A Book & Its Author

Alan M. Shore discusses and reads from Uncommon Allies: American Jews And Christians Uniting Against Hitler, 1933-1945 (Syracuse University Press, 2024), which looks at the development of interfaith unity in the face Hitler's rise to power, largely manifested through a series of Madison Square Garden rallies, and how this unity helped reshape U. S. identity. https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/6470...

Ellen Hopkins discusses and reads from her latest YA novel in verse, Sync (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2024), a story of twins, as close as they can be, until they're separated within the foster system and have to struggle through heartbreaking trauma and cling to the hope of reunion. ellenhopkinsbooks.com abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Bluesky:@abookanditsauthor.bsky.social Twitter/X: @it_author Instagram:...

Jacci Turner discusses and reads from her novel, Love Virus (Tree House Books, 2024), which follows the trials of three women, from three generations, as they navigate the challenges of love, loss, and learning to connect in the time of Covid-19. www.jacciturner.com abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author Bluesky:@abookanditsauthor.bsky.social Instagram: a_book_and_its_author Facebook: abo...

Ellen Wilder Bradbury-Reid & E. Marshall Wilder discuss and read from A Nuclear Family: Coming Of Age In Oppenheimer's Secret City (Bradbury-Reid & Wilder, 2023) which recounts their childhood experiences in Los Alamos, by turns normal and extraordinary, as their father worked on the intricacies of the atomic bomb. abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author Bluesky:@abookanditsauthor.bsky.soc...

Susan Palwick discusses her novel The Necessary Beggar (Tor, 2005, 2020) in which refugees from another dimension find themselves on the outskirts of Reno, Nevada, where they learn to be American and to navigate the country's culture and systems, and also re-learn what it means to be a family. abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author Bluesky:@abookanditsauthor.bsky.social Instagram: a_book_...

Michael P. Branch discusses and reads from Rants From The Hill (Roost Books, 2017), a collection of essays about (to borrow from the book's subtitle) packrats, bobcats, wildfires, curmudgeons, a   drunken Mary Kay Lady & other encounters with the wild in Nevada's high desert. https://michaelbranchwriter.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author Facebook: abookanditsauthor Instagram: a_b...

Robert Aquinas McNally discusses and reads from Cast Out Of Eden: The Untold Story Of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, And The American Wilderness (Bison Books, 2024), a selective biography examining the complex interplay between Muir's love of the land and his troubling racial biases. https://www.ramcnally.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter/X: @it_author Facebook: abookanditsauthor Instagram:...

Robert Miltner discusses and reads from Horse Skull Moon (SurVision Books, 2024), a chapbook of prose poems about landscapes, the passage of time, & our place in the face of such vastness. www.pw.org/directory/writers/robert_miltner www.survisionmagazine.com abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter/X: @it_author Facebook: abookanditsauthor Instagram: a_book_and_its_author

Jared Stanley discusses and reads from So Tough (Saturnalia Books, 2024), a book-length poem deeply couched in the West, where landscapes & human lives, the banal & the extraordinary collide in both violence & in hopefulness. https://jaredstanleyinfo.wordpress.com/ https://saturnaliabooks.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author Facebook: abookanditsauthor Instagram: a_book_and_its_aut...

Jenn Windrow discusses her novel Evil's Unlikely Assassin (Irreverent Publishing, 2018), the first volume in the urban fantasy Alexis Black series about a reluctant vampire charged with slaying other creatures of the night, a task carried out with a ragtag team of misfits and a heaping dose of snark. https://jennwindrow.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author Facebook: abookanditsauth...

Russell Jones and Jason Wrubell, the authors behind the Lewis Allan pen name, discuss and read from Mouse In The Box (Stretched Studio LLC, 2023), a legal thriller in which criminal defense attorney, Mason Mitchell, finds himself taking on two high-profile cases that rattle his faith in the system and put him in very real physical peril. https://www.mouseinthebox.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.com T...

Seanan McGuire discusses the eighteenth novel in the October Daye series, The Innocent Sleep (DAW Books, 2023), in which Tybalt, King of Cats, seeks to restore a reality rewritten by Titania, Mother of Illusions. And to reforge his mostly forgotten marriage to Toby Daye. https://www.seananmcguire.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author Facebook: abookanditsauthor Instagram: a_book_and...

John Shirley discusses and reads from Axle Bust Creek (Pinnacle Books, 2022), the first novel in the Cleve Trewe western trilogy, in which our hero comes to the titular town, Axle Bust, to claim his uncle's mine and finds corporate intrigue, merciless outlaws, and a charmingly free-thinking woman. Plus music by John Shirley and the Screaming Geezers. "All Alone When People Are Around" by John Shir...

