Best AV Escapes Podcasts (2024)

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No Evil Episode 11 — Chapter 15 15:53

1h ago15:53

15:53

A screeching metal sound wakes Jeff and Cierra. Is it the voice again? Will Tate's message of faith be accepted by Jeff and Cierra? Find out this week on No Evil. Let your narrator, Chad, guide you through Episode 11 — Chapter 15 of No Evil. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into the world of NO EVIL. We hope you e…

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No Evil Episode 12 — Chapter 16 | AV Escapes Serial | Original Fiction | 4K 22:50

3d ago22:50

22:50

On the last episode, Tate’s art came to life and sin was made. Where does Tate go from here? This week, Sam finds himself lost and cold. Let your narrator, Chad, guide you through Episode 11 — Chapter 15 of No Evil. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into the world of NO EVIL. We hope you enjoy this first original a…

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No Evil Episode 10 — Chapter 14 | AV Escapes Serial | Original Fiction | 4K 17:53

19d ago17:53

17:53

Last week, Jan and Andre had an unsettling experience. This week, they share a drink while Tate O'Byrne continues his renewal of faith. Let your narrator, Chad, guide you through Episode 10 — Chapter 14 of No Evil. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into the world of NO EVIL. We hope you enjoy this first original au…

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No Evil Episode 9 — Chapter 13 | AV Escapes Serial | Original Fiction | 4K 30:51

27d ago30:51

30:51

Last week, Tate O'Byrne had his lack of faith challenged. This week, Jan and Andre track a lead that takes them straight to Sam's apartment. Let your narrator, Chad, guide you through Episode 9 — Chapters 13 of No Evil. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into the world of NO EVIL. We hope you enjoy this first origin…

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No Evil Episode 8 — Chapter 12 | AV Escapes Serial | Original Fiction | 4K 12:33

1M ago12:33

12:33

Sam is still in hospital recovering. Little does he know the worst is far from over. Let your narrator, Chad, guide you through Episode 8 — Chapters 12 of No Evil. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into the world of NO EVIL. We hope you enjoy this first original audio/visual journey from AV Escapes. #avescapes #fic…

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No Evil Episode 7 — Chapters 9,10, and 11 19:34

1M ago19:34

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Tate O’Byrne’s tongue has been seared out of his mouth. He's just the latest of a growing number of innocent people who’ve been assaulted by an unseen force across the country. This week, we meet one person who may help unravel the mystery. Let your narrator, Chad, guide you through Episode 7 — Chapters 9, 10 and 11 of No Evil. Take a mental journe…

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No Evil Episode 6 — Chapter 8 18:28

2M ago18:28

18:28

We last left Sam with a pair of smouldering eye sockets. This week, another enters the fray. Tate O'Byrne hates people, usually. But working the night shift has a way of making him rethink that. Or does it? Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into the world of NO EVIL. We hope you enjoy this first original audio/visu…

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No Evil Episode 5 — Chapter 7 11:53

2M ago11:53

11:53

There's been an incident at the sleep clinic that has only added to Sam's growing sense of impending doom. Now, both Case and Dr. Runnels will get a sense of what's really been bothering Sam. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into Sam's world. We hope you enjoy this first original audio/visual journey from AV Escap…

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No Evil Episode 4 — Chapter 6 17:47

2M ago17:47

17:47

Sam meets up with Case for further assessment of his sleep problem, but both end up with more than they bargained for. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into Sam's world. We hope you enjoy this first original audio/visual journey from AV Escapes. #avescapes #fiction #originalstory #writing #horrorstories #suspense …

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No Evil Episode 3 — Chapters 4 and 5 18:06

3M ago18:06

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In this episode, we meet Roger — a homeless man called by voices. Sam heads to work, but soon finds his health is in worse shape than he thought. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into Sam's world. We hope you enjoy this first original audio/visual journey from AV Escapes. #avescapes #fiction #originalstory #writin…

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No Evil Episode 2 — Chapters 2 and 3 15:43

3M ago15:43

15:43

This is the second episode of our new serialized story No Evil. This original fiction story follows Sam Munson, an ordinary man plagued by nightmares. Sleep deprived, Sam begins to notice odd and unsettling things happening all around him. In this episode Sam meets up with Case to discuss his recurrent nightmares and feelings of unreality. Take a m…

