First Pages Readings Podcast

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays by Barry Lopez
2. Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors by Louise Erdrich
3. The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet

In this episode a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolano, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews 
2. A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
3. The Passport and Other Selected Short Stories by Antonis Samarakis, translated from the Greek by Andrew Horton

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. Heaven and Hell by Jon Kalman Stefansson, translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton
2. Miss Iceland by Audur Ava Olafsdottir, translated from the Icelandic by Brian FitzGibbon
3. Hotel Silence by Audur Ava Olafsdottir, translated from the Icelandic by Brian FitzGibbon

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories by Tove Jansson, translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal and Silvester Mazzarella
2. Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith
3. Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
2. Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat by Robert N. Spengler III
3. Out of Istanbul: A Journey of Discovery Along the Silk Road by Bernard Ollivier, translated from the French by Dan Golembeski

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. The End of the World is a Cul de Sac: Stories by Louise Kennedy
2. Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
3. Ghostroots: Stories by Pemi Aguda

In this episode a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. Alligator & other stories by Dima Alzayat (pub. 2020)
2. Canoes by Maylis de Kerangal, translated from the French by Jessica Moore (pub. 2021; English translation pub. 2024)
3. The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories by Nikolay Gogol, translated by Ronald Wilks (translations pub: 1972; revised for Penguin Classics 2005)

In the episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir by E.J. Koh
2. Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts by Jessica J. Lee
3. The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal, translated from the French by Jessica Moore
2. What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
3. Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata, translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker
4. My Friends by Hisham Matar

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea, A Memoir by Hannah Stowe
2. Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water by Kathleen Dean Moore
3. Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey through Britian by Roger Deakin

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu
2. Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem
3. A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories by Margaret Drabble
4. Ladies' Lunch and other stories by Lore Segal

In this episode, a few pages from the following books will be read:

1. How To Pronounce Knife: Stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa
2. Where The Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton
3. The Love Object: Selected Stories by Edna O'Brien

In this episode, a few pages from the following books will be read:

1. Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Ted Goossen
2. Aetherial Worlds: Stories by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Anya Migdal
3. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. Elsewhere, Home, by Leila Aboulela
2. The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories, by Yukiko Motoya, translated by Asa Yoneda
3. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories, by Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell

In this episode. a few pages of the following memoirs will be read:

1. The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster
2. Country Girl by Edna O'Brien
3. Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life by J.M. Coetzee

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk
2. When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Sola, translated by Mara Faye Lethem
3. Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A Year of Keeping Bees by Helen Jukes
2. Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World by Kathleen Dean Moore
3. Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez

In today's episode, three poems will be read from:

1. Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry, edited by Joy Harjo
2. This Is The Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets, edited by Kwame Alexander
3. The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, edited by Ilya Kaminsky and Susan Harris

In this episode, the first few pages of three YA books will be read:

1. Wild Dreamers by Margarita Engle
2. Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater
3. Down And Across by Arvin Ahmadi