Podcasts about laura van den berg

Host Meg Wolitzer presents four stories in which characters give, and get, a little assistance, from friends, strangers and family. A daughter copes with a cantankerous parent in “How to Take Dad to the Doctor” by Jenny Allen, performed by Jennifer Mudge. A woman moves to a new town and makes a strange new friend in Laura van den Berg's “Friends,” performed by Roberta Colindrez. A Tyrolean café improbably situated in South America is home to mysterious strangers and new and old romances, in Isabel Allende's “The Little Heidelberg.” It's performed by Kathleen Turner. And a budding singer and socialist gets unwelcome help from Mom in Grace Paley's “Injustice,” performed by Jackie Hoffman.

PUT EXPLICIT ON HERE:This week, I'm joined by author Kristen Arnett. We chat about clown and how they relate to her latest novel, Stop Me If You've Heard This One. Guest Book Author Recommendation: Eliza Kennedy Lucky Night recommends The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk Book Recommendations:State of Paradise by Laura Van Den BergHot Air by Marcy DermasnkyLot by Bryan WashingtonKate & Frida by Kim FeyDry Season by Melissa FebosWomen's Hotel by Daniel M. Lavery Substack through my  Read with Me program.Giveaway: Kristen Arnett's Stop Me If You've Heard This One on Instagram LINK UP Closes April 16th.  Click here to find out ways in which you can help the attack on Federal funding for libraries. On Social Media: Twitter @Instagram Kristen_ArnettBlue Sky Kristen ArnettSubstack: Dad LessonsLink up to her column, Am I the Literary Asshole on Lit Hub  Support the showGet your Books Are My People coffee mug here!I hope you all have a wonderfully bookish week!

Con il ritorno alla Casa Bianca di Donald Trump, gli Stati Uniti sono tornati al centro dell'attenzione globale, aggiungendo al loro ruolo economico, politico e militare un'abbondante dose di inquietante assurdità. Guardando verso l'America, non sappiamo dire se sia grande come negli slogan del suo presidente, ma sicuramente ci appare molto strana. E di questa stranezza americana parleremo con Laura Van Den Berg, autrice di Paradiso Terrestre (Mercurio): un romanzo ambientato in una Florida folle e in un'America sull'orlo dell'Apocalisse naturale, sociale, culturale, politica. La chiamano “speculative fiction”, ma forse è poco più che realismo. Un altro punto di vista sulla stranezza americana ce lo offrirà invece un giornalista italiano esperto di Stati Uniti: Mattia Ferraresi, autore di I demoni della mente - Il racconto di un'epoca in cui non si ha fiducia in niente ma si crede a tutto (Mondadori). Tra le pagine di questo saggio trovano spazio complottismi vari, fake news, movimenti antiscientifici e terrorismo stocastico, per dare forma a un quadro tanto ridicolo quanto pericoloso. Lontano da questi temi contemporanei è invece Alberto Rollo – scrittore milanese e professionista dell'editoria da una vita – che nel suo ultimo romanzo (autobiografico) ha preferito occuparsi di una piccola vicenda umana. O meglio, animale: Billy il cane (Ponte alle grazie) racconta proprio il cane del titolo, il suo rapporto con la famiglia umana che lo accoglie, la sua vita e la sua morte. Rollo dà voce al cane, che ci parla direttamente in una serie di riflessioni che dicono molto anche sulla natura umana. In Mirador, lo spazio in cui voci della letteratura in italiano raccontano le novità letterarie più sorprendenti, Igiaba Scego racconterà Storia di una brava ragazza di Arianna Farinelli (Einaudi).undefinedundefinedundefinedundefined

Laura van den Berg's new novel State of Paradise gave me serious Franz Kafka and David Lynch vibes. It contains some of the weirdest evocations of Florida I've ever encountered, and that's saying a lot. I'm not sure we even touched on half of what this book contains, thematically, in this great conversation to wrap up season 10!

