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Episodes
Mallory Ortberg, "THE MERRY SPINSTER"
11 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sinister and inviting, familiar and alien all at the same time, The Merry Spinster updates traditional children's stories and fairy tales with eleme...
Mr. Fish, "AND THEN THE WORLD BLEW UP"
11 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What do you get when you cross a fistful of pens and an enormous stack of blank paper with somebody who resents the sweet-smelling muzzle of good man...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, "WRESTLING WITH THE DEVIL"
10 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Written in the early 1980s and never before published in America, this compelling prison memoir gives readers a rare glimpse into the hidden story be...
Joy Press, "STEALING THE SHOW"
10 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In Stealing the Show: How Women are Revolutionizing Television, journalist and television critic Joy Press celebrates the women who broke through ...
Wallace Shawn, "NIGHT THOUGHTS"
09 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Writer and actor Wallace Shawn's probing, honest, and self-critical take on civilization and its discontents. Although he is guided and inspired by th...
Elizabeth Flock, "THE HEART IS A SHIFTING SEA"
09 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We may view India as a country steeped in, and perhaps constrained by, tradition, yet in the twenty-first century the pervasive influence of Western ...
Alec Byrne, "LONDON ROCK"
08 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What happened on the music scene in 1960s and 1970s London was nothing short of a cultural revolution. At the center of this heyday was photographer ...
Kim Purcell, "THIS IS NOT A LOVE LETTER"
08 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This Is Not a Love Letter, by award-winning author Kim Purcell, is a both intimate and immediate love story examining race, loss, and mental health ...
"CULPRITS" Anthology Reading
08 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A hard-bitten crew of professional thieves pull off the score of their lives, coming away with seven million in cash. Like any heist there are some u...
Christopher Zeischegg, "BODY TO JOB"
07 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Former porn star Christopher Zeischegg (aka Danny Wylde), gathers six years of writing into one definitive collection. A memoir of an adult film ca...
Morgan Jerkins, "THIS WILL BE MY UNDOING"
07 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As one of the fiercest and most powerful critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins is a rising star in the literary world. Praised by such icons as Roxane...
Tavi Gevinson, "ROOKIE ON LOVE"
06 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tavi Gevinson returns to start the New Year off right with Rookie on Love, an anthology about the heart's most powerful emotion. Featuring exclusive...
Tee Franklin, "BINGO LOVE"
06 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When Hazel Johnson and Mari McCray met at church bingo in 1963, it was love at first sight. Forced apart by their families and society, Hazel and Mari...
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, "CALL ME ZEBRA"
05 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi has been hailed as an author “on the verge of developing a whole new...
Joanna Angel, "NIGHT SHIFT"
04 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
From the sinfully delicious mind of Joanna Angel, founder of adult company BurningAngel and award-winning adult actress and director, comes Night Sh...
Dahlia Schweitzer, "GOING VIRAL"
04 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In Going Viral, Dahlia Schweitzer probes outbreak narratives in film, television, and a variety of other media, putting them in conversation with rhe...
Deborah Reed, "THE DAYS WHEN BIRDS COME BACK"
03 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
n her latest novel, The Days When Birds Come Back, Deborah Reed weaves an unforgettable tale of redemption and perseverance that questions what it m...
Tom Macher, "HALFWAY"
03 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In his late teens Tom Macher rebelled against a world that seemed stacked against him. Raised in a broken family and estranged from an absentee father...
Sandra Allen, "A KIND OF MIRRACULAS PARADISE"
02 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story About Schizophrenia, Sandra Allen tells her uncle's story faithfully to his account. Eight years in t...
Sara Saedi, "AMERICANIZED"
02 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In Americanized, bright-eyed, straight-A student Sara Saedi uncovered a terrible secret at age thirteen: she was breaking the law simply by living in...
Scott McClanahan, "THE SARAH BOOK"
01 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Sarah Book is master storyteller Scott McClanahan's portrait of new love, young heartbreak, the coming together of families, and families coming ...
Damien Ober, "DOCTOR BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S DREAM AMERICA"
01 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Damien Ober's Doctor Benjamin Franklin's Dream America is a blazingly original fictional history that weaves twenty-first century technology into a ...
Paul Briggs and Benson Shum
30 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest edition of the Walt Disney Animation Studios Artist Showcase series Catch My Breath, acclaimed animation talent Paul Briggs (Big Hero 6...
OBJECT LESSONS with Evan Kindley, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, and Anna Leahy
30 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bloomsbury's Object Lessons is a series of concise, collectable, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Each book start...
