New Books Network Podcasts

To Keep the Sun Alive (Catapult, 2019) is the kind of rich, compelling story that not only informs the past,…

After surviving a car crash that left her widowed at twenty-two, Kathleen has retreated to a remote corner of a…

For twenty years, 47-year-old Isabel Toledo has been ghostwriting the stories of Holocaust survivors. It’s the mid 1990’s, Isabel is…

Practice Dying is about twins, David and Jamila, who seek meaning and connection from opposite ends of the world. Just…

Sunil Chandaria is struggling to write his PhD dissertation in philosophy at Harvard University. He feels his father’s disapproval because…

Julie Zuckerman’s moving and engrossing debut novel-in-stories, The Book of Jeremiah (Press 53, 2019), tells the story of awkward but…

It’s the late 1990’s and Alice Stein is a grad student in New York City. Her father died the previous…

The Genuine Stories is a linked collection centered around Genevieve “Genuine” Eriksson, a woman with an uncanny ability to heal…

Against the backdrop of a gritty 1890’s Chicago teeming with labor problems, filthy sweatshops, and putrid stockyards, two young immigrants…