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Short Story magazine, based in Columbia, South Carolina, has announced a call for entries for — you guessed it — short stories. They’ll be selecting 52 to record and podcast…

Nicola Griffith spoke to me about her book Always, an LBC summer Read This! nominee. Clicking on that there link will play the podcast, which includes Gwenda Bond and bits…

Listen to author Alan DeNiro in conversation (with me) about Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead, his debut short story collection and the LBC’s Read This! pick. Topics…

Hear the LBC interview with Mark Binelli, the author of Sacco & Vanzettie Must Die! The podcast was produced by the inimitable Ed/Bat Segundo and includes a short intro with…

A podcast! Of Miss Jami Attenberg. Her debut book Instant Love hit shelves last summer; now it’s coming out in paperback in April. When we sat down in a noisy…

It would be remiss of me not to point to this brand new podcast interview with Ngugi Wa Thiong’O, author of Wizard of the Crow, the LitBlog Coop’s latest Read…

How better than a podacst interview to peek behind the scary curtain of Stephen Graham Jones‘ Demon Theory? Don’t be afraid. He’s really quite congenial. Although he does tell a…

Get a look (listen?) inside Valerie Trueblood’s book Seven Loves, with a lovely intro from our nominator Anne Fernald. Seven Loves was one of the finalists for the LBC’s first…

All week the LBC has been celebrating the fall top pick, Firmin by Sam Savage. Don’t miss the podcast, in which Ed talks to Savage in person, with much enthusiasm….

What’s a Manbug? It’s a new novel by George Ilsley about love affair between a gay entomologist and dyslexic bisexual which was a finalist for the fall Litblog Coop pick….