Leni Zumas, "RED CLOCKS"
30 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Life, liberty and property: for every embryo. This is the effect of the Personhood Amendment, passed by a new president with big ideas. Not only does ...
Sam Graham-Felsen, "GREEN"
29 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Boston, 1992. David Greenfeld is one of the few white kids at the Martin Luther King Middle School. Everybody clowns him, girls ignore him, and his hi...
Krista Suh, "DIY RULES FOR A WTF WORLD"
29 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On January 21, 2017, millions of protestors took part in the Women's March, and many of them created a "sea of pink" when they wore knitted pink "pu...
Colin Winnette, "THE JOB OF THE WASP"
29 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A new arrival at an isolated school for orphaned boys quickly comes to realize there is something wrong with his new home. He hears chilling whispers ...
Chris McCormick, "DESERT BOYS"
28 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A luminous debut, Chris McCormick's Desert Boys traces the development of towns into cities, of boys into men, and the haunting effects produced wh...
Susanna Fogel, "NUCLEAR FAMILY"
28 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“Your Grandma Rose Has Some Questions about Your Interracial Relationship” So starts one of the letters in the dynamic debut novel Nuclear Family...
Tom Gauld, "BAKING WITH KAFKA"
27 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In his inimitable style, British cartoonist Tom Gauld has opened comics to a crossover audience and challenged perceptions of what the medium can be. ...
Fran Krause, "THE CREEPS"
27 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Illustrator, animator, teacher, and comic artist Fran Krause has touched a collective nerve with his wildly popular web comic series–and subsequent ...
Santiago Gamboa, "RETURN TO THE DARK VALLEY"
26 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Return to the Dark Valley travels between European cities scarred by terrorism that have turned increasingly xenophobic and Latin American landscape...
Scott Esposito, "THE DOUBLES"
26 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Part memoir-through-film, part inquiry into the effect art has on our lives, Scott Esposito's The Doubles is a passionate, exquisitely written exami...
Karl Geary, "MONTPELIER PARADE"
25 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Montpelier Parade is just across town, but to Sonny it might as well be a different world. Working with his father in the garden of one of its handsom...
Clara Parkes, "A STASH OF ONE'S OWN"
25 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A Stash of One’s Own: Knitters on Loving, Living With, and Letting Go of Yarn is an addictive-to-read anthology that celebrates yarn—specifically...
Robin Sloan, "SOURDOUGH"
24 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapse...
Augustus Rose, "THE READYMADE THIEF"
23 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lee Cuddy is seventeen years old and on the run, alone on the streets of Philadelphia. After taking the fall for a rich friend, Lee reluctantly accep...
Eleanor Henderson, "THE TWELVE-MILE STRAIGHT"
19 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Eleanor Henderson’s bestselling debut novel Ten Thousand Saints was named one of the New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of the year ...
Daniel Sweren-Becker, "THE EQUALS"
18 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when your own government turns against you? The Equality Team continues to round up and subject The Ones—the 1% of the American popul...
Alistair McCartney, "THE DISINTEGRATIONS"
18 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“I know nothing about death, absolutely nothing,” asserts the narrator of Alistair McCartney's inventive autobiographical novel. Yet he can’t ...
Demetri Martin, "IF IT'S NOT FUNNY, IT'S ART"
17 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Demetri Martin, comedian and New York Times bestselling author of This Is a Book and Point Your Face at This, is back with another collection of ...
Tod Goldberg, "GANGSTER NATION"
17 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been two years since the events of Gangsterland, when legendary Chicago hitman Sal Cupertine disappeared into the guise of Las Vegas Rabbi D...
Matthew Zapruder, "WHY POETRY"
17 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry--and poetry alone--can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have be...
Attica Locke, "BLUEBIRD, BLUEBIRD"
17 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Attica Locke considers herself a Texan-in-exile, one with a complicated relationship to the truck-stop towns up and down Highway 59 in East Texas, wh...
Anne Gisleson, "THE FUTILITARIANS"
17 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For most people, early middle age doesn’t include a philosophical reading list and a deep dive into existentialism. But if Anne Gisleson’s new me...
BEN LOORY READS FROM HIS NEW BOOK TALES OF FALLING AND FLYING
02 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Loory returns with a second collection of timeless tales, inviting us to enter his worlds of whimsical fantasy, deep empathy, and playful humor...
SHAWNA KENNEY & RICH DOLINGER DISCUSS THEIR BOOK LIVE AT THE SAFARI CLUB WITH MIKE GITTER AND HIS BOOK XXX FANZINE
31 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Live at the Safari Club: A People’s History of HarDCore is the uncensored oral history of a notorious underground punk venue in the nation’s c...
