Best Callie C Podcasts (2024)

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Lessons from Calli Cook, NP, DNP, APRN, FNP-C 30:29

9h ago30:29

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Calli Cook, NP, DNP, APRN, FNP-C is the Specialty Director for the Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner program at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. In this episode Calli talks about her journey as a nurse, exploring various specialties (e.g., ICU, mental health) until finding that working in a neurology practice was a good …

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S J. Naudé, "Fathers and Fugitives" (Europa, 2024) 44:56

8d ago44:56

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Daniel is a worldly and urbane journalist living in London. His relationships appear to be sexually fulfilling but sentimentally meager. A young gay man with no relationships outside of sexual ones, he can seem at once callow and, at times, cold to the point of cruel with his lovers. Emotionally distant from his elderly, senile father, Daniel nonet…

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Rachel Kushner, "Creation Lake" (Scribner, 2024) 58:19

15d ago58:19

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Creation Lake (Scribner, 2024) is a novel about a secret agent, a thirty-four-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics, bold opinions, and clean beauty, who is sent to do dirty work in France. "Sadie Smith" is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the read…

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Mary Jones, "The Goodbye Process" (Zibby Books, 2024) 28:51

21d ago28:51

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In her stunning debut short story collection, The Goodbye Process (Zibby Books, 2024), Mary Jones uses her distinctive voice to examine the painful and sometimes surreal ways we say goodbye. The stories--which range from tender and heartbreaking to unsettling and darkly funny--will push you out of your comfort zone and ignite intense emotions surro…

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Kaliane Bradley, "The Ministry of Time" (Avid Reader Press, 2024) 52:25

25d ago52:25

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In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering "expats" from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible--for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. She is tasked with working …

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Lessons from Danielle Roberts MS, MMSc, PA-C 29:33

1M ago29:33

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Danielle Roberts MS, MMSc, PA-C is the Associate Chief of Education for Advanced Practice for the Winship Cancer Institute, Director of the Emory Hematology/Medical Oncology Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Fellowship program, and a society leader in the Emory Physician Assistant (PA) program. In this episode Danielle talks about her journey, start…

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Chelsea Bieker, "Madwoman" (Little, Brown, 2024) 35:21

28d ago35:21

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Today I talked to Chelsea Biker about her novel Madwoman (Little, Brown, 2024). Clove has gone to extremes to keep her past a secret. Thanks to her lies, she's landed the life of her dreams, complete with a safe husband and two adoring children who will never know the terror that was routine in her own childhood. If her buried anxiety threatens to …

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C. Michelle Lindley, "The Nude" (Atria Books, 2024) 39:46

1M ago39:46

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1999: An island off the southern coast of Greece. Art historian Elizabeth Clarke arrives with the intent to acquire a rare female sculpture. But what begins as a quest for a highly valued cultural artifact evolves into a trip that will force Elizabeth to contend with her career, her ambition, and her troubling history. Disoriented by jet lag, debil…

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Jessica Anthony, "The Most" (Little, Brown, 2024) 37:33

2M ago37:33

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It's November 3, 1957. As Sputnik 2 launches into space, carrying Laika, the doomed Soviet dog, a couple begin their day. Virgil Beckett, an insurance salesman, isn't particularly happy in his job but he fulfills the role. Kathleen Beckett, once a promising tennis champion with a key shot up her sleeve, is now a mother and homemaker. On this unseas…

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Cally Fiedorek, "Atta Boy" (U Iowa Press, 2024) 39:00

2M ago39:00

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In December 2018, we meet Rudy Coyle, a bar owner's son from Flushing, Queens, in the throes of a major quarter-life crisis. Cut out of the family business, he gets a Hail Mary job as a night doorman in a storied Park Avenue apartment building, where he comes under the wing of the family in 4E, the Cohens. Jacob "Jake" Cohen, the fast-talking patri…

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Lessons from Dimitri Cassimatis, MD 44:37

2M ago44:37

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Dimitri Cassimatis, MD is a small-group advisor and course co-director for the cardiovascular pathophysiology course in Emory University's MD program. He is also Chief of Medicine at Emory Midtown Hospital. In this episode Dimitri talks about his journey from being a physics student to biochemistry student (working as a patient transporter) to pre-…

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Megan Nolan, "Ordinary Human Failings" (Little, Brown, 2024) 48:06

