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Professors Lee Kuhnle & Nathan Radke present UNCOVER UP: HOW TO THINK CLEARLY IN AN AGE OF CONSPIRACIES, an urgent exploration of how conspiratorial thinking, misinformation, and anti-intellectualism take hold and spread, with suggestions for how to see the truth through the noise.
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Beauty doesn’t fade. It feeds. Alma Katsu returns to the show to discuss INCARNATE, a brilliant and disturbing remix of Oscar Wilde’s THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY for the age of internet start-ups and generative AI.
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In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers… even at the threat of war. Premee Mohamed returns to the show to discuss her epic spy fantasy.
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Kelly McWilliams shares AMERICAN NIGHTMARE, a deeply affecting work of historical thriller and horror that follows a light-skinned Black man working undercover for the NAACP to investigate violent lynchings in the Jim Crow South.
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Carson explores the way community and connections build and buckle under the eye of a charismatic leader in DARK MESSIAH, a novel told from the POV of 15 year old Nell, a teenager living in 1975 San Francisco on a collision course with a Jonestown inspired cult.
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Isabelle Correa discusses her gorgeous poetry, collected in PORTRAIT OF A PERSON WHO PUSHES LOVE AWAY IN FEAR OF LOSING IT. Through intimate and darkly funny poems, Isabelle Correa explores heartbreak, desire, healing, and the lifelong search for a love that doesn’t require losing yourself.
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She was taught to endure. Her daughter teaches her to dream. Local author and friend-of-the-show Carol Hoenig returns to discuss her newest work of moving and insightful fiction, THE LIBERATION OF JANE CARTER, set in the rugged mountains and farms of Upstate New York in the early 1900s.
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Kasey Lansdale shares FIRST CHANCE, a witty, impossible-to-put-down thriller in which small-town detective Chance Kirby must stop a predator who, it seems, has managed to evade authorities for decades…or risk becoming the next target.
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Nafiza Azad and Intisar Khanani share their gorgeous edited collection A THOUSAND NIGHTS, a groundbreaking YA anthology featuring sixteen Muslim women writers that links together fantastical stories that a group of refugees tell one another within a riveting frame story.
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Michelle Brandon AKA Eliza Knight presents TRADWIFE, a juicy mystery thriller set in an exclusive enclave embracing traditional values and gender roles, a step back in time to an era of female submission and patriarchal leadership.