ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Narrative Edge from Georgia Public Broadcasting highlights books with Georgia connections. Hosted by two of your favorite public radio book nerds who also happen to be your hosts of All Things Considered on GPB radio, Peter Biello and Orlando Montoya. In this podcast, Peter and Orlando will introduce you to authors, their writings, and the insights behind their stories, mixed with their own thoughts and ideas on just what gives these works the Narrative Edge.
Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
17 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
89 episodes
since July 13, 2023
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Journalist Justin Glawe has spent years reporting from scenes of violence, protest, and national upheaval, from Ferguson to the aftermath of mass shootings and the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. Peter Biello and Orlando Montoya explore Glawe’s book, If I Am Coming to Your Town, Something Terrible Has Ha…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Peter Biello sits down with The Help author Kathryn Stockett to discuss her new novel, The Calamity Club, a Depression era story set in Mississippi. Stockett talks about the historical research that transformed the novel, the friendships at its center, her writing process, and how the praise and cr…
What happens when four estranged people gather for a funeral on a fictional Georgia island and discover that Saturday keeps repeating? This episode explores Paige Harbison’s Destination Funeral, a magical realism novel that uses a Groundhog Day-style time loop to examine grief, friendship, family c…
Historian Keri Leigh Merritt joins the conversation around An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America, her biography of Georgia writer and civil rights advocate Lillian Smith. Peter Biello and Orlando Montoya explore Smith’s relationsh…
Georgia Poet Laureate Chelsea Rathburn explores family history, financial instability, and the emotional meaning of home in her poetry collection, Broken Houses. Peter and Orlando consider how Rathburn transforms childhood memories, vanished buildings, and complicated family relationships into inti…
The Leg in Question is the debut short story collection by Savannah writer K.W. Oxnard. Peter and Orlando discuss stories about HIV and AIDS, an apparently healthy leg a patient wants amputated, a grieving dog, and a Savannah morgue worker, while considering how Oxnard uses compressed scenes and un…
What happens when lifelong beliefs collide with lived experience? Georgia author Taylor Brown joins us to discuss Wolvers, his novel set in New Mexico's Gila Wilderness. We explore the history of Mexican gray wolves, the research behind the story, and how a tale of survival becomes a powerful medit…
Was the American Revolution really Americans versus the British, or was it a civil war between neighbors, families, and lifelong friends? This episode explores Greg Brooking's From Empire to Revolution: Sir James Wright and the Price of Loyalty in Georgia, examining the life of Georgia's last royal…
What makes a plantation more than just a historic mansion? In this episode, Peter and Orlando explore In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America with University of Georgia historian Daniel Rood. From sugar plantations on São Tomé to cotton fields in Georgia, this episo…
This episode of Narrative Edge explores Leave Your Mess at Home, the debut novel from Atlanta-based author Tolani Akinola. Peter Biello and Orlando Montoya unpack the book’s layered story of a Nigerian American family in Chicago as they navigate estrangement, identity, immigration, romance, sexuali…
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