Check This Out!
Check This Out, a partnership between New Hampshire Public Radio and PEN/Faulkner, is a literary podcast in which host and novelist Rachel Barenbaum interviews diverse and emerging authors about their work. Previous guests have included PEN/Faulkner honorees Claire Jimenez, John Vercher, Jonathan Escoffery, Ruben Degollado, and K-Ming Chang, among many others.
You can listen to episodes live, if you live in New Hampshire, on NHPR.org, or wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple, Amazon, and Spotify.
Karissa Chen, Homeseeking – Saturday, April 5 at 3 p.m.
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.
Olivia Wolfgang-Smith, Mutual Interest – Saturday, April 12 at 3 p.m.
A novel about marriage and ambition, sexuality and secrecy, and the true costs of building an empire. Mutual Interest explores the lives of “three queer misfits turned business titans” during the Gilded Age with immersive period detail and compelling emotional stakes.
Callan Wink, Beartooth – Saturday, April 19 at 3 p.m.
Two brothers are living off the grid on the edge of Yellowstone. In dire straits and desperate for money, they accept a dangerous proposition that permanently alters their lives and their relationship to each other.
Julie Iromuanya, A Season of Light – Saturday, April 26 at 3 p.m.
When 276 schoolgirls are abducted from their school in Nigeria, a Florida-based lawyer and former POW of the Nigerian Civil War is consumed by memories of his younger sister who went missing during that conflict. A Season of Light explores the shaky promise of the immigrant American dream and a family struggling with intergenerational trauma.
Tova Mirvis, We Would Never – Saturday, May 3 at 3 p.m.
Inspired by a true story, We Would Never is a gripping murder mystery and an intimate family drama. It explores the issues of loyalty, betrayal, and the blurred line between protecting and forsaking the ones we love most.
Sameer Pandya, Our Beautiful Boys – Saturday May 10 at 3 p.m.
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 their entire community in a novel of race, class, and privilege.
Colwill Brown, We Pretty Pieces of Flesh – Saturday May 17 at 3 p.m.
A coming of age novel about working-class female friendship, set in the schoolyards, nightclubs, and alleyways of a gritty, post-industrial town in Yorkshire, England. Three girls are inseparable, their friendship as indestructible as they are, but as they grow up and away from one another, a long-festering secret threatens to rip the trio apart.
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