2013/05/the-smart-one-by-jennifer-close/ (Gayle's review here)) https://amzn.to/2RTBQYp (Faith) by Jennifer Haigh (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2012/03/faith-by-jennifer-haigh/ (Gayle's review here)) https://amzn.to/2J7F08m (The Blessings) by Elise Juska (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2014/07/blessings-elise-juska/ (Gayle's review here)) https://amzn.to/2XrqAUE (Perfect Little World) by Kevin Wilson (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2017/04/perfect-little-world-kevin-wilson/ (Gayle's review here)) https://amzn.to/2Jab8s3 (Nothing To See Here) by Kevin Wilson *Books linked above are our affiliate links. There's no additional expense you, but if you make a purchase through us a small portion of that contributes to the costs associated with making our podcast. Thanks so much for listening and for your support! Please help support the podcast and take a few minutes to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-readerly-report/id1141898658?mt=2 (leave a review and/or rating) for the podcast on https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1141898658?i (iTunes), a commenton https://soundcloud.com/user-399446357 (Soundcloud) or interact wherever you listen to podcasts and talk about books.  Connect With Us We'd love to hear from you at any and all places that you love to talk about books. You can find us at the spaces below. Nicole Bonia: http://www.nicolebonia.com/ (Nicole's Website) | http://www.instagram.com/nicolebonia (Instagram)

The dazzling, drunken, dirty (in an elegant, literary way) debut by Chip Cheek, CAPE MAY, is the result of a feverish writing spree and a measured revision process. Old friends Chip and James discuss learning to let go, having fun at the desk, selecting the right words in sex scenes, discovering characters through their dialogue, and changing ice cream to sherbet. Then, super agent to Chip and many past guests, Katherine Fausset.   - Chip Cheek Buy CAPE MAY: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781250297150 Chip and James discuss: Pages: A Bookstore  Whitney Scharer  Sally Rooney The Chunky Monkeys  Celeste Ng  Grace Talusan  Jenn De Leon  Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich  Lizzie Stark  THE SECRET HISTORY by Donna Tartt  James Salter  THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald  REVOLUTIONARY ROAD by Richard Yates  BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S by Truman Capote  THE CALL OF CTHULHU by H.P. Lovecraft  Jeanne Leiby Jim Butler  Gustave Flaubert  Jennifer Haigh  Katherine Fausset  - Katherine Fausset: https://www.curtisbrown.com/agents/katherine-fausset/ Katherine and James discuss:  Chip Cheek  The Muse & The Marketplace  Grub Street  Benjamin Percy  Colm Toibin  STATION ELEVEN by Emily St. John Mandel  THE THIRD HOTEL by Laura van den Berg  A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN: SELECTED STORIES by Lucia Berlin Farrar, Straus & Giroux  - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

