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Save Me, Stranger
From the 2026 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Winner Erika Krouse, comes a poignant collection of short stories.
From the coldest town on earth to a sex shop in Bangkok to a haunted bed-and-breakfast in the Rockies, we meet characters at hinge moments. A runaway fights for her future while driving an ice-cream truck in gang territory; a cleaning woman investigates the teenager who died in her stead; a terminal patient in Alaska discovers new life in helping others die. This collection explores the borderlands between humor and hurt, community and self, and hope and despair, redefining what it means to survive.
Life of M
Worthy of discussion. This program is read by the author.The movie star M is one of the most recognizable faces of our time. Her image is everywhere. It has been like that since she was a child. With such fame, her life has the appearance of freedom: people are instantly obliging, spaces are altered to accommodate her, time can be rearranged. M may live in the same places as real people. She may meet her friends or collect her children from school or walk her dogs as they do. But it seems the rules of reality have melted away.
Rick Rubin’s Inspiring Work for all Creatives
Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act: A Way of Being is read by the author which makes for good listening as it describes the process of creativity and the mindset required for genius. It distills the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime’s work into a luminous listening experience.