Episodes

  • Check This Out: Jemimah Wei & 'The Original Daughter'
    May 22 2025
    An exploration of family bonds in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore. Two estranged sisters must weigh the value of ambition versus familial love and home.
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    49 mins
  • Check This Out: Colwill Brown & 'We Pretty Pieces of Flesh'
    May 15 2025
    A coming-of-age novel set in the schoolyards, nightclubs, and alleyways of a gritty, post-industrial town in Yorkshire, England. Three girls are inseparable, but as they grow up and away from one another, a long-festering secret threatens to rip the trio apart.
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    50 mins
  • Check This Out: Sameer Pandya & 'Our Beautiful Boys'
    May 8 2025
    Three star players on a high school football team are accused of violence by another student. Their secrets, and the secrets of their parents, threaten to shatter the community in a novel of race, class, and privilege.
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    50 mins
  • Check This Out: Tova Mirvis & 'We Would Never'
    May 1 2025
    Inspired by a true story, “We Would Never” is a murder mystery and an intimate family drama, exploring the blurred line between loyalty and betrayal.
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    50 mins
  • Check This Out: Julie Iromuanya & 'A Season of Light'
    Apr 24 2025
    A tightly-bound Nigerian family living in Florida and their struggle with the trauma of war as it ripples through the generations.
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    50 mins
  • Check This Out: Callan Wink & 'Beartooth'
    Apr 17 2025
    Two brothers in dire straits, living on the edge of Yellowstone, agree to a desperate act of survival.
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    50 mins
  • Check This Out: Olivia Wolfgang-Smith & 'Mutual Interest'
    Apr 10 2025
    A novel about marriage and ambition, sexuality and secrecy, and the true costs of building an empire, set in the early 1900s in New York City.
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    48 mins
  • Check This Out: Karissa Chen & 'Homeseeking'
    Apr 5 2025
    “Homeseeking” follows Haiwen and Suchi, two separated lovers through six decades of Chinese history. War, famine, and opportunity take them from Hong Kong, to Taiwan, New York, and LA. This debut novel is a story of family, sacrifice, and loyalty, and of the power of love to endure beyond distance and time.
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    50 mins