Burned By Books

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A podcast for writers and readers who are obsessive about their books. Interviews with established and up-and-coming writers, and recommendations for the best in contemporary fiction, poetry, and drama. Chris Holmes. Chris is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. 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.

Episode Date
Nell Freudenberger, "The Limits" (Knopf, 2024)
Apr 02, 2024
Marie Mutsuki Mockett, "The Tree Doctor" (Graywolf Press, 2024)
Mar 23, 2024
Scott Alexander Howard, "The Other Valley" (Atria Books, 2024)
Mar 14, 2024
Marie-Helene Bertino, "Beautyland" (FSG, 2024)
Feb 27, 2024
Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15" (FSG, 2023)
Feb 20, 2024
Samantha Harvey, "Orbital" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023)
Jan 26, 2024
Julius Taranto, "How I Won a Nobel Prize" (Little, Brown, 2023)
Jan 19, 2024
Raul Palma, "A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens" (Dutton, 2023)
Jan 15, 2024
Courtney Denelle, "It's Not Nothing" (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2022)
Jan 12, 2024
Mark Ernest Pothier, "Outer Sunset" (U Iowa Press, 2023)
Jan 10, 2024
Rebecca Turkewitz, "Here in the Night" (Black Lawrence Press, 2023)
Jan 05, 2024
Kyle Dillon Hertz, "The Lookback Window" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
Jan 03, 2024
Lexi Freiman, "The Book of Ayn" (Catapult, 2023)
Dec 29, 2023
Eliza Minot. "In the Orchard" (Knopf, 2023)
Dec 22, 2023
Booksellers' Best Books of 2023
Dec 18, 2023
Bryan Washington, "Family Meal" (Riverhead Books, 2023)
Dec 15, 2023
Julie Schumacher, "The English Experience" (Doubleday, 2023)
Dec 08, 2023
Alexandra Chang, "Tomb Sweeping: Stories" (Ecco Press, 2023)
Dec 01, 2023
Laura Sims, "How Can I Help You" (Putnam, 2023)
Nov 17, 2023
Mina Seçkin, "The Four Humors" (Catapult, 2022)
Nov 10, 2023
Angie Kim, "Happiness Falls" (Hogarth Press, 2023)
Nov 03, 2023
Andrew Ridker, "Hope" (Viking, 2023)
Oct 27, 2023
Caroline O'Donoghue, "The Rachel Incident" (Knopf, 2023)
Oct 06, 2023
Hilary Leichter, "Terrace Story" (Ecco, 2023)
Sep 29, 2023
John Fulton, "The Flounder: Stories" (Blackwater Press, 2023)
Sep 12, 2023
Katherine Heiny, "Games and Rituals: Stories" (Knopf, 2023)
Sep 01, 2023
Nazli Koca, "The Applicant" (Grove Press, 2023)
Aug 22, 2023
Jeff Deutsch, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Aug 08, 2023
Kate Doyle, "I Meant It Once" (Algonquin Books, 2023)
Jul 28, 2023
Ruth Madievsky, "All-Night Pharmacy" (Catapult, 2023)
Jul 11, 2023
Victor LaValle, "Lone Women: A Novel" (One World, 2023)
Jun 30, 2023
Molly Lynch, "The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman" (Catapult, 2023)
Jun 27, 2023
Tania James, "Loot: A Novel" (Knopf, 2023)
Jun 16, 2023
Anne Berest, "The Postcard" (Europa Editions, 2023)
Jun 09, 2023
Jane Roper, "The Society of Shame" (Anchor, 2023)
May 26, 2023
Andrew Porter, "The Disappeared: Stories" (Knopf, 2023)
May 19, 2023
Eirinie Carson, "The Dead are Gods" (Melville House, 2023)
May 12, 2023
Jenny Jackson, "Pineapple Street" (Pamela Dorman Books, 2023)
Apr 28, 2023
Rebecca Makkai, "I Have Some Questions for You" (Viking, 2023)
Apr 07, 2023