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No Evil Episode 1 — Chapter 1 17:12

3M ago17:12

17:12

This is the first episode of our new serialized story No Evil. This original fiction story follows Sam Munson, an ordinary man plagued by nightmares. Sleep deprived, Sam begins to notice odd and unsettling things happening all around him. In this episode Sam enlists an estranged friend to help him get to the bottom of his nightly terrors. We hope y…

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7.6 Escape Velocity: Sarah Manguso in Conversation with Tess McNulty (EH) 50:01

4M ago50:01

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What’s the truth and what’s a lie? What’s a memoir, what’s a novel, and what if both are just a series of “prose blocks”? This conversation between Sarah Manguso and Tess McNulty takes up questions of writing and veracity, trauma and memory. Sarah Manguso is the author of nine books, including three memoirs. Her first novel, Very Cold People, was n…

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7.5 Machine, System, Code: Masande Ntshanga and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra (EH) 50:15

4M ago50:15

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Building parallels between technology and the human imagination, Masande Ntshanga’s conversation with Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra explains how cities are like machines and how South African history resembles some of the most sinister versions of techno-futurism. Masande is the author of two novels: The Reactive, winner of a Betty Trask Award in 2018, a…

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7.4 Not Prophecy but Inversion: Omar El Akkad and Min Hyoung Song 53:37

5M ago53:37

53:37

Omar El Akkad joins critic Min Hyoung Song for a gripping conversation that interrogates fiction’s relationship to the real. Before he became a novelist, Omar was a journalist, and his experiencing reporting on (among other subjects) the war on terror, the Arab Spring, and the Black Lives Matter movement profoundly shapes his fiction. His first nov…

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7.3 What do the PDFs say about this?: Brandon Taylor and Stephanie Insley Hershinow (CH) 47:41

5M ago47:41

47:41

Brandon Taylor practices moral worldbuilding in his fiction—that means an essential piece of these worlds is the “real possibility that someone could get punched in the face.” Brandon, author of the novels Real Life and The Late Americans, joins Stephanie Insley Hershinow for a wide-ranging, engrossing, and often hilarious conversation about the st…

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7.2 You Write Because You Want to Feel Free: Katie Kitamura and Alexander Manshel (SW) 58:53

6M ago58:53

58:53

Although Katie Kitamura feels free when she writes—free from the “soup of everyday life,” from the political realities that weigh upon her, and even at times from the limits of her own thinking—she is keenly aware of the unfreedoms her novels explore. Katie, author of the award-winning Intimacies (2021), talks with critic Alexander Manshel about th…

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7.1 Etherized: Anne Enright in Conversation with Paige Reynolds (JP) 41:58

6M ago41:58

41:58

Anne Enright, writer, critic, Booker winner, kindly makes time for Irish literature maven Paige Reynolds and ND host John Plotz. She reads from The Wren, The Wren (Norton, 2023) and discusses the “etherized” state of our inner lives as they circulate on social media. Anne says we don't yet know if the web has become a space of exposure or of author…

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6.6 Overtaken by Awe: Sheila Heti speaks with Sunny Yudkoff 44:24

10M ago44:24

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Sheila Heti sits down with Sunny Yudkoff and ND host John Plotz to discuss her incredibly varied oeuvre. She does it all: stories, novels, alphabetized diary entries as well as a series of dialogues in the New Yorker with an AI named Alice. Drawing on her background in Jewish Studies, Sunny prompts Sheila to unpack the implicit and explicit theolog…

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6.5 Attention is Love: A Discussion with Lauren Groff and Laura McGrath (SW) 48:31

10M ago48:31

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Just days before the release of her latest novel, The Vaster Wilds (Riverhead Books, 2023), three-time National Book Award Finalist and The New York Times-bestselling author Lauren Groff sat down to talk to critic Laura McGrath and host Sarah Wasserman. Although Groff admits that she wants “each subsequent book to destroy the one” that came before,…

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6.4 “We All Relate to Each Other’s Dystopias” 46:11

11M ago46:11

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Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Norton, 2022), which won the Booker Prize in 2022, is a thriller that begins in the afterlife, an uproarious murder mystery set amid the tragedies of Sri Lanka’s long civil war. Its protagonist, a war photographer, has become a ghost with just seven moons to find his killer and give his life’s…

