Originally aired November 30, 2021.
Dave kicks off the show with Pamela Fletcher Bush, co-editor of Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota.
After the break, Liz welcomes Mark Liechliter, author of The Other Side.
Originally aired October 26, 2021.
Josh kicks off the show with Carol Dines and her new collection of short stories, This Distance We Call Love, and the insightful ways it discusses family.
After the break, Liz welcomes Jeanette Escudero to discuss The Apology Project, Escudero’s new work about a newly jobless lawyer’s apology tour.
Originally aired October 19, 2021.
Dave starts off the show with Jessica Lind Peterson and her new collection of essays, Sound Like Trapped Thunder.
After the break, Josh and Sylvain Cypel dive into his work, The State of Israel vs. the Jews.
Originally aired October 12, 2021.
Josh opens the show talking to Harvard’s David M. Cutler about his new book, Survival of the City, which discusses the devastating impact of COVID-19 and other recent events on the modern city.
After the break, Liz welcomes Laura Davis on-air to discuss her new book, The Burning Light of Two Stars, and its conversation about rekindling a mother-daughter relationship with a volatile past.
Originally aired October 5, 2021.
Ian Graham Leask takes center stage this week, interviewing David Backes about editing A Private Wilderness: The Journals of Sigurd F. Olson. After the break, Leask is joined by Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, short-fiction author and great-granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway himself.
Originally aired September 14, 2021.
Liz kicks off the show joined by Chris McKinney to discuss his gripping new neo-noir, Midnight, Water City.
After the break, David Vine and Josh dig into Vine’s The United States of War and America’s extensive history of hegemonic conflict.
Originally aired September 7, 2021.
Ian welcomes Larry Watson onto the show to discuss his new novel, Lives of Eddie Pritchard, and the new film of his book Let Him Go.
After the break, Josh welcomes astronomer and author Caleb Scharf to discuss his new book, Ascent of Information.
Originally aired August 17, 2021.
Dave starts off the show by welcoming decorated poet, critic, essayist, and academic Kwame Dawes to discuss his new poetry collection, Nebraska.
After the break the newest WOR team member, Savvy Males, is joined by Elinor Cleghorn to talk about her book Unwell Women, and the broader conversation around gender discrimination in medical treatment.
