Burned By Books Literary Podcast
@burnedbybooks.bsky.social
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Literature Professor with a books podcast. Guests include: Jennifer Egan, Percival Everett, AM Homes, Rebecca Makkai, Kevin Wilson, Victor LaValle, Celeste Ng, Katie Kitamura, Elif Batuman. Author of: http://tiny.cc/3e7vzz
Literature Professor with a books podcast. Guests include: Jennifer Egan, Percival Everett, AM Homes, Rebecca Makkai, Kevin Wilson, Victor LaValle, Celeste Ng, Katie Kitamura, Elif Batuman. Author of: http://tiny.cc/3e7vzz
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What a gift to be interviewed by @carolinelevine.bsky.social, a scholar whose work has influenced my own for years.She is such an attentive and generous reader. I’m grateful, and I hope you’ll listen. Especially for fans of Ishiguro. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
An homor and pleasure to be in conversation with Brandon Taylor one of the contemporary novelists I most admire. @riverheadbooks.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
October 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
An homor and pleasure to be in conversation with Brandon Taylor one of the contemporary novelists I most admire. @riverheadbooks.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Fantastic campus novel posing as an MA thesis plumbs the depths of the desire and power nexus. Fun, painful, compelling. Seduction Theory is the perfect late summer read. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
September 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Fantastic campus novel posing as an MA thesis plumbs the depths of the desire and power nexus. Fun, painful, compelling. Seduction Theory is the perfect late summer read. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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Joan Wallach Scott 4eva!
"This defiance, of course, had its costs—material, social, + psychic. My father lost his income + his pension; my parents lost friends who shunned them for fear of being implicated in their politics. And then there was the betrayal by those once considered comrades who went over to the other side."
A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review
The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.
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September 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Joan Wallach Scott 4eva!
Got a chance to talk with Alejandro about his beautiful and painful novel of Venezuelan revolution and resistance, Freedom is a Feast. A novel that does not shy away from the most difficult questions about our limits, ethical and otherwise, in seeking freedom podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
August 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Got a chance to talk with Alejandro about his beautiful and painful novel of Venezuelan revolution and resistance, Freedom is a Feast. A novel that does not shy away from the most difficult questions about our limits, ethical and otherwise, in seeking freedom podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
@nellstevens ‘s The Original is one of the best novels of the year, and Nell couldn’t be smarter in thinking through literary and historical hoaxes. It’s a must read. (And a must listen). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
August 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
@nellstevens ‘s The Original is one of the best novels of the year, and Nell couldn’t be smarter in thinking through literary and historical hoaxes. It’s a must read. (And a must listen). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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Wherein I try to speak semi-intelligently about SAD GROWNUPS while Chris Holmes brings all the best questions and so much generosity. (Thank you, @burnedbybooks.bsky.social!)
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Amy Stuber,
Podcast Episode · Burned By Books · 08/01/2025 · 45m
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August 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Wherein I try to speak semi-intelligently about SAD GROWNUPS while Chris Holmes brings all the best questions and so much generosity. (Thank you, @burnedbybooks.bsky.social!)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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Congrats to @meganmcummins on the pub day for her beautiful debut novel, AtomicHearts.Megan and I chat about the preternatural wisdom of teens, friendships built around trauma,how to live in two time frames in a novel and so much more. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
August 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Congrats to @meganmcummins on the pub day for her beautiful debut novel, AtomicHearts.Megan and I chat about the preternatural wisdom of teens, friendships built around trauma,how to live in two time frames in a novel and so much more. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
I dare you to read any opening line in the stories collected in @amy_stuber_ ‘s Sad Grownups and not be consumed. They are jarring, funny, dark, and most of all human to the core. A righteous collection that will demand your attention. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I dare you to read any opening line in the stories collected in @amy_stuber_ ‘s Sad Grownups and not be consumed. They are jarring, funny, dark, and most of all human to the core. A righteous collection that will demand your attention. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
@jessebrownerauthor ‘s Sing to Me lives in the world of Greek epics but speaks and sings directly to our moment. Hani, an eleven year old on a journey to Troy to find his sister is wiser about the costs and weight of war than any of the leaders currently waging it. Lyrical, hopeful, unforgettable.
July 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
@jessebrownerauthor ‘s Sing to Me lives in the world of Greek epics but speaks and sings directly to our moment. Hani, an eleven year old on a journey to Troy to find his sister is wiser about the costs and weight of war than any of the leaders currently waging it. Lyrical, hopeful, unforgettable.
@jenkabat comes at every act of writing w/ an openness to the world that is rare indeed.Night Shining is a memoir,a history of scientific arrogance and genius, and deep time plunge into the geologic story of hope that will outlive us. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
@jenkabat comes at every act of writing w/ an openness to the world that is rare indeed.Night Shining is a memoir,a history of scientific arrogance and genius, and deep time plunge into the geologic story of hope that will outlive us. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
@kate__folk ‘s SkyDaddy will be the funniest, most unhinged novel you read all summer. It is also a powerful indictment of a culture of loneliness and conformity. And, yes, it’s horny for airplanes. @randomhousekids.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...
June 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
@kate__folk ‘s SkyDaddy will be the funniest, most unhinged novel you read all summer. It is also a powerful indictment of a culture of loneliness and conformity. And, yes, it’s horny for airplanes. @randomhousekids.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...
A novel that predicted our moment of prison camps and the broad elimination of human rights based on fear and lies. @knuyen.bsky.social ‘s My Documents should be required reading, as painful as it is to invite a history of detention camps back into the present. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...
June 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A novel that predicted our moment of prison camps and the broad elimination of human rights based on fear and lies. @knuyen.bsky.social ‘s My Documents should be required reading, as painful as it is to invite a history of detention camps back into the present. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...
