Interview: Catherine Burns Author of The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories about Facing the Unknown
You’ve probably heard memorable stories told live by Tig Notaro, Louis C.K., and new voices on the top-of-the-charts radio show and podcast the Moth. Now, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Moth, the show’s artistic director Catherine Burns has assembled a superb collection of these stories in a new book. All These Wonders […]
Interview: Jonas Hassen Khemiri Author of Everything I Don’t Remember
Described as being “reminiscent of the podcast Serial,” Khemiri’s beautiful and deeply meaningful novel is the winner of the August Prize, Sweden’s top literary award. Atria Books simonandschusterpublishing.com Shelf Unbound/Podster: Your novel has been compared to the podcast Serial, in that a novelist seeks to determine whether the main character Samuel’s death was an accident […]
Interview: Micah Bloomberg: Homecoming
Shelf Unbound/Podster: What led to your writing career? Micah Bloomberg: I went to NYU undergrad for film production. You just get thrown into the mix—you’re 17 or 18 and think you’re going to be the next Orson Wells or Wes Anderson. I wanted to write and direct, but I discovered I could do neither, which […]
Interview: Eli Horowitz: Homecoming
The author of The Silent History brings his literary skills to the creation of the psychological thriller podcast Homecoming, now headed for TV. We’ve interviewed Eli Horowitz twice previously about his literary projects The Silent History and The New World. Now he’s back with one of our favorite narrative podcasts, Homecoming, from Gimlet Media. The […]
Interview: Joseph Fink: Welcome to Night Vale
The popular fiction podcast is fun to listen to and now fun to read with a novel and two volumes of episode scripts. A favorite fiction podcast with a devoted fan base, Welcome to Night Vale recently celebrated its 100th episode, released a standalone Welcome to Night Vale novel, and published Volumes 1 and 2 of […]
Excerpt: Angel Blade by Carrie Merrill
About the Book: http://carriemerrill729.wix.com/author Nikka is dying of cancer until a stranger provides her with a cure, but it comes at a steep cost: she must become a Seraph, an angelic being with the power to exorcise and destroy demons. With Gideon, the stranger who introduced her to this life, she learns of the battle […]
Excerpt: Minoan Signs by GJK Campbell-Dunn
About the Book: The Minoan Linear Signs have now been explained as Niger-Congo. And some twenty five full words have been related to Fula. Problematic words of Greek have also been given tentative African etymologies. A new African language, four thousand years old, has come to light in the Linear A documents. So we claim […]
Excerpt: The Replicants by Gerry Burke
About the Book: www.gerryburke.net THEY COME IN PEACE, OR SO THEY SAY. Planet Schmoo is so far into outer space it is the last stop before heaven. When a cataclysmic seismic intervention decimates their world, the Schmooans look for refuge on Earth and a continuation of the lifestyle to which they are accustomed. Homeland security […]
Excerpt: The Marriage of Miss Jane Austen, Vol. 2 by Collins Hemingway
About the Book: http://www.austenmarriage.com Jane Austen Lived a Quiet, Single Life–Or Did She? Tradition holds that Jane Austen lived a proper, contemplative, unmarried life. But what if she wed a man as passionate and intelligent as she–and the marriage remained secret for 200 years? The Marriage of Miss Jane Austen resolves the biggest mystery of Austen’s life–the “lost […]
Excerpt: The Marriage of Miss Jane Austen, Vol. 1 by Collins Hemingway
About the Book: http://www.austenmarriage.com Tradition holds that Jane Austen lived a prim and proper life as a single woman. But what if she wed a man as passionate and intelligent as she—and the marriage remained secret for 200 years? The Marriage of Miss Jane Austen is a trilogy that resolves the biggest mysteries of Austen’s life, […]