MAJA D'AOUST DISCUSSES HER NEW TAROT DECK THE WHITE WITCH TAROT
30 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Join White Witch Maja D’Aoust as she gives a live divination demonstration exploring an alternative method for reading the Tarot based on Alchemi...
DC'S YOUNG ANIMAL PANEL FEATURING CECIL CASTELLUCCI, GERARD WAY, JONATHAN RIVERA AND JODY HOUSER
29 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Shade the Changing Girl, Vol. 1 Earth Girl Made Easy From writer Cecil Castellucci and artist Marley Zarcone, Shade the Changing Girl, Vol. 1 Earth...
CARINA CHOCANO DISCUSSES HER BOOK YOU PLAY THE GIRL WITH KRISTINA WONG
25 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this smart, funny, impassioned call to arms, a pop culture critic merges memoir and commentary to explore how our culture shapes ideas about wh...
LUCY IVES READS FROM HER NOVEL IMPOSSIBLE VIEWS OF THE WORLD WITH AMINA CAIN
24 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
(Podcast editor's note: The Q&A segment for this event took place off-mic for the most part and, despite our best efforts, the audio is difficult t...
MCSWEENEY'S 50TH ISSUE RELEASE PARTY
23 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for release party for Issue 50 of TIMOTHY McSWEENEY’S QUARTERLY CONCERN. To celebrate our 50th issue, we’ve put together a guaranteed...
BRANDY COLBERT READS FROM HER YA NOVEL LITTLE & LION AND STEPHANIE KUEHN READS FROM HER YA NOVEL WHEN I AM TRHOUGH WITH YOU
22 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When Suzette comes home to Los Angeles from her boarding school in New England, she isn’t sure if she’ll ever want to go back. L.A. is where he...
ALICIA MALONE DISCUSSES HER BOOK BACKWARDS AND IN HEELS WITH MAUDE GARRETT
22 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels..." - Ann Richards Women have been inst...
JOANNA NOVAK READS FROM HER DEBUT NOVEL I MUST HAVE YOU
20 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The year is 1999, and thirteen-year-old Elliot is a self-appointed "diet coach" who teaches her classmates how to survive on one stick of gum a day...
JARETT KOBEK READS FROM HIS NOVEL THE FUTURE WON'T BE LONG WITH JAMES ST. JAMES
16 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jarett Kobek published his first novel, I Hate the Internet, last year with a small indie publisher and it immediately took on cult status. Kobek ...
TOM PERROTTA READS FROM HIS NEW NOVEL MRS. FLETCHER
03 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A provocative and wildly funny look at parenthood, the empty nest, and sex in the suburbs. Eve (the eponymous Mrs. Fletcher) is a single mother, d...
MIMI POND DISCUSSES HER GRAPHIC NOVEL THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS WRONG WITH WAYNE WHITE
24 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Join LA-based cartoonist Mimi Pond for the launch of her highly-anticipated graphic novel The Customer Is Always Wrong. Told in the same brash yet ...
LINDSAY HUNTER READS FROM HER NOVEL EAT ONLY WHEN YOU'RE HUNGRY WITH ROXANE GAY
24 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A father searches for his addict son while grappling with his own choices as a parent (and as a user of sorts) Achingly funny and full of feeling, ...
DANIELLE DAVIS READS FROM HER BOOK ZINNIA AND THE BEES
18 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A colony of honeybees mistakes seventh-grader Zinnia’s hair for a hive — and that’s the least of her problems. While Zinnia's classmates are ...
CHRISTA FAUST AND GARY PHILLIPS READ FROM THEIR COMIC PEEPLAND
17 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Times Square, 1986: the home of New York’s red light district where strip clubs, porno theatres and petty crime prevails. When a chance encount...
RYAN GATTIS READS FROM HIS NEW NOVEL SAFE
17 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A gritty, fast-paced thriller, Safe hurtles readers toward a shocking conclusion that asks the toughest question of all: how far would you go to pr...
ADITI KHORANA READS FROM HER NEW NOVEL THE LIBRARY OF FATES
10 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A romantic coming-of-age fantasy tale steeped in Indian folklore, perfect for fans of The Star-Touched Queen and The Wrath and the Dawn. No one ...
CHRISTINE PELISEK DISCUSSES HER BOOK THE GRIM SLEEPER WITH DEBORAH VANKIN
09 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 2006, Christine Pelisek broke the case of a terrifying serial killer who went unchecked in Los Angeles for decades. Two years later, in her cov...
TAMARA SHOPSIN DISCUSSES HER GRAPHIC MEMOIR ARBITRARY STUPID GOAL
07 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childho...
