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A Book & Its Author
by Marc Oxoby
A podcast. About a book. With an author. Interviewed. Reading from said book.
Episodes
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083: Scary Story by Alberto Chimal
Alberto Chimal discusses and reads from Scary Story (Pamenar Press, 2014, 2023), which includes two unsettling stories originally composed on Twitter, offering apocalyptic visions of the world that bear a troubling similarity to everyday existence. albertochimal.com [email protected]...
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082: Growing Up Weird by Phyllis Clark
Phyllis Clark discusses and reads from Growing Up Weird (Phyllis Clark/Storyworth, 2026), a collection of remembrances and observations, from her time growing within a strict religion in New England, to her Peace Corps service in South Africa, to her current life in Reno, NV (with a significant…
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081: The Politics Of Projectile Corpses by Garrett James Dillon
Garrett James Dillon discusses and reads from The Politics Of Projectile Corpses (Avantpop Publishing, 2025), a gritty poetry collection "for the hedonistic punk anarchist who lives in us all," which dwells upon personal loss, substance use, and the value in being the outsider....
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080: Contrapuntos (literary journal) directed by Marco Pico Rentería
Marco Pico Rentería discusses and reads a poem from Contrapuntos (Digitus Indie Publishers, 2013-present), the multilingual literary journal for which he serves as director, promoting cross-cultural dialogue through literature and translation, advancing the notion of literature without linguistic...
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079: Matter Out Of Place by AnnElise Hatjakes
AnnElise Hatjakes discusses and reads from Matter Out Of Place (University of Nevada Press, 2026), a short story collection about characters who seek to find and define themselves while navigating tempestuous cultural spaces and the strange, surreal urban and natural environments of northern...
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078: I Was A Teenage Michael Jackson Impersonator And Other Musical Meanderings by Keith Knight
Keith Knight discussed his comics memoir, I Was A Teenage Michael Jackson Impersonator And Other Musical Meanderings (Keith Knight, 2023), in which he reminisces about his days playing the part of the pop idol, interspersed with wry and heartfelt musings about a variety of musicians who made an...
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077: Finding Nevada Wild: The Terrain, Culture, And People Of The Most Mysterious State In The West by Sydney Martinez
Sydney Martinez discusses and reads from Finding Nevada Wild: The Terrain, Culture, And People Of The Most Mysterious State In The West, a coffee table book which uses extraordinary photos and lively text to take the reader to the far reaches and hidden corners of the Silver State....
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076: The Buried Knight by Angela Laverghetta
Angela Laverghetta discusses and reads from her novel, The Buried Knight (Dark Land Books, 2023), an urban fantasy laced with Arthurian legend, in which Genny Wylde finds herself caught up in the conflicts of the faerie realm and begins to uncover the secrets behind her ability to see the ghosts...
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075: A Danger Which We Do Not Know: A Philosophical Journey Into Anxiety by David Rondel
David Rondel discusses and reads from A Danger Which We Do Not Know: A Philosophical Journey Into Anxiety (Oxford University Press, 2024), which offers a wide survey of how different modes of philosophical thought have engaged with the problem of anxiety, and how anxiety may well be one of the…
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074: The Twins Of Strathnaver by Rachael Wright
Rachael Wright discusses and reads from The Twins Of Strathnaver (Green Avenue Books, 2025), a novel set in northwest Scotland, in which twins Margaret and Hugh have to reckon with mysterious visitors in search of gold, the suspicions of their neighbors, apocalyptic rumors, and their close...
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073: Hollywood's Others: Love And Limitation In The Star System by Katherine Fusco
Katherine Fusco discusses and read from Hollywood's Others: Love And Limitation In The Star System (Columbia University Press, 2025), which explores the non-normative undercurrents of some of the biggest stars and productions of the 1920s and 30s, and the way media and fans engaged with these....
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072: Full Of Beans: A Back-In-Time Mystery by Mark J. Wilson
Mark J. Wilson discusses and reads from his debut novel, Full Of Beans: A Back-In-Time Mystery (Redwood Publishing, LLC, 2025), about a private detective who solves crime and creates plenty of problems of his own by using a polaroid camera to traveling back in time. www.markjwilson.com...