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6.3 Narrative, Database, Archive: Tom Comitta and Deidre Lynch (AV) 41:20

11M ago41:20

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2 tables; 300 novels, 1500 pages of nature description: This is how Tom Comitta created The Nature Book, a one-of-a-kind novel cut from 300 years of English literary tradition. It has no human characters, no original writing, and it is astoundingly good! Tom sits down with distinguished Harvard prof, Deidre Lynch and host Aarthi Vadde to talk about…

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6.2 What Would Undo the Maxim Gun? Magic: P. Djèlí Clark and andré carrington 39:14

12M ago39:14

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Locus- and Nebula- award-winning author P. Djèlí Clark joins critic andré carrington (UC Riverside) and host Rebecca Ballard for a conversation about the archives, methods, and cosmologies that inform his speculative fiction. Clark’s fiction blends fantasy and horror elements with richly drawn historical worlds that speak to his academic life as a …

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6.1 Desolation Tries to Colonize You: Jeff VanderMeer and Alison Sperling (CH) 41:28

1y ago41:28

41:28

Our season of the weird starts off with a conversation between the writer The New Yorker called “the weird Thoreau”, Jeff VanderMeer, and a scholar of the modernist weird, Alison Sperling (FSU). With ND host Chris Holmes, Jeff and Alison delve into how the ugly politics of Lovecraft’s “old” weird gives rise to the stylistic panoply of the New Weird…

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Weirding Out with Kate Marshall 24:26

1y ago24:26

24:26

We kick off Season 6 with Kate Marshall, friend of the show and author of the forthcoming book Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century. Hosts and producers Chris Holmes and Emily Hyde ask Kate about the pulpy literary history of weird tales and learn how in the 21st-century weirdness emerges as both genre and mood. The conversati…

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5.6 A Forensic Level of Honesty: Aminatta Forna and Nicole Rizzuto (AV) 43:50

1+ y ago43:50

43:50

Aminatta Forna, author of Ancestor Stones (2006), Happiness (2018), and most recently The Window Seat (2021) joins Georgetown prof. Nicole Rizzuto and host Aarthi Vadde for a wide-ranging conversation about reversing the gaze. Born in Sierra Leone, Aminatta is of Scottish and Malian ancestry and grew up around the world. Her mixed upbringing led he…

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5.5 They’re Not Metaphorical Demons: Mariana Enriquez and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra 56:18

1+ y ago56:18

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Booker Prize shortlister Mariana Enriquez, author of Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, joins Penn State professor Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra and host Chris Holmes to talk about her most recent novel, Our Share of Night, her first to be translated into English. Our Share of Night follows a spiritual medium, Juan, who can com…

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5.4 The Meat and Bones of Life 48:36

1+ y ago48:36

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With the publication of her most recent novel, White Horse, Erika T. Wurth breaks from the realism that characterized her earlier fiction and ventures into horror. White Horse follows Kari, an urban Native living in Denver, as a family heirloom belonging to her long-missing mother launches her into a world of the uncanny: ghosts and monsters lurch …

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5.3 “It’s on the Illabus” 45:30

1+ y ago45:30

45:30

John Jennings—Hugo Award winner, New York Times bestselling author, curator, scholar, and Artist—is keenly aware that in adapting novels for the graphic format, his decisions turn what has only been imagined into facts drawn on the page. In this conversation with critic, translator, and teacher of a creative course on the art of making comics, Jean…

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5.2 Writing the Counter-Book: Joshua Cohen with Eugene Sheppard (JP) 47:37

1+ y ago47:37

47:37

Eugene Sheppard joins his Brandeis colleague John Plotz to speak with Joshua Cohen about The Netanyahus. Is the 2021 novel a Pulitzer-winning bravura story of the world's worst job interview? Or is it a searing indictment of ethno-nationalist Zionism--and the strange act of pretense whereby American Jewish writers and thinkers in postwar America pr…

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5.1 We Have This-ness, Y’all! 54:28

1+ y ago54:28

54:28

Season 5 of Novel Dialogue opens with an impassioned refresher course in literary theory brought to you by Ocean Vuong, poet and author of the bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019). Ocean talks with critic Amy E. Elkins and host Emily Hyde about browsing bookstore shelves and building his personal reading list of “life-giving wei…

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