It's another summer in a small Florida town. After an illness that vanishes as mysteriously as it arrived, everything appears to be getting back to normal: soul-crushing heat, torrential downpours, sinkholes swallowing the earth, ominous cats, a world-bending virtual reality device being handed out by a company called ELECTRA, and an increasing number of posters dotting the streets with the faces of missing citizens. Living in her mother's home, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author tracks the eerie changes. On top of everything else, she's contending with family secrets, spotty memories of her troubled youth, a burgeoning cult in the living room, and the alarming expansion of her own belly button. Then, during a violent rainstorm, her sister goes missing. She returns a few days later, sprawled on their mother's lawn and speaking of another dimension. Now the ghostwriter must investigate not only what happened to her sister and the other missing people but also the uncanny connections between ELECTRA, the famous author she works for, and reality itself. A sticky, rain-soaked reckoning with the elusive nature of selfhood and storytelling, Laura van den Berg's State of Paradise (FSG, 2024) is an intricate and page-turning whirlwind. With inimitable control and thrilling style, van den Berg reaches deep into the void and returns with a story far stranger than either reality or fiction. Laura van den Berg was born and raised in Florida. She is the author of five works of fiction, including The Third Hotel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), which was one of Time Magazine's 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020. She is the recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her next novel, Ring of Night, is forthcoming from FSG in 2026. Recommended Books: Mariana Enriquez, Our Share of Night Octavia Butler, Bloodchild  Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's another summer in a small Florida town. After an illness that vanishes as mysteriously as it arrived, everything appears to be getting back to normal: soul-crushing heat, torrential downpours, sinkholes swallowing the earth, ominous cats, a world-bending virtual reality device being handed out by a company called ELECTRA, and an increasing number of posters dotting the streets with the faces of missing citizens. Living in her mother's home, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author tracks the eerie changes. On top of everything else, she's contending with family secrets, spotty memories of her troubled youth, a burgeoning cult in the living room, and the alarming expansion of her own belly button. Then, during a violent rainstorm, her sister goes missing. She returns a few days later, sprawled on their mother's lawn and speaking of another dimension. Now the ghostwriter must investigate not only what happened to her sister and the other missing people but also the uncanny connections between ELECTRA, the famous author she works for, and reality itself. A sticky, rain-soaked reckoning with the elusive nature of selfhood and storytelling, Laura van den Berg's State of Paradise (FSG, 2024) is an intricate and page-turning whirlwind. With inimitable control and thrilling style, van den Berg reaches deep into the void and returns with a story far stranger than either reality or fiction. Laura van den Berg was born and raised in Florida. She is the author of five works of fiction, including The Third Hotel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), which was one of Time Magazine's 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020. She is the recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her next novel, Ring of Night, is forthcoming from FSG in 2026. Recommended Books: Mariana Enriquez, Our Share of Night Octavia Butler, Bloodchild  Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

It's another summer in a small Florida town. After an illness that vanishes as mysteriously as it arrived, everything appears to be getting back to normal: soul-crushing heat, torrential downpours, sinkholes swallowing the earth, ominous cats, a world-bending virtual reality device being handed out by a company called ELECTRA, and an increasing number of posters dotting the streets with the faces of missing citizens. Living in her mother's home, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author tracks the eerie changes. On top of everything else, she's contending with family secrets, spotty memories of her troubled youth, a burgeoning cult in the living room, and the alarming expansion of her own belly button. Then, during a violent rainstorm, her sister goes missing. She returns a few days later, sprawled on their mother's lawn and speaking of another dimension. Now the ghostwriter must investigate not only what happened to her sister and the other missing people but also the uncanny connections between ELECTRA, the famous author she works for, and reality itself. A sticky, rain-soaked reckoning with the elusive nature of selfhood and storytelling, Laura van den Berg's State of Paradise (FSG, 2024) is an intricate and page-turning whirlwind. With inimitable control and thrilling style, van den Berg reaches deep into the void and returns with a story far stranger than either reality or fiction. Laura van den Berg was born and raised in Florida. She is the author of five works of fiction, including The Third Hotel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), which was one of Time Magazine's 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020. She is the recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her next novel, Ring of Night, is forthcoming from FSG in 2026. Recommended Books: Mariana Enriquez, Our Share of Night Octavia Butler, Bloodchild  Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

