Latest Withoutbooks Podcast Episodes
Bradley Sides
A World Without Books - July 23, 2021 16:31 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBradley Sides’ writing appears at Chapter 16, Chicago Review of Books, Electric Literature, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, The Rumpus, Southern Review of Books, and elsewhere. He holds an MA in English from the University of North Alabama and is an MFA candidate at Queens University ...
Marilyn Peterson Haus
A World Without Books - July 23, 2021 16:30 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMarilyn Peterson Haus learned to read and write in a one-room school set in the midst of a sea of corn, and then rode a rickety yellow school bus seven miles to the nearest town (population 700) for middle and high school. Everything was oriented around the railroad that sliced through the tallg...
Jenn Shapland: Silent Spring
Without These Books - July 02, 2021 07:00 - 16 minutesJenn Shapland is a writer and archivist living in New Mexico. Her first book, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award and won the Lambda Literary award. She has a PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently working on a col...
Marilyn Peterson Haus: I Know This Much Is True
Without These Books - June 25, 2021 07:00 - 10 minutesMarilyn Peterson Haus learned to read and write in a one-room school set in the midst of a sea of corn, and then rode a rickety yellow school bus seven miles to the nearest town (population 700) for middle and high school. Everything was oriented around the railroad that sliced through the tallg...
Philip J. Kowalski
A World Without Books - June 10, 2021 07:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPhilip J. Kowalski has taught courses in critical thinking and American literature at Wake Forest University and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He lives on the North Shore of Massachusetts. Canine in the Promised Land Atmosphere Press, 2021
Mary Dixie Carter: The Age of Innocence
Without These Books - June 04, 2021 07:00 - 14 minutesMary Dixie Carter’s debut novel The Photographer will be published in May 2021 by Minotaur Books - St. Martin’s Publishing Group in the US and by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK. Mary Dixie’s writing has appeared in TIME, The Economist, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, The Philad...
Elizabeth Gauffreau
A World Without Books - June 03, 2021 07:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingElizabeth Gauffreau writes fiction and poetry with a strong connection to family and place. She holds a B.A. in English from Old Dominion University and an M.A. in English/Fiction Writing from the University of New Hampshire. She is currently the Assistant Dean of Curriculum & Assessment for Cha...
Keith Madsen
A World Without Books - May 27, 2021 07:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingKeith Madsen is a retired minister who is using his retirement to pursue a lifelong interest in writing fiction. Keith has published short stories in Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Talking River, Short Story America and Adelaide. He is a member of the Pacific Northwest Writers’ Associatio...
Courtney Zoffness: Dept. of Speculation
Without These Books - May 21, 2021 07:00 - 11 minutesCourtney Zoffness’s debut, Spilt Milk (McSweeney’s, 2021), received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and BookPage, and was named “most anticipated” or “must-read” book by Good Morning America, LitHub, Refinery29, The Millions, Publishers Weekly, and others. Zoffness won the 2018...
Donna Koros Stramella
A World Without Books - May 20, 2021 07:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDonna Koros Stramella is a writer from Maryland whose fiction and nonfiction pieces have been published in Adelaide Literary Magazine, Scarlet Leaf Review, Columbia Magazine, and the Baltimore Sun. She is a previous award-winning journalist and video writer-producer. A graduate of the University...
Khalisa Rae: Citizen: An American Lyric
Without These Books - May 14, 2021 07:00 - 14 minutesKhalisa Rae is a poet and journalist in Durham, NC that speaks with furious rebellion. She is the author of Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat (Red Hen Press 2021). Her essays are featured in Autostraddle, Catapult, LitHub, as well as articles in B*tch Media, NBC-BLK, and others. Her poetry appears ...
Steven Armstrong
A World Without Books - May 14, 2021 01:43 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBorn and raised in the Bay Area, Steven Armstrong is an award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, and author. He spent several years in the nonprofit world of maternal health, becoming inspired by countless stories of resilience, while working as an editor and staff writer reviewing films. Steven h...
Rebecca Handler: When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book
Without These Books - April 30, 2021 07:00 - 11 minutesRebecca Handler is a writer who lives and works in San Francisco. Rebecca’s stories have been published and awarded in several anthologies, and she blogs regularly at www.onewomanparty.com. Edie Richter is Not Alone is her debut novel, and in a Starred Review, Booklist writes, "Handler's Edie ha...
Jennifer Acker: The Transit Of Venus
Without These Books - April 23, 2021 07:00 - 14 minutesJennifer Acker is founder and editor in chief of The Common, and author of the debut novel The Limits of the World, a fiction honoree for the Massachusetts Book Award. Her memoir “Fatigue” is a #1 Amazon bestseller, and her short stories, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared in the Wa...
Joshua M. Greene: The Bhagavad Gita
Without These Books - April 16, 2021 07:00 - 13 minutesJoshua M. Greene is a popular lecturer on Holocaust history and an author whose biographies have sold more than a half-million copies worldwide. Greene’s groundbreaking book on the Dachau war crimes trials, Justice at Dachau: The Trials of an American Prosecutor, was deemed “riveting—history wri...
