Across the Pond
By Lori Feathers & Sam Jordison
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Episodes: 137
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Across the Pond is a podcast about the most discussed and anticipated books on both sides of the Atlantic. Texas indie bookstore owner Lori Feathers and UK publisher Sam Jordison bring their unique perspectives on the book business, local literary trends, and author news. In each episode Lori and Sam will also provide a critical take on an important book, discussing how it has been anticipated and received on either side of the pond. Exciting US and UK authors occasionally join Lori and Sam to talk about their work.
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138. Will Self, "The Quantity Theory of Morality"
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May 26, 2026 |
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137. Caroline Bicks, "Monsters in the Archive"
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May 12, 2026 |
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136. David Keenan "Boyhood"
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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135. Angela Flournoy, "The Wilderness"
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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134. Eoghan Walls, "Field Notes From An Extinction"
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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133. Joanna Kavenna, "Seven"
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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132. Álvaro Enrigue, "Now I Surrender"
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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131. James Cahill, "The Violet Hour"
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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130. Caleb Klaces, "Mr. Outside"
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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129. Simón López Trujillo, "Pedro the Vast"
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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128. Austyn Wohlers, "Hothouse Bloom"
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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127. Xiaolu Guo, "Call Me Ishmaelle"
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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126. Gonzalo C. Garcia, "Telenovela"
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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125. Sarah Hall, "Helm"
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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124. Brad Fox, "Another Bone-Swapping Event"
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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123. Anbara Salam, "The Salvage"
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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122. Chris Kraus, "The Four Spent the Day Together"
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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121. Lily King, "Heart the Lover"
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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120. Tom Cox, "Everything Will Swallow You"
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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119. Miranda Mellis, "Crocosmia"
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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118. Josephine Rowe, "Little World"
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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117. Issa Quincy, "Absence"
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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116. Catherine Lacey, "The Möbius Book"
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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115. Jonathan Gibbs, "Randall"
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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114. Wendy Erskine, "The Benefactors"
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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113. Megan Hunter, "Days of Light"
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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112. Seán Hewitt, "Open, Heaven"
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May 27, 2025 |
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111. Vijay Khurana "The Passenger Seat"
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May 13, 2025 |
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110. Laurent Binet, "Perspective(s)"
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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109. Jonathan Coe, "The Proof of My Innocence"
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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108. "The Frog in the Throat" by Markus Werner with translator Michael Hofmann
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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107. House of Fury by Evelio Rosero with translator Victor Meadowcroft
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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106. Jón Kalman Stefánsson, "Heaven and Hell"
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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105. Steve Stern, "A Fool's Kabbalah"
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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104. Ali Smith, "Gliff"
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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103. Holly Pester, "The Lodgers"
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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102. "Wuthering Heights"
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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101. Graeme Macrae Burnet, "A Case of Matricide"
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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100th Episode with Dan Wells
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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99. Rita Bullwinkel, "Headshot"
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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98. Rodrigo Fresán, "Melvill"
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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97. Mark Haber, "Lesser Ruins"
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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96. Sam Mills, "The Watermark"
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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95. Mark Bowles "All My Precious Madness"
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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94. Jamie Quatro, " Two-Step Devil"
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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93. Noémi Kiss-Deáki, "Mary and the Rabbit Dream"
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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92. Claire Kilroy, "Soldier Sailor"
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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91. Kazim Ali, "Indian Winter"
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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90. J.L. Carr "A Month in the Country"
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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89. Sarah Perry, "Enlightenment"
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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88. Andrew O'Hagan, "Caledonian Road"
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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87. Clare Pollard, "The Modern Fairies"
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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86. Alex Pugsley, " The Education of Aubrey McKee"
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May 28, 2024 |
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85. Ada Zhang, "The Sorrows of Others"
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May 14, 2024 |
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84. Danielle Dutton, "Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other"
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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83. Scarlett Thomas, "The Sleepwalkers"
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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82. Douglas Westerbeke, "A Short Walk Through a Wide World"
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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81. Aron Aji and Selin Gökçesu (translators), "Lojman"
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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80. Lars Iyer, "My Weil"