It's another summer in a small Florida town. After an illness that vanishes as mysteriously as it arrived, everything appears to be getting back to normal: soul-crushing heat, torrential downpours, sinkholes swallowing the earth, ominous cats, a world-bending virtual reality device being handed out by a company called ELECTRA, and an increasing number of posters dotting the streets with the faces of missing citizens. Living in her mother's home, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author tracks the eerie changes. On top of everything else, she's contending with family secrets, spotty memories of her troubled youth, a burgeoning cult in the living room, and the alarming expansion of her own belly button. Then, during a violent rainstorm, her sister goes missing. She returns a few days later, sprawled on their mother's lawn and speaking of another dimension. Now the ghostwriter must investigate not only what happened to her sister and the other missing people but also the uncanny connections between ELECTRA, the famous author she works for, and reality itself. A sticky, rain-soaked reckoning with the elusive nature of selfhood and storytelling, Laura van den Berg's State of Paradise (FSG, 2024) is an intricate and page-turning whirlwind. With inimitable control and thrilling style, van den Berg reaches deep into the void and returns with a story far stranger than either reality or fiction. Laura van den Berg was born and raised in Florida. She is the author of five works of fiction, including The Third Hotel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), which was one of Time Magazine's 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020. She is the recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her next novel, Ring of Night, is forthcoming from FSG in 2026. Recommended Books: Mariana Enriquez, Our Share of Night Octavia Butler, Bloodchild  Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Today, we hear from Laura van den Berg whose latest novel, STATE OF PARADISE, will be released on July 9. We're talking to Laura about writing a book that combines autofiction and speculative fiction and what to do when another novel you're writing is asking for attention.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 van den Berg's debut and many other books by our authors, visit our Bookshop page. Looking for a writing community? Join our Facebook page. Laura van den Berg was born and raised in Florida. She is the author of five works of fiction, including The Third Hotel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), which was one of Time Magazine's 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020. She is the recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her next two novels, State of Paradise and Ring of Night, are forthcoming from FSG in 2024 and 2026. She is the author of two previous story collections, The Isle of Youth (FSG, 2013) and What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (Dzanc Books, 2009), and the novel Find Me (FSG, 2015). She is currently a Senior Lecturer on Fiction at Harvard University. Laura lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband, the writer Paul Yoon, and their dog, Oscar.Photo by Paul Yoon 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

Host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about close—but complex—ties of family and friendship. Jamaica Kincaid offers up a lyrical, dreamlike account of the mother/daughter bond in “My Mother,” performed by Laurine Towler. In Laura van den Berg's “Lessons” a quartet of youthful bank robbers faces hard questions about love and loyalty. The story is read by Emily Skeggs.

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 546, my conversation with Laura van den Berg, author of five works of fiction. It first aired on October 10, 2018. Laura van den Berg was born and raised in Florida. Her books include The Third Hotel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), which was one of Time Magazine's 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020. She is the recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Livings Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her next two novels, Florida Diary and Ring of Night, are forthcoming from FSG. *** 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, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram  YouTube TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fiction writer Laura van den Berg joins us to talk about her most recent collection, I Hold a Wolf By the Ears, midnight logic, and why Florida is a great setting for eerie and unsettling stories. We also get to meet her dog briefly!

Bar Talk (our recommendations):Ryan is reading ‘There Is No Death, There Are No Dead: Tales of Spiritualism Horror' edited by Aaron J. French and Jess Landry; drinking The Bowmore 12 Yr Old.Jessica is reading ‘I Hold a Wolf by the Ears' by Laura Van Den Berg; drinking Far North Spirits rye whiskey.Damien is watching Malignant (2021, dir. James Wan); drinking Kaiyo Whisky aged in Mizunara oak.If you liked this week's story, check out ‘His House,' the 2020 movie directed by Remi Weeks (available on Netflix)Next episode: ‘The Ship of Silence' by Albert R WetjenSpecial thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for the Whiskey and the Weird music!  Like, rate, and follow—and check us out on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and at whiskeyandtheweird.com.

