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Our host, Asha Dore, talks with Kim Griffin about her award-winning web series, Dick Bunny Find it here: https://www.dickbunny.com/  About the series: Max Griffin was a high-powered lawyer with a great marriage, total freedom, and friends who understood her. That was before. Now, Max has a baby, and her extreme isolation, anxiety, and desperate attempts to keep up with LA mom culture are taking he...

Our host, Asha Dore, talks with Zackary A. Graham about his 2026 book, Crayfish, Crawfish, Crawdad Find it here: https://uncpress.org/9781469685731/crayfish-crawfish-crawdad/    About the book: DWhatever you call them—crayfish, crawfish, or crawdads—these small crustaceans are a vital piece of the larger ecosystem, and though they're found nationwide, the American Southeast and Appalachia are amon...

Our host, Asha Dore, talks with Emily Rapp Black about her 2026 book, Find it here: https://www.counterpointpress.com/books/i-would-die-if-i-were-you/ About the book: Drawing upon her previous work and over two decades of teaching, New York Times bestselling memoirist Emily Rapp Black explores how art can move us through moments of grief and loss while celebrating the spirit-lifting potential of a...

Our host, Asha Dore, talks with Hannah Selinger about her 2026 book, Find it here: .https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hannah-selinger/valley-of-the-moms/9780316596558/?lens=little-brown  About the book: Stepford Wives meets Big Little Lies in this twisty thriller that uncovers the untruths, petty grievances, and local school politics underneath a seemingly quaint small town. Hamilton, Massa...

Courtney Kocak reviews her debut memoir Girl Gone Wild with Totally Biased Reviews host Asha Dore. A candid conversation on 1990s girlhood, reproductive rights, and writing personal truth. Find Girl Gone Wild here: https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Gone-Wild-Courtney-Kocak/dp/1949487547 GIRL GONE WILD  is a collection of exploits and delusions about chasing your dreams with reckless abandon and what hap...

Jacqueline LeKachman and Andrea Javor discuss Body of Work: The Journo Series with Parley Lit — where journalism meets literary nonfiction. Welcome to our first episode where we focus on a body of work in journalism, featuring Andrea Javor and Jacqueline LeKachman talking about their incredible and prolific careers. Andrea Javor is a freelance writer based in Chicago whose work has been featured i...

Stephanie Weaver reviews her book Bitter, Sweet with Totally Biased Reviews host Asha Dore — a literary conversation about the stories behind the writing. In this episode, our host, Asha Dore, chats with author Stephanie Weaver about her estrangement memoir, Bitter, Sweet. Find the book here: https://stephanieweaver.com/bitter-sweet More about Bitter, Sweet: In Bitter, Sweet, Stephanie Weaver blen...

Jenny Bartoy joins Asha Dore to review her edited anthology No Contact — a candid discussion on estrangement, family, and the writing life Tune in for a lively conversation about estrangement, trends, and how to parent kids differently when you have separated from a family member. Find the book here: https://books.catapult.co/books/no-contact/ About No Contact: Estrangement presents an essential e...

In this episode, Asha Dore chats with Mary. Alice Stewart, a writer, electrician (!!), and book agent at ENLIVEN ENDEAVORS. More about Enliven here: ENLIVEN is a future-thinking agency which provides a dynamic, interdisciplinary home to writers and creators of all stripes. Our goal is to expand the definition of what a literary agency does to support its clients. We strive to be a true creative pa...

Our host, Asha Dore, talks with Amanda McCracken about her 2026 book, When Longing Becomes Your Lover published by Worthy Books  Find it here: https://www.amazon.com/When-Longing-Becomes-Your-Lover/dp/1546008535/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0 About the book: Journalist and late-in-life virgin Amanda McCracken dated over 100 men by the time she was in her late thirties. She was so certain she was doing every...

Our host, Asha Dore, talks with Kristine Langley Mahler about her 2026 book, Teen Queen Training published by Autofocus Find it here: https://nyupress.org/9781957392431/teen-queen-training/ About the book: It takes a lot of work to erase the rules of being a teenage girl. Desperate to know what behaviors would produce the "right" adolescence, during the late 1990s Kristine Langley Mahler sought in...

Find Chasing Bandits by Michael E. Neagle here: https://uncpress.org/9781469691046/chasing-bandits/ About the book: Exploring the war on terror before 9/11 While the war on terror has been America's largest and most publicized attempt to root out foreign enemies this century, the quest to identify and destroy real or imagined threats to national security has long been a part of US history. Indeed,...

More than cookies and badges When eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 1972, she found herself adrift in a sea of taunting boys and mean girls. Shy by nature, she dreaded her long, unhappy days at school. But a few years later, Farrell found an escape from bullying, the promise of sisterhood, a rising sense of confidence, adventure, and—best of all—lifelong fr...

Find Famished here: https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802884510/famished/ About this book: A groundbreaking debut memoir that examines the rhyming scripts of diet culture and evangelical purity culture, both of which direct women to fear their own bodies and appetites Raised Baptist in an insular Appalachian community, Anna Rollins learned early that among the world's many dangers, her own body loomed...

Find The Blue Dress here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374393595/thebluedress/ About this book: For fans of Jasmine Warga and Starfish, an Iranian American girl navigates complicated relationships with her mother, her best friend, and her body image in this unflinching and ultimately uplifting middle-grade debut. Sometimes Yasmin feels like her body isn't hers. And it's not just because pube...

Buy For a Spell, here - https://uncpress.org/9781469690445/for-a-spell/ More about the book: In the Southeastern United States of the late 1970s, a regional network of radical communal gay households formed in the face of rising New Right terror. Consisting of primarily white, self-described sissies, the Southeast Network, as it came to be known, spanned from the Ozarks, to New Orleans, to Appalac...

Buy The Power of Parting here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733809/the-power-of-parting-by-eamon-dolan/ Find Eamon Dolan Here: https://www.instagram.com/eamondolan?igsh=bjk3YTdrcXRmZnBw&utm_source=qr About the book: A myth-shattering, inspiring book that combines research, reportage, and memoir to explore the growing phenomenon of estrangement from toxic relatives—showing it not as a t...

Buy Painful Forms: https://uncpress.org/9781469688947/painful-forms/ Find out more about Anna at her website or follow her on Bluesky: https://annaioanes.com/ @annaioanes.bsky.social About the book: Unsettling art unsettles our normalization of violence In the wake of World War II, Americans struggled to grasp the shifting scale of violence brought on by the nuclear era. To grapple with the overwh...