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071: No Great Tragedy: An Academic Novel by Bernard Schopen
Bernard Schopen discusses his latest, No Great Tragedy: An Academic Novel (Luminaire Press, 2025), which follows a "neither heroic nor tragic, merely academic" Classics professor as he stumbles through the collapse of his department, the deterioration of his marriage, and a reassessment of his...
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070: Rebels And Outliers: Real Stories Of The American West by John M. Glionna
John M. Glionna discusses and reads from Rebels And Outliers: Real Stories Of The American West (University Of Nevada Press, 2025), a collection of pieces written while a roving reporter for the LA Times and others, detailing often overlooked corners of the West and the unique, resilient people…
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069: The Whyte Python World Tour by Travis Kennedy
Travis Kennedy discusses and reads from his debut novel, The Whyte Python World Tour (Doubleday, 2025), wherein the CIA exploits a glam metal band as part of a psy-op to destabilize communist countries during the cold war. https://traviskennedy.com/ [email protected]...
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068: Infernulls: The Golden Letter by Zeggy
Zeggy discusses and reads from Infernulls: The Golden Letter (Zeggy, 2025), a light novel homage to anime, role playing games, and classic fantasy, following the adventures of Lamya Cade and an unlikely party of companions that become an even more unlikely group of friends.…
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067: Refraction: An Arctic Memoir by Bruce Rettig
Bruce Rettig discusses and reads from Refraction: An Arctic Memoir (Wayfarer Books, 2022), about three summers worked in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, home of one of the largest oilfield in America, where an inhospitable landscape and remarkable people reshaped the author's view of himself and his world....
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066: Seven Tears Into The Sea by Terri Farley
Terri Farley discusses and reads from Seven Tears Into The Sea (Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, 2005), a coming-of-age novel in which seventeen-year-old Gwen revisits her seaside childhood home to learn about herself, about her family, and about a mysterious boy who just may be a...
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065: O'Ceagan's Legacy by Lillian I. Wolfe
Lillian I. Wolfe discusses and reads from O'Ceagan's Legacy (Pynhaven Press, 2016, 2025), a star-faring adventure in which the crew of a family-run cargo ship must contend with space pirates, Celtic spirits, and wormhole travel gone horribly wrong. lillianwolfe.online [email protected]...
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064: The Mansion by Bill Brown
Bill Brown discusses and reads from The Mansion (Lobos Coast Media, 2025), a haunted house yarn in which a team of scientists sets out to prove the existence of ghosts and find something far more terrifying in the abandoned 18th century mansion. billbrownnovels.com [email protected]...
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063: The Darling Of The Black Rock Desert by Laura Newman
Laura Newman discusses and reads from The Darling Of The Black Rock Desert (Delphinium Books, 2025), a collection of three novellas of the West, which explores how diverse characters forge connections, in ways that are by turn funny and tragic, informed by grief and hope. lauranewmanauthor.com...
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062: The Shining Mountains by Alix Christie
Alix Christie discusses and reads from her novel, The Shining Mountains (High Road Books, 2023), which begins in the Rocky Mountain west of the 1830s and tells the story of a Scottish fur trader and the Nez Perce woman he loves, set against a backdrop of sweeping landscapes and seismic colonial...
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061: Past Crimes by John Jacob Dawson
John Jacob Dawson discusses and reads from his debut novel, Past Crimes (John Jacob Dawson, 2024), which uses the development of time travel as a means of examining the ramifications of trauma, grief, and obsession, and how the pursuit of justice can shape people, for good or bad....
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060: Muslim Comics And Warscape Witnessing by Esra Mirze Santesso
Esra Mirze Santesso discusses and reads from Muslim Comics And Warscape Witnessing (The Ohio University Press, 2023), which looks at the growing body of Muslim graphic narratives, and how these comics have become an increasingly potent means of visualizing a variety of Muslim perspectives and...
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059: The Mad, Mad Murders Of Marigold Way by Raymond Benson
Raymond Benson discusses and reads from The Mad, Mad Murders Of Marigold Way (Beaufort Books, 2022), a comic mystery in the vein of the Coen Brothers thrillers, set in the strange setting of the American suburbs, in the even stranger period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Plus music by Raymond Benson....
