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ABOUT HOW NOVELS ARE MADE — AND WHAT TO MAKE OF THEM
5.6 A Forensic Level of Honesty: Aminatta Forna and Nicole Rizzuto (AV)
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. Aminatta is deeply aware of the power to…
5.5 They’re Not Metaphorical Demons: Mariana Enriquez and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra (CH)
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…
5.4 The Meat and Bones of Life: Erika T. Wurth with Leif Sorensen (RE)
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…
5.3 It’s on The Illabus: A Discussion with Jean-Christophe Cloutier and John Jennings (SW)
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…
5.2 Writing the Counter-book: Joshua Cohen with Eugene Sheppard (JP)
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…
5.1 We Have This-ness, Y’all! Ocean Vuong and Amy E. Elkins (EH)
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…
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