Latest World literature Podcast Episodes
USA - Interview with 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 ...
SPOTLIGHT on author Bridget Krone
BookLove Letter - March 05, 2020 05:00 - 30 minutesBridget Krone brings us a brilliantly nuanced middle-grade novel about children and civil disobedience. Set in South Africa, Bridget was inspired by the time Gandhi spent in Pietermaritzburg and the true meaning of satyagraha, or "the quiet insistence of truth.” Her protagonist, Mercy, lives wi...
SOUTH AFRICA - Interview with author Bridget Krone
BookLove Letter - March 05, 2020 05:00 - 30 minutesBridget Krone brings us a brilliantly nuanced middle-grade novel about children and civil disobedience. Set in South Africa, Bridget was inspired by the time Gandhi spent in Pietermaritzburg and the true meaning of satyagraha, or "the quiet insistence of truth.” Her protagonist, Mercy, lives wi...
USA - Interview with author Sue Burke
BookLove Letter - February 20, 2020 19:00 - 22 minutesSue Burke is a writer and translator whose recent sci-fi duology (SEMIOSIS and INTERFERENCE) has appeared on a number of “Best of” lists and shortlisted for some highly prestigious prizes. Our conversation covered how she knew from even before she could read that she wanted to be a writer, the ...
SPOTLIGHT on author Sue Burke
BookLove Letter - February 20, 2020 19:00 - 22 minutesSue Burke is a writer and translator whose recent sci-fi duology (SEMIOSIS and INTERFERENCE) has appeared on a number of “Best of” lists and shortlisted for some highly prestigious prizes. Our conversation covered how she knew from even before she could read that she wanted to be a writer, the ...
SPOTLIGHT on translator Sawad Hussain
BookLove Letter - February 05, 2020 19:00 - 35 minutesSawad Hussain is the translator of Mama Hissa’s Mice, a rich and wrenching novel by the eminent Kuwaiti author Saud Alsanousi. My conversation with Sawad begins with her trajectory as a literary translator from the Arabic, then delves into the controversy this book incited when it was published...
KUWAIT - Interview with translator Sawad Hussain
BookLove Letter - February 05, 2020 19:00 - 35 minutesSawad Hussain is the translator of Mama Hissa’s Mice, a rich and wrenching novel by the eminent Kuwaiti author Saud Alsanousi. My conversation with Sawad begins with her trajectory as a literary translator from the Arabic, then delves into the controversy this book incited when it was published...
USA - Interview with memoirist Hope Mueller
BookLove Letter - January 22, 2020 19:00 - 24 minutesHope Mueller has written an inspirational memoir about her early life in the United States, life lived in a commune – something most of us know little about or tend to misconstrue. The passage Hope reads takes us right into her world on a cold school day morning, as she bakes a tray of donuts f...
SPOTLIGHT on memoirist Hope Mueller
BookLove Letter - January 22, 2020 19:00 - 24 minutesHope Mueller has written an inspirational memoir about her early life in the United States, life lived in a commune – something most of us know little about or tend to misconstrue. The passage Hope reads takes us right into her world on a cold school day morning, as she bakes a tray of donuts f...
SPOTLIGHT on poet Miho Kinnas
BookLove Letter - December 16, 2019 21:00 - 20 minutesMiho Kinnas speaks to us about her most recent collection of poetry: Move Over, Bird. This beautiful, slim edition contains an awesome array: original poetry in English, Japanese poems translated into English, translations of traditional haiku, a linked poem, found poems, and prose poems, poems...
JAPAN - Interview with poet Miho Kinnas
BookLove Letter - December 16, 2019 21:00 - 20 minutesMiho Kinnas speaks to us about her most recent collection of poetry: Move Over, Bird. This beautiful, slim edition contains an awesome array: original poetry in English, Japanese poems translated into English, translations of traditional haiku, a linked poem, found poems, and prose poems, poems...
SAUDI ARABIA - Interview with translator Timothy Gregory
BookLove Letter - December 13, 2019 21:00 - 26 minutesWe’ve got a double feature for you on the speculative fiction novel Warriors & Warlocks: Outcast, with interviews from both Timothy Gregory, translator from the Arabic, and Saudi author Monther Alkabbani. In my interview with Tim he says: "I like to grab a book every once in a while that's outs...
SPOTLIGHT on translator Timothy Gregory
BookLove Letter - December 13, 2019 21:00 - 26 minutesWe’ve got a double feature for you on the speculative fiction novel Warriors & Warlocks: Outcast, with interviews from both Timothy Gregory, translator from the Arabic, and Saudi author Monther Alkabbani. In my interview with Tim he says: "I like to grab a book every once in a while that's outs...
SAUDI ARABIA - Interview with author Dr. Monther Alkabbani
BookLove Letter - December 06, 2019 21:00 - 33 minutesIn this episode, Dr. Monther Alkabbani and I chat about his first book in English, Warriors & Warlocks: Outcast, translated by Timothy Gregory. A work of speculative and historical fiction, it is “genre-bending” and being enjoyed equally by audiences in both Arabic and English. “It makes me rea...
SPOTLIGHT on author Dr. Monther Alkabbani
BookLove Letter - December 06, 2019 21:00 - 33 minutesIn this episode, Dr. Monther Alkabbani and I chat about his first book in English, Warriors & Warlocks: Outcast, translated by Timothy Gregory. A work of speculative and historical fiction, it is “genre-bending” and being enjoyed equally by audiences in both Arabic and English. “It makes me rea...
USA - Interview with author Carla Damron
BookLove Letter - November 25, 2019 21:00 - 20 minutesCarla Damron’s fiction is very much inspired by her social work and social justice efforts. The themes of home, homelessness, addiction, loss, humanity, resilience, opening ourselves up, and moving forward run through her amazing literary novel and our conversation about it. “There are five th...
SPOTLIGHT on author Carla Damron
BookLove Letter - November 25, 2019 21:00 - 20 minutesCarla Damron’s fiction is very much inspired by her social work and social justice efforts. The themes of home, homelessness, addiction, loss, humanity, resilience, opening ourselves up, and moving forward run through her amazing literary novel and our conversation about it. “There are five th...
USA (South Carolina) - Interview with author Carla Damron
BookLove Letter - November 25, 2019 21:00 - 20 minutesCarla Damron’s fiction is very much inspired by her social work and social justice efforts. The themes of home, homelessness, addiction, loss, humanity, resilience, opening ourselves up, and moving forward run through her amazing literary novel and our conversation about it. “There are five th...
MADAGASCAR - Interview with translator Allison M. Charette
BookLove Letter - November 12, 2019 20:00 - 37 minutesAllison M. Charette and I have a wonderful chat about her latest translation, Return from the Enchanted Island, a novel by Johary Ravaloson. Only the second novel from Madagascar ever to be published in English, you're in for a treat! Bio: Allison M. Charette translates literature from French i...
SPOTLIGHT on translator Allison M. Charette
BookLove Letter - November 12, 2019 20:00 - 37 minutesAllison M. Charette and I have a wonderful chat about her latest translation, Return from the Enchanted Island, a novel by Johary Ravaloson. Only the second novel from Madagascar ever to be published in English, you're in for a treat! Bio: Allison M. Charette translates literature from French i...
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