EUGENE LIM READS FROM HIS NEW NOVEL DEAR CYBORGS, WITH JANICE LEE, HAROLD ABRAMOWITZ AND KAREN AN-HWEI LEE
05 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The novel begins with the friendship between two young, Asian American boys in a small, Midwestern town who bond over their outcast status and shar...
CINDY RINNE READS FROM LISTEN TO THE CODEX, WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
04 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Native Blossoms Chapbook Series embraces poetry of place, exploring connections to the natural landscape, the untamed, the indigenous. Each c...
BOOKWOMEN SPEAK: WNBA CENTENNIAL VISIONARIES SERIES FEATURING JADE CHANG, NATASHIA DEON AND LISA MECHAM
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In honor of Women’s National Book Association’s 2017 centennial anniversary, WNBA/LA is proud to present: Bookwomen Speak: WNBA Centennial Vi...
RICHARD LANGE READS FROM HIS NEW NOVEL THE SMACK
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Rowan Petty is a conman down on his luck. He's flat broke, living out of cheap hotels, and wondering how it all went wrong. His car quits on him in...
PAUL MADONNA DISCUSSES HIS BOOK ON TO THE NEXT DREAM
28 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Madonna's popular comic, "All Over Coffee" had been running for twelve years in the San Francisco Chronicle when he was evicted from his longt...
JENNIFER BRODY DISCUSSES HER NEW YOUNG ADULT NOVEL THE UNITED CONTINUUMS, WITH ELIZABETH BRIGGS AND XACH FROMSON
27 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the epic conclusion to the award-winning Continuum Trilogy, Aero leads a group insurgents from the Second Continuum to overthrow his rival Supre...
ZINZI CLEMMONS READS FROM HER DEBUT NOVEL WHAT WE LOSE
23 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
From an author of rare, haunting power, a stunning novel about a young African-American woman coming of age--a deeply felt meditation on race, sex,...
VICTORIA REDEL DISCUSSES HER NOVEL BEFORE EVERYTHING, WITH SETH GREENLAND
21 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Before Everything is a celebration of friendship and love between a group of women who have known each another since they were girls. They’ve faced...
JANELLE BROWN READS FROM HER NEW NOVEL WATCH ME DISAPPEAR
18 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How well can you ever really know another person—even the woman that you sleep beside, night after night? It's been a year since Billie Flanagan-...
LITERARY PACHANGA PRESENTS JESUS TREVINO, ALICIA GASPAR DE ALBA AND CHRISTINE GRANADOS
15 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Literary Pachanga showcases three Chicano authors. Skylight Books will host a trio of authors to celebrate Southern California’s ties to the Ellis I...
CHELSEA MARTIN DISCUSSES CACA DOLCE WITH MIRA GONZALEZ
06 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life (Soft Skull Press) From a cult favorite and indie-press bestseller who has been called “the preeminent chro...
FRAN KRAUSE DISCUSSES HIS NEW COMIC THE CREEPS
06 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Creeps (Ten Speed Press) A follow-up to the New York Times best-selling Deep Dark Fears: a second volume of comics based on people’s quirky,...
DAVID ROCKLIN READS FROM HIS NEW NOVEL THE NIGHT LANGUAGE
06 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Night Language (Rare Bird Books) The Night Language tells the story of a young man, Prince Alamayou of Abyssinia (present day Ethiopia), who is...
LISKA JACOBS READS FROM HER DEBUT NOVEL CATALINA WITH DAVID ULIN
06 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Catalina (Farrar/MCD) A magnetic, provocative debut novel chronicling a young woman’s downward spiral following the end of an affair Elsa Fisher is...
STEFAN BUCHER READS FROM HIS BOOK LETTERHEADS
22 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
LetterHeads: An Eccentric Alphabet (Unnamed Press) From the creator of the popular Daily Monster YouTube series comes a revolutionary new vision for ...
ANN WHITFORD PAUL READS FROM HER CHILDREN'S BOOK IF ANIMALS SAID I LOVE YOU
22 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
If Animals Said I Love You (Farrar Straus Giroux) If animals said “I love you” like we do... how would they say it? Whale would make bubbles shoo...
MARY KURYLA READS FROM HER COLLECTION FREAK WEATHER WITH BRENDA WEHLE
22 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Freak Weather (Massachusetts Press) From a nurse who sees a rattlesnake in the pediatric ICU to an animal control officer convinced she’s found he...
