Turn The Page – Episode 396C – Amber Husain

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.

Turn The Page – Episode 395E – Mark Peres

Mark Peres shares THE ACCORD, a speculative literary novel about a grieving professor of moral philosophy, begins using an AI assistant to help prepare for her classes, and eventually, to heal. Find more info here. 

Turn The Page – Episode 395B – Rebecca Lehmann

Rebecca Lehmann shares THE BEHEADING GAME, a sharp-as-knives work of speculative historical fiction that imagines Anne Boleyn mysterious resurrection after her execution, and her efforts to protect her daughter Elizabeth and exact bloody revenge.

Turn The Page – Episode 395A – Amal El-Mohtar

Jenn chats with Amal El-Mohtar about the breathtaking short story collection SEASONS OF GLASS AND IRON, encompassing almost twenty years of storytelling across multiple genres, modes, and worlds.

Turn The Page – Episode 394D – Ian Domowitz

Lived truth challenges conception of the artificially intelligent in a serial allegory of one AI’s search for the Singularity. Ian Domowitz shares INITIAL CONDITION, the third book in THE MECHANIC’S DIARY series.

Turn The Page – Episode 394C – Karma Brown

#1 international bestselling author Karma Brown shares her horror debut MOTHER IS WATCHING, in which an art conservator’s obsession with a mysterious painting spirals into a nightmarish descent, where the line between reality and the supernatural shatters.

Turn The Page – Episode 394B – Luke Kennard

Luke Kennard chats about BLACK BAG, a novel about an out-of-work actor who takes a bizarre job for a university professor: sitting silently inside a large leather bag during lectures as part of a psychological experiment.

Turn The Page – Episode 393E – Craig Yorke

Dr. Craig Yorke stops by to share his inspiring memoir, STEEP: A BLACK NEUROSURGEON’S JOURNEY. a story of resilience and self-discovery that will resonate with anyone who has wrestled with their past while chasing the American dream.

Turn The Page – Episode 393C – Alex Woodroe

Jenn chats with Alex Woodroe: writer of dark speculative fiction and the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated editor-in-chief of Tenebrous Press. We discuss how Romanian history, government repression and surveillance, and horror in confined spaces come to bear on her novel THE NIGHT SHIP.