Latest World literature Podcast Episodes
In Conversation with Curtis Bauer, Translator of Home Reading Service, a Novel by Fabio Morábito
BookLove Letter - June 29, 2022 19:40 - 59 minutesWhen thinking about how to describe this brilliant novella by renowned Mexican author Fabio Morábito, the juxtaposition of poetry, oddities and irony seemed to convey its breadth. Have a listen as I and two members of Wayfarers Book Club talk to translator Curtis Bauer, where he shares his approa...
In Conversation with Curtis Bauer, Translator of Home Reading Service, a Novel by Fabio Morábito
BookLove Letter - June 29, 2022 19:40 - 59 minutesWhen thinking about how to describe this brilliant novella by renowned Mexican author Fabio Morábito, the juxtaposition of poetry, oddities and irony seemed to convey its breadth. Have a listen as I and two members of Wayfarers Book Club talk to translator Curtis Bauer, where he shares his appro...
Walking the Bowl
BookLove Letter - March 24, 2022 21:11 - 6 minutesHello, BookLoves. In this episode of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, I offer a short reading from the book Walking the Bowl: A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka, by Chris Lockhart & Daniel Mulilo Chama. Below, I offer a whole lot more about it, what I took...
S03 E06 - Wayfarers 360° Experience: A reading and an offer from Intralingo
BookLove Letter - January 27, 2022 22:00 - 10 minutesSeason 03 Episode 06 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast I’m here today with a little something different: a short reading from the novel The Island of Missing Trees, by Elif Shafak, and an offer. ~Lisa Wayfarers 360° Experience The Wayfarers 360° Experience is a whole body, whole-hearted...
Wayfarers 360° Experience: A reading and an offer from Intralingo
BookLove Letter - January 27, 2022 22:00 - 10 minutesSeason 03 Episode 06 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast I’m here today with a little something different: a short reading from the novel The Island of Missing Trees, by Elif Shafak, and an offer. ~Lisa Wayfarers 360° Experience The Wayfarers 360° Experience is a whole body, whole-hearted...
S03 E06 - Wayfarers 360° Experience: A reading and an offer from Intralingo
BookLove Letter - January 27, 2022 22:00 - 10 minutesSeason 03 Episode 06 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast I’m here today with a little something different: a short reading from the novel The Island of Missing Trees, by Elif Shafak, and an offer. ~Lisa Wayfarers 360° Experience The Wayfarers 360° Experience is a whole body, whole-hearted...
CAMEROON - Interview with author Max Lobe and translator Ros Schwartz
BookLove Letter - January 23, 2022 19:00 - 46 minutesSeason 03 Episode 05 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast Max is the most delightful guest who shared much about the wide-ranging themes he wanted to convey in this story and, as an extraordinarily talented and sensitive translator, Ros offered yet another dimension to this slim but deep novel. ...
NORWAY - Interview with author Michelle Grierson
BookLove Letter - January 13, 2022 17:00 - 55 minutesIn Conversation with Michelle Grierson, author of Becoming Leidah Season 03 Episode 04 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast We’re so happy to share a truly magical conversation with author Michelle Grierson about her debut novel, Becoming Leidah. This one includes questions from a number of ...
SOMALIA - Interview with author Shugri Said Salh
BookLove Letter - September 23, 2021 16:00 - 54 minutesSeason 03 Episode 03 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast I hope you will enjoy this soulful, shifting, emotional –and fun!– conversation with author Shugri Said Salh about her memoir, The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert. ~Lisa Lisa Carter Founder & Creative Director, Intralin...
CHINA – Interview with author Zhang Ling and translator Shelly Bryant
BookLove Letter - March 26, 2021 19:00 - 55 minutesSeason 3 Episode 02 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. Lisa Carter talks to Zhang Ling and Shelly Bryant about their novel, A Single Swallow. The discussion covers the themes of trauma, war and memory, informed by Ling’s work as a clin...
CHINA – Interview with author Zhang Ling and translator Shelly Bryant
BookLove Letter - March 26, 2021 19:00 - 55 minutesSeason 3 Episode 02 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. Lisa Carter talks to Zhang Ling and Shelly Bryant about their novel, A Single Swallow. The discussion covers the themes of trauma, war and memory, informed by Ling’s work as a clin...
IRAN – Interview with author Nazanine Hozar
BookLove Letter - January 14, 2021 19:00 - 37 minutesSeason 3 - Episode 01 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. I'm so pleased to have spoken to author Nazanine Hozar about her debut novel, Aria -- which Margaret Atwood called the "Doctor Zhivago of Iran"! NAZANINE HOZAR was born in Te...
IRAN – Interview with author Nazanine Hozar
BookLove Letter - January 14, 2021 19:00 - 37 minutesSeason 3 - Episode 01 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. I'm so pleased to have spoken to author Nazanine Hozar about her debut novel, Aria -- which Margaret Atwood called the "Doctor Zhivago of Iran"! NAZANINE HOZAR was born in Te...
GREECE/TURKEY – Interview with translator Paula Darwish
BookLove Letter - November 17, 2020 19:00 - 48 minutesWelcome to the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. Children of War, by Ahmet Yorulmaz, translated by Paula Darwish Some years ago, I visited an abandoned city along the Aegean, where I learned for the first time about the population exchange b...
GREECE/TURKEY – Interview with translator Paula Darwish
BookLove Letter - November 17, 2020 19:00 - 48 minutesWelcome to the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. Children of War, by Ahmet Yorulmaz, translated by Paula Darwish Some years ago, I visited an abandoned city along the Aegean, where I learned for the first time about the population exchange b...
