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S8 Ep. 24: Curtis Sittenfeld on Show Don’t Tell
Bestselling 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...
2025-03-13
44 min
fiction/non/fiction
Curtis Sittenfeld on Show Don’t Tell
Bestselling 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...
2025-03-13
48 min
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Enjoy The Best American Short Stories 2024 from Heidi Pitlor, Lauren Groff
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746337 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Best American Short Stories 2024 Author: Heidi Pitlor, Lauren Groff Narrator: Gilli Messer, Raymond J. Lee, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Vikas Adam, Korey Jackson, Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 40 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, author of Matrix and The Vaster Wilds, and series editor Heidi Pitlor. “There have never been as many exquisitely built stories in existence than there are now,” proclaims...
2024-10-23
5h 40
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The Best American Short Stories 2024 by Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/137283to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Best American Short Stories 2024 Author: Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor Narrator: Christina Delaine, Vikas Adam, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Korey Jackson, Raymond J. Lee, Gilli Messer Format: mp3 Length: 17 hrs and 40 mins Release date: 10-22-24 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 5 ratings Genres: Anthologies Publisher's Summary: “There have never been as many exquisitely built stories in existence than there are now,” proclaims guest editor Lauren Groff in her introduction. This abundance led to a volume of robust stories with the nerve to push against narrative expectations. The Best American Short Stories 2024 boasts a co...
2024-10-22
5h 40
Otherppl with Brad Listi
Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi on Moving, Revolution, Sai Baba, Transnational Personhood, Sea Captains, and the Upper Midwest
In 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...
2024-01-05
26 min
Writer's Bone
Episode 622: Heidi Pitlor & Nicole Angeloro, The Best American Short Stories
Heidi 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.
2023-11-14
39 min
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The Best American Short Stories 2023 | Heidi Pitlor, Min Jin Lee
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657093 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Best American Short Stories 2023 Series: Part of Best American Author: Heidi Pitlor, Min Jin Lee Narrator: Thabang Makhubelak, Elyse Dinh, Mirai, Elena Rey, Em Grosland, Johnny Rey Diaz, Katharine Chin, Micky Shiloah, Jeena Yi, Nikki Massoud, Will Tulin, Dylan Moore, Pascale Armand, Laura Copland, Korey Jackson, Yelena Shmulenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by...
2023-10-18
2h 59
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The Best American Short Stories 2023 - Min Jin Lee, Heidi Pitlor
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657093 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Best American Short Stories 2023 Series: Part of Best American Author: Min Jin Lee, Heidi Pitlor Narrator: Thabang Makhubelak, Elyse Dinh, Mirai, Elena Rey, Em Grosland, Johnny Rey Diaz, Katharine Chin, Micky Shiloah, Jeena Yi, Nikki Massoud, Will Tulin, Dylan Moore, Pascale Armand, Laura Copland, Korey Jackson, Yelena Shmulenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by...
2023-10-17
2h 59
Strong Sense of Place | Travel Through Books
LoLT: Bookish Advice from Dear Dorothea & New Books
In 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 https://bit.ly/3FINRew The Best American Short Stories 2022 by Andrew Sean Greer & Heidi Pitlor https://bit.ly/3DzPKHs Less by Andrew Sean Greer https://bit.ly/3Wvf9uw Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer https://bit.ly/3U5SNhU The Best American F...
2022-11-11
11 min
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Enjoy The Best American Short Stories 2022 from Heidi Pitlor, Andrew Sean Greer
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575417 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Best American Short Stories 2022 Series: Part of Best American Author: Heidi Pitlor, Andrew Sean Greer Narrator: Reynaldo Piniella, Shawn K. Jain, Carolina Hoyos, Cindy Kay, Cherise Boothe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Andrew Sean Greer, “an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingl...
2022-11-01
1h 52
All the Books!
New Releases and More for November 1, 2022
This 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:
2022-11-01
45 min
Busy Reading Books
S01E09 | Is Listening the New Reading? with Sharon Bakar
As 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...
2021-05-12
42 min
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Heidi Pitlor, Curtis Sittenfeld - The Best American Short Stories 2020
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569113 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Best American Short Stories 2020 Series: Part of Best American Author: Heidi Pitlor, Curtis Sittenfeld Narrator: Gary Bennett, Ramon De Ocampo, Cindy Kay, Michael Crouch, Priya Ayyar, Brittany Pressley, Emily Woo Zeller, Soneela Nankani, Therese Plummer, Peter Ganim, Robert Petkoff, Rebecca Lowman, Gabra Zackman, Kevin T. Collins, Ilyana Kadushin, Curtis Sittenfeld, Robert Fass, Robin Miles, Suzanne Toren, Tracey Leigh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 3, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: L...
2020-11-03
4h 19
The Weekly Reader
Champagne Dreams: New Books About Celebrity Life from Heidi Pitlor and Ben Widdicombe
On 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.
2020-08-25
03 min
All the Books!
New Releases and More for August 25, 2020
This 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...
2020-08-25
33 min
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Impersonation by Heidi Pitlor
Please 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...
2020-08-18
03 min
Listen to Trending Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary Women
Impersonation by Heidi Pitlor
Please 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...
2020-08-18
03 min
Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
Episode 108 - Convenience Store Woman Readalong and Author Spotlight with Fiona Davis
Episode 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...
2020-08-04
1h 32
Get Booked
Whatever, Parents Are Stupid
Amanda 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...
2019-10-24
47 min
All the Books!
All the Backlist! October 4, 2019
This 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...
2019-10-04
11 min
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The Best American Short Stories 2019 by Heidi Pitlor, Anthony Doerr
Please 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...
2019-10-01
03 min
Otherppl with Brad Listi
Episode 404 — Melissa Broder
Melissa 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...
2016-03-13
1h 27
All the Books!
New Releases for Feb. 16, 2016
This 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...
2016-02-16
31 min
mysterypod
Bonus - 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.
2016-01-08
29 min
All the Books!
New releases, October 6, 2015
This 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...
2015-10-06
35 min
Otherppl with Brad Listi
Episode 355 — Heidi Pitlor
Heidi 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...
2015-04-22
1h 13
First Draft
First Cuts from First Draft - Heidi Pitlor
Heidi 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/ More on First Draft on Aspen Public...
2014-12-08
12 min
First Draft
First Draft - Heidi Pitlor
Heidi 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/ More on First Draft on Aspen Public...
2014-12-08
29 min