Nicole finally read Daisy Jones And The Six, and she's turning into a Taylor Jenkins Reid fan. Gayle is trying to close the book on recent stressful reads and get into some slightly less anxiety-inducing fare. Gayle and Nicole both had problems with Tara Westover's juggernaut memoir, Educated. Last seek they http://thereaderlyreport.com/2019/04/04/the-march-book-madness-finale-gayles-stressful-vacation-reads/ (shared a few April reads) and this week they share a few more that they're looking forward to. Books mentioned in this podcast: https://amzn.to/2Z0DJFT (Good Talk) by Mira Jacob https://amzn.to/2KljsaO (Daisy Jones & The Six) by Taylor Jenkins Reid https://amzn.to/2GdSZab (Baby Teeth) by Zoje Stage https://amzn.to/2OXSOnj (Educated) by Tara Westover https://amzn.to/2In3tX9 (Me For You) by Lolly Winston https://amzn.to/2KlrEYC (Baker Towers) by Jennifer Haigh (http://www.everydayiwritethebookblog.com/2010/02/baker-towers/ (read Gayle's review)) https://amzn.to/2Ifsm8f (Claude & Camille) by Stephanie Cowell (http://nicolebonia.com/claude-camille-monet-stephanie-cowell-book-review/ (read Nicole's review)) https://amzn.to/2U78d5z (The Red Daughter) by John Burnham Schwartz https://amzn.to/2D4qUB2 (I Miss You When I Blink) by Mary Laura Philpott https://amzn.to/2D6wjaK (What My Mother And I Don't Talk About) by Michele Filgate https://amzn.to/2VzmZU4 (Cape May) by Chip Creek How are we doing? As a big favor to us and the growth of our podcast, please take a few minutes to leave a review and/or rating for the podcast on https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1141898658?i (iTunes), a comment on https://soundcloud.com/user-399446357 (Soundcloud) or interact wherever you listen to podcasts and talk about books.  *Books linked above are our affiliate links. There's no additional expense you, but if you make a purchase through us a small portion of that contributes to the costs associated with making our podcast. Thanks so much for listening and for your support! Connect With Us We'd love to hear from you at any and all places that you love to talk about books. You can find us at the spaces below. Nicole Bonia: http://www.nicolebonia.com/ (Nicole's Website) | http://www.instagram.com/nicolebonia (Instagram) | https://twitter.com/nicolebonia (Twitter) | https://www.facebook.com/linussblanket/ (Facebook) | https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1248236-nicole-bonia (Goodreads) Gayle Weiswasser: http://everydayiwritethebookblog.com/ (Gayle's Website) | https://twitter.com/gweiswasser (Twitter) | https://www.facebook.com/everydayiwritethebook/ (Facebook) | https://www.instagram.com/gweiswasser/ (Instagram) The Readerly Report: https://www.facebook.com/ReaderlyMag/ (Facebook) |http://www.instagram.com/readerlymagazine (Instagram) | https://www.facebook.com/groups/ReaderlyReport/ ((New!) Join Our Facebook Group) If you enjoy our show, books (literary fiction in particular—yay for navel gazing!), us as a collective or singly as Gayle or Nicole, please share us with your friends, family and fellow book lovers by letting them know about us. Support this podcast

In Jennifer Haigh's fifth novel Heat and Light, she returns to the fictional town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania: its prosperity withered with the closing of the coalmines. So when it's learned that the area is rich in natural gas, many people are eager to sign over their mineral rights to energy companies. And the debate about fracking and all that it entails upends the community. Jennifer Haigh knows her subject well; she was raised in a former coal town that also sits on deposits of natural gas. In our conversation she talks about her hometown and how it's become the basis for much of her writing, the pull of the past on the present and the legacy of North Appalachia's geology.

In Jennifer Haigh’s fifth novel Heat and Light, she returns to the fictional town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania: its prosperity withered with the closing of the coalmines. So when it’s learned that the area is rich in natural gas, many people are eager to sign over their mineral rights to energy companies. And the debate about fracking and all that it entails upends the community. Jennifer Haigh knows her subject well; she was raised in a former coal town that also sits on deposits of natural gas. In our conversation she talks about her hometown and how it’s become the basis for much of her writing, the pull of the past on the present and the legacy of North Appalachia’s geology.

In Jennifer Haigh’s fifth novel Heat and Light, she returns to the fictional town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania: its prosperity withered with the closing of the coalmines. So when it’s learned that the area is rich in natural gas, many people are eager to sign over their mineral rights to energy companies. And the debate about fracking and all that it entails upends the community. Jennifer Haigh knows her subject well; she was raised in a former coal town that also sits on deposits of natural gas. In our conversation she talks about her hometown and how it’s become the basis for much of her writing, the pull of the past on the present and the legacy of North Appalachia’s geology.

USA: FROM NORTH DAKOTA TO NEW ORLEANS As part of our project to explore the Americas, Boston novelist Jennifer Haigh travelled with Scottish writer Malachy Tallack on a journey that took in the Midwestern heartlands of Donald Trump’s USA. Starting in Fargo, they visited the site of the Dakota Pipeline protests before travelling south through Tennessee and Mississippi and arriving in Louisiana. Along the way, they met the reclusive writer Wendell Berry and members of the Black Lives Matter movement. Today they share some of their unforgettable experiences, and some of the writing inspired by the journey. Part of our Outriders series of events.

