Paraphrase Podcast
1) Jeff VanderMeer on 'Annihilation'
In the debut episode, author Jeff VanderMeer joins host Stephen Fishbach to discuss his novel 'Annihilation.' Jeff is the author dozens of novels, short stories, literary criticism, nonfiction, and ba...Show More
2) Lincoln Michel on 'Metallic Realms'
Lincoln Michel joins me to discuss his second novel Metallic Realms. Perennially single, socially awkward, and drowning in debt, Michael Lincoln finds his life has turned out nothing like the intergal...Show More
3) Sara Levine on 'Treasure Island!!!'
Sara Levine joins me to discuss her novel 'Treasure Island!!!' When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper, gift wrapper, laziest ever part-time clerk at The Pet Library)...Show More
4) Johannes Lichtman on 'Calling Ukraine'
Johannes Lichtman joins me to discuss his novel "Calling Ukraine." National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and author of Such Good Work Johannes Lichtman returns with a novel that is strikingly re...Show More
5) Lauren Oliver on 'Panic'
Lauren Oliver joins me to discuss her novel 'Panic.' Heather never thought she would compete in Panic, a legendary game played by graduating seniors, where the stakes are high and the payoff is even h...Show More
6) Lincoln Michel on 'The Body Scout'
Lincoln Michel joins me to discuss his novel 'The Body Scout.' In the future you can have any body you want—as long as you can afford it. But in a New York ravaged by climate change and repeat pandem...Show More
7) Teddy Wayne on 'Apartment'
Teddy Wayne joins me to discuss his novel 'Apartment.' In 1996, the unnamed narrator of Teddy Wayne’s Apartment is attending the MFA writing program at Columbia on his father’s dime and living in an i...Show More
8) Carmen Maria Machado on 'In the Dream House'
Carmen Maria Machado joins me to discuss her memoir 'In the Dream House.' 'In the Dream House' is Machado’s wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanism...Show More
9) Ryan Chapman on 'Riots I Have Known'
Ryan Chapman joins me to discuss his debut novel 'Riots I Have Known.' An unnamed Sri Lankan inmate has barricaded himself inside a prison computer lab in Dutchess County, New York. A riot rages outsi...Show More
10) Namwali Serpell on 'The Old Drift'
Namwali Serpell joins me to discuss her debut novel 'The Old Drift.' 1904. On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there is a colonial settlement called The Ol...Show More