Clare, die ihren Mann verloren hat, reist zu einem Filmfestival nach Havanna. Auf Kuba wird sie mit ihrer Unfähigkeit zu trauern ebenso konfrontiert wie mit Zombies, die plötzlich nicht nur in Filmen umherirren. Und sie merkt: Es reicht nicht mehr, ihr Leben als heiteres Unglück zu begreifen. Von Samuel Hamen www.deutschlandfunk.de, Büchermarkt Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Direkter Link zur Audiodatei

In this week's episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan talk to novelist emily m. danforth and short story writer Laura van den Berg. danforth discusses her newly released sapphic-gothic horror comedy Plain Bad Heroines and how she reclaims negative and othering portrayals of lesbian vampires and queer monsters in the novel. Then, van den Berg shares her acclaimed new story collection I Hold a Wolf by the Ears and talks about how the pandemic and the Trump presidency has inspired her fiction.  To hear the full episode, subscribe to the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast 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. And check out video excerpts from our interviews at LitHub's Virtual Book Channel and Fiction/Non/Fiction's YouTube Channel. This episode was produced by Andrea Tudhope, Emily Standlee and Mary Henn.  Selected readings: emily m. danforth Plain Bad Heroines The Miseducation Of Cameron Post   Laura van den Berg I Hold a Wolf by the Ears The Isle of Youth What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us Find Me The Third Hotel Others: The Story of Mary MacLane by Mary MacLane Rebecca by Dame Daphne du Maurier Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay Stephen King The Elementals by Michael McDowell Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix Television: Get Out, film Lovecraft Country (HBO)  Carmilla, the Lesbian Vampire, film The Ring, film Beetlejuice, film The Others, film Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author Laura van den Berg talks with Mark Polanzak about deleting an entire draft of a novel while at a haunted writing residency, why she started writing (spoiler: she wanted an easy A), & the year she combined every bad idea into one big failed project. Recorded live in Boston.

Wo die schönsten Seen zu finden sind, verrät die Reihe "Take me to the lakes". André Kubiczeks neues Buch führt ins Halle der 80er-Jahre. Und Ulrike Draesners neuer Roman stellt uns den Künstler Kurt Schwitters vor.

Now that Joe Biden has selected a female VP and finally claimed the nomination, can we talk about his long, weird, handsy history with women? Laura van den Berg, the author of the new story collection I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, explores why some women risked all in coming forward with stories about Biden. And more importantly, what we can learn from them today. Narrated by Cindy Katz. Hosted by Ashley C. Ford. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Well-Versed, Emily Bell, director and Senior Editor of FSG Originals, talks with writers Laura van den Berg and Catherine Lacey about their new books, making it through the profound bewilderment of novel-writing, and the relationship between the bizarre and the mundane. Pew, Catherine Lacey’s third novel, is a foreboding, provocative, and amorphous fable about the world today: its contradictions, its flimsy morality, and the limits of judging others based on their appearance. With precision and restraint, one of our most beloved and boundary-pushing writers holds up a mirror to her characters’ true selves, revealing something about forgiveness, perception, and the faulty tools society uses to categorize human complexity. I Hold the Wolf by the Ears, Laura van den Berg’s first story collection since her prizewinning book The Isle of Youth, draws readers into a world of wholly original, sideways ghost stories that linger in the mouth and the mind. Both timeless and urgent, these eleven stories confront misogyny, violence, and the impossible economics of America with van den Berg’s trademark spiky humor and surreal eye. 

Are you aware of yourself? Have you ever experienced something deeper than your primal thoughts? Do you think you can be better, smarter, more productive, and eventually be more comfortable with yourself and be the best version of yourself? If you want to be a self-published writer, but something is interfering with your creative process we might have just the answers for you. Today, we are talking with Laura Van Der Berg-Sekac, an expert in the art of mindfulness. If you are ready to transfer your life and introduce mindfulness in business keep reading about life improvement and self-awareness strategies. Writing a book and having it published on Amazon is the first step in starting entrepreneurship. Writers are known for being creative and adventures, so diving into a new business is a deep transformation on a personal level. Because of the freedom that the authors always need to have it might get difficult for them to keep a focus on just one task, the world is always throwing some additional challenges and, who says that this next one is not better than the previous one? In their world there are no leaders to keep them on track, even if there were they would not accept their authority. So how can you become your own leader and achieve your goals at your own pace in your own time? Learn why is mindfulness important to your business in today's episode.▶️▶️▶️▶️Resources mentioned:Laura Van Den Berg-SekacPayKickstartBooks by Jonathan TOOLBOX Leave some feedback. We would love to hear from you! Connect with Jonathan Green and Serve No Master:Serve No Master on YouTubeServe No Master on TwitterServe No Master on FacebookServe No Master on InstagramServe No Master on PinterestServe No Master on SnapchatJonathan Green books on AmazonThe post SNM189: Why Is mindfulness important to your business success with Laura Van Den Berg-Sekac appeared first on Serve No Master: Be Your Own Boss - Live Free