2M ago48:06

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It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants" -- ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star seems set to rise when he stumbles across a sensational scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents beloved across the neighborhood…

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Laura van den Berg, "State of Paradise" (FSG, 2024) 55:16

2M ago55:16

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It's another summer in a small Florida town. After an illness that vanishes as mysteriously as it arrived, everything appears to be getting back to normal: soul-crushing heat, torrential downpours, sinkholes swallowing the earth, ominous cats, a world-bending virtual reality device being handed out by a company called ELECTRA, and an increasing num…

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Aysegül Savas, "The Anthropologists" (Bloomsbury, 2024) 30:40

2M ago30:40

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Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life here look like? What rituals will structure their days? Whom can they consider family? As the young couple dreams about the possibilities of each new listing, Asya, a documentarian, gathers footage from the neighborhood like an anthropologist…

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Anthony Di Renzo, "Pasquinades: Essays from Rome's Famous Talking Statue" (Cayuga Lake Books, 2023) 43:21

3M ago43:21

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Anthony Di Renzo's Pasquinades: Essays from Rome's Famous Talking Statue (Cayuga Lake Books, 2023) is the most audacious guide to Rome you will ever read. Pasquino, the city’s witty talking statue, will introduce you to the gallant heroes and grotesque villains, humble peddlers and flamboyant nobles, whores and saints and movie stars who have reign…

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Iris Mwanza, "The Lions' Den" (Graydon House, 2024) 40:21

3M ago40:21

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A missing boy. A corrupt system. A case that could change everything... When young queer dancer Wilbess "Bessy" Mulenga is arrested by corrupt police, fresh-from-the-village rookie lawyer Grace Zulu takes up his cause in her first pro bono case. Presented with a freshly beaten client, Grace protests to the police and gets barred from accessing Bess…

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Lessons from Melissa (Moose) Alperin, EdD, MPH, MCHES 39:47

3M ago39:47

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Melissa (Moose) Alperin, EdD, MPH, MCHES is director of the Executive MPH program at the Rollins School of Public Health and runs a training center, funded by HRSA, providing training to the public health workforce in the eight states in the Southeast. In this episode Moose talks about how, while pursuing a liberal arts education, she stumbled into…

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Rachel Khong, "Real Americans" (Knopf, 2024) 46:47

4M ago46:47

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Real Americans (Knopf, 2024) begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster, and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more di…

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Kimberly King Parsons, "We Were the Universe" (Knopf, 2024) 37:33

4M ago37:33

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The trip was supposed to be fun. When Kit's best friend gets dumped by his boyfriend, he begs her to ditch her family responsibilities for an idyllic weekend in the Montana mountains. They'll soak in hot springs, then sneak a vape into a dive bar and drink too much, like old times. Instead, their getaway only reminds Kit of everything she's lost la…

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Lessons from Kelly L. Wiltse Nicely, PhD, CRNA 40:54

4M ago40:54

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Kelly L. Wiltse Nicely, PhD, CRNA is program director for the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Nurse Anesthesia, DNP Program and educator director on the board of directors for the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs. In this episode Kelly talks about her journey from rural Michigan in which access to the healt…

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Jennine Capó Crucet, "Say Hello to My Little Friend" (Simon and Schuster, 2024) 36:07

4M ago36:07

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Failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael Reyes--you can call him Izzy--might not be the Scarface type, but why should that keep him from trying? Growing up in Miami has shaped him into someone who dreams of being the King of the 305, with the money, power, and respect he assumes comes with it. After finding himself at the mercy of a cease-and-desist lett…

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Jennifer Savran Kelly, "Endpapers" (Algonquin Books, 2023) 38:21

4M ago38:21

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It's 2003, and artist Dawn Levit is stuck. A bookbinder who works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she spends all day repairing old books but hasn't created anything of her own in years. What's more, although she doesn't have a word for it yet, Dawn is genderqueer, and with a partner who wishes she were a man and a society that wants her to be a …

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Gina Chung, "Green Frog: Stories" (Vintage, 2024) 36:05

4M ago36:05

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From the author of Sea Change comes Green Frog: Stories (Vintage, 2024) a short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformation as a means of survival. Equal parts fantastical--a pair of talking dolls help twins escape a stifling home, a heart boils on the stove as part of an elaborate cure for melancho…

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Healing Isn't Linear. 22:48

4M ago22:48

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Send us a text It will get easier. I love you! Support the showBy Callie C.

