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fiction/non/fictionS8 Ep. 24: Curtis Sittenfeld on Show Don’t TellBestselling fiction writer Curtis Sittenfeld joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about her new collection of stories, Show Don’t Tell. Sittenfeld discusses the title story, which depicts graduate students in creative writing competing for funding, and its connections to her time at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, when that practice was common. She also considers how President Trump’s attacks on DEI reveal some people’s true natures, and what it means to write about “the hypocrisy of being a person.” Finally, she explains why she thinks of time as a plot twist, and reflects on returning...
2025-03-1344 min
fiction/non/fictionCurtis Sittenfeld on Show Don’t TellBestselling fiction writer Curtis Sittenfeld joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about her new collection of stories, Show Don’t Tell. Sittenfeld discusses the title story, which depicts graduate students in creative writing competing for funding, and its connections to her time at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, when that practice was common. She also considers how President Trump’s attacks on DEI reveal some people’s true natures, and what it means to write about “the hypocrisy of being a person.” Finally, she explains why she thinks of time as a plot twist, and reflects on returning...
2025-03-1348 min
Otherppl with Brad ListiAzareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi on Moving, Revolution, Sai Baba, Transnational Personhood, Sea Captains, and the Upper MidwestIn today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 507, my conversation with author Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi. This episode first aired on March 7, 2018.Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi is an American novelist and non-fiction writer. She is the author of Call Me Zebra, named a Best Book of the Year by over twenty publications and the winner of the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award, the John Gardner Award, and long listed for the PEN/Open Book Award. Her other novels include Savage Tongues and Fra Keeler, for which she received a Whiting Writers' Award and a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" awar...
2024-01-0526 min
Writer's BoneEpisode 622: Heidi Pitlor & Nicole Angeloro, The Best American Short StoriesHeidi Pitlor (series editor of The Best American Short Stories) and Nicole Angeloro, (longtime editor of the series) chat with Daniel Ford about this year's edition, which was guest-edited by Min Jin Lee. To learn more about Heidi Pitlor, visit her official website. You can learn more about Nicole Angerloro by visiting Mariner Books' staff page. Also check out The Best American Short Stories series landing page. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm and Mark Cecil's upcoming novel Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny.
2023-11-1439 min
Get Lost In An Eye-Opening Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.The Best American Short Stories 2023 by Min Jin Lee, Heidi PitlorPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/137311to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Best American Short Stories 2023
Author: Min Jin Lee, Heidi Pitlor
Narrator: Laura Copland, Jeena Yi, Pascale Armand, Korey Jackson, Will Tulin, Katharine Chin, Mirai, Micky Shiloah, Nikki Massoud, Dylan Moore, Thabang Makhubelak, Elyse Dinh, Johnny Rey Diaz, Yelena Shmulenson, full cast
Format: mp3
Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
Release date: 10-17-23
Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 22 ratings
Genres: Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
“Without stories, we cannot live well,” shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short Stories 2023 features twenty pieces of shor...
2023-10-172h 59
Strong Sense of Place | Travel Through BooksLoLT: Bookish Advice from Dear Dorothea & New BooksIn this episode, we get excited about two new books: 'The Cloisters' by Katy Hays and 'The Best American Short Stories 2022' edited by Andrew Sean Greer & Heidi Pitlor. Then Mel recommends a new bookish advice column.
BOOKS
The Cloisters by Katy Hays
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The Best American Short Stories 2022 by Andrew Sean Greer & Heidi Pitlor
https://bit.ly/3DzPKHs
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
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Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
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The Best American F...
2022-11-1111 min
All the Books!New Releases and More for November 1, 2022This week, Liberty and Danika discuss White Horse, The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, and more great books.Follow All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. And sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW:
2022-11-0145 min
Busy Reading BooksS01E09 | Is Listening the New Reading? with Sharon BakarAs our lives get busier and busier, sitting down to read a book has become harder to do. One solution is audiobooks, which allow us to listen while doing something else: cooking, doing our makeup, sitting in a traffic jam. Newly published books now almost always come in audio form as well, often read by their own authors. Are they the same as print books? Are they the future of ‘reading’? Listen as Marina speaks to bibliophile, author and freelance writer Sharon Bakar as they ponder these questions.
Mentioned this episode:
George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bard...
2021-05-1242 min
The Weekly ReaderChampagne Dreams: New Books About Celebrity Life from Heidi Pitlor and Ben WiddicombeOn this edition of The Weekly Reader, we go behind the scenes with ghost writers and gatecrashers to see how the other half lives. Marion Winik reviews Heidi Pitlor's Impersonation and Ben Widdicombe's Gatecrasher.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2020-08-2503 min
All the Books!New Releases and More for August 25, 2020This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Winter Counts, Spellbound, The Great Offshore Grounds, and more great books.This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life, MIRA Books and Lies Lies Lies by Adele Parks, and Impersonation by Heidi Pitlor, now available from Algonquin Books.Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here.Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more...
2020-08-2533 min
Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, DramaImpersonation by Heidi PitlorPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453801 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Impersonation Author: Heidi Pitlor Narrator: Dylan Moore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 18, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “By turns revealing, hilarious, dishy, and razor-sharp, Impersonation lives in that rarest of sweet spots: the propulsive page-turner for people with high literary standards.” —Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers Allie Lang is a professional ghostwriter and a perpetually broke single mother to a young boy. Years of navigating her own and America’s cultural definitions of motherhood have left her a lapsed idealist. Lana Breban is a powerh...
