Best Zoe Brown Storytelling Podcasts (2024)

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Terena Elizabeth Bell, "Tell Me What You See" (Whiskey Tit, 2022) 49:13

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Terena Elizabeth Bell's Tell Me What You See (Whisk(e)y Tit, 2022), is a collection of ten experimental short stories about coronavirus quarantines, climate change, the January 6th invasion on the US Capitol, and other events from 2020-2021. Written in both word and image, pieces from the collection have been called "inventive and topical and fre…

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Sara Farrington, "A Trojan Woman Adapted from Euripides" (Broadway Play Publishing, 2024) 26:27

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In a flash of modern warfare (Ukraine? Afghanistan? Vietnam? Poland? Hiroshima? Israel? Gaza?), a mother loses her child. She becomes "A Trojan Woman," compelled to embody every iconic character in Euripides’ classic play. Sara Farrington (Playwright) NYC & NJ based playwright, screenwriter, co-founder of Foxy Films, her theater company w/ Reid Far…

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"The Threepenny Review": A Discussion with Wendy Lesser 33:49

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Today’s spotlight is on the literary magazine The Threepenny Review. I’m joined by the magazine’s founding and current Editor, Wendy Lesser. Wendy Lesser is the author of twelve nonfiction books and one novel; her latest book, entitled Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery, came out from Farrar Straus & Giroux in May 2020. She has received awa…

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Charles Holdefer, "Ivan the Terrible Goes on a Family Picnic" (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2024) 46:54

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Charles Holdefer's new short story collection, Ivan the Terrible Goes on a Family Picnic (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2024) weaves together ten stories that connect through America's pastime. Did the Russians invent baseball? Is there a connection between Babe Ruth’s cross-dressing and Gertrude Stein’s secret mission to New York? What does history tell…

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Stephen Schottenfeld, "This Room Is Made of Noise" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023) 26:32

6d ago26:32

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Today I talked to Stephen Schottenfeld about his new novel This Room Is Made of Noise (U Wisconsin Press, 2023). Don Lank is a newly divorced handyman who spots an imitation Tiffany lamp in the front window of a house and offers the elderly owner $800 for it. He’s shocked by the price he gets and returns to give 95-year-old Millie most of the money…

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Heather Redmond, "Death and the Visitors" (Kensington, 2024) 46:04

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Today I talked to Heather Redmond about her new novel Death and the Visitors (Kensington, 2024). In this second Regency-era mystery featuring Mary Godwin Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, the sixteen-year-old heroine (still Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin at this point in her life) and her stepsister and close lifetime companion, Jane Clairmont, are …

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"New Letters" Magazine: A Discussion with Christie Hodgen 27:03

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Christie Hodgen is the author of four books of fiction, most recently the novel Boy Meets Girl, which won the 2020 AWP Award for the Novel. Her short fiction and essays have been included in dozens of literary journals and have won two Pushcart Prizes. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and is the editor of New…

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

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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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Juli Min, "Shanghailanders" (Spiegel & Grau, 2024) 41:00

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Shanghailanders (Spiegel & Grau: 2024), the debut novel from Juli Min, starts at the end: Leo, a wealthy Shanghai businessman, sees his wife and daughters off at the airport as they travel to Boston. Everyone, it seems, is unhappy. The novel then travels backwards through time, giving answers to questions revealed in later chapters, jumping from pe…

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Zoë Bossiere, "Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir" (Abrams Press, 2024) 53:29

1d ago53:29

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Today, I interview Zoë Bossiere about Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir (Abrams Press, 2024). Bossiere is writer from Tucson, Arizona. They are the managing editor of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, as well as the coeditor of two anthologies: The Best of Brevity and The Lyric Essay as Resistance. Today, we talk about their debut m…

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Casey Plett, "On Community" (Biblioasis, 2023) 53:53

10d ago53:53

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Today I interview Casey Plett. Plett is the author of multiple works of fiction, including the story collection A Dream of a Woman, the novel Little Fish, which was a winner of a Lambda Literary Award and the Amazon First Novel Award in Canada, and and the story-collection A Safe Girl to Love, also a winner of a Lambda Literary Award. Today, we tal…

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

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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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Na'ou Liu, "Urban Scenes" (Cambria Press, 2023) 1:01:08

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"In this tango palace everything was swaying rhythmically to and fro, bodies of men and women, beams of colored light, brilliant wine glasses, red and green liquids, slender fingers, pomegranate-colored lips, and feverish eyes. Tables and chairs, together with the crowd of people, cast their reflections on the center of the shiny floor. Everyone wa…

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Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024) 1:01:02

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In The People of the Ruins (originally published in 1920), Edward Shanks imagines England in the not-so-distant future as a neo mediaeval society whose inhabitants have forgotten how to build or operate machinery. Jeremy Tuft is a physics instructor and former artillery officer who is cryogenically frozen in his laboratory only to emerge after a ce…

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

7d 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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Kate Brandes, "Stone Creek" (Wyatt-MacKenzie, 2024) 48:57