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The "It" in "It Girl" 26:00

5M ago26:00

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Send us a text I cannot tell you the amount of times I have heard the phrase "It Girl" and felt certain ways towards it. This episode explores not only what it means to me, but also the perspective of societies many pressures and expectations. Give it a listen. Might just change your life. Support the show…

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Live, Laugh, Love? 33:10

5M ago33:10

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Send us a text Being in love is one crazy ride, but if you aren't living or laughing I am not loving it. Have I ever been in love? Listen and find out. Or don't. You should though. XO Support the showBy Callie C.

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Lessons from Ryan Haumschild PharmD, MS, MBA, CPEL 28:41

5M ago28:41

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Ryan Haumschild PharmD, MS, MBA, CPEL is now Vice President of Ambulatory Pharmacy at Emory Healthcare in the Winship Cancer Institute. At the time of recording this episode he was Director of Pharmacy at Emory Healthcare in the Winship Cancer Institute. In this episode Ryan talks about how he recognized his passion for pharmacy early in life thank…

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Hot People are Anxious 28:21

5M ago28:21

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Send us a text Title speaks for itself. LOVE U <3 Support the showBy Callie C.

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The Good, The Bad, and The Gossip 29:06

5M ago29:06

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Send us a text What really explains why people gossip? Plenty of things. Never blame yourself for the way people decide to treat you. You can control how you react. Be someone that makes others feel good. Support the showBy Callie C.

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Date Yourself. 40:11

6M ago40:11

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Send us a text Date yourself. Or date someone else, not their potential. Learn the difference and watch it all fall into place. Support the showBy Callie C.

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Lessons from Rachel Corbett 47:33

6M ago47:33

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Rachel Corbett is Associate Director of Academic Programs, in Rollins School of Public Health's department of Behavioral, Social, & Health Education Sciences. In this episode, Rachel talks about her journey as a first generation college kid who always wanted to be in a role where she was helping people but didn't know what that looked like. Her jou…

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Friends and The Forever Feeling 33:17

6M ago33:17

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Send us a text This episode is sponsored by my shitty microphone and my hopes and dreams! We will figure this out together one day I promise. But for now new microphone on the way. If you feel like you are struggling in your friendships, or that you have been losing friends and are at a loss, this episode is for you. It is normal to outgrow people …

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Nell Freudenberger, "The Limits" (Knopf, 2024) 54:39

6M ago54:39

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The most thrilling work yet from the best-selling, prize-winning author of The Newlyweds and Lost and Wanted, a stunning new novel set in French Polynesia and New York City about three characters who undergo massive transformations over the course of a single year. From Mo'orea, a tiny volcanic island off the coast of Tahiti, a French biologist obs…

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Im 20. NOW WHAT? 21:49

6M ago21:49

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Send us a text Hi! FIRST EPISODE EVER WOO HOO! Please just be here for the ride while I navigate learning a new skill and trying to figure out how to be all fancy . It is more complicated than it looks. I am very excited for you guys to hear just a few of my numerous opinions on the world and being the age that I am. I hope you enjoy and I hope you…

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Marie Mutsuki Mockett, "The Tree Doctor" (Graywolf Press, 2024) 53:47

7M ago53:47

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When the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett's stirring second novel returns to Carmel, California, to care for her mother, she finds herself stranded at the outset of the disease. With her husband and children back in Hong Kong, and her Japanese mother steadily declining in a care facility two hours away, she becomes preoccupied with her mot…

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Scott Alexander Howard, "The Other Valley" (Atria Books, 2024) 41:22

7M ago41:22

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Sixteen-year-old Odile is an awkward, quiet girl vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she'll decide who may cross her town's heavily guarded borders. On the other side, it's the same valley, the same town. Except to the east, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west, it's twenty years behind. The towns repe…

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Lessons from J. William Eley MD, MPH 45:23

7M ago45:23

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J. William Eley MD, MPH is Executive Associate Dean of Medical Education in Emory University School of Medicine. In this episode Bill talks about his journey from planning to be a high school chemistry teacher to ultimately pursing medicine and public health degrees. He also speaks about his passions for building community and meaningful relationsh…

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Marie-Helene Bertino, "Beautyland" (FSG, 2024) 46:56

7M ago46:56

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At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but she reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different: She possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax …

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Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15" (FSG, 2023) 1:08:32