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058: Reno's Big Gamble: Image And Reputation In The Biggest Little City by Alicia Barber
Alicia Barber discusses and reads from Reno's Big Gamble: Image And Reputation In The Biggest Little City (University Press Of Kansas, 2008), which explores the history of this Northern Nevada city, and the unique push-and-pull between urban identity, civic pride, nonconformist reputation, and...
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057: Bull Rider by Suzanne Morgan Williams
Suzanne Morgan Williams discusses and reads from her YA/middle grade novel, Bull Rider (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2009), in which fourteen-year-old Cam O'Mara must face the fears of riding bulls and having to reforge a relationship with his war-wounded older brother....
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056: Naked City by Eric Drooker
Eric Drooker discusses his graphic novel Naked City (Dark Horse Books, 2024), which follows a painted, a musician, and a dancer, as they ponder – and experience! – what it means to be an artist in the big city, and in the 21st century. https://www.drooker.com/ [email protected]...
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055: Uncommon Allies: American Jews And Christians Uniting Against Hitler, 1933-1945 by Alan M. Shore
Alan M. Shore discusses and reads from Uncommon Allies: American Jews And Christians Uniting Against Hitler, 1933-1945 (Syracuse University Press, 2024), which looks at the development of interfaith unity in the face Hitler's rise to power, largely manifested through a series of Madison Square...
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054: Sync by Ellen Hopkins
Ellen Hopkins discusses and reads from her latest YA novel in verse, Sync (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2024), a story of twins, as close as they can be, until they're separated within the foster system and have to struggle through heartbreaking trauma and cling to the hope of reunion....
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053: Love Virus by Jacci Turner
Jacci Turner discusses and reads from her novel, Love Virus (Tree House Books, 2024), which follows the trials of three women, from three generations, as they navigate the challenges of love, loss, and learning to connect in the time of Covid-19. www.jacciturner.com [email protected]...
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052: A Nuclear Family: Coming Of Age In Oppenheimer's Secret City by Ellen Wilder Bradbury-Reid & E. Marshall Wilder
Ellen Wilder Bradbury-Reid & E. Marshall Wilder discuss and read from A Nuclear Family: Coming Of Age In Oppenheimer's Secret City (Bradbury-Reid & Wilder, 2023) which recounts their childhood experiences in Los Alamos, by turns normal and extraordinary, as their father worked on the intricacies…
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051: The Necessary Beggar by Susan Palwick
Susan Palwick discusses her novel The Necessary Beggar (Tor, 2005, 2020) in which refugees from another dimension find themselves on the outskirts of Reno, Nevada, where they learn to be American and to navigate the country's culture and systems, and also re-learn what it means to be a family....
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050: Rants From The Hill by Michael P. Branch
Michael P. Branch discusses and reads from Rants From The Hill (Roost Books, 2017), a collection of essays about (to borrow from the book's subtitle) packrats, bobcats, wildfires, curmudgeons, a drunken Mary Kay Lady & other encounters with the wild in Nevada's high desert....
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049: Cast Out Of Eden: The Untold Story Of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, And The American Wilderness by Robert Aquinas McNally
Robert Aquinas McNally discusses and reads from Cast Out Of Eden: The Untold Story Of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, And The American Wilderness (Bison Books, 2024), a selective biography examining the complex interplay between Muir's love of the land and his troubling racial biases....
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048: Horse Skull Moon by Robert Miltner
Robert Miltner discusses and reads from Horse Skull Moon (SurVision Books, 2024), a chapbook of prose poems about landscapes, the passage of time, & our place in the face of such vastness. www.pw.org/directory/writers/robert_miltner www.survisionmagazine.com [email protected] Twitter/X:...
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047: So Tough by Jared Stanley
Jared Stanley discusses and reads from So Tough (Saturnalia Books, 2024), a book-length poem deeply couched in the West, where landscapes & human lives, the banal & the extraordinary collide in both violence & in hopefulness. https://jaredstanleyinfo.wordpress.com/ https://saturnaliabooks.com/...
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046: Evil's Unlikely Assassin by Jenn Windrow
Jenn Windrow discusses her novel Evil's Unlikely Assassin (Irreverent Publishing, 2018), the first volume in the urban fantasy Alexis Black series about a reluctant vampire charged with slaying other creatures of the night, a task carried out with a ragtag team of misfits and a heaping dose of...