As part of our Outriders project to explore the Americas, Boston novelist Jennifer Haigh travelled with Scottish writer Malachy Tallack on a journey that took in the Midwestern heartlands of Donald Trump’s USA. Starting in Fargo, they visited the site of the Dakota Pipeline protests before travelling south through Tennessee and Mississippi and arriving in Louisiana. Along the way, they met the reclusive writer Wendell Berry and members of the Black Lives Matter movement. In this event, recorded live at the 2017 Edinburgh International Book Festival, they share some of their unforgettable experiences, and some of the writing inspired by the journey.

Jennifer Haigh's novel Heat and Light won a 2017 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She and Courtney discuss writing about Appalachia, how writing a novel is an exercise in empathy, and why no one knows where her writing studio is.

In her fifth novel, HEAT AND LIGHT, Jennifer Haigh returns to Bakerton, Pennsylvania, a dying coal town that's offered a second chance when the natural gas industry comes to town. It has been named a Best Book of 2016 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and NPR. Her previous books include FAITH, THE CONDITION, BAKER TOWERS and MRS. KIMBLE, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction, and the short story collection NEWS FROM HEAVEN, winner of the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN New England Award in Fiction. Her short stories have been published in Granta, Electric Literature, The Best American Short Stories and many other places. A native of western Pennsylvania and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she now lives in Boston.

The 2017 Literary Festival at Villanova University presents a literary reading by Jennifer Haigh.

The 2017 Literary Festival at Villanova University presents a literary reading by Jennifer Haigh.

In our first interview with a novelist, we speak with Jennifer Haigh about Heat & Light, her novel about fracking in rural Pennsylvania.

Michael Fynan calls Jennifer Haigh, author of HEAT AND LIGHT. Learn more: https://www.harperacademic.com/book/9780061763496/heat-and-light/.

Jennifer Haigh's new novel is called Heat and Light. She is the author of four previous novels: Faith, The Condition, Baker Towers and Mrs. Kimble, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Her short story collection News From Heaven won the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN New England Award in Fiction.  Haigh's short stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Granta, The Best American Short Stories and many other places.  She lives in Boston. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Draft interview with Jennifer Haigh

Jennifer Haigh's "Sublimation" is the Boston Book Festival's choice for this year's One City One Story, a project to promote reading and to create community around a shared reading experience. "Sublimation" first appeared in the Spring 2014 issue of Ploughshares. Jennifer Haigh will appear at the Boston Book Festival on October 25 to discuss the story. To download the audio recording of "Sublimation," right-click on the download button beside the play button, and save the mp3 to your computer.

Jennifer Haigh reads "Favorite Son" from her recent collection News From Heaven. It's here that the collection's title appears--in a story of hopes and disappointments shared by an entire town and by the sons and daughters left with the town's poignant legacy. "Favorite Son" explores the ways in which a certain kind of faith and trust can turn into betrayal.

Jennifer Haigh's short story "Bent" takes place in Cape Cod's Provincetown (02657), where Kip's family has vacationed every summer he can remember, renting the same house by the shore. He's always brought along his neighborhood friend Fanelli, but this year, he's added his college buddy Jean-Luc, a Frenchman whose exoticism and way with girls Kip envies. "Bent" portrays the subtle dance of allegiance and rivalry between these young men, as it studies Kip's first true experience of regret.

Jennifer Haigh met with The Drum's editor Henriette Lazaridis Power to answer questions about movies, film adaptations, Edith Piaf, and why she prefers gray days. Jennifer also talked about the ideas behind her novels, including her fourth, FAITH, which is due out in May 2011.

Award-winning novelist Jennifer Haigh's "Claire of the Moon" tells the story of a little girl who can't tolerate the sun and the adults who try to shield her or to let her bask in its reflection.