When Faith, Femininity & Capitalism Collide: Kristin Kobes Du Mez's Live, Laugh, Love
This week, I talk with Kristin Kobes Du Mez about her new book Live, Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Womenand the World They Made. Listen to hear all about:
How Live Laugh Love grew out of Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne, shifting the focus from evangelical masculi...
When What We Inherit Haunts Us: Deena Helm's Our Cut of Salt
This week, I talk with Deena Helm about her debut literary horror novel Our Cut of Salt!
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How Deena Helm turned a haunted house into a living embodiment of history, memory, and inherited trauma.
Why Our Cut of Salt follows three generations of Palestinian women, and how trau...
Beyond MLK: The Women Who Shaped the Civil Rights Movement: How Bright the Path Grows by Marcia Chatelain
In this episode, I chat with Marcia Chatelain about her new non-fiction book How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington.
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How Marcia Chatelain’s love of storytelling, journalism, and deep historical research shaped her path to b...
First Ladies, Church Secrets & Respectability Politics: Deesha Philyaw's The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman
This week, Cassie Goodwin and I chat with Deesha Philyaw about her fiction debut The True Confessions of Lady Freeman!
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How The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman evolved over nearly 20 years, and why Deesha had to become a different, more experienced writer before she c...
Motherhood, Mystery, and Agency: Chital Mehta's Have You Seen Romit?
In this episode, I chat with Chital Mehta about her literary mystery Have You Seen Romit?
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How motherhood, an MFA, and a lifelong love of reading led Chital to pursue her dream of becoming a novelist.
The real-life missing-person article that inspired Have You Seen Romit...
Trad Wives, Social Media & the Horror of Losing Yourself with Sarah Langan
This week, I talk with Sarah Langan about her novella Bloody 13 and her horror novel Trad Wife!
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The inspiration behind Bloody 13, and the conflicting reactions to it when she initially published it.
How Sarah Langan turned the trad wife movement into horror, using the seemi...
Murder, Secrets & Halloween in the Thousand Islands: Tessa Wegert's This River Runs Black
In this episode, Gare and I chat with Tessa Wegert about her new thrill The River Runs Black!
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How the Thousand Islands and North Country become characters themselves, creating the perfect mix of cozy fall atmosphere, isolation, and underlying dread.
Why Tessa set The River ...
Immigration, Education and Family: Sara Fashandi's From Tehran to Tomorrow
In this episode, I chat with Sara Fashandi about her book From Tehran to Tomorrow, which chronicles her brother Mohsen's story as the first in their family to immigrate to America.
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How a family storytelling contest inspired Sara Fashandi to become an author and preserve...
When Folklore Meets Colonial Horror: Mathilda Zeller's It Looks Like You in the Dark
This week, I chat with Mathilda Zeller about her new horror It Looks Like You in the Dark.
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How Inupiat folklore, family history, and a troubling account of cultural appropriation inspired this chilling Arctic horror novel.
The intersection of supernatural horror, colon...
Books That Have Been on Our TBRs for TOO LONG with Erin Ashley and Kayla Hardy
This week, Erin Ashley, Kayla Hardy and I chat about books that have been on our TBRs for waaaay too long.
Kate's Books
Babel by R.F. Kuang
The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Kayla's Books
House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson
Astarion: Baldur's Gate 3: by T. K...