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June 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Rob Franklin’s Great Black Hope dazzles with the prose of poet-novelist, tracing the ongoing effects of America’s greatest sin on black families of great wealth and culture capital.A story of how a small misstep can reveal the fragility of black life in the U.S. in spaces of supposed privilege.
June 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Rob Franklin’s Great Black Hope dazzles with the prose of poet-novelist, tracing the ongoing effects of America’s greatest sin on black families of great wealth and culture capital.A story of how a small misstep can reveal the fragility of black life in the U.S. in spaces of supposed privilege.
I welcomed back the brilliant @andrew.porter.writer to talk about his latest novel, The Imagined Life, a story of family fracture, cultural bigotry, academic excommunication, all told through the eyes of teenager @aaknopf.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
May 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I welcomed back the brilliant @andrew.porter.writer to talk about his latest novel, The Imagined Life, a story of family fracture, cultural bigotry, academic excommunication, all told through the eyes of teenager @aaknopf.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Ithaca folks: let’s get up to some good trouble and rally to get the government’s #handsoff colleges and universities. Thursday 5pm Ho Plaza. Big numbers give universities spines.
April 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Ithaca folks: let’s get up to some good trouble and rally to get the government’s #handsoff colleges and universities. Thursday 5pm Ho Plaza. Big numbers give universities spines.
Loved my conversation with Betsy Lerner about her amazing novel Shred Sisters. We talked about painful sibling relationships, the search for a constant in an unstable world, her casting choices for a movie adaptation, and so much more. @groveatlantic.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
April 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Loved my conversation with Betsy Lerner about her amazing novel Shred Sisters. We talked about painful sibling relationships, the search for a constant in an unstable world, her casting choices for a movie adaptation, and so much more. @groveatlantic.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
What a privilege to be in conversation with Colum McCann about his latest gift of a novel, Twist. I can’t recommend it enough. It is about cables deep in the dark of the ocean, but it’s about everything, and told in a poet’s voice.Get it. @randomhouse.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
April 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
What a privilege to be in conversation with Colum McCann about his latest gift of a novel, Twist. I can’t recommend it enough. It is about cables deep in the dark of the ocean, but it’s about everything, and told in a poet’s voice.Get it. @randomhouse.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
@laurenelkin.bsky.social ‘s Scaffolding takes place in a single Parisian apt. spanning two eras of protest, resistance,and the search for intimacy that builds community.A story of many loves, losses,and desires. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @fsgbooks.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
@laurenelkin.bsky.social ‘s Scaffolding takes place in a single Parisian apt. spanning two eras of protest, resistance,and the search for intimacy that builds community.A story of many loves, losses,and desires. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @fsgbooks.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
Come take a class with me at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn! Bad Education in The Secret History, Never Let Me Go, and The School for Good Mothers. Gorgeous books, magnificent building with a bookshop and membership library, and led by a professor and podcaster :)
February 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Come take a class with me at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn! Bad Education in The Secret History, Never Let Me Go, and The School for Good Mothers. Gorgeous books, magnificent building with a bookshop and membership library, and led by a professor and podcaster :)
A big book with a big impact. @adamrosswriter has written a showstopper about a child actor, a wrestler, and a middle schooler who has an affair with a woman 20yrs older than him, and they are all the same unforgettable character. Playworld is a magic novel of an earlier New York City.
February 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A big book with a big impact. @adamrosswriter has written a showstopper about a child actor, a wrestler, and a middle schooler who has an affair with a woman 20yrs older than him, and they are all the same unforgettable character. Playworld is a magic novel of an earlier New York City.
Nice when the author is just as funny and insightful and fascinating as their character. Rufi Thorpe was a dream guest, and her latest, Margo’s Got Money Troubles, was a top ten novel of 2024 for me. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Nice when the author is just as funny and insightful and fascinating as their character. Rufi Thorpe was a dream guest, and her latest, Margo’s Got Money Troubles, was a top ten novel of 2024 for me. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
What a gift to be interviewed by @carolinelevine.bsky.social, a scholar whose work has influenced my own for years.She is such an attentive and generous reader. I’m grateful, and I hope you’ll listen. Especially for fans of Ishiguro. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 4:28 AM
What a gift to be interviewed by @carolinelevine.bsky.social, a scholar whose work has influenced my own for years.She is such an attentive and generous reader. I’m grateful, and I hope you’ll listen. Especially for fans of Ishiguro. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Was lucky enough to welcome Andrew Lipstein back to the pod to talk about his latest, Something Rotten, a novel about seeking meaning in life when we understand that we are dying. Also, it’s hilarious and bruising. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
@fsgbooks.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
@fsgbooks.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
January 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Was lucky enough to welcome Andrew Lipstein back to the pod to talk about his latest, Something Rotten, a novel about seeking meaning in life when we understand that we are dying. Also, it’s hilarious and bruising. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
@fsgbooks.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
@fsgbooks.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
Maria.zoccola’s gorgeous reimagining of the story of Helen of Troy, transported to Sparta Tennessee, dazzles on the level of the line, while working a narrative thread that will tangle up what you thought you knew about the Iliad. Have a listen to our episode and hear Maria read. #poetry
Maria Zoccola,
Podcast Episode · Burned By Books · 01/15/2025 · 39m
podcasts.apple.com
January 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Maria.zoccola’s gorgeous reimagining of the story of Helen of Troy, transported to Sparta Tennessee, dazzles on the level of the line, while working a narrative thread that will tangle up what you thought you knew about the Iliad. Have a listen to our episode and hear Maria read. #poetry