Summertime means barbecue, beach…and New England Public Radio’s annual local fiction series. Every Friday morning, we’ll feature an interview with an author from western New England who’s got a new novel out for those lazy days in the sun. As the season progresses, you can hear each interview archived here.
Summer Fiction Series
Summer Fiction: 'In This Strange Soil' By Jillian Hensley
Set in the early 18th century, the new book is based on actual Native American raids on two Massachusetts settlements, including Deerfield.
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Summer Fiction: Lawrence Raab's 'Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts'
Our imagination plays tricks on us. That's explored in a new volume of poems by Lawrence Raab, who teaches at Williams College.
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Summer Fiction: 'Camouflage Country' By Mel Bosworth And Ryan Ridge
An unconventional collection of short stories and poems that tell the tale of "fun, loser outlaws" and "desperate people in wacky settings."
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Summer Fiction: Elizabeth Brundage's 'All Things Cease To Appear'
The next selection in our summer fiction series is part murder mystery, part ghost story, and it tells the tale of two struggling families.
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Summer Fiction: Allen Steele's 'Arkwright'
Arkwright follows a renowned writer who dedicates his fortune to creating a starship, in hopes of establishing a human colony on a distant planet.
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Summer Fiction: Jung Yun's 'Shelter'
A Korean-American family's story of lies, identity and loss. That's what you'll find in "Shelter," the debut novel of Jung Yun -- who until this month taught at UMass Amherst.
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Summer Fiction: Marisa Labozzetta's 'Thieves Never Steal In The Rain'
This week's selection in the Summer Fiction series is "Thieves Never Steal in the Rain," a short story collection from Northampton, Massachusetts, resident Marisa Labozzetta. The stories follow one large Italian family, based in part on her own experiences.
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Summer Fiction: Christopher Boucher's 'Golden Delicious'
It's a straight-forward story about a boy growing up in western Massachusetts. But in the fictional town of Appleseed, books grow in soil. The boy's name is -- on the printed page in front of you -- an underline. The family pet is a sentence. The bad guys are bookworms and a band of mothers fly off to fight them.
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