Fall for the Book Podcast

Fall for the Book
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A podcast from the Fall for the Book Festival team - Director Kara Oakleaf, and Manager, Suzy Rigdon. Each season, they sit down with writers from across the genre spectrum. Visit the festival's site at https://fallforthebook.org/

  1. In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls with Majda Gama

    12/09/2025

    In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls with Majda Gama

    Poet Majda Gama reads from and discusses her new collection In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls. The collection spans growing up in the Saudi Arabia, her life-changing time in the DC Punk scene, and the power and influence of music in Gama's work.

    30 min
  2. Wilderness of Mirrors with Olufemi Terry

    11/11/2025

    Wilderness of Mirrors with Olufemi Terry

    Caine Prize-winning author Olufemi Terry talks about his debut novel, Wilderness of Mirrors set in Stadmutter, a multiracial city at the southern tip of Africa modeled after Cape Town. Terry talks about the changing political landscape of Cape Town and his novel, his journalism, and the inspirations for the book. Author Lola Shoneyin calls it: “An unsentimental portrait of young adulthood in a city both beguiling and perilous, and which reflects Africans as they are too rarely depicted: hybrid, modern, and shaped by their own profound contradictions. Terry’s pared but illuminating prose captures the weight of its protagonists’ search for their place in the world.”

    28 min
  3. These Memories Do Not Belong To Us with Yiming Ma

    10/14/2025

    These Memories Do Not Belong To Us with Yiming Ma

    What happens when even your memories aren't safe from Big Tech and Big Government? Yiming Ma discusses these questions, and his debut speculative novel These Memories Do Not Belong To Us.

    23 min
  4. Sour Cherry with Natalia Theodoridou

    09/09/2025

    Sour Cherry with Natalia Theodoridou

    Natalia Theodoridou discusses his fever dream of a Bluebeard retelling - about the choice and non-choice of those stuck in cycles of abuse, the power of fairytales, and the toxicity of the patriarchy. He also examines choice and character arcs in interactive fiction, and how his landscape has informed his writing.

    24 min
  5. Transplant: A Memoir with Berardine Watson

    05/13/2025

    Transplant: A Memoir with Berardine Watson

    In the final episode of the season, Bernardine (Dine) Watson sits down to discuss her journey with kidney disease and her two transplants. A nonfiction writer and poet, Watson talks about healthcare disparities, finding community, and accepting her diagnosis of FSGS in this conversation about Transplant: A Memoir, which won the inaugural Washington Writers' Publishing House Creative Nonfiction Award.

    29 min
  6. Going to Maine with Sally Chaffin Brooks

    04/08/2025

    Going to Maine with Sally Chaffin Brooks

    Comedian Sally Chaffin Brooks talks about her through hike on the Appalachian Trail. From the funky trail names, to the memorable characters along the way, to the lessons the AT served up for her career in comedy, Chaffin Brooks shares the funny, difficult, and thoughtful stories from her life-changing hike.

    29 min
  7. Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing with Jen Soriano

    03/11/2025

    Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing with Jen Soriano

    Jen Soriano, author of Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing talks about chronic pain, ancestral trauma, and finding joy and support through community. Soriano is a Filipinx-American writer, independent scholar, and performer who has long worked at the intersection of grassroots organizing, narrative strategy, and art-driven social change.

    34 min
  8. Another North with Jennifer Brice

    02/11/2025

    Another North with Jennifer Brice

    Jennifer Brice talks about Another North, her essay collection about growing up in Fairbanks, Alaska and moving through the world, understanding herself as a woman, mother, daughter and granddaughter. In the essays, she looks for answers in family lore, personal experience, and conversations with friends, and beloved books in this wide-ranging and poignant collection.

    35 min
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A podcast from the Fall for the Book Festival team - Director Kara Oakleaf, and Manager, Suzy Rigdon. Each season, they sit down with writers from across the genre spectrum. Visit the festival's site at https://fallforthebook.org/

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  • Creator
    Fall for the Book
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2025
  • Episodes
    60
  • Rating
    Clean
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