Katya Cengel discusses and reads from Straitjackets And Lunch Money, a harrowing account of the authors time in a psychosomatic ward, viewed from the perspective of the 10-year-old child who underwent the experience and from that of the journalist that she would eventually become. https://katyacengel.com/ https://www.woodhallpress.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author Facebook: aboo...

Bernard Schopen discusses and reads from his novel Drowning In The Desert (University of Nevada Press, 2023), a "Nevada noir" in which an ex-deputy sheriff, Norman "Fats" Wrangle, sifts through the lies and corruption of the Silver State while navigating his own deeply flawed character. https://unpress.nevada.edu/ https://baobabpress.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author Facebook: a...

Casey Bell discusses and reads from Little Fury (Metatron Press, 2023), a collection of short stories wherein the naturalistic and the surreal blend to tell the tales of women seeking a sense of place, self-care, and social justice in a less-than-welcoming world. Plus music by Fine Motor. "Mother's Lungs" by Fine Motor comes from the Exotic Fever Records LP, Half Normal. Used with permission. http...

Mark Arnold discusses and reads from Stars Of Walt Disney Productions (BearManor Media, 2022), a reference book detailing hundreds of performers, household names and vaguely familiar faces alike, who appeared in the studio's movies and TV shows from 1929 to 1983. https://bearmanor-digital.myshopify.com// abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author Facebook: abookanditsauthor Instagram: a_book_...

John Mulhouse discusses and reads from Still Lives, New Mexico: Unmarked Graves In The Land Of Enchantment, a collection of photographs by Richard Baron (& text by Mulhouse), evoking uncertain lives and unknown stories of those who lived and died in the sparse landscapes on New Mexico. https://cityofdust.com/still-lives/ https://cityofdust.blogspot.com/ Facebook: cityofdustnm Instagram: cityofdust...

Marc Laidlaw discusses and reads from his novel, Underneath The Oversea, the culmination of the Gorlen Vizenfirthe stories, about a gargoyle-handed bard, a human-handed gargoyle, and the family that they've built in the fantastical world of Ique. "Sombre Hombre" by Marc Laidlaw comes from the independently released EP, Sombre Hombre. Used with permission. https://www.marclaidlaw.com/ https://uvlam...

Huckleberry Rahr discusses and reads from Wolf Healer, the first book in the Jade Stone Chronicles, which explores the struggles of self-definition, community, & acceptance associated with teenage, LGBTQ identity, & living with a werewolf pack. https://huckleberryauthor.com abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author Facebook: abookanditsauthor Instagram: a_book_and_its_author

Jill Creech Bauer discusses & reads from The Soul's Echo: Thirteen Pieces Of Short Fiction (Jill Creech Bauer, 2021), a collection of stories, some speculative, some literary, all steeped in deep empathy for those struggling to face the challenges of life & human connections. abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author Facebook: abookanditsauthor Instagram: a_book_and_its_author

Danny Nielsen discusses and reads from Straight Flossin' And Other Stories Of The American West (Whistling Rabbit Press, 2022), a collection of essays about the author's wanderings through landscapes filled with punishing heat, ornery skunks, menacing wildfires, and strange stewards of the desert. https://www.whistlingrabbitpress.com/ abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author Facebook: abook...

Robert Aquinas McNally discusses and reads from The Modoc War: A Story Of Genocide At The Dawn Of America's Gilded Age (Bison Books, 2017), which tells of the U. S. government's violent 1872-1873 campaign to at first remove and then to extinguish the indigenous Modoc people in what would become California's only full-blown Indian war. www.ramcnally.com abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_auth...

Claire Stanford discusses and reads from Happy For You, a novel which follows Evelyn Kominsky Kumamoto as she struggles to navigate what it means to be happy in regards to relationships, ethnicity, and working for the third-most popular internet company to develop an app to define, quantify, and augment…happiness. www.clairestanford.com abookanditsauthor@gmail.com Twitter: @it_author Facebook: abo...

Sholeh Wolpé discusses and reads from Abacus Of Loss: A Memoir In Verse (The University Of Arkansas Press, 2022), which blends forms to explore the nature of memory and examine the author's tumultuous life, its losses & gains, its downfalls & windfalls, its subtractions & additions. www.sholehwolpe.com www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/videos/2022/10/spotlight-birds-sholeh-wolpe www.youtube.com/watch...