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Mollie Hawkins discusses her brilliant addition to the Object Lessons series: SAXOPHONE. a gorgeous blend of history, cultural analysis, and deeply moving personal reflection.

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Hache Pueyo stops by to chat about BUT NOT TOO BOLD, a beautiful and eerie sapphic monster romance novella wrapped in gothic fantasy trappings.

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Jenn chats with Melissa Ferguson about THE PERFECT ROM COM, writing romantic tension, and maintaining a writing practice while managing a busy family.

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Neena Viel discusses LISTEN TO YOUR SISTER, a laugh-out-loud, deeply terrifying, and big-hearted speculative horror novel. We chat writing lived-in family dynamics and balancing humor and horror.

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Jacqueline Faber stops by to talk about her gorgeous debut novel, THE DEPARTMENT, a dark academic thriller about a college girl who disappears, a professor who goes looking for her, and the secrets that won’t stay buried.

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Anita Kopacz discusses her gorgeous book THE WIND ON HER TONGUE, a standalone companion volume to SHALLOW WATERS. We chat about blending history and mythology, coming of age, and creating empowering historical narratives.

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Drs. Megan Goodwin & Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst chat with Jenn about their fascinating book, RELIGION IS NOT DONE WITH YOU: OR, THE HIDDEN POWER OF RELIGION ON RACE, MAPS, BODIES, AND LAW.

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Drs. David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele return to the show to discuss their new book, OATHBREAKERS: THE WAR OF BROTHERS THAT SHATTERED AN EMPIRE AND MADE MEDIEVAL EUROPE, the follow-up to their brilliant THE BRIGHT AGES.

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Shannon Ives stops by to talk about her lush debut, THOSE FATAL FLOWERS, which seamlessly blends Greco-Roman mythology and the mystery of the vanished Roanoke colony when a siren washes ashore on the North Carolina island in the 16th century.

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Jenn chats with Cynthia Weiner about her arresting debut A GORGEOUS EXCITEMENT, her experiences growing up on the Upper East Side in the 1980s, the “preppy” murder that haunted the summer of 1986, and crafting fiction out of lived experience and “current” events.