Joshua M. Greene
A World Without Books - April 12, 2021 16:47 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJoshua M. Greene is a popular lecturer on Holocaust history and an author whose biographies have sold more than a half-million copies worldwide. A former instructor at Hofstra and Fordham Universities, Greene is the recipient of numerous awards for his books and films. He sits on the board of Ya...
S. Kirk Walsh: Lost in the City
Without These Books - April 09, 2021 07:00 - 14 minutesS. Kirk Walsh is a writer living in Austin, Texas. Her work has been widely published in The New York Times Book Review, Longreads, StoryQuarterly, and Electric Literature, among other publications. Over the years, she has been a resident at Ucross, Yaddo, Ragdale, and Virginia Center for the Cr...
Annabelle Gurwitch: Bright-Sided
Without These Books - April 02, 2021 07:00 - 13 minutesAnnabelle Gurwitch is an actress, activist, and author of five books including The New York Times bestseller and Thurber Prize finalist I See You Made an Effort. She’s written for The New Yorker, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, LA Magazine and Hadassah amongst other publi...
Peter Friedrichs
A World Without Books - March 26, 2021 21:10 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPeter Friedrichs is a pastor of a religiously liberal and socially progressive church. He lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania with his wife and biggest supporter, Irene. They are the proud parents of two adult daughters and grandparents of three elementary-aged boys. And the Stars Kept Watch Atmo...
Jacqueline T. Johnson
A World Without Books - March 26, 2021 21:10 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJacqueline T. Johnson is an avid reader, who dared to fulfill a dream with her debut novel Test of Time. "Writing is an expression of who I am. It's where my emotions, thoughts, and dreams come alive." Test of Time Createspace, 2013
Scott O'Connor: Libra
Without These Books - March 26, 2021 07:00 - 9 minutesScott O’Connor is the author of A Perfect Universe: Ten Stories, the novels Zero Zone, Untouchable, and Half World and the novella Among Wolves. He has been awarded the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, and his stories have been shortlisted for the Sunday Times/EFG Story Prize and...
Seth Greenland: Portnoy's Complaint
Without These Books - March 19, 2021 07:00 - 15 minutesSeth Greenland is the author of five novels. He is a playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and one of the original hosts of the Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour. His first memoir, A Kingdom of Tender Colors, was published in 2020. Greenland’s play, Jungle Rot, won the Kennedy Center/American...
Bella Masala
A World Without Books - March 10, 2021 17:33 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBella Masala is a creator of art of all sorts. She recently quit her job to pursue her passion in writing, which she crafts with love. She currently lives in Silver Spring, MD. The Ghost Queen Atmosphere Press, 2020
Dani Putney
A World Without Books - March 04, 2021 15:16 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDani Putney is a queer, non-binary, mixed-race Filipinx, & neurodivergent writer originally from Sacramento, California. Their poems appear in outlets such as Empty Mirror, Ghost City Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Juke Joint Magazine, & trampset, while their personal essays can be found in...
Christy Leskovar
A World Without Books - March 04, 2021 15:11 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChristy Leskovar was born in Butte, Montana, and grew up in Kennewick, Washington. She graduated from Seattle University with degrees in mechanical engineering and French and then joined Bechtel in Gaithersburg, Maryland, where she worked on the design of nuclear power plants. After stints in Ka...
J.D. Jahn
A World Without Books - February 27, 2021 15:02 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJ.D. Jahn, a native of Iowa, studied British literature in college and graduate school. He published scholarly articles on English Renaissance poetry as an assistant professor of English, before moving on to serve as a writer, editor, and director of communications and marketing for six higher e...
Ryan Gattis: Ask the Dust
Without These Books - February 20, 2021 19:54 - 12 minutesRyan Gattis is the author of Safe, Kung Fu High School, The System, and All Involved, which won the American Library Association’s Alex Award and the Lire Award for Noir of the Year (France). He lives and writes in South Los Angeles, where he is a member of art collective UGLARworks, a founding ...
Aminah Mae Safi: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Without These Books - February 20, 2021 19:54 - 8 minutesAminah Mae Safi is a Muslim-American writer who explores art, fiction, feminism, and film. She's the winner of the We Need Diverse Books short story contest. She lives in Los Angeles, California, with her partner and two cats. She is the author of Not the Girls You're Looking For (Feiwel and Fri...
Susan Jane Gilman: The Grapes of Wrath
Without These Books - February 20, 2021 19:54 - 9 minutesSusan Jane Gilman is the author of five books: The novels “Donna Has Left the Building” and “The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street,” plus the memoirs “Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven,” “Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress” and “Kiss My Tiara.” She has been a commentator for NPR and written for ...
Chad-Michael Simon
A World Without Books - February 17, 2021 14:10 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChad-Michael Simon was born in Toledo, Ohio and has been an illustrator at Root, Inc. for twenty years. He lives in Michigan with his wife, children, and pets. Yellowstone: The Bears of Caldera is his first novel. Yellowstone: The Bears of Caldera HyphenatedPress, 2019
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