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Marisa Silver tackles friendships, grief, and parenting in The Mysteries, a story set in the 1970’s which explores the friendship between two young girls — one reserved, the other irrepressible — their families, and the impact of tragedy which weighs on their families.
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Camille Pagan writes breezy books about serious topics. Don’t Make Me Turn this Life Around is her latest that explores the life of Libby over a decade after she beat cancer. Fun fact! This book is a follow up to Pagan’s, Life and other Near Death Experiences which has been optioned for film by Jessica Chastain’s film company.
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Lyricist and novelist, Polly Samson takes us to the island of Hydra during the 1960’s — a legendary community of artists and creatives. Polly joined us to chat about Leonard Cohen, Charmain Clift and her amazing family as seen in the YouTube series The Von Trapped Family
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Jess moves with her family to Penang Malaysia she becomes the unwitting medium for her estranged ornery grandmother who passed away amidst unfinished business. Cho’s Blackwater Sister is funny, scary, and touching all at the same time.
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Kin to books such as Children of Men and World War Z, Baird’s debut novel The End of Men brings a world where a virus that infects men ravages the world deeply affecting the landscape of gender representation and socialization.
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Joe Goldberg is the world’s favorite meme-able, book loving serial killer, and in Caroline Kepnes’ newest installment of her You series, Joe has his sites set on a new woman. A librarian. We got to “thank” Caroline for that one in this interview.
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Jennifer Saint’s Ariadne turns the story of the Minotaur to focus on his sister Ariadne whose story is pushed aside after she guides the hero Theseus through the labyrinth. Saint chats with us about how mythology narrative often punishes the women adjacent to a male hero, why we crave female perspective, and the emotional weight of being the mother of a monster.
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We got a chance to chat with Madlyn Burkert, the Collections and Exhibitions Archivist at Lucasfilm Ltd. Madlyn took us on a “tour de force” of how she found herself on the path of a pop-culture archivist (shout out to L.I.U.), the challenges of providing reference for future projects, and so much more.