Paul Yoon's in-store event @ BookPeople Bookstore in Austin, Tx ABOUT PAUL YOON Paul Yoon is the author of two story collections, Once the Shore, which was a New York Times Notable Book, and The Mountain, which was a NPR Best Book of the Year. His novel Snow Hunters won the Young Lions Fiction Award. A recipient of fellowships from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars and the National Endowment for the Arts, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife, the fiction writer Laura van den Berg, and their dog, Oscar. ABOUT LAURA VAN DEN BERG Laura van den Berg's most recent novel, The Third Hotel, was named a best book of 2018 by over a dozen publications and was a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award. She is also the author of the novel Find Me and two story collections What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us and The Isle of Youth, both finalists for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. A new collection, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, will be published by FSG in June.

On today’s episode, Hannah, Erica, and I will be discussing how one woman processes the death of her husband by taking a trip to Havana in The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg. This one’s got horror movies, ghost sex, and no happy ending in sight. We’ll be paring our read with a glass or three of 2017 Demiselle de Gascaogne Colombard Ugni Blanc from Cotes de Gascogne France. This wine was selected because the Ugni Blanc grapes in this wine are usually used for making cognac, so like our book, things are not as they seem. You can read my extended review on Goodreads here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2614256950 We rated the book as follows:Erica - 1.972 (out of 3)Hannah - 1.2 (out of 3)Lauren - 1.2 (out of 3)Our guests can reached here:Erica - @_ericamccarthyHannah - @champagnechagaLauren - @laurenpopish

Brea and Mallory talk about window shopping for books, short audio fiction and interview Alasdair Stuart about audio fiction podcasts!  Links: Reading Glasses Merch Reading Glasses Facebook Group   Reading Glasses Goodreads Group   Amazon Wish List     Levar Burton Reads     Podcasts Mentioned:  Writer’s Voice Selected Shorts Nightlight Audio Boom Dr. Death Serial Make No Law   Field Biology of the Wee Fairies, read by Brea   Alasdair Stuart   @alasdairstuart on twitter Escape Artists Escape Pod     Books Mentioned   The Third Hotel by Laura Van Den Berg   There There by Tommy Orange   Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders   The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins     The Feather Thief by Kirk W. Johnson     Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans     Sourdough by Robin Sloane     Dread Nation by Justina Ireland   Con Artist by Fred Van Lente   The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham     Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty   American Hippo by Sarah Gailey

Brad Listi talks with Laura van den Berg, author of the novel THE THIRD HOTEL (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux). Her other books include two collections of stories, The Isle of Youth (FSG, 2013) and What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (Dzanc Books, 2009), and the novel Find Me (FSG, 2015). Laura van den Berg is a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Fiction at Harvard University and also teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She lives in Cambridge, MA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura van den Berg returns to discuss her brilliantly unsettling new novel, THE THIRD HOTEL. She and James discuss her three research trips to Havana, film adaptations, women in horror, crucial details, and her thought log, which is exactly what it sounds like. Then Marya Brennan talks about a Writing Blood Oath and her work as the NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program Director.  - Laura van den Berg: http://lauravandenberg.com/ Laura and James Discuss:  Jenny Halpert  Kate Sharp  THE BURNING SEASON  Naomi Watts  The Tribeca Film Festival  Claire McCarthy  ARRIVAL dir by Denis Villeneuve  "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang SCREAM dir by Wes Craven  THE BABADOOK dir by Jennifer Kent  A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT dir by Ana Lily Aminpour  VERTIGO dir by Alfred Hitchcock  THE SHINING dir by Stanley Kubrick  Shelley Duvall  PIANO by Jean Echenoz  James Longenbach  - Marya Brennan, NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program Director: https://ywp.nanowrimo.org/ Marya and James Discuss:  Annie Hartnett  Robbie!  Aimee Bender  DEEP WORK by Cal Newport  NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program  THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by Tim O'Brien Chris Baty  - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