2020-08-1803 min
Listen to Trending Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary WomenImpersonation by Heidi PitlorPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453801 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Impersonation Author: Heidi Pitlor Narrator: Dylan Moore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 18, 2020 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “By turns revealing, hilarious, dishy, and razor-sharp, Impersonation lives in that rarest of sweet spots: the propulsive page-turner for people with high literary standards.” —Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers Allie Lang is a professional ghostwriter and a perpetually broke single mother to a young boy. Years of navigating her own and America’s cultural definitions of motherhood have left her a lapsed idealist. Lana Breban is a pow...
2020-08-1803 min
Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good ReadEpisode 108 - Convenience Store Woman Readalong and Author Spotlight with Fiona DavisEpisode One Hundred Eight Show Notes – Currently Reading –Looking for Lorraine – Imani Perry (CW)(audio)Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who’s Been There – Tara Schuster (EF)(audio) The New York Public Library Book – Henry Hope Reed, Francis Morrone, and Anne Day (CW)Clap When You Land – Elizabeth Acevedo (EF)Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Most Dangerous Man – Mary Trump, Ph.D. (CW)– Just Read –Saving Ruby King – Catherine Adel West (EF) Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia (CW...
2020-08-041h 32
Get BookedWhatever, Parents Are StupidAmanda and Jenn discuss lady scientists, teen superheroes, books on racism, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.This episode is sponsored by our Blind Date with a Book, Penguin Teen, and The Best American Short Stories 2019 audiobook, guest edited by Anthony Doerr, series edited by Heidi Pitlor.Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of bo...
2019-10-2447 min
All the Books!All the Backlist! October 4, 2019This week, Patricia talks about two excellent books: one for learning and one for laughing!This episode is sponsored by The Best American Short Stories 2019 audiobook, guest edited by Anthony Doerr, series edited by Heidi Pitlor.Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Books di...
2019-10-0411 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, SuspenseThe Best American Short Stories 2019 by Heidi Pitlor, Anthony DoerrPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568992 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Best American Short Stories 2019 Series: Part of Best American Author: Heidi Pitlor, Anthony Doerr Narrator: Criena House, Dariush Kashani, Sullivan Jones, Megan Tusing, Christopher Ryan Grant, Heidi Pitlor, Zach Villa, Christine Lakin, Brittany Pressley, Saskia Maarleveld, Scott Shepherd, Roxana Ortega, Kevin R. Free, Therese Plummer, Ali Ahn, Wilson Bethel, Ro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 1, 2019 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecti...
2019-10-0103 min
Otherppl with Brad ListiEpisode 404 — Melissa BroderMelissa Broder is the guest. Her debut essay collection, So Sad Today, is available now from Grand Central Publishing. She has also written a new poetry collection called Last Sext, due out from Tin House in June.
So much to say about my friend Melissa. I've known her for years. We met back when she was still in New York. Then she and her husband moved to LA, and not long after that she "came out" to me as her Twitter alter-ego, @sosadtoday. You'll hear all about this in the podcast. And you'll hear about how, for the past tw...
2016-03-131h 27
All the Books!New Releases for Feb. 16, 2016This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss And After Many Days, The Silence of the Sea, The Widow, and more new releases.This episode was sponsored by Third Love and The Daylight Marriage by Heidi Pitlor.Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For a complete list of books discussed in this e...
2016-02-1631 min
mysterypodBonus - Heidi Pitlor - The Daylight Marriage
Stephen Usery talks to Heidi Pitlor about her second novel, The Daylight Marriage, which is new in paperback. It's the story of a woman who goes missing, and then we see timelines of how her disappearance affects her husband and children, as well as how they became a couple and the events of the day leading up to her going missing.
2016-01-0829 min
All the Books!New releases, October 6, 2015This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World, Slaughterhouse 90210, Stars Between the Sun and Moon, and more new releases.This episode was sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio and FabFitFun.Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For a co...
2015-10-0635 min
Otherppl with Brad ListiEpisode 355 — Heidi PitlorHeidi Pitlor is the guest. She is the editor of the Best American Short Stories anthologies and the author of the new novel The Daylight Marriage, available now from Algonquin Books.
Stephen King calls it
"Hypnotically readable--I absolutely couldn't put it down. The structure is brilliant, and I turned the pages with increasing dread. This book is terrific.”
And Booklist, in a starred review, says
“Pitlor brings forth the emotions that surge beneath the surface with the precision and power of a conductor . . . This powerful analysis of how dreams become nightmares will make readers want to hold their loved ones...
2015-04-221h 13
First DraftFirst Cuts from First Draft - Heidi PitlorHeidi Pitlor is the author of the novel The Birthdays of which Fred Leebron wrote "Undeniably gratifying...subtly riveting...This isn't just a terrific family novel; it's a terrific novel through and through." Heidi was formerly a senior editor at Houghton Mifflin and is presently the annual series editor for The Best American Short Stories. Her writing has appeared in such publications as Ploughshares, The Huffington Post, and Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today's Best Women Writers. She lives with her husband and their twins outside of Boston. http://pitlor.etherweave.com/
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2014-12-0812 min
First DraftFirst Draft - Heidi PitlorHeidi Pitlor is the author of the novel The Birthdays of which Fred Leebron wrote "Undeniably gratifying...subtly riveting...This isn't just a terrific family novel; it's a terrific novel through and through." Heidi was formerly a senior editor at Houghton Mifflin and is presently the annual series editor for The Best American Short Stories. Her writing has appeared in such publications as Ploughshares, The Huffington Post, and Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today's Best Women Writers. She lives with her husband and their twins outside of Boston. http://pitlor.etherweave.com/
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2014-12-0829 min