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Eleanor Vance
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radio · September 24 · 11:30 AM EST
Restoration with Rose Tremain
A conversation with Rose Tremain about love, ambition, and the price of change.
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First Drafts: The shape of a beginning
A new conversation with debut novelist Marcus Bell.
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author-spotlight · Thursday, July 23 · 16:00 UTC
Priya Anand in conversation
A global session on translation, belonging, and borrowed tongues.
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podcast · July 20 · 3:00 PM EST
The Curious Case of the Crooked Cobblestone
Julian Venn explores the mystery, history, and unexpected stories behind The Curious Case of the Crooked Cobblestone.
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Three Days: A Noir Psychological Thriller
Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr discusses the suspense, psychology, and human choices at the heart of his noir thriller.
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Between the Lines
The Architecture of Memory
Booker-shortlisted novelist Eleanor Vance joins us to unpack how memory becomes structure, and why her latest novel refuses a single timeline.
52 minJun 12, 2026
First Drafts
Writing the City at Night
Marcus Bell on the seven years it took to finish his debut, and the all-night writing sessions that built it.
47 minJun 9, 2026
A World of Words
Translating the Untranslatable
A conversation about carrying a sentence from one language into another without losing its soul.
39 minJun 5, 2026
Between the Lines
When Silence Speaks
On white space, the unsaid, and how the best fiction trusts its readers to fill the gaps.
44 minJun 2, 2026
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June 2026 Selection
The Architecture of Memory
by Eleanor Vance
A woman returns to the seaside town of her childhood and discovers that the house she grew up in has been rebuilt from someone else’s memories. Our June pick is a meditation on what we keep, what we lose, and the stories we tell to bridge the gap.
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Debut Spotlight
Marcus Bell
United States
Marcus Bell burst onto the scene with a debut seven years in the making — a sprawling, tender portrait of a city that never sleeps. Critics called it the most assured first novel of the decade.
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Priya Anand
India
Equal parts novelist and translator, Priya Anand has carried dozens of voices across languages while building a luminous body of original work rooted in the Western Ghats of her childhood.
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