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Ruth McKell talks about the healing power of bees, nature, and kittens, as told in HONEY IN HER VEINS, a beautiful fantasy with dark edges that introduces us to Arthur and Eva, two former lovers who grapple with the ghosts of their pasts in more ways than one.
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Justin Feinstein shares YOUR BEHAVIOR WILL BE MONITORED: a compulsively readable science fiction novel wrestling with vital questions of our time: sentience, purpose, life, death…and how to make a really good commercial. It’s an all too plausible near future in which emotionally intelligent AI go up against emotionally stunted humans.
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John Chu shares THE SUBTLE ART OF FOLDING SPACE, the exhilarating debut science fiction novel about keeping the universe– and your family– together when it’s falling apart, channeling unhinged physics, generational trauma, and the comfort of really good dim sum.
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Nicole Goux & Dave Baker drop by to discuss their delightful comic collaboration PUNK’N HEADS, a raucous and revealing new graphic novel about making music, making mistakes, facing your past, and choosing your future.
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James Gregory returns to the show to discuss GHOST TOWN, his latest novel set in the late 19th-century, exploring ambition, isolation, and connection in the fictional coal mining town of Sulphur Creek, Pennsylvania.
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Donna Jones Alward shares SHIP OF DREAMS, a thoughtful look at the Titanic focusing on the friendship between two women, Hannah and Louisa, as they navigate personal secrets and societal expectations during the ship’s maiden voyage and its tragic aftermath.
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Iris is wrapped up in the grief of her fiance’s death until she meets. Jack, a gorgeous young widower who has joined her grief counseling group. In SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS, Georgia McVeigh presents us with two very unreliable narrators who use the vulnerability of grief in very unexpected ways.
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Amber Husain shares TELL ME HOW YOU EAT: FOOD, POWER, AND THE WILL TO LIVE, an insightful and affecting collection about the political, cultural, and personal dimensions of eating, moving beyond the individual to see food as a tool for power and resistance. Content note for discussion of disordered eating.
