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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to ge... more

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Sayantani DasGupta's latest middle grades novel, Theft of the Ruby Lotus (Scholastic, 2026) is an adventure heist. Ria Bailey finds herself in quite a fix, and it's all because of a strange treasure that turns up in the mail one fateful day. It might... more

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Doha, a North Korean spymaster, is found stabbed in an alley in Oxford. Doha tells his mentee–another North Korean spy named Yohan—to go to the Oxford Soju Club, a restaurant in the British college town. That starts a dance between three different Ko... more

There must be a shift in the Zeitgeist of the publishing world, because after a long drought in Gothic novels, this is the second one I’ve encountered in little more than a month. The Fourth Wife (Kensington, 2026) takes place near Salt Lake City, Ut... more

Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s, Jane Kim and her brother, Kevin, dutifully embodied the model minority myth as their parents demanded: both stellar tennis players and academically gifted, they worked hard to make their parents ... more

The print adaptation of Jason Reynolds acclaimed, award-winning audiobook Soundtrack (Crown Books, 2026)—a stirring story of music, friendship, and finding your voice in 2000s New York City. Stuy Grey plays the drums, just like his mom, a founding me... more

Casey Walker speaks to Emily Everett about his story “Islands,” which appears in The Common’s fall issue. Set at an old lake house rife with unresolved family tensions, the story explores the dynamics between three orphaned brothers, and between the ... more

In Pinky Swear (Simon and Schuster, 2026) Lexi thought she knew everything about Mara Vannatta. Best friends since middle school, they drifted apart after a tragedy derailed their senior year. But when Mara shows up on Lexi’s doorstep sixteen years ... more

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Recent Guests

Casey Walker
Author of Islands; writer for The Common; forthcoming novel Mexicali
The Common Magazine / Knopf (publisher of Mexicali)
Episode: Casey Walker, "Islands" The Common Magazine (Fall, 2025)
Danielle Draud
Author of Pinky Swear
Simon & Schuster
Episode: Danielle Girard, "Pinky Swear" (Simon and Schuster, 2026)
Sarah Wasserman
Critic and scholar of Lost Things and Disappearing Objects
Dartmouth College
Episode: Just Slightly Outside the Circle: Peter Orner and Sarah Wasserman (EH)
Peter Orner
Novelist, author of The Gossip Columnist's Daughter
Dartmouth College
Episode: Just Slightly Outside the Circle: Peter Orner and Sarah Wasserman (EH)
Ed Simon
Public Humanities Lecturer in the English Department of Carnegie Mellon University; author of Writing During the Apocalypse
Carnegie Mellon University
Episode: Ed Simon, "Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great Unraveling" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Namwali Serpell
Award-winning novelist and critic; author of On Morrison
Harvard University (Professor of English)
Episode: Namwali Serpell, "On Morrison" (Hogarth, 2026)
Dana Melek
Author
Sourcebooks
Episode: Dana Mele, "The Beast You Let In" (Sourcebooks, 2026)
James Trapp
Translator of Property of the People (Sinoist, 2025)
Sinoist Press
Episode: Zhou Meisen, "Property of the People" (Sinoist, 2025)
Cameron Sullivan
Australian writer and copy editor; debut novelist of The Red Winter
Tor Books
Episode: Cameron Sullivan, "The Red Winter" (Tor Books, 2026)

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Hollay Ghadery
Host of New Books Network.

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Ed Simon, "Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great Unraveling" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Q: What motivated you to organize the chapters around the four horsemen, and how does this help convey your thesis?
The Four Horsemen provide a structural conceit that links pandemic, authoritarianism, technocracy, and climate change to apocalyptic rhetoric, while allowing space for both scholarly analysis and memoir that makes the material feel tangible and urgent.
Ed Simon, "Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great Unraveling" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Q: How did this book come to be, given its structure around the four horsemen and its combination of theory and memoir?
Simon explains the book grew from material written during unfolding events, combining theoretical gloss with personal reflection, and was shaped into a cohesive collection through redaction and synthesis.
Ed Simon, "Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great Unraveling" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Q: I want to begin by asking you about your background and how you came to be such a prolific writer and editor.
Ed Simon describes his shift from traditional scholarly writing to public humanities and journalism as forming a Frankenstein-like career that trained him to write quickly and clearly for non-specialist audiences.
Just Slightly Outside the Circle: Peter Orner and Sarah Wasserman (EH)
Q: Could you talk about the importance of Jewishness to this particular story and what you wanted to say about it?
Orner explains that while being Jewish is part of the characters' identity and Chicago's fabric, the deeper aim is to explore universal themes of belonging, outsider status, and how cultural production shapes communities, rather than presenting a didactic ethnic narrative.
Danielle Girard, "Pinky Swear" (Simon and Schuster, 2026)
Q: How much did the physical landscape dictate the internal landscape of your characters?
The geography and small-town Midwest setting deeply shape the characters' identities, but Draud emphasizes that internal lives are developed through the characters' histories and relationships, not just the place itself.

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