In this week’s episode of
Fiction/Non/Fiction, co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan are joined by author Lacy M. Johnson and novelist Natalia Sylvester. First, Johnson recalls her personal experience through the recent storm, and talks about the ongoing debate over deregulation and privatization of the Texas energy grid. Then, Sylvester unravels the whitewashed, exceptionalist myth of Texas; elevates its Mexican, Black, and Indigenous history; and talks about what it means for her, a Latinx, Peruvian immigrant woman, to be a “Texas writer.”
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This is
Thresholds, a series of conversations with writers about experiences that completely turned them upside down, disoriented them in their lives, changed them, and changed how and why they wanted to write. Hosted by Jordan Kisner, author of the new essay collection,
Thin Places, and brought to you by Lit Hub Radio.
On today’s episode, Jordan talks to Fernanda Melchor about researching and writing her novel
Hurricane Season, her decision to leave Veracruz, and the complicity between fairy tale and femicide.
From the interview:
Fernanda Melchor: I kind of feel that my generation is melancholic by nature, because we’ve seen the decline of lots of things, and it is really difficult to have hope in the future. I’m obsessed with that theme. And I’m always writing about people who don’t have a future or feel they don’t have a future, or people who have lost all kind of hope in love.
SPILT MILK (E-BOOK)
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Listed as a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Lit Hub, The Millions, Publisher’s Weekly, Paperback Paris, Alma Magazine, and Refinery29.
What role does a mother play in raising thoughtful, generous children? In her literary debut, internationally award-winning writer
Courtney Zoffness considers what we inherit from generations past biologically, culturally, spiritually and what we pass on to our children.
Spilt Milk is an intimate, bracing, and beautiful exploration of vulnerability and culpability. Zoffness relives her childhood anxiety disorder as she witnesses it manifest in her firstborn; endures brazen sexual advances by a student in her class; grapples with the implications of her young son’s cop obsession; and challenges her Jewish faith. Where is the line between privacy and secrecy? How do the stories we tell inform who we become? These powerful, dynamic essays herald a vital new voice.
How to Write a Spy Novel 101 with The Mercenary author Paul Vidich | The Writer Experience #134
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In this episode of The Writer Experience, Court and Harry are joined by Paul Vidich, an author and former senior executive in the entertainment industry for over twenty years. After leaving his business career he turned to writing full time. His first novel,
An Honorable Man, a Publisher’s Weekly top 10 Mystery and Thriller in 2016, was followed by
The Good Assassin and
The Coldest Warrior. His essays and nonfiction have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Lit Hub, The Nation, CrimeReads, and elsewhere.
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