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Cristina García discusses her latest novel, Vanishing Maps. The novel follows the del Pino family we first met in García's first novel, Dreaming in Cuban.

A review of the novel 'Home Reading Service' by Fabio Morábito

Isabel Allende's novel traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in El Salvador in 2019. Each finds refuge in the U.S.

Luis Alberto Urrea's latest novel is based on his mother’s experiences working with the Red Cross behind the front lines during World War II.

When a mall that has been the town’s gathering place for decades is scheduled to close down, the community must face the ways they live their lives. Karin Lin-Greenberg discusses her novel, You Are Here.

Nicole Chung discusses her book, A Living Remedy—a profound ode to her parents that also shows the failures of our country's health-care system.

Andrew Porter discusses his story collection 'The Disappeared.'

The Kudzu Queen by Mimi Herman is a novel set in Cooper County, North Carolina in 1941. When a handsome stranger comes to town touting the powers of kudzu crops, everyone falls for his charms. No one realizes the negative side of the invasive plant or the dark side of the stranger.

Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss ‘With Reference to an Incident at a Bridge’ by William Maxwell.

John Hendrickson discusses how he made peace with his stutter in this candid and beautiful memoir.

Manuel Muñoz discusses his story collection 'The Consequences' with Book Public's Yvette Benavides.

'Three Muses' is Martha Anne Toll's debut novel about a Holocaust survivor who is bereft by past trauma and struggling to find his way to a kind of hope.

Dionne Irving discusses her short story "The Cape" from the story collection "The Islands."

In "Dancing After Hours" by Andre Dubus, main character Emily is convinced she will never find love. At the tavern where she tends bar, she sees clearly the loneliness of other people. One night, that perception changes in the most unlikely of ways.

Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss "Ivy Day in the Committee Room" by James Joyce

Peter Orner discusses the short story "Blue in Chicago" by Bette Howland.

Peter Orner’s new memoir-in-essays is an ode to other books. He helps us see the ways they contain the stories of our lives, too, and understand that reading is essential.

Book Public: Angie Cruz's novel is a poignant portrait of a strong immigrant woman

Book Public's Yvette Benavides talks to Sandra Cisneros about her new book of poetry ‘Woman Without Shame.'

Book Public: ‘Math for the Self-Crippling” Ursula Villarreal Moura’s slim chapbook of flash fiction makes a big impression

In this episode of Book Public - Que Esperanzas: Yvette Benavides speaks with author Kali Fajardo-Anstine about her short story “Sabrina & Corina."

Yvette Benavides interviews author Dana Johnson about her short story “Because That’s Just Easier.”

A reunion of the Dulaney girls' school is the setting for this story by Louise Marburg.

“Que Esperanzas” is a new series from Book Public that focuses on short stories with protagonists who are women surviving catastrophic injustice in their everyday lives with a thin measure of hope. This week's story is “Nature Exchange” by Sindya Bhanoo.

Book Public Episode 100 with Peter Orner and The Lonely Voice