In Havana, Cuba, a widow tries to come to terms with her husband’s death—and the truth about their marriage—in Laura van den Berg’s surreal, mystifying story of psychological reflection and metaphysical mystery. Shortly after Clare arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema, she finds her husband, Richard, standing outside a museum. He’s wearing a white linen suit she’s never seen before, and he’s supposed to be dead. Grief-stricken and baffled, Clare tails Richard, a horror film scholar, through the newly tourist-filled streets of Havana, clocking his every move. As the distinction between reality and fantasy blurs, Clare finds grounding in memories of her childhood in Florida and of her marriage to Richard, revealing her role in his death and reappearance along the way. The Third Hotel is a propulsive, brilliantly shape-shifting novel from an inventive author at the height of her narrative powers. Van den Berg is joined in conversation by Aja Gabel, whose writing has appeared in BOMB, The Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train, and elsewhere.

The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg is a propulsive, brilliantly shape-shifting novel. A widow tries to come to terms with her husband’s death -- and the truth about their marriage -- in this surreal, mystifying story of psychological reflection and metaphysical mystery. Shortly after Clare arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema, she finds her husband, Richard, standing outside a museum. He’s wearing a white linen suit she’s never seen before, and he’s supposed to be dead. Grief-stricken and baffled, Clare tails Richard, a horror film scholar, through the newly tourist-filled streets of Havana, clocking his every move. As the distinction between reality and fantasy blurs, Clare finds grounding in memories of her childhood in Florida and of her marriage to Richard, revealing her role in his death and reappearance along the way. Laura van den Berg is the author of two story collections, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us and The Isle of Youth, and the novel Find Me. She is the recipient of a Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Bard Fiction Prize, an O. Henry Award, and a MacDowell Colony fellowship. Born and raised in Florida, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Nate Brown’s short stories have appeared in the Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, Five Chapters, REAL, and Carolina Quarterly, and his nonfiction has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Publisher's Weekly, and LitHub. The managing editor of the Austin-based literary journal American Short Fiction, he lives in Baltimore and teaches writing at Stevenson University and at the George Washington University in Washington, DC.Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund. Recorded On: Thursday, August 9, 2018

The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg is a propulsive, brilliantly shape-shifting novel. A widow tries to come to terms with her husband’s death -- and the truth about their marriage -- in this surreal, mystifying story of psychological reflection and metaphysical mystery. Shortly after Clare arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema, she finds her husband, Richard, standing outside a museum. He’s wearing a white linen suit she’s never seen before, and he’s supposed to be dead. Grief-stricken and baffled, Clare tails Richard, a horror film scholar, through the newly tourist-filled streets of Havana, clocking his every move. As the distinction between reality and fantasy blurs, Clare finds grounding in memories of her childhood in Florida and of her marriage to Richard, revealing her role in his death and reappearance along the way. Laura van den Berg is the author of two story collections, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us and The Isle of Youth, and the novel Find Me. She is the recipient of a Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Bard Fiction Prize, an O. Henry Award, and a MacDowell Colony fellowship. Born and raised in Florida, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Nate Brown’s short stories have appeared in the Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, Five Chapters, REAL, and Carolina Quarterly, and his nonfiction has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Publisher's Weekly, and LitHub. The managing editor of the Austin-based literary journal American Short Fiction, he lives in Baltimore and teaches writing at Stevenson University and at the George Washington University in Washington, DC.Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund. 

