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  What books are we recommending based on songs from Blondie, Arctic Monkeys and Death Cab for Cutie? Listen to find out.  The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias The Favorites by Layne Fargo House of Beth by Kerry Cullen Cackle by Rachel Harrison The Return by Rachel Harrison Chlorine by Jade Song The Villa by Rachel Hawkins Cursed Bunny: Stories by Bora Chung What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us: Stories by Laura Van Den Berg The Third Hotel by Laura Van Berg American Rapture by CJ Leede Play Nice by Rachel Harrison National Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-SAFE (7233) or use Duck, Duck, Go to visit: Https://thehotline.org 

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

Danielle Evans, author of The Office of Historical Corrections, will be in conversation with Laura van den Berg. Presented in partnership with CityLit Project. Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and x-ray insights into complex human relationships. With The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters’ lives in a way that allows them to speak to larger issues of race, culture, and history. She introduces us to Black and multiracial characters who are experiencing the universal confusions of lust and love, and getting walloped by grief—all while exploring how history haunts us, personally and collectively. Ultimately, she provokes us to think about the truths of American history—about who gets to tell them, and the cost of setting the record straight. Danielle Evans is the author of the story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, winner of the PEN America PEN/Robert W. Bingham prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Paterson Prize, and a National Book Foundation "5 under 35" selection. Her stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories. She teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. Laura van den Berg is the author of the story collections What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us,The Isle of Youth, and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, which was named a Best Book of 2020 by TIME. and the novels Find Me and The Third Hotel, which was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and named a Best Book of 2018 by over a dozen publications. She is the recipient of a Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Bard Fiction Prize, a PEN/O. Henry Prize, a MacDowell Colony fellowship, and is a two-time finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Born and raised in Florida, Laura splits her time between the Boston area and Central Florida, with her husband and dog. Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund. Recorded On: Tuesday, December 15, 2020

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

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.

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

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. 

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

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

Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology was released last week and we decided to celebrate by discussing other books that deal with mythology and lore!    Books Mentioned In This Episode Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan The Gracekeepers by Kristy Loan American Gods by Neil Gaiman Red Rising series by Pierce Brown Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier The Odyssey by Homer The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller The Song of Troy by Colleen McCullough Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis Grendel by John Gardner Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey The Secret History by Donna Tartt My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult The Tenth Circle by Jodi Piccoult The Divine Comedy by Dante The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danieleweski The Lost Years of Merlin by T. A. Barron The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laurea van Den Berg The Alchemyst by Michael Scott   Say Hello! Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries and Twitter at @ProBookNerds. Email us directly at professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com    Music "Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com    Podcast Overview We're not just book nerds: we're professional book nerds and the staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks available through public libraries and schools. Hear about the best books we've read, get personalized recommendations, and learn about the hottest books coming out that we can't wait to dive into. For more great reads, find OverDrive on Facebook and Twitter.

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.

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.