Burned By Books
New Books Network
A podcast for writers and readers who are obsessive about their books. Interviews with established and up-and-coming writers, and recommendations for the best in contemporary fiction, poetry, and drama. Chris Holmes. Chris is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers.
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May 28, 2019 • 50min
Eleanor Henderson, "The Twelve-Mile Straight" (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2017)
An interview with Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten Thousand Saints and The Twelve-Mile Straight (Ecco, 2011, 2017).Books Recommended in this episode:
Optic Nerve by Maria Gainza
In the Land of Men, Adrienne Miller;
The Varieties of Romantic Experience, Robert Cohen
Ten Thousand Saints, The Twelve-Mile Straight, Eleanor Henderson
Three quarantine reads: Hex, Rebecca Dinerstein Knight; The Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo; Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro as World Literature, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
