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Burnedbybooks.com Literature Professor with a books podcast. Guests include: Jennifer Egan, Percival Everett, AM Homes, Rebecca Makkai, Kevin Wilson, Victor LaValle, Celeste Ng, Katie Kitamura, Elif Batuman. Author of: http://tiny.cc/3e7vzz

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Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · Jan 24

What a gift to be interviewed by @carolinelevine.bsky.social, a scholar whose work has influenced my own for years.She is such an attentive and generous reader. I’m grateful, and I hope you’ll listen. Especially for fans of Ishiguro. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · 28d

Fantastic campus novel posing as an MA thesis plumbs the depths of the desire and power nexus. Fun, painful, compelling. Seduction Theory is the perfect late summer read. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

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Wendy Allison Lee @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social · 28d

Joan Wallach Scott 4eva!

Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 29d

"This defiance, of course, had its costs—material, social, + psychic. My father lost his income + his pension; my parents lost friends who shunned them for fear of being implicated in their politics. And then there was the betrayal by those once considered comrades who went over to the other side."

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The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

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Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · Aug 26

Got a chance to talk with Alejandro about his beautiful and painful novel of Venezuelan revolution and resistance, Freedom is a Feast. A novel that does not shy away from the most difficult questions about our limits, ethical and otherwise, in seeking freedom podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

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Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · Aug 15

@nellstevens ‘s The Original is one of the best novels of the year, and Nell couldn’t be smarter in thinking through literary and historical hoaxes. It’s a must read. (And a must listen). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · Aug 1

Wherein I try to speak semi-intelligently about SAD GROWNUPS while Chris Holmes brings all the best questions and so much generosity. (Thank you, @burnedbybooks.bsky.social!)
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Amy Stuber,

Podcast Episode · Burned By Books · 08/01/2025 · 45m

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Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · Aug 5

Congrats to @meganmcummins on the pub day for her beautiful debut novel, AtomicHearts.Megan and I chat about the preternatural wisdom of teens, friendships built around trauma,how to live in two time frames in a novel and so much more. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · Aug 1

I dare you to read any opening line in the stories collected in @amy_stuber_ ‘s Sad Grownups and not be consumed. They are jarring, funny, dark, and most of all human to the core. A righteous collection that will demand your attention. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · Jul 4

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Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · Jul 4

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Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · Jul 4

@jessebrownerauthor ‘s Sing to Me lives in the world of Greek epics but speaks and sings directly to our moment. Hani, an eleven year old on a journey to Troy to find his sister is wiser about the costs and weight of war than any of the leaders currently waging it. Lyrical, hopeful, unforgettable.

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Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · Jul 1

@jenkabat comes at every act of writing w/ an openness to the world that is rare indeed.Night Shining is a memoir,a history of scientific arrogance and genius, and deep time plunge into the geologic story of hope that will outlive us. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · Jun 25

@kate__folk ‘s SkyDaddy will be the funniest, most unhinged novel you read all summer. It is also a powerful indictment of a culture of loneliness and conformity. And, yes, it’s horny for airplanes. @randomhousekids.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...

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Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · Jun 20

A novel that predicted our moment of prison camps and the broad elimination of human rights based on fear and lies. @knuyen.bsky.social ‘s My Documents should be required reading, as painful as it is to invite a history of detention camps back into the present. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...

Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · Jun 12

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NO KINGS ITHACA · No Kings

(Indivisible Tompkins is hosting this event. Register now and check your email for important updates and event details!) **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day...

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Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · Jun 10

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Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · Jun 10

Rob Franklin’s Great Black Hope dazzles with the prose of poet-novelist, tracing the ongoing effects of America’s greatest sin on black families of great wealth and culture capital.A story of how a small misstep can reveal the fragility of black life in the U.S. in spaces of supposed privilege.

Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · May 21

I welcomed back the brilliant @andrew.porter.writer to talk about his latest novel, The Imagined Life, a story of family fracture, cultural bigotry, academic excommunication, all told through the eyes of teenager @aaknopf.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

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Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · Apr 14

Ithaca folks: let’s get up to some good trouble and rally to get the government’s #handsoff colleges and universities. Thursday 5pm Ho Plaza. Big numbers give universities spines.

Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · Apr 14

Loved my conversation with Betsy Lerner about her amazing novel Shred Sisters. We talked about painful sibling relationships, the search for a constant in an unstable world, her casting choices for a movie adaptation, and so much more. @groveatlantic.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

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Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · Apr 10

What a privilege to be in conversation with Colum McCann about his latest gift of a novel, Twist. I can’t recommend it enough. It is about cables deep in the dark of the ocean, but it’s about everything, and told in a poet’s voice.Get it. @randomhouse.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · Apr 4

@laurenelkin.bsky.social ‘s Scaffolding takes place in a single Parisian apt. spanning two eras of protest, resistance,and the search for intimacy that builds community.A story of many loves, losses,and desires. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @fsgbooks.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

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Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · Feb 20

Come take a class with me at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn! Bad Education in The Secret History, Never Let Me Go, and The School for Good Mothers. Gorgeous books, magnificent building with a bookshop and membership library, and led by a professor and podcaster :)

Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · Feb 6

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Podcast Episode · Burned By Books · 02/06/2025 · 1h 13m

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Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social · Feb 6

A big book with a big impact. @adamrosswriter has written a showstopper about a child actor, a wrestler, and a middle schooler who has an affair with a woman 20yrs older than him, and they are all the same unforgettable character. Playworld is a magic novel of an earlier New York City.

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