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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79. Sebastián Martínez Daniell, "Two Sherpas"
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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78. Alexis Wright, "Praiseworthy"
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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77. Paul Lynch "Prophet Song"
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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76. Mike McCormack, "This Plague of Souls"
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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75. Christine Coulson, "One Woman Show"
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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74. Don Gillmor, "Breaking and Entering"
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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73. Christine Lai, "Landscapes"
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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72. Kate Briggs, "The Long Form"
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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71. Adam Biles, "Beasts of England"
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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70. Caleb Azumah Nelson, "Small Worlds"
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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69. Ben Fountain, "Devil Makes Three"
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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68. Sheena Patel, "I'm a Fan"
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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67. Paola Ferrante, "Her Body Among Animals"
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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66. Rian Hughes, "The Black Locomotive"
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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64. Translator Frances Riddle, "A Little Luck" (by Claudia Piñeiro)
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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63. Colin Walsh, "Kala"
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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62. Stephanie Bishop, "The Anniversary"
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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61. Kathryn Bromwich, "At the Edge of the Woods"
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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60. Isabella Hammad, "Enter Ghost"
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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59. Jenny Erpenbeck, "Kairos"
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May 30, 2023 |
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58. Brad Fox, "The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths"
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May 16, 2023 |
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57. Toby Litt, "A Writer's Diary"
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May 02, 2023 |
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56. Martin Riker, "The Guest Lecture"
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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55. Catherine Lacey, "Biography of X"
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Ep. 54, Todd McEwan, "Cary Grant's Suit: Nine Movies that Made Me the Wreck I Am Today"
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Ep. 53, Donal Ryan, "The Queen of Dirt Island"
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Ep. 52, Stephen May, "Sell Us the Rope"
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Ep. 51, Paul Harding, "This Other Eden"
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Ep. 50, Maddie Mortimer, "Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies"
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Ep. 49, Selby Wynn Schwartz, "After Sappho"
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Ep. 48, Cristina Rivera Garza, "New and Selected Short Stories"
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Ep. 47, Robin McLean, "Get'em Young, Treat'em Tough, Tell'em Nothing"
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Ep. 46, Dorthe Nors, "A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast"
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Ep. 45, Suzette Mayr, "The Sleeping Car Porter"
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Ep. 44, Michael Hingston, "Try Not to be Strange"
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Ep. 43 Damion Searls, "A New Name" (Jon Fosse)
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Ep. 42, Steve Stern, "The Village Idiot"
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Ep. 41, DeMisty Bellinger, "New to Liberty"
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Ep. 40, Gwendoline Riley, "My Phantoms" & "First Love"
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Ep. 39, Sonia Overall, "Eden"
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Ep. 38, Penelope Mortimer, "Daddy's Gone A-Hunting"
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Ep. 37, Katie Whittemore, "Wolfskin"
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Ep. 36, Hans von Trotha & translator Elisabeth Lauffer, "Pollak's Arm"
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Ep. 35, Nina Stibbe, "One Day I Shall Astonish the World"
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Ep. 34, Patrick McCabe, "Poguemahone"
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Ep 33, Benjamin Myers, " The Perfect Golden Circle"
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May 31, 2022 |
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Ep. 32, Lan Samantha Chang, "The Brothers Karamazov"
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May 17, 2022 |
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Ep. 31, Steve Toltz, "Here Goes Nothing"
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May 03, 2022 |
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Ep. 30, Hugo Hamilton, "The Pages"
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Ep. 29, Lan Samantha Chang, "The Brothers Karamazov"
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Ep. 28, Elise Levine, "Say This: Two Novellas"
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Ep. 27, Salena Godden, "Mrs. Death Misses Death"
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Ep. 26, Lan Samantha Chang, "The Brothers Karmazarov"
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Ep. 25, Saskia Vogel, "The Bear Woman"
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Ep. 24, Lan Samantha Chang, "The Family Chao"
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Ep. 23, Javier Marias, "Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear"
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Ep 22, David Colmer "A Guardian Angel Recalls"
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Ep 21, Robin McLean, "Pity the Beast"
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Ep. 20, John Le Carre, "Silverview"
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Ep. 19, Keith Ridgway, "A Shock"
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Ep. 18, Sarah Hall, "Burntcoat"
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Ep 17, Ernest Hemingway, "In Our Time"
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Ep. 16, Elaine Feeney, "As You Were"
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Ep. 15, Jon McGregor, "Lean, Fall, Stand"
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Ep. 14, James Clammer, "Insignificance"
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Ep 13, Hunter S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Ep 12, Annie McDermott, "The Luminous Novel"
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Ep 11, Rachel Donohue, "The Temple House Vanishing"
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Ep 10, Alex Pheby, "Lucia"
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Ep 9, Gabriel Krauze, "Who They Was"
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Ep 8, Paul Mendez, "Rainbow Milk"
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Ep 7, Doireann Ni Ghriofa, "Ghost in the Throat"
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Ep 6, Claire Fuller, "Unsettled Ground"
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May 18, 2021 |
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Ep 5, Caleb Azumah Nelson, "Open Water"
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May 06, 2021 |
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Ep 4, Fiona Mozley "Hot Stew"
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Ep 3, Marian Engel "Bear"
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Ep 2, Kazuo Ishiguro, "Klara and the Sun"
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Ep 1, podcast intro; Martin Amis' "Inside Story"
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Mar 10, 2021 |