8M ago1:08:32

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In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner sought to devise a lightweight, easy-to-use weapon that could replace the M1s touted by soldiers in World War II. What he did create was a lethal handheld icon of the American century. In American Gun: …

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Lessons from Trina Geyer, PhD, RN, NPD-BC, NEA-BC 44:39

8M ago44:39

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Trina Geyer, PhD, RN, NPD-BC, NEA-BC is Director for Nursing Leadership and Development at Emory Healthcare. In this episode Trina shares her passions for professional development and talks about the importance of recognizing that we are all leaders, "regardless of your title, your position, your role, your practice setting, you bring leadership ca…

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Samantha Harvey, "Orbital" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023) 56:31

8M ago56:31

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A slender novel of epic power, Orbital (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023) deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space--not towards the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts--f…

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Julius Taranto, "How I Won a Nobel Prize" (Little, Brown, 2023) 48:40

9M ago48:40

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Helen is one of the brightest minds of her generation: a young physicist on a path to solve high-temperature superconductivity (which could save the planet). When she discovers that her brilliant adviser is involved in a sex scandal, Helen is torn: should she give up on her work with him? Or should she accompany him to a controversial university, f…

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Lessons from Yolanda Hood, PhD 39:02

9M ago39:02

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Yolanda Hood, PhD is Assistant Dean for Enrollment Management and Multicultural Affairs and Executive Director for the National HCOP [Health Careers Opportunity Program] Academy at Emory University School of Medicine. In this episode Yolanda talks about her full-circle journey from being a product of Atlanta Public Schools [APS] to leading pipeline…

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Raul Palma, "A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens" (Dutton, 2023) 35:33

9M ago35:33

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A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens (Dutton, 2023) explores the weight of the devil's bargain, following the lengths one man will go to for the promise of freedom. Hugo Contreras's world in Miami has shrunk. Since his wife died, Hugo's debt from her medical bills has become insurmountable. He shuffle…

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Courtney Denelle, "It's Not Nothing" (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2022) 47:52

9M ago47:52

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Rosemary Candwell's past has exploded into her present. Down-and-out and deteriorating, she drifts from anonymous beds and bars in Providence, to a homeless shelter hidden among the hedge-rowed avenues of Newport, and through the revolving door of service jobs and quick-fix psychiatric care, always grasping for hope, for a solution. She's desperate…

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Mark Ernest Pothier, "Outer Sunset" (U Iowa Press, 2023) 40:56

9M ago40:56

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Jim Finley--a recently retired English teacher living alone on the shifting edge of San Francisco--has been set, unwittingly, on the back porch of life. Trying to harmonize the voices in his head, he sits most days by his stack of "to-do" books until, one day, his daughter comes home with the worst news of her life. Everything changes. As his broke…

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Rebecca Turkewitz, "Here in the Night" (Black Lawrence Press, 2023) 35:56

9M ago35:56

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The thirteen stories in Rebecca Turkewitz's debut collection, Here in the Night (Black Lawrence Press, 2023), are engrossing, strange, eerie, and emotionally nuanced. With psychological insight and finely crafted prose, Here in the Night investigates the joys and constraints of womanhood, of queerness, and of intimacy. Preoccupied with all manner o…

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Kyle Dillon Hertz, "The Lookback Window" (Simon and Schuster, 2023) 39:07

9M ago39:07

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Growing up in suburban New York, Dylan lived through the unfathomable: three years as a victim of sex trafficking at the hands of Vincent, a troubled young man who promised to marry Dylan when he turned eighteen. Years later--long after a police investigation that went nowhere, and after the statute of limitations for the crimes perpetrated against…

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Lexi Freiman, "The Book of Ayn" (Catapult, 2023) 37:39

9M ago37:39

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An original and hilarious satire of both our political culture and those who rage against it, The Book of Ayn (Catapult, 2023) follows a writer from New York to Los Angeles to Lesbos as she searches for artistic and spiritual fulfillment in radical selfishness, altruism, and ego-death. After writing a satirical novel that The New York Times calls c…

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Eliza Minot. "In the Orchard" (Knopf, 2023) 40:44

10M ago40:44

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A novel about womanhood, modern family, and the interior landscape of maternal life, as seen through the life of a young wife and mother on a single day. At night, Maisie Moore dreams that her life is perfect: the looming mortgages and credit card debt have magically vanished, and she can raise her four children, including newborn Esme, on an undul…

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