Brea and Mallory give out hot tips on getting more reading in and interview author and podcaster John Hodgman! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!   Reading Glasses Tote Bags Links -   Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group   Apex Magazine Page Advice Article   Amazon Wish List   John Hodgman John's Twitter Judge John Hodgman Podcast       BookBeaus     Books Mentioned -   The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood   Find Me be Laura Van Den Berg   Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh Moby Dick by Herman Melville   Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace   The Hunter by Richard Stark Provenance by Ann Leckie The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu   Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm by Alice and Martin Provensen Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor  

Laura van den Berg was raised in Florida and earned her M.F.A. at Emerson College.  Her books include Find Me, The Isle of Youth, and What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura Van Den Berg stops by the Damn Library to talk about her novel Find Me and Yoko Tawada's The Naked Eye. We also find out what tv show she can't stop repeating, and discuss a lot about getting lost, both physically and in translation. Plus, she talks Tournament of Books - her favorites and who might win!   15 seconds of a song: "Charade" by Si Zentner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this double-LP episode one spectacular, James and Laura discuss her latest novel, FIND ME, her unusual path to becoming a writer, why Florida wants to murder you, and why she's not smiling. Plus Emily Bell, senior editor at FSG, chats about her job and upcoming titles.    Laura and James mention:  THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER  Kurt Cobain  Courtney Love  riot grrrls  "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried" by Amy Hempel  Lorrie Moore  Edward P. Jones  Charles Baxter Flannery O'Connor Alice Munro  Philip F. Deaver  Margot Livesey  REVENGE by Yoko Ogawa  SHIP FEVER by Andrea Barrett  L'AVVENTURA directed by Michelangelo Antonioni  THE PASSENGER directed by Michelangelo Antonioni FARGO directed by the Coen brothers  Robert Frost  EVERYDAY-GENIUS.COM LAST LAST CHANCE by Fiona Maazel  THE FLAME ALPHABET by Ben Marcus THE ORANGE EATS CREEPS by Grace Krilanovich THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS by Lewis Carroll  THE SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY by Jeff VanderMeer THE GIRLS' GUIDE TO HUNTING AND FISHING by Melissa Bank Nayon Cho     Emily and James mention: THREATS by Amelia Gray AM/PM by Amelia Gray  Featherproof Books  Riverhead Books  Laura van den Berg  Margot Livesey  NOBODY IS EVER MISSING by Catherine Lacey  Sean McDonald PULPHEAD by John Jeremiah Sullivan  Frank Bill   Lindsay Hunter  THE QUICK AND THE DEAD by Joy Williams  PURITY by Jonathan Franzen  PULL ME UNDER by Kelly Luce  A Strange Object  THREE SCENARIOS IN WHICH HANA SASAKI GROWS A TAIL by Kelly Luce  HURT PEOPLE by Cote Smith ONE STORY    tkpod.com ___ tkwithjs@gmail.com ___  facebook.com/tkwithjs    

Bookrageous Episode 78; Our Favorite Books of 2014 Intro Music; Swagger by Flogging Molly What We're Reading Jenn [1:15] Captain Marvel 1: Higher Further Faster More, Kelly Sue DeConnick, David Lopez (Bitch Planet) [2:00] The Storied Life of AJ Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin [3:20] If You Could Be Mine, Sara Farizan [3:45] Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson Rebecca [5:00] Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, Sara Farizan [6:20] Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter, Nina MacLaughlin (carpentrix), March 16 2015 [8:55] What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, Laura Van Den Berg [9:20] Blindness, Jose Saramago Josh [10:45] Let Me Tell You, Shirley Jackson, July 21 2015 --- Intermission; Intermission by Typhoon --- Our Favorite Books of 2014 [14:45] Josh: Caffeinated, Murray Carpenter [16:25] Rebecca: Land of Love and Drowning, Tiphanie Yanique; Mermaids in Paradise, Lydia Millet [20:10] Ghost Lights, Lydia Millet (mystery book: Oh Pure and Radiant Heart) [21:15] Jenn: Red or Dead, David Peace [23:00] Josh: The Magician's Land, Lev Grossman [26:00] Rebecca: A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip, Kevin Brockmeier [28:10] Jenn: A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Eimear McBride [29:30] Josh: Sisters, Raina Telgemeier [31:05] Rebecca: The Republic of Imagination, Azar Nafisi [33:15] Jenn: Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine [35:00] Josh: The Lobster Kings, Alexi Zentner [36:55] Rebecca: Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng [39:40] Jenn: Poisoned Apples, Christine Heppermann [41:20] Josh: Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay [44:30] Rebecca: An Untamed State, Roxane Gay; Glory O'Brien's History of the Future, A.S. King [46:55] Jenn: Ms. Marvel: No Normal, G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona [46:45] Josh: The Historical Atlas of Maine [49:35] Rebecca: Stone Mattress, Margaret Atwood [51:15] Rebecca: Sleep Donation, Karen Russell [52:25] Josh: Spoiled Brats, Simon Rich; The Noble Hustle, Colson Whitehead [53:05] Jenn's “literary genre” favorites: Southern Reach Trilogy, Jeff VanderMeer; Broken Monsters, Lauren Beukes; Tigerman, Nick Harkaway; Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel [54:25] Josh: Euphoria, Lily King --- Outdo; Swagger by Flogging Molly --- Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323. Next book club pick: Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine. Use coupon code BOOKRAGEOUS to get 10% off from WORD Bookstores! Find Us Online: Jenn, Josh, Rebecca Order Josh's books! Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or other Bookrageous projects. We promise.

