Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley
On this episode of TGE’s Current Read, your host Sam Herbst chats with Holly Brickley, one of this year’s HOTTEST new authors, whose debut novel Deep Cuts has already made Hollywood inroads. Silver screen stars Saoirse Ronan and Austin Butler have already been named as the leads in A24’s film adapt…
Leave No Trace with Sam Herbst
Sam Herbst returns as we discuss Debra Granik’s superb Leave No Trace. Together we go through the careers of the leads, films we thought of on our rewatch, earning the movies’ rotten tomatoes record and 2018 as a movie year. Friend of the show Tyler Harford fills in for cohost while Clay Williams i…
Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal
On this episode of TGE’s Current Read, Sam Herbst welcomes award-winning Indian-British author Gurnaik Johal for an in-depth author interview. No stranger to fiction, Gurnaik won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2022 for his short story collection, We Move, among other accolades.
Now venturing into th…
From Dark Academia to Rock ’n Roll: ML Rio Talks Hot Wax
Your Current Read host Sam Herbst sits down with internationally bestselling author ML Rio to chat about her latest novel, Hot Wax.
If, like so many of us, you became obsessed with If We Were Villains — the dark academia cult favourite steeped in Shakespearean drama — you won’t want to miss this d…
Author Nadia Davids on Writing Cape Fever | Ghosts, power, and the making of a gothic novel
What does it mean to live in a place that is as beautiful as it is haunted?On this episode of TGE’s Current Read, powerhouse South African creative Nadia Davids – an award-winning playwright and author – chats with host Sam Herbst about her new novel Cape Fever.
A haunting and atmospheric read, Cap…
Because I Love You | Joy Watson on love, emotional abuse, and finding yourself again
What happens when love slowly erodes your sense of self?In this episode of Current Read, host Sam Herbst sits down with writer, feminist researcher and editor Joy Watson to discuss her powerful and deeply emotive novel, Because I Love You.Through the intertwined stories of three women, Watson explo…
Why Some Marriages End So Suddenly | Eve Simmons on Divorce, Starting Over & What She Did Next
Sometimes the hardest chapter isn't the ending – it's what comes next.In this episode of Current Read, journalist and author Eve Simmons joins host Sam Herbst to discuss her powerful new book, What She Did Next.Part memoir and part investigative journalism, the book explores the emotional aftermath…
How far would you go for family? | Krystle Zara Appiah on love and sisterhood in Half Lives
What would you do for the person you love most? And what happens when that love becomes a betrayal?
On this episode of Current Read, host Sam Herbst sits down with British-Ghanaian author Krystle Zara Appiah to discuss her powerful second novel, Half Lives (2026), a moving exploration of sisterhoo…
Psychedelics, power & the search for transcendence | The Ego Trip by Kimon de Greef
What happens when a story about a toad that secretes a psychedelic toxin becomes an investigation into ego, transcendence, exploitation, conservation and the complicated business of turning a psychedelic drug into medicine?In this episode of Current Read, host Sam Herbst sits down with South Africa…
Who Gets to Belong? Lola Akinmade Åkerström on Bitter Honey
What does it mean to belong when you're caught between cultures, generations and the stories you've inherited?On this episode of Current Read, host Sam Herbst sits down with Nigerian-born, Sweden-based author, photographer and storyteller Lola Akinmade Åkerström to discuss her latest novel, Bitter …
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