This episode featured Ling Ma, author of “Severance” out now from FSG. This episode was taped in front of a live studio audience on August 16 2018 at The Dial and first aired on August 25th. This episode was engineered by Hannah Larson.

This episode featured Adam Morgan discussing Henry Blake Fuller’s “The Cliff Dwellers,” reissued by the Chicago Review of Books. This episode was taped in front of a live studio audience on July 19 2018 at The Dial and first aired on July 29.

This episode featured the works of author Janice Law, with Afternoons in Paris out now from Mysterious Press. This episode first aired on July 22.

This episode featured Megan Stielstra author of the books “Once I Was Cool” from Curbside Splendor and “The Wrong Way To Save Your Life” from Harper Perennial. This episode was taped in front of a live studio audience on June 21st at Pilsen Community Books and first aired on June 24th, 2018.

This episode featured Sergio de la Pava’s book “Lost Empress” out now from Pantheon. This episode first aired on July 15, 2018.

This episode featured the book “Heads of the Colored People” by Nafissa Thompson-Spires, out now from 37INK. This episode first aired on June 10, 2018.

This episode featured the book “The Boys of Fairy Town” by Jim Elledge out now from The Chicago Review Press. This episode first aired on June 3, 2018.

This episode featured the book “Slaughterhouse” by Dominic Pacyga, out now from The University of Chicago Press. This episode was taped in front of a live studio audience at Pilsen Community books on May 17 and first aired on May 20, 2018.

This episode featured the book “Gun Metal Blue” by Joseph Peterson, out now from Tortoise books. This episode first aired on May 6th, 2018.

This episode featured the works of Charles Willeford, Anna Kavan and Don Carpenter; and guest spots from CPL acquisition team Steve Sposato and Kelly Griffin. This episode first aired on April 22nd, 2018.