PANIO GIANOPOULOS DISCUSSES HIS NEW COLLECTION OF STORIES HOW TO GET INTO OUR HOUSE AND WHERE WE KEEP THE MONEY WITH CECIL CASTELLUCCI
22 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How to Get into Our House and Where We Keep the Money (Four Way Books) In this collection’s tour-de-force title story, Ethan, a marketing manager f...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY DISCUSSES HER BOOK FROM HERE TO ETERNITYCAITLIN DOUGHTY DISCUSSES HER BOOK FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
22 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
From Here To Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (W.W. Norton) In From Here To Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death...
TARA JEPSEN DISCUSSES HER BOOK LIKE A DOG WITH MICHELLE TEA
11 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Like a Dog (City Light Publishing) A scrappy young skateboarder's story of underground worlds and fringe existences, confusing family relationships a...
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO READS FROM HER NEW SHORT STORY COLLECTION HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES
11 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf Press) In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between ...
KENNY FRIES DISCUSSES HIS MEMOIR IN THE PROVINCE OF THE GODS WITH EMILY RAPP BLACK
11 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the Province of the Gods (University of Wisconsin Press) An American's journey of profound self-discovery in Japan, and an exquisite tale of cultu...
LARRY SMITH AND SPECIAL GUESTS DISCUSS SIX WORDS FRESH OFF THE BOAT
11 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Six Words Fresh Off the Boat: Stories of Immigration, Identity, and Coming to America (Kingswell) Marrying the acclaimed immigration-themed ABC Te...
WRITING WHILE FEMALE: WOMEN’S FICTION, CHICK LIT, AND OTHER MISDEMEANORS WITH TERI EMORY AND HEIDI MASTROGIOVANNI
11 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The novelists Teri Emory (Second Acts) and Heidi Mastrogiovanni (Lala Pettibone’s Act Two) have between them well over a century’s life experienc...
MARTHA BATALHA DISCUSSES HER NEW NOVEL THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF EURIDICE GUSMAO WITH CORINNE PURTILL
11 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao (Oneworld Publications) Euridice is young, beautiful and ambitious. For her parents’ sake, she sacrifices he...
STEPHEN ELLIOTT DISCUSSES HIS COLLECTION OF ESSAYS SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT IT
11 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes I Think About It (Graywolf Press) Building on the extraordinary storytelling that characterized his breakout book, The Adderall Diaries, S...
SARAH SCHULMAN DISCUSSES HER BOOK CONFLICT IS NOT ABUSE
11 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Conflict Is Not Abuse (Arsenal Pulp Press) From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusa...
MANDY KAHN READS FROM HER BOOK OF POETRY GLENN GOULD'S CHAIR
11 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Glenn Gould's Chair (Eyewear Publishing) Mandy Kahn’s wonderfully inventive and gloriously lyrical second collection of poems, Glenn Gould’s Ch...
WNBA/LA CELEBRATES NATIONAL READING GROUP MONTH WITH SIEL JU, ABBI WAXMAN AND GABRIELLE ZEVIN
04 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
ctober is National Reading Group Month. Celebrate the joy of reading! Join WNBA/LA for a panel discussion at Skylight Books with critically-acclaim...
THOM ANDERSEN DISCUSSES HIS BOOK OF ESSAYS SLOW WRITING WITH TOSH BERMAN
04 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Slow Writing: Thom Andersen on Cinema (Visible Press) Slow Writing is a collection of articles by Thom Andersen that reflect on the avant-garde, Hol...
JJ STRONG READS FROM HIS DEBUT US KIDS KNOW WITH LINDSEY LEE JOHNSON
04 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Us Kids Know (Razorbill) We all knew about Cullen Hickson. Siblings Bri and Ray O'Dell are lost. Anxious. Restless. Ray—bullied at his Catholic ...
BRIAN EVENSON, JESSE BALL AND LILLI CARRE DISCUSS THEIR NEW NOVEL THE DEATHS OF HENRY KING
04 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Deaths of Henry King (Uncivilized Books) In The Deaths of Henry King, the hapless Henry King, as advertised, dies. Not just once or even twice, ...
JENNIFER WEISS-WOLF DISCUSSES HER BOOK PERIODS GONE PUBLIC
04 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Periods Gone Public (Arcade Publishing) The first book to explore menstruation in the current cultural and political landscape and to investigate the...
KATHLINE CARR READS FROM HER BOOK MIRACULUM MONSTRUM AND GABRIEL JESIOLOWSKI READS FROM THEIR BOOK AS BURNING LEAVES
04 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Miraculum Monstrum (Red Hen Press) Miraculum Monstrum is a hybrid narrative about fictitious female artist Tristia Vogel, who experiences a radical ...