Jan 31, 2024

Christina Cooke is the author of the debut novel Broughtupsy, available from Catapult.

Cooke's writing has previously appeared in The Caribbean Writer, Prairie Schooner, PRISM international, Epiphany: A Literary Journal, and elsewhere. A MacDowell Fellow, Journey Prize winner, and Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award...

Jan 28, 2024

Annie Liontas is the author of the memoir-in-essays Sex with a Brain Injury, available from Scribner.

Liontas is also the author of the novel Let Me Explain You, and they co-edited the anthology A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors. Their work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Gay Magazine,...

Jan 26, 2024

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 370, my conversation with author Lidia Yuknavitch. It first aired on July 15, 2015.

Yuknavitch is the bestselling author of the novels Thrust, The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children, and Dora: A Headcase, the story collection Verge, and the memoir The Chronology of...

Jan 24, 2024

Venita Blackburn is the author of the debut novel Dead in Long Beach, CA, available from MCD Books.  

Blackburn's other books include the story collection Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and the...

Jan 21, 2024

Ishmael Reed is the author of the play The Slave Who Loved Caviar, now available in print from Archway Editions.

Ishmael Reed is the author of over twenty-five books including Mumbo Jumbo, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, Conjugating Hindi, Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico and most recently Malcolm and Me and Why...