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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. 142 NHPR Lucas Schaefer: THE SLIP

    Ep. 142 NHPR Lucas Schaefer: THE SLIP
    Jun 21 2025

    A novel about a missing teenage boy, cases of fluid and mistaken identity, and the transformative power of boxing.
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    50 mins
  • Ep. 141 NHPR Aaron John Curtis: OLD SCHOOL INDIAN

    Ep. 141 NHPR Aaron John Curtis: OLD SCHOOL INDIAN
    Jun 14 2025

    A coming-of-middle-age novel full of humor and grief. When Abe Jacobs is faced with an unthinkable diagnosis, he follows his fragile hope for a cure to the Mohawk Rez where he grew up. In his family’s hands, Abe just might find hope.
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    50 mins
  • Ep. 140 NHPR Rob Franklin: GREAT BLACK HOPE

    Ep. 140 NHPR Rob Franklin: GREAT BLACK HOPE
    Jun 7 2025

    A young Stanford graduate caught between worlds of race and class, glamour and tragedy, a friend’s mysterious death and his own arrest. Pulled into the court system and mandated treatment, he finds himself in an absurd but dangerous situation: his class protects him, but his race does not.
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    50 mins
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