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Adam Vitcavage is joined by Melissa Faliveno to discuss her debut essay collection Tomboyland. The two chat creative non-fiction, teaching young writers, and Roller Derby names.

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Adam Vitcavage is joined by Leah Hampton to discuss her debut story collection F*ckface. The two chat about Appalachia, how she follows characters, and why research is just as important for stories as it is novels.

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Adam Vitcavage is joined by John Fram to discuss his debut book The Bright Lands. We discuss being an outsider, writing modern noirs, and police brutality in media. Please read his New York Times piece "How White Crime Writers Justified Police Brutality" here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/opinion/crime-fiction-police-brutality.html

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Adam Vitcavage is joined by Zaina Arafat to discuss her debut book You Exist Too Much. We discuss how she wanted to subvert expectations for what a Palestinian-American looks like as well as what it was like for her writing for American media outlets in a post-9/11 world.

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Adam Vitcavage is joined by Jean Kyoung Frazier to talk about her debut novel Pizza Girl. The two discuss pickles on pizza, basketball, and baking soda. Oh, and a little bit about how Frazier crafted such a hilarious yet dark novel about sexuality and desire.

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Digital Book Tour #14 features Carter Sickels reading from his second novel The Prettiest Star and being interviewed by Adam Vitcavage.

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