The Talking Book Podcast

A reading by Joseph Grantham, from his new collection Raking Leaves. Raking Leaves is the second book of poetry by the American writer Joseph Grantham. Get it for that special someone today: https://www.amazon.com/Raking-Leaves-Joseph-Grantham/dp/0983258910

Laura Theobald grew up in the Florida Keys and lives in the South. Her first book of poetry is What My Hair Says About You. She has an MFA in poetry from LSU and makes books for OOMPH! And BOAAT. Her website is lauratheobald.tumblr.com The Beach Boys sang, “Off the Florida Keys there’s a place called Kokomo. That’s where you wanna go to get away from it all.” But KOKOMO is also the name of Laura Theobald’s newest collection of poems. It’s a book where we wanna go to get away from it all. https://disorderpress.com/store/kokomo

A couple of months ago, we produced the audiobook for Eleanor Or The Rejection of the Progress of Love by Anna Moschavokis. Anna Wrote an essay addressing the writing and publishing of the novel. It was originally published on The Paris Review, but now it’s been recorded for The Talking Book Podcast. It’s called The Capacity to Be Alone. It's awesome. Enjoy. The Audiobook: http://thetalkingbook.org/eleanor Here is the original: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/08/16/the-capacity-to-be-alone/

A reading from Juliet The Maniac by Juliet Escoria. Ambitious, talented fourteen-year-old honors student Juliet is poised for success at her Southern California high school. However, she soon finds herself on an increasingly frightening spiral of drug use, self-harm, and mental illness that lands her in a remote therapeutic boarding school, where she must ultimately find the inner strength to survive. https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/juliet-the-maniac/

Sebastian Mathews stopped by The Talking Book house and read from his new work The Life and Times Of American Crow. You can get the book here. https://sebastianmatthews.com/american-crow-graphic-novel/