Fiction

An interview with Brendan Slocumb, author of the novel, The Violin Conspiracy. Part literary thriller and part mystery, the book is a gripping coming-of-age story about the love of music and a young man’s resilience.

An interview with Shelby Van Pelt, author of the novel Remarkably Bright Creatures. The book is an exploration of friendship and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.

An interview with Alma Katsu, author of the new thriller, Red London. The book is a race-against-the-clock story, told by a writer with 35 years of expertise in national security.

What makes a good subject of a great book, fiction or nonfiction? And are we indeed living in a "golden age of historical fiction," as the New York Times essayist Megan O’Grady penned?

An interview with Samantha Silva about her latest book, Love and Fury, a moving account of Mary Wollstonecraft, mother to writer Mary Shelley and arguably the world’s first feminist.

This is an encore presentation. Chris Bohjalian is a bestselling novelist whose work frequently appears on the New York Times bestseller list. His newest…

A literary thriller, Bearskin is set in the wilds of the Appalachian Mountains. Rice Moore is the caretaker of this nature preserve, a man running from a…

This encore interview originally aired in January, 2019.Personal stories of lives affected by terrorism have been the well-trod terrain of many books,…

Jonathan Evison is a writer whose work frequently appears on the New York Times bestseller list.In his latest novel, Evison tells the story of Mike Muñoz,…

What if you could take a road trip and visit all your heroes, door-to-door? What if you could share a meal? And what if you could do it right in their own…