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045: Mouse In The Box by Lewis Allan (Russell Jones & Jason Wrubell)
Russell Jones and Jason Wrubell, the authors behind the Lewis Allan pen name, discuss and read from Mouse In The Box (Stretched Studio LLC, 2023), a legal thriller in which criminal defense attorney, Mason Mitchell, finds himself taking on two high-profile cases that rattle his faith in the…
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044: The Innocent Sleep by Seanan McGuire
Seanan McGuire discusses the eighteenth novel in the October Daye series, The Innocent Sleep (DAW Books, 2023), in which Tybalt, King of Cats, seeks to restore a reality rewritten by Titania, Mother of Illusions. And to reforge his mostly forgotten marriage to Toby Daye....
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043: Axle Bust Creek: A Cleve Trewe Western by John Shirley
John Shirley discusses and reads from Axle Bust Creek (Pinnacle Books, 2022), the first novel in the Cleve Trewe western trilogy, in which our hero comes to the titular town, Axle Bust, to claim his uncle's mine and finds corporate intrigue, merciless outlaws, and a charmingly free-thinking…
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042: Straitjackets and Lunch Money: A 10-Year-Old In A Psychosomatic Ward by Katya Cengel
Katya Cengel discusses and reads from Straitjackets And Lunch Money, a harrowing account of the authors time in a psychosomatic ward, viewed from the perspective of the 10-year-old child who underwent the experience and from that of the journalist that she would eventually become....
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041: Drowning In The Desert by Bernard Schopen
Bernard Schopen discusses and reads from his novel Drowning In The Desert (University of Nevada Press, 2023), a "Nevada noir" in which an ex-deputy sheriff, Norman "Fats" Wrangle, sifts through the lies and corruption of the Silver State while navigating his own deeply flawed character....
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040: Little Fury by Casey Bell
Casey Bell discusses and reads from Little Fury (Metatron Press, 2023), a collection of short stories wherein the naturalistic and the surreal blend to tell the tales of women seeking a sense of place, self-care, and social justice in a less-than-welcoming world. Plus music by Fine Motor.…
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039: Stars Of Walt Disney Productions by Mark Arnold
Mark Arnold discusses and reads from Stars Of Walt Disney Productions (BearManor Media, 2022), a reference book detailing hundreds of performers, household names and vaguely familiar faces alike, who appeared in the studio's movies and TV shows from 1929 to 1983....
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038: Still Lives, New Mexico: Unmarked Graves In The Land Of Enchantment by (Richard Baron &) John Mulhouse
John Mulhouse discusses and reads from Still Lives, New Mexico: Unmarked Graves In The Land Of Enchantment, a collection of photographs by Richard Baron (& text by Mulhouse), evoking uncertain lives and unknown stories of those who lived and died in the sparse landscapes on New Mexico....
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037: Underneath The Oversea by Marc Laidlaw
Marc Laidlaw discusses and reads from his novel, Underneath The Oversea, the culmination of the Gorlen Vizenfirthe stories, about a gargoyle-handed bard, a human-handed gargoyle, and the family that they've built in the fantastical world of Ique. "Sombre Hombre" by Marc Laidlaw comes from the...
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036: Wolf Healer by Huckleberry Rahr
Huckleberry Rahr discusses and reads from Wolf Healer, the first book in the Jade Stone Chronicles, which explores the struggles of self-definition, community, & acceptance associated with teenage, LGBTQ identity, & living with a werewolf pack. https://huckleberryauthor.com...
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035: The Soul's Echo: Thirteen Pieces Of Short Fiction by Jill Creech Bauer
Jill Creech Bauer discusses & reads from The Soul's Echo: Thirteen Pieces Of Short Fiction (Jill Creech Bauer, 2021), a collection of stories, some speculative, some literary, all steeped in deep empathy for those struggling to face the challenges of life & human connections....
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034: Straight Flossin' And Other Stories Of The American West by Danny Nielsen
Danny Nielsen discusses and reads from Straight Flossin' And Other Stories Of The American West (Whistling Rabbit Press, 2022), a collection of essays about the author's wanderings through landscapes filled with punishing heat, ornery skunks, menacing wildfires, and strange stewards of the…
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