Rasheed Newson, "My Government Means to Kill Me: A Novel" (Flatiron Books, 2023)
Mar 31, 2023
Jinwoo Chong, "Flux" (Melville House, 2023)
Mar 24, 2023
Julia Langbein, "American Mermaid" (Doubleday, 2023)
Mar 21, 2023
Kashana Cauley, "The Survivalists: A Novel" (Soft Skull Press, 2023)
Mar 07, 2023
Priscilla Gilman, "The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir" (Norton, 2023)
Mar 03, 2023
Deepti Kapoor, "Age of Vice" (Riverhead Books, 2023)
Feb 21, 2023
Daisy Alpert Florin, "My Last Innocent Year" (Henry Holt, 2023)
Feb 17, 2023
Christopher M. Hood, "The Revivalists" (Harper, 2022)
Feb 07, 2023
Sanaë Lemoine, "The Margot Affair" (Hogarth, 2021)
Jan 30, 2023
Matthew Salesses, "The Sense of Wonder" (Little, Brown, 2023)
Jan 24, 2023
Dan Kois, "Vintage Contemporaries" (Harper, 2023)
Jan 11, 2023
Vanessa A. Bee, "Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging" (Astra, 2022)
Jan 04, 2023
Booksellers' Best of 2022
Dec 27, 2022
Anna Hogeland, "The Long Answer" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
Dec 21, 2022
Chrysta Bilton, "Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings" (Little, Brown, 2022)
Dec 09, 2022
Jonathan Escoffery, "If I Survive You" (MCD, 2022)
Dec 06, 2022
Meg Howrey, "They're Going to Love You" (Doubleday Books, 2022)
Dec 02, 2022
Ursula Villarreal-Moura, "Math for the Self-Crippling" (Gold Line Press, 2022)
Nov 28, 2022
Amy Fusselman, "The Means" (Mariner Books, 2022)
Nov 21, 2022
Lynn Steger Strong, "Flight" (Mariner Books, 2022)
Nov 18, 2022
Kayla Maiuri, "Mother In the Dark: A Novel" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
Nov 15, 2022
Kevin Wilson, "Now Is Not the Time to Panic" (Ecco Press, 2022)
Nov 09, 2022
Lydia Millet, "Dinosaurs" (Norton, 2022)
Nov 07, 2022
Matthew Delmont, "Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad" (Viking, 2022)
Nov 02, 2022
Tess Gunty, "The Rabbit Hutch: A Novel" (Knopf, 2022)
Oct 28, 2022
Andrea Barrett, "Natural History: Stories" (Norton, 2022)
Oct 25, 2022
Chelsea Martin, "Tell Me I'm An Artist" (Soft Skull Press, 2022)
Oct 21, 2022
A. M. Homes, "The Unfolding" (Viking, 2022)
Oct 07, 2022
Celeste Ng, "Our Missing Hearts: A Novel" (Penguin, 2022)
Oct 04, 2022
Andrew Sean Greer, "Less Is Lost" (Little Brown, 2022)
Sep 20, 2022
Courtney Zoffness, "Spilt Milk" (McSweeney's, 2021)
Sep 16, 2022
Vauhini Vara, "The Immortal King Rao" (Norton, 2022)
Sep 14, 2022
Sarah Thankam Mathews, "All This Could Be Different" (Viking, 2022)
Sep 05, 2022
Elaine Hsieh Chou, "Disorientation: A Novel" (Penguin, 2022)
Aug 15, 2022
Julia May Jonas, "Vladimir: A Novel" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
Aug 09, 2022
Mohsin Hamid, "The Last White Man" (Riverhead, 2022)
Aug 05, 2022
Alice Elliott Dark, "Fellowship Point: A Novel" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
Jul 26, 2022
Rachel Krantz, "Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation and Non-Monogamy" (Harmony, 2022)
Jul 19, 2022
Rebecca van Laer, "How to Adjust to the Dark" (Long Day, 2022) & Shannon McLeod, "Whimsy" (Long Day, 2021)
Jul 15, 2022
Julia Glass, "Vigil Harbor" (Pantheon, 2022)
Jul 05, 2022
Elisabeth Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jun 24, 2022
