A Book & Its Author
Alan M. Shore discusses and reads from Uncommon Allies: American Jews And Christians Uniting Against Hitler, 1933-1945 (Syracuse University Press, 2024), which looks at the development of interfaith unity in the face Hitler’s rise to power, largely manifested through a series of Madison Square Garden rallies, and how this unity helped reshape U. S. identity. https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/6470/uncommon-allies/ [email protected] Bluesky:@abookanditsauthor.bsky.social Twitter/X: @it_author Instagram: a_book_and_its_author Facebook: abookanditsauthor Threads:...
info_outline 054: Sync by Ellen HopkinsA Book & Its Author
Ellen Hopkins discusses and reads from her latest YA novel in verse, Sync (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2024), a story of twins, as close as they can be, until they’re separated within the foster system and have to struggle through heartbreaking trauma and cling to the hope of reunion. ellenhopkinsbooks.com [email protected] Bluesky:@abookanditsauthor.bsky.social Twitter/X: @it_author Instagram: a_book_and_its_author Facebook: abookanditsauthor Threads: a_book_and_its_author
info_outline 053: Love Virus by Jacci TurnerA Book & Its Author
Jacci Turner discusses and reads from her novel, Love Virus (Tree House Books, 2024), which follows the trials of three women, from three generations, as they navigate the challenges of love, loss, and learning to connect in the time of Covid-19. www.jacciturner.com [email protected] Twitter: @it_author Bluesky:@abookanditsauthor.bsky.social Instagram: a_book_and_its_author Facebook: abookanditsauthor Threads: a_book_and_its_author
info_outline 052: A Nuclear Family: Coming Of Age In Oppenheimer’s Secret City by Ellen Wilder Bradbury-Reid & E. Marshall WilderA Book & Its Author
Ellen Wilder Bradbury-Reid & E. Marshall Wilder discuss and read from A Nuclear Family: Coming Of Age In Oppenheimer’s Secret City (Bradbury-Reid & Wilder, 2023) which recounts their childhood experiences in Los Alamos, by turns normal and extraordinary, as their father worked on the intricacies of the atomic bomb. [email protected] Twitter: @it_author Bluesky:@abookanditsauthor.bsky.social Instagram: a_book_and_its_author Facebook: abookanditsauthor Threads: a_book_and_its_author
info_outline 051: The Necessary Beggar by Susan PalwickA Book & Its Author
Susan Palwick discusses her novel The Necessary Beggar (Tor, 2005, 2020) in which refugees from another dimension find themselves on the outskirts of Reno, Nevada, where they learn to be American and to navigate the country's culture and systems, and also re-learn what it means to be a family. [email protected] Twitter: @it_author Bluesky:@abookanditsauthor.bsky.social Instagram: a_book_and_its_author Facebook: abookanditsauthor Threads: a_book_and_its_author
info_outline 050: Rants From The Hill by Michael P. BranchA Book & Its Author
Michael P. Branch discusses and reads from Rants From The Hill (Roost Books, 2017), a collection of essays about (to borrow from the book’s subtitle) packrats, bobcats, wildfires, curmudgeons, a drunken Mary Kay Lady & other encounters with the wild in Nevada’s high desert. https://michaelbranchwriter.com/ [email protected] Twitter: @it_author Facebook: abookanditsauthor Instagram: a_book_and_its_author
info_outline 049: Cast Out Of Eden: The Untold Story Of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, And The American Wilderness by Robert Aquinas McNallyA Book & Its Author
Robert Aquinas McNally discusses and reads from Cast Out Of Eden: The Untold Story Of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, And The American Wilderness (Bison Books, 2024), a selective biography examining the complex interplay between Muir’s love of the land and his troubling racial biases. https://www.ramcnally.com/ [email protected] Twitter/X: @it_author Facebook: abookanditsauthor Instagram: a_book_and_its_author
info_outline 048: Horse Skull Moon by Robert MiltnerA Book & Its Author
Robert Miltner discusses and reads from Horse Skull Moon (SurVision Books, 2024), a chapbook of prose poems about landscapes, the passage of time, & our place in the face of such vastness. www.pw.org/directory/writers/robert_miltner www.survisionmagazine.com [email protected] Twitter/X: @it_author Facebook: abookanditsauthor Instagram: a_book_and_its_author
info_outline 047: So Tough by Jared StanleyA Book & Its Author
Jared Stanley discusses and reads from So Tough (Saturnalia Books, 2024), a book-length poem deeply couched in the West, where landscapes & human lives, the banal & the extraordinary collide in both violence & in hopefulness. https://jaredstanleyinfo.wordpress.com/ https://saturnaliabooks.com/ [email protected] Twitter: @it_author Facebook: abookanditsauthor Instagram: a_book_and_its_author
info_outline 046: Evil’s Unlikely Assassin by Jenn WindrowA Book & Its Author
Jenn Windrow discusses her novel Evil’s Unlikely Assassin (Irreverent Publishing, 2018), the first volume in the urban fantasy Alexis Black series about a reluctant vampire charged with slaying other creatures of the night, a task carried out with a ragtag team of misfits and a heaping dose of snark. https://jennwindrow.com/ [email protected] Twitter: @it_author Facebook: abookanditsauthor Instagram: a_book_and_its_author
info_outlineMarc Laidlaw discusses and reads from his novel, Underneath The Oversea, the culmination of the Gorlen Vizenfirthe stories, about a gargoyle-handed bard, a human-handed gargoyle, and the family that they’ve built in the fantastical world of Ique.
“Sombre Hombre” by Marc Laidlaw comes from the independently released EP, Sombre Hombre. Used with permission.
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