The Trial of a New Society by Justus Ebert ~ ...

Overruled by Pansy audiobook. Genre: religion In this sequel to Making Fate, Marjorie Edmonds returns home after a summer away changed by disappointment, reflection, and a deepening Christian faith. Back in her familiar town, she hopes for peace and a clearer future, but ordinary ...  Show more

One Commonplace Day by Pansy audiobook. Genre: religion In this late-19th-century Christian novel, what begins as an ordinary town picnic on an October afternoon becomes the turning point in several lives. A visiting temperance lecturer, delayed by a missed train, joins a small c ...  Show more

Jake Bonner, the protagonist of Jean Hanff Korelitz’s “The Plot,” writes a novel based on someone else’s idea. The book becomes a big hit, but Jake has a hard ti ...

During her stormy and mysterious life, Eliza Haywood (1693?-1756) was one of the most prolific writers in England. Her "amatory fictions" were unapologetically sensationalistic, earning her the opprobrium of her mostly male critics. But in spite of being described (some might say ...  Show more

Paris Marx is joined by Anousha Sakoui to discuss the prospect of a writer’s strike later this year, what workers are fighting for, and how the move to streaming has affected working conditions and compensation in Hollywood.Anousha Sakoui is an entertainment industry writer for t ...  Show more

Shelley’s angry, violent poem was written in direct response to the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester in 1819, in which a demonstration in favour of parliamentary reform was attacked by local yeomanry, leaving 18 people dead and hundreds injured. The ‘masque’ it describes begins wi ...  Show more