WORLD TRAVEL – Interview with author Margaret Davis Ghielmetti
BookLove Letter - October 27, 2020 20:00 - 50 minutesWelcome to the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. Margaret Davis Ghielmetti is a traveler, writer and live lit storyteller whose memoir is about setting off with her husband as he took on roles managing exclusive hotels around the world. In di...
WORLD TRAVEL – Interview with author Margaret Davis Ghielmetti
BookLove Letter - October 27, 2020 20:00 - 50 minutesWelcome to the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. Margaret Davis Ghielmetti is a traveler, writer and live lit storyteller whose memoir is about setting off with her husband as he took on roles managing exclusive hotels around the world. In di...
MONTENEGRO – Interview with Olja Knežević (author), Paula Gordon & Ellen Elias-Bursać (translators)
BookLove Letter - October 18, 2020 15:00 - 1 hourCatherine the Great and the Small is the coming-of-age story of a Montenegrin girl, her tumultuous teen and young adult years, as she is surrounded by the even more tumultuous events unfolding in what we now know as the ex-Yugoslavia. Author Olja Knežević says, “Catherine is someone who could h...
MONTENEGRO – Interview with Olja Knežević (author), Paula Gordon & Ellen Elias-Bursać (translators)
BookLove Letter - October 18, 2020 15:00 - 1 hourCatherine the Great and the Small is the coming-of-age story of a Montenegrin girl, her tumultuous teen and young adult years, as she is surrounded by the even more tumultuous events unfolding in what we now know as the ex-Yugoslavia. Author Olja Knežević says, “Catherine is someone who could h...
RUSSIA – Interview with translator Katherine E. Young
BookLove Letter - September 24, 2020 12:00 - 47 minutesWelcome to the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. Look at Him is a moving and one-of-a-kind memoir / investigative journalism exposé by Anna Starobinets, a novelist of such renown she is often referred to as “Russia’s Stephen King.” In this m...
RUSSIA – Interview with translator Katherine E. Young
BookLove Letter - September 24, 2020 12:00 - 47 minutesWelcome to the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. Look at Him is a moving and one-of-a-kind memoir / investigative journalism exposé by Anna Starobinets, a novelist of such renown she is often referred to as “Russia’s Stephen King.” In this m...
BRAZIL – Interview with author Natalia Borges Polesso & translator Julia Sanches
BookLove Letter - August 04, 2020 15:00 - 48 minutesWelcome to the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. Amora is a brilliant collection of stories that portray female love: romantic, familial, and platonic. Natalia: "I wanted to have this queer kid that sees a strange figure, a ‘stranger’. She w...
BRAZIL – Interview with author Natalia Borges Polesso & translator Julia Sanches
BookLove Letter - August 04, 2020 15:00 - 48 minutesWelcome to the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. Amora is a brilliant collection of stories that portray female love: romantic, familial, and platonic. Natalia: "I wanted to have this queer kid that sees a strange figure, a ‘stranger’. She w...
Spotlight on author Hamid Ismailov and translator Shelley Fairweather-Vega
BookLove Letter - May 07, 2020 19:00 - 46 minutesWelcome to the Intralingo SPOTLIGHT series, shining a light on authors and translators from around the globe. Uzbek author Hamid Ismailov, his English translator Shelley Fairweather-Vega and I talked about their two recent releases (Of Strangers & Bees and Gaia, Queen of Ants), which led us to ...
UZBEKISTAN - Interview with author Hamid Ismailov and translator Shelley Fairweather-Vega
BookLove Letter - May 07, 2020 19:00 - 46 minutesUzbek author Hamid Ismailov, his English translator Shelley Fairweather-Vega and I talked about their two recent releases (Of Strangers & Bees and Gaia, Queen of Ants), which led us to consider the oldest story in literature, the Uzbek and Russian languages, the influence of politics on translat...
SPOTLIGHT on author Silvia Moreno-Garcia
BookLove Letter - April 16, 2020 20:00 - 47 minutesWelcome to the Intralingo SPOTLIGHT series, shining a light on authors and translators from around the globe. Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a Mexican-Canadian author of six critically-acclaimed novels. We spoke about her most recent release, Untamed Shore. It is an artful, nuanced, suspenseful crime ...
MEXICO - Interview with author Silvia Moreno-Garcia
BookLove Letter - April 16, 2020 20:00 - 47 minutesWelcome to the Intralingo SPOTLIGHT series, shining a light on authors and translators from around the globe. Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a Mexican-Canadian author of six critically-acclaimed novels. We spoke about her most recent release, Untamed Shore. It is an artful, nuanced, suspenseful crime ...
SOUTH AFRICA - Interview with author J.L. (Jessica) Powers
BookLove Letter - March 20, 2020 16:00 - 34 minutesIt seems a particularly good time to release this interview with J.L. Powers now, as the world grapples with COVID-19. Jessica shared a personal story that can help us all, about the power and personal transformation that are possible when we read fiction. "Books literally saved me. They catapu...
SPOTLIGHT on author J.L. (Jessica) Powers
BookLove Letter - March 20, 2020 16:00 - 34 minutesIt seems a particularly good time to release this interview with J.L. Powers now, as the world grapples with COVID-19. Jessica shared a personal story that can help us all, about the power and personal transformation that are possible when we read fiction. "Books literally saved me. They catapu...
SPOTLIGHT on author Jane Banning
BookLove Letter - March 12, 2020 05:00 - 23 minutesMy conversation with author Jane Banning is as wide-ranging as her collection of poetry, prose and flash fiction, ranging from war veterans to basement pickles, and from reading the world to pickleball. “I like contrast between between intensity and levity. So that's kind of what I tried to do ...
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