Story Behind the Story Podcast
1) Episode 61: Charlie Jane Anders - LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER
Charlie Jane Anders is an award-winning, best-selling author of speculative fiction based in the Bay Area. She is the winner of the 2017 Nebula, Locus, and Crawford awards; winner of the 2020 Locus Aw...Show More
2) Episode 60: Christopher Blackwell and Deborah Zalesne - ENDING ISOLATION: THE CASE AGAINST SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
Christopher Blackwell is an award-winning journalist currently incarcerated at the Washington Corrections Center, where he is serving a 45-year prison sentence for taking another human’s life during a...Show More
3) Episode 59: Alka Joshi - SIX DAYS IN BOMBAY
Alka Joshi spent 10 years working on her debut novel, The Henna Artist, before it was published in March 2020, just before the world locked down as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, a few month...Show More
4) Episode 58: Kirsty Capes - DAUGHTERS
In this episode of Story Behind the Story, host Clara Sherley-Appel talks to British novelist Kirsty Capes about her latest book, Daughters, which was recently released in the US following its debut i...Show More
5) Episode 57: John Gibler - TORN FROM THE WORLD
In this episode of Story Behind the Story, host Clara Sherley-Appel talks to journalist John Gibler about his 2014 book, Torn from the World: A Guerrilla's Escape from a Secret Prison in Mexico. Torn ...Show More
6) Episode 56: Laura Spinney - PROTO
Laura Spinney is the author of two novels and three non-fiction books, including Pale Rider, a historical exploration of the 1918 flu epidemic, which came out in 2017. In this interview, we discuss he...Show More
7) Episode 55: Holly Goddard Jones - THE SALT LINE
Holly Goddard Jones is an author and educator best known for literary fiction. She was a recipient of The Fellowship of Southern Writers’ Hillsdale Prize for Excellence in Fiction and the Rona Jaffe F...Show More
8) Episode 54: Muriel Leung - HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A TIME OF UNNAMEABLE DISASTER
Muriel Leung is a recipient of fellowships to Kundiman, VONA/Voices Workshop and the Community of Writers, and she has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her writing can be found in The Baffler, C...Show More
9) Episode 53: Hilary Leichter - TERRACE STORY
Hilary Leicther's particular brand of surrealist fiction takes metaphors and makes them tangible. Her debut novel, Temporary, followed a nameless, archetypal temp worker from one gig to the next. As t...Show More
10) Episode 52: Hanna Pylväinen - THE END OF DRUM-TIME
Hanna Pylväinen has been writing fiction about the small Finnish fundamentalist sect she was raised in for hers. In her 2012 debut novel, We Sinners, she follows a large, Midwestern family as they nav...Show More