It's been a doozy of a week. So here's a grab bag episode we recorded ages ago and never aired! Huzzah! 

Well well well, what do we have here? A little roundup of recent reads by Indigenous authors to keep you reading well beyond the end of November. We're talking SAVAGE CONVERSATIONS by Leanne Howe, NOOPIMING by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, PERMA RED by Debra Magpie Earling, NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT: AN INDIGENOUS DARK FICTION ANTHOLOGY featuring an absolutely bonkers line up, and Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe's forthcoming essay collection THUNDER SONG

If you like your ennui with a little bit of cheek have we got a treat you. We're talking about mythic literary rising-star-turned-specter Rosemary Tonks and her recently re-released (acerbic, hysterical, whip-smart, utterly delightful) novels THE HALT DURING THE CHASE and THE BLOATER. Oh, and have we mentioned how much we love New Directions lately? 

It's spooky season y'all! Come for our conversation with Taylor about perennial spooky fave CORALINE by Neil Gaiman! Stay for our inability to stay focused on one author for too long! Horrific honorable mentions this episode include TAMPA by Alissa Nutting, BOY PARTS by Eliza Clark, RIPE by Sarah Rose Etter, FANTASTICLAND by Mike Bockoven, and horror author extraordinaire Paul Tremblay.  

High impact, low page count. We're talking about books under 200 pages that we love, including KICK THE LATCH (and everything else) by Kathryn Scandlan, WHY DID I EVER by Mary Robison, HUNTERS, SOLDIERS, NOT COWBOYS by Aaron Tucker, FRANCISCO by Alison Mills Newman, OPEN THROAT by Henry Hoke, and INDELICACY by Amina Cain. 

Phallogocentrism, traditional Italian wedding night practices, vaginal devitalization, and a big ol moose for good measure. We're talking about Spokane Poet Laureate Laura Read's amazing poetry collection, But She Is Also Jane, with our favorite poetry buddy Kurt!! 

Art monsters, the intersection of beauty and power, sociopaths, creepy corners of the 2010s internet, schoolgirl politics, isolation and trauma and the very bad stuff that happens when one gives into one's dark dark darkest impulses...but make it funny? You go it! We're talking about your new favorite author, Eliza Clark!