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In the novel Landslide, author Susan Conley tells the story of a fishing accident that leaves protagonist Jill’s husband, Kit, hospitalized in Canada. Jill is left to look after her two sons. Then Jill suspects her husband has been unfaithful.

A review of Rebecca Sacks’ debut novel "City of a Thousand Gates."

“The National Road: Dispatches from a Changing America”: Tom Zoellner’s Essay Collection A Roadmap through Contradictory American Histories,

The Lonely Voice with Peter Orner discusses Edna O’Brien's short story “The Love Object.” O’Brien is an award-winning Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and writer of short stories.

"Walking with Ghosts": Gabriel Byrne's Memoir Is Mesmeric Reflection on Family, Memory, and Loss.

Book Public host Yvette Benavides talks to Sharon Harrigan about her novel, "Half."

Book Public host Yvette Benavides and Peter Orner discuss "The Doll" by Edna O'Brien.

Jim Reese's latest work is a memoir in essays titled Bone Chalk.

Book Public host Yvette Benavides reviews “Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime” by Debora Harding.

Texas Public Radio's Yvette Benavides, host of Book Public, speaks to author Aimee Bender about her latest novel, "The Butterfly Lampshade."

Texas Public Radio's Book Public host Yvette Benavides and Peter Orner discuss the joy of reading.

Book Public host Yvette Benavides speaks with Jess Walter about his historical novel "The Cold Millions."

Book Public host Yvette Benavides reviews “Things You Would Know If You Grew Up Around Here” by Nancy Wayson Dinan.

Book Public Host Yvette Benavides speaks to Jenny Offill about her novel "Weather."

“The Lonely Voice with Peter Orner” from Book Public on Texas Public Radio with Host Yvette Benavides discusses “Remember” by Juan Rulfo with writer Peter Orner and guest Alberto Reyes Morgan.

TPR Book Public's Yvette Benavides speaks with Louise Erdrich about her novel "The Night Watchman."

TPR Book Public “The Lonely Voice with Peter Orner” with host Yvette Benavides, with a special guest, Alberto Reyes Morgan, discussing Juan Rulfo's story Luvina” from the collection "El Llano en Llamas."

“Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis”: Ada Calhoun Explores the Complicated Lives of Gen X Women

A review of a book of short stories; Lost Girls by Ellen Birkett Morris

Stephen Graham Jones’ latest novel, The Only Good Indians, takes us to the Blackfeet Nation in Montana’s fertile forests and the undeniable mystery and allure they hold for hunters of elk. This is the backdrop for a stunning horror story where four Native American men come face to face with the karmic forces that will exact revenge on them for disrespecting the land and its sacred creatures.

A discussion of the short story "It's Because We're So Poor" by Juan Rulfo with Yvette Benavides and Peter Orner.

Texas Public Radio's Book Public with Yvette Benavides: “Olive Again”: Elizabeth Strout on the Return to Crosby, Maine and Olive—Again

The Lonely Voice: "You Don't Hear Dogs Barking" by Juan Rulfo

Lee Gutkind is the author of My Last Eight Thousand Days: An American Male in His Seventies It’s published by The University of Georgia Press. He is also the professor and writer-in-residence in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University.

A review of Sejal Shah's debut collection of essays, This Is One Way to Dance.