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On this week's show, I talk to the fiction writer Kelly Luce, Plus Nicole Callihan meditates on motherhood, sustenance, autism, and language in "Notes Toward: Babies, Bananas, Boxes." TEXTS DISCUSSED  NOTES Nicole Callihan's "Notes Toward: Babies, Bananas, Boxes" first appeared on River and Sound Review. According to The Guardian and Publishers Weekly, some members of South Carolina's state legislature is trying to punish its state universities that support gay and lesbian culture. For more information about the protest over this, check out the website of Writers Speaking Out Loud. Congratulations to Laura Van Den Berg for her story O-Pah-Locka (published in the southern review), and for Dylan Landis for her story, “Trust” (published in Tin House) for winning O'Henry Prizes for 2014. Laura was my guest on episode 91, and Dylan was my guest on episode 48.

On this week's show, I talk to fiction writer Laura Van Den Berg, Plus Will Dowd reads two poems. TEXTS DISCUSSED Three Thousand Dollars"> The Art Fair"> NOTES I recommend Orlando Shakespeare Theater's production of Julius Caesar, playing until April 20th. Check out Beating Windward Press's call for essays for its forthcoming essay collection, THE THINGS THEY DID FOR MONEY: HOW WRITERS, ARTISTS, AND CREATIVES SUPPORT THE HABIT.    

Laura van den Berg is the guest. Her new story collection, The Isle of Youth, is now available from FSG Originals.  Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, raves "If ever there was a writer going places, it’s Laura van den Berg, who follows up her debut collection, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, with the ambitious, modular The Isle of Youth, whose seven stories are arranged along the themes of family secrets with noirish intrigue." And The New Inquiry says “Van den Berg excels at complexity, ec­centricity, maximalism of plot…Her emphases on elaborate plot and inten­tional loose ends are a refreshing departure from the contemporary taste for tidy, mini­mal plot paired with maximal voices.” Also this episode: a brief conversation with Victoria Patterson, whose new novel, The Peerless Four, is the official November selection of The TNB Book Club. Monologue topics:  congestion, logistics, obsession with logistics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Road trip! We head to State College to talk with writer and editor Dave Housley about a book he recommended to us: Laura van den Berg's debut story collection, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (Dzanc Books 2009). Topics include: book blurbs, dialogue, "lit fiction" as genre, George Saunders, monsters, Dockers vs dockers, Kristen Schaal, Heidi Montag, and ear fetishes. For more, visit our website at bookfightpod.com, or follow us on Twitter @Book_Fight.

In this episode, fiction writer Laura van den Berg discusses her life and work on the October 19, 2011 edition of KNPR's "State of Nevada." The next night, van den Berg appeared as part of BMI's Nevada Emerging Writers Series. This audio segment is used with the gracious permission of KNPRs "State of Nevada" which podcasts many segments of its programs. See knpr.org/son/feeds for more information.