How to Set a Fire and Why, Jesse Ball’s singular, blistering new novel,
tells the story of a teenage girl who has lost everything—and will burn
anything.
Lucia’s father is dead, her mother is in a mental hospital, and she’s
living in a garage-turned-bedroom with her aun...
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Host Kathleen Stephenson interviews writer Robert Hill about his new novel,
"The Remnants." The novel is set in the town of New Eden, which is peopled
with hereditary oddities and is now in its last days. As two
near-centenarian citizens prepare for their annual birthday...
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Host Bethany Grabow talks with John Corey Whaley, author of the new
book Highly Illogical Behavior. The novel, peppered with Star Trek: The Next
Generation references, tells tale of Solomon, a teen with a severe anxiety
disorder who hasn’t left the house in over three ye...
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A feral boy comes of age on a campus decadent with starched sheets, sweating
cocktails, and homemade jams. Stub is the cause of that missing sweater, the
pie that disappeared off the cooling rack. Then Stub meets Billy, who takes
him in, and Asthma, who enchants him, and...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Grant Bywaters about his debut mystery novel The
Red Storm.
The Red Storm won the Minotaur Books/PWA Best First Private Eye Novel
Competition, and tells the story of a black heavyweight boxer turned private
investigator in 1930’s New Orleans. The ...
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In Lina Meruane's Seeing Red, fiction and autobiography intertwine. An
intense, visceral novel about the relation between the body, illness, and
human relationship by one of Chile’s brightest young authors. “Lina
Meruane’s prose has great literary force: it emerges fro...
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Host Bethany Grabow talks with Laura O. Foster, author of the new book
Walking with Ramona: Exploring Beverly Cleary’s Portland. Part walking
tour, part history lesson, this guidebook is a unique look at life when
author Beverly Cleary was a young girl in the 1920s and t...
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“If you’ve ever been young, in love, and desperate to live an authentic
life, this book is for you: a ravishing memoir about a young man’s quest
for art, meaning, and a place to call home.”—Anthony Doerr, author of All
the Light We Cannot See
Rob Spillman, the award-win...
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