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Check This Out with Rachel Barenbaum

Check This Out with Rachel Barenbaum

By: Rachel Barenbaum
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 From New Hampshire Public Radio and the PEN/ Faulkner Foundation, Check This Out is a literary series where host Rachel Barenbaum dives deeply into the works of emerging and diverse authors.Copyright 2020 All rights reserved. Art Literary History & Criticism
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  • Ep 150 NHPR Quiara Alegría Hudes: THE WHITE HOT

    Ep 150 NHPR Quiara Alegría Hudes: THE WHITE HOT
    Nov 15 2025

    Told as a letter from mother to daughter, this luminous novel explores a moment of abandonment that stretches from ten days to ten years—and reshapes a family forever.
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    51 mins
  • Ep. 149 NHPR Katie Yee and Vanessa Lillie: Maggie or A Man and A Woman Walk Into A Bar and The Bone Thief

    Ep. 149 NHPR Katie Yee and Vanessa Lillie: Maggie or A Man and A Woman Walk Into A Bar and The Bone Thief
    Nov 8 2025

    Maggie: Or A Man and A Woman Walk Into A Bar - When a young mother’s life unravels after a divorce and a cancer diagnosis, she spins her pain into sharp, comedic fiction that’s equal parts heartbreaking and hilarious.

    The Bone Thief - When a Native teenager vanishes from her small town, a place with dark ties to an elite historical society, archaeologist Syd Walker is called to investigate.
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    50 mins
  • Ep. 148 NHPR Rickey Fayne: THE DEVIL THREE TIMES

    Ep. 148 NHPR Rickey Fayne: THE DEVIL THREE TIMES
    Nov 1 2025

    In this debut novel, eight generations of a Black family in West Tennessee are visited by the Devil himself, each offered a different kind of salvation—while he wonders if redemption is possible for him, too.
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    51 mins
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