Shelly Oria and Kirstin Valdez Quade, "I Know What's Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom" (McSweeney’s Books, 2022)
Jun 21, 2022
Marcy Dermansky, "Hurricane Girl" (Knopf, 2022)
Jun 14, 2022
Peter C. Baker, "Planes" (Knopf, 2022)
Jun 01, 2022
Elif Batuman, "Either/Or" (Penguin, 2022)
May 24, 2022
Grant Ginder, "Let's Not Do That Again" (Henry Holt, 2022)
May 09, 2022
Fernanda Melchor and Sophie Hughes, "Paradais" (New Directions, 2022)
Apr 27, 2022
Natasha Brown, "Assembly" (Little Brown, 2022)
Apr 18, 2022
Jennifer Egan, "The Candy House" (Scribner, 2022)
Apr 05, 2022
Caitlin Barasch, "A Novel Obsession" (Dutton Book, 2022)
Mar 15, 2022
Allegra Hyde, "Eleutheria" (Vintage, 2022)
Mar 08, 2022
Jessamine Chan, "The School for Good Mothers: A Novel" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
Feb 21, 2022
Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, "Anonymous Sex" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
Feb 14, 2022
Andrew Lipstein, "Last Resort" (FSG, 2022)
Feb 11, 2022
Xochitl Gonzalez, "Olga Dies Dreaming" (Flatiron Books, 2022)
Feb 07, 2022
Joanna Rakoff, "My Salinger Year" (Vintage, 2014)
Jan 31, 2022
Percival Everett, "The Trees: A Novel" (Graywolf Press, 2021)
Jan 17, 2022
Cara Blue Adams, "You Never Get It Back" (U Iowa Press, 2021)
Jan 10, 2022
Kalani Pickhart, "I Will Die in a Foreign Land" (Two Dollar Radio, 2021)
Dec 31, 2021
Best Books of the Year 2021, Booksellers Edition
Dec 20, 2021
Benjamin Labatut, "When We Cease to Understand the World" (NYRB, 2021)
Dec 07, 2021
Pola Oloixarac, "Mona" (Picador, 2021)
Nov 22, 2021
Karina Lickorish Quinn, "The Dust Never Settles" (One World, 2021)
Oct 30, 2021
Alexandra Kleeman, "Something New Under the Sun" (Hogarth, 2021)
Sep 28, 2021
Clare Sestanovich, "Objects of Desire" (Knopf, 2021)
Sep 18, 2021
Dana Spiotta, "Wayward" (Knopf, 2021)
Aug 30, 2021
Eleanor Henderson, "Everything I Have is Yours" (Flatiron, 2021)
Aug 11, 2021
Katie Kitamura, "Intimacies" (Riverhead, 2021)
Aug 05, 2021
Brian Hall, "The Stone Loves the World" (Penguin Random House, 2021)
Jul 30, 2021
Hermione Hoby, "Virtue" (Penguin Random House, 2021)
Jul 20, 2021
Rebecca Makkai, "The Great Believers" (Penguin Random House, 2018)
Jul 10, 2021
Jack Wang, "We Two Alone" (HarperCollins, 2021)
Jul 03, 2021
Rumaan Alam, "Leave the World Behind" (Ecco, 2021)
May 07, 2021
Miranda Popkey, "Topics of Conversation" (Knopf, 2020)
Apr 23, 2021
Gina Nutt, "Night Rooms" (Two Dollar Radio, 2021)
Mar 27, 2021
Lauren Oyler, "Fake Accounts" (Catapult, 2021)
Mar 16, 2021
Ellie Eaton, "The Divines" (William Morrow, 2021)
Feb 26, 2021
Valzhyna Mort, "Music for the Dead and Resurrected" (Macmillan, 2020)
Dec 21, 2020
Fascism and its Afterlives: An Interview with Alia Trabucco Zerán and Carl Fischer
Nov 03, 2020
Edan Lepucki, "Woman No. 17" (Penguin Random House, 2017)
Aug 24, 2020
Kevin Wilson, "Nothing to See Here" (HarperCollins, 2020)
Aug 01, 2020
Bob Proehl, "The Nobody People" (Penguin Random House, 2020)
Jun 24, 2020
Alexandra Chang, "Days of Distraction" (HarperCollins, 2020)
May 24, 2020
The Last Bookstore, Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca, NY
May 03, 2020
Eleanor Henderson, "The Twelve-Mile Straight" (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2017)
May 28, 2019