Laura Newman discusses and reads from The Darling Of The Black Rock Desert (Delphinium Books, 2025), a collection of three novellas of the West, which explores how diverse characters forge connections, in ways that are by turn funny and tragic, informed by grief and hope.

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Alix Christie discusses and reads from her novel, The Shining Mountains (High Road Books, 2023), which begins in the Rocky Mountain west of the 1830s and tells the story of a Scottish fur trader and the Nez Perce woman he loves, set against a backdrop of sweeping landscapes and seismic colonial upheaval.

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John Jacob Dawson discusses and reads from his debut novel, Past Crimes (John Jacob Dawson, 2024), which uses the development of time travel as a means of examining the ramifications of trauma, grief, and obsession, and how the pursuit of justice can shape people, for good or bad.

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Esra Mirze Santesso discusses and reads from Muslim Comics And Warscape Witnessing (The Ohio University Press, 2023), which looks at the growing body of Muslim graphic narratives, and how these comics have become an increasingly potent means of visualizing a variety of Muslim perspectives and experiences. Plus music by The Discipline.

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Raymond Benson discusses and reads from The Mad, Mad Murders Of Marigold Way (Beaufort Books, 2022), a comic mystery in the vein of the Coen Brothers thrillers, set in the strange setting of the American suburbs, in the even stranger period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Plus music by Raymond Benson.

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Alicia Barber discusses and reads from Reno’s Big Gamble: Image And Reputation In The Biggest Little City (University Press Of Kansas, 2008), which explores the history of this Northern Nevada city, and the unique push-and-pull between urban identity, civic pride, nonconformist reputation, and economic growth.

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Suzanne Morgan Williams discusses and reads from her YA/middle grade novel, Bull Rider (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2009), in which fourteen-year-old Cam O’Mara must face the fears of riding bulls and having to reforge a relationship with his war-wounded older brother.

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Eric Drooker discusses his graphic novel Naked City (Dark Horse Books, 2024), which follows a painted, a musician, and a dancer, as they ponder – and experience! – what it means to be an artist in the big city, and in the 21st century.

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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/uncommon-allies/

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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.

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