26d ago48:57

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Kate Brandes' new novel, Stone Creek (Wyatt-MacKenzie, 2024) introduces readers to Tilly and Frank Stone. Seventeen years ago, after living as a fugitive, Tilly Stone (then, age 13) is left to fend for herself in remote Pennsylvania when her infamous eco-terrorist father disappears under mysterious circumstances. She tries to forget the dams they b…

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Rochelle Potkar, "Coins in Rivers: Poems" (Hachette India, 2024) 32:49

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Fierce and unflinching, Rochelle Potkar's poetry springs from the deeply personal and ripples out to the world, capturing lovers' whispers and reverberations of explosions with equal ease. Vividly depicting love, grief, anger, and defiance, these poems glimmer like coins beneath the water surface, tethered with the weight of wishes clinging to them…

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

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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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Premee Mohamed, "The Siege of Burning Grass" (Solaris, 2024) 41:39

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Premee Mohamed’s novel The Siege of Burning Grass (Solaris, 2024) is set during an ongoing war between two empires: Varkal and Med’ariz and follows Alefret, a founder of Varkal’s pacifist resistance who has been arrested and imprisoned by his own country. When the opportunity for freedom presents itself, Alefret must decide how willing he is to col…

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"Catamaran" Magazine: A Discussion with Catherine Segurson 27:34

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Catherine Segurson is the founding editor of Catamaran. She’s a painter, videographer and creative writer who graduated from the Master of Fine Arts program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Prior to founding Catamaran 12 years ago, she worked at both Zeotrope and ZYZZYVA literary magazines. California-based Catamaran focuses ofte…

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

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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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Ruchama Feuerman, "In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist" (Open Road Media, 2024) 24:02

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In Ruchama Feuerman's novel In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist (Open Road Media 2024), Isaac, a lonely, heartbroken New York haberdasher, moves to Jerusalem after he’s jilted by his bride-to-be and his mother dies. He stumbles into a job as the assistant to a famous kabbalist and spends his days helping the elderly man and his wife dispense wisdom a…

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A. J. Rodriguez, "Papel Picado," The Common Magazine (2024) 47:45

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A. J. Rodriguez speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his story “Papel Picado,” which appears in The Common’s most recent issue. A.J. talks about the process of writing and revising this story, which explores a fraught moment in the life of a Latino high schooler struggling under the pressures of family, friendship, and expectation in Albuq…

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Naomi Westerman, "Happy Death Club: Essays on Death, Grief, and Bereavement Across Cultures" (404 Inklings, 2024) 52:26

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Playwright Naomi Westerman was an anthropology graduate student studying death rituals around the world when her whole family died, turning the end of lives from an academic pursuit into something deeply personal. She became fascinated by the concept of loss and grief, the multiple ways we experience it across cultures, history, and art. Happy Deat…

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"Alaska Quarterly Review" Magazine: A Discussion with Ronald Spatz 40:55

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Ronald Spatz is the editor-in-chief and co-founding editor of Alaska Quarterly Review. A formal National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Mr. Spatz has been recognized with Alaska State Governor’s Awards in Humanities and the Arts. He is currently a full professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, where he also s…

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Terena Elizabeth Bell, "Tell Me What You See" (Whiskey Tit, 2022) 49:13

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Sara Farrington, "A Trojan Woman Adapted from Euripides" (Broadway Play Publishing, 2024) 26:27

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"The Threepenny Review": A Discussion with Wendy Lesser 33:49

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Charles Holdefer, "Ivan the Terrible Goes on a Family Picnic" (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2024) 46:54

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Stephen Schottenfeld, "This Room Is Made of Noise" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023) 26:32

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Heather Redmond, "Death and the Visitors" (Kensington, 2024) 46:04

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"New Letters" Magazine: A Discussion with Christie Hodgen 27:03

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

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Juli Min, "Shanghailanders" (Spiegel & Grau, 2024) 41:00

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Zoë Bossiere, "Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir" (Abrams Press, 2024) 53:29

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Casey Plett, "On Community" (Biblioasis, 2023) 53:53

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

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Na'ou Liu, "Urban Scenes" (Cambria Press, 2023) 1:01:08

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Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024) 1:01:02

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

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Kate Brandes, "Stone Creek" (Wyatt-MacKenzie, 2024) 48:57

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Rochelle Potkar, "Coins in Rivers: Poems" (Hachette India, 2024) 32:49

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

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Premee Mohamed, "The Siege of Burning Grass" (Solaris, 2024) 41:39

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"Catamaran" Magazine: A Discussion with Catherine Segurson 27:34

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

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Ruchama Feuerman, "In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist" (Open Road Media, 2024) 24:02

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A. J. Rodriguez, "Papel Picado," The Common Magazine (2024) 47:45

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Naomi Westerman, "Happy Death Club: Essays on Death, Grief, and Bereavement Across Cultures" (404 Inklings, 2024) 52:26

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"Alaska Quarterly Review" Magazine: A Discussion with Ronald Spatz 40:55

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