Turn The Page – Episode 266b

Episode two hundred sixty six – part two

CIA Agent Bill Heflin returns to Bucharest – a cauldron of spies and crooked politicians. This sequel to The Bucharest Dossier finds Agent Heflin back in Bucharest – to clear his name and that of his most valued source who might turn out to be a triple agent. The books mix intrigue, spy craft and a love story with the factual background of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 and changes in the country in its aftermath. Barney talks with author William Maz about both books and learns about tzuika, the ubiquitous plum brandy of Romania.

Turn The Page – Episode 266c

Episode two hundred sixty six – part three

Jessikah and Jenn sat down with Jeffrey Angles, a scholar and translator of Japanese literature who is now publishing the first English translations of Godzilla and Godzilla Raids by Shigeru Kayama.

Turn The Page – Episode 266d

Episode two hundred sixty six – part four

Jesse Q. Sutanto stopped by to chat about her time in Oxford, toxic friendships, and how a silly tiff with her husband inspired I’M NOT DONE WITH YOU YET, a delicious psychological thriller centering around three young women and a toxic friendship from years past.

Turn The Page – Episode 265b

Episode two hundred sixty five – part two

Lucy Clarke chats about writing the dynamics of female friendships and putting them under pressure when in a brand new environment. The Hike is deftly escalating thriller that pits Liz and her friends against a murderer while hiking the mountains of Norway.

Turn The Page – Episode 265a

Episode two hundred sixty five – part one

Alicia Elliott’s AND THEN SHE FELL is a beautiful, frightening, and frequently darkly funny examination of a young Mohawk woman’s experience of motherhood and mental health. Alicia stopped by the show to talk about her gorgeous debut novel.

Turn The Page – Episode 264b

Episode two hundred sixty four – part two

Daniel Braum, a prolific writer of strange tales and quiet horror, is celebrating the reissue of his first collection of short fiction, THE NIGHT MARCHERS. Jenn and Daniel chat about this collection as well as his new novella, THE SERPENT’S SHADOW.

Turn The Page – Episode 264a

Episode two hundred sixty four – part one

Jenn got to sit down with Matt Kirkland, the mastermind behind Dracula Daily, the serialized newsletter version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula that took the internet by storm last year! This new edition presents the text in chronological order alongside art, memes, and jokes from the newsletters’ fan base.

Turn The Page – Episode 264c

Episode two hundred sixty four – part three

Rachel Harrison brings us another fresh twist on horror with BLACK SHEEP, a book about Vesper, a young woman who left her religious home behind and the dark secret that has come to drag her back. It’s not what you think it is.

Turn The Page – Episode 263e

Episode two hundred sixty three – part five

Edward Cahill, a professor of English at Fordham, stopped by to talk about his novel DISORDERLY MEN, which explores the lives of three gay men in the aftermath of a police raid on a gay bar in a pre-Stone Wall Greenwich Village.