Best Michael Laird Podcasts (2025)

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Peter Clines, author of GOD'S JUNK DRAWER, 14, THE FOLD, EX-HEROES 1:29:52

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📺 To WATCH this episode, go here: https://youtube.com/live/wPQUYayMa_4 😱 GOD'S JUNK DRAWER by Peter Clines: https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Junk-Drawer-Peter-Clines-ebook/dp/B0DVJNMD3C 😀 Lovecraft eZine Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lovecraftezine 📪 Join the email alert list to be reminded when episodes are coming up. Only 2 to 3 emails a week, tops…

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When Stories Fall Apart: Miriam Robinson on Love, Loss, and Truth 49:13

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In this intimate conversation recorded at Shakespeare and Company, novelist Miriam Robinson joins Adam Biles to discuss her remarkable debut, And Notre Dame Is Burning. Together, they explore the novel’s fractured structure and the emotional aftermath of betrayal, loss, and motherhood. Robinson reflects on her protagonist Esther—a woman piecing tog…

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Erika Pani, "Torn Asunder: Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexico, 1848-1867" (UNC Press, 2025) 57:37

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Between the late 1840s and the late 1860s, the United States and Mexico had quite a bit in common. Both suffered from reactionary succession movements, both faced brutal civil wars, and both had to figure out a method of reconstructing broken nations in their aftermath. In Torn Asunder: Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexi…

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Pyet DeSpain, "Rooted in Fire: A Celebration of Native American and Mexican Cooking" (HarperOne, 2025) 50:45

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Chef Pyet DeSpain joins the New Books Network to discuss her new cookbook, Rooted in Fire: A Celebration of Native American and Mexican Cooking (HarperOne, 2025). Drawing from her Potawatomi and Mexican heritage, DeSpain shares recipes that connect past and present, including bison meatballs with Wojape BBQ sauce, raspberry mezcal quail, and poblan…

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The King in Yellow: Deluxe Edition AND Cthulhu Mysteries: Veins of Arkham -- and prizes! 55:08

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💥 WE ARE GIVING AWAY PRIZES from both projects! The RPG, the video game, the comic, The King in Yellow Deluxe, and more! 👑 THE KING IN YELLOW DELUXE EDITION: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/859041831/the-king-in-yellow 🐙 CTHULHU MYSTERIES: VEINS OF ARKHAM: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wwpol/cthulhu-mysteries-veins-of-arkham?ref=2pue8f …

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Why We Write, Why We Live, with Miriam Toews 49:26

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An edited version of this conversation is now available as part of our collaboration with The Yale Review. Read it here: https://yalereview.org/article/shakespeare-and-company-interview-miriam-toews Trigger warning: This is a tender, funny, and hopeful conversation, that inevitably touches on the subjects of suicide and depression. Please be advise…

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THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT: a conversation with Michael Wehunt 1:31:10

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💥 An conversation with Michael Wehunt on his new book THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT: https://www.amazon.com/October-Film-Haunt-Novel-ebook/dp/B0DPV1BJKY 📺 To WATCH this episode, go here: https://youtube.com/live/7lHtpgOSktE 🙏 Lovecraft eZine Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lovecraftezine 📪 Join the email alert list to be reminded when episodes are coming…

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Vania Smith-Oka, "Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals" (Rutgers UP, 2021) 49:05

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In Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals (Rutgers University Press, 2021), Vania Smith-Oka follows a cohort of interns throughout their year of medical training in hospitals to understand how medical students become medical doctors. She ethnographically tracks their engagements with one another, interactions with patients, experience…

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Rick A López, "Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570-1914" (U Arizona Press, 2025) 50:26

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Since the first moment of conquest, colonizers and the colonized alike in Mexico confronted questions about what it meant to be from this place, what natural resources it offered, and who had the right to control those resources and on what basis. Focusing on the ways people, environment, and policies have been affected by political boundaries, in …

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Lovecraft eZine's Annual HALLOWEEN Episode! 1:22:07

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📺 If you would like to WATCH this episode, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_P8KwODwtI 😱 Join us LIVE for our annual HALLOWEEN episode! With Jeffrey Thomas, Scott Thomas, and Mike Davis. 📚 SEASONS FROM ICE TO GRAIN (The Scott Thomas Poetry Collection): https://www.amazon.com/Seasons-Grain-Thomas-Poetry-Collection-ebook/dp/B0F5C1LH2W 📚 T…

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Aileen Teague, "Policing on Drugs: The United States, Mexico, and the Origins of the Modern Drug War, 1969-2000" (Oxford UP, 2025) 55:18

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Today, images of cartels, security agents donning face coverings, graphs depicting egregious murder rates, and military guards at US border crossings influence the world's perception of Mexico. Mexico's so-called drug war, as generally conceived by journalists and academics, was the product of recent cartel turf wars, the end of the PRI's single pa…

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How France Lost Its Way, with Andrew Hussey 1:08:23

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In this episode recorded live at Shakespeare and Company, historian and cultural critic Andrew Hussey joins Adam Biles to discuss his powerful new book, Fractured France: A Journey Through a Divided Nation. With wit, erudition, and decades of on-the-ground insight, Hussey examines how France—once the model of revolutionary ideals and republican uni…

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Martin Austin Nesvig, "The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico" (Cambridge UP, 2025) 1:00:47

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The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (Cambridge UP, 2025) tells the stories of women from Spain, North Africa, Senegambia, and Canaries accused of sorcery in sixteenth-century Mexico for adapting native magic and healing practices. These non-native women - the mulata of Seville who cured the evil eye; the…

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No Sexy, Sparkly Vampires: Interview with Keith Rosson, author of COFFIN MOON 52:17

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📺 To WATCH this episode, go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrZesReGJ58 💥 A conversation with horror writer Keith Rosson about his new novel COFFIN MOON: https://www.amazon.com/Coffin-Moon-Novel-Keith-Rosson-ebook/dp/B0DPY2FXNX 🙏 Lovecraft eZine Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lovecraftezine 📪 Join the email alert list to be reminded when ep…

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Philippe Sands: Pinochet, Walter Rauff, and the Shadows of History 1:06:38

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This week Adam Biles speaks with international lawyer and acclaimed author Philippe Sands about his latest book, 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia. Building on East West Street and The Ratline, Sands traces the remarkable and disturbing links between Nazi officer Walter Rauff—architect of the mobile gas van…

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A conversation with Joe R. Lansdale! His new ESSENTIAL HORROR collection, and more 1:29:35

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📺 If you want to WATCH this episode, go here: https://youtube.com/live/qGmpfr-qe7U 💥 "Some kind of Bubba Ho-Tep": An conversation with Joe R. Lansdale! 👉 THE ESSENTIAL HORROR OF JOE R. LANSDALE: https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Horror-Joe-R-Lansdale-ebook/dp/B0FMKH44SM 🙏 Lovecraft eZine Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lovecraftezine 📪 Join the ema…

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Soren Narnia of KNIFEPOINT HORROR, and J.D. Buffington, author of IN THE HOUSE OF IN BETWEEN 1:49:49

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💥 An interview with SOREN NARNIA (Knifepoint Horror) and with J.D. BUFFINGTON! 📺 To WATCH this episode, go here: https://youtube.com/live/s2f8cwtd_oA 👉 Coming soon: a film based on the podcast KNIFEPOINT HORROR, starring Carla Gugino: https://deadline.com/2025/06/carla-gugino-lou-taylor-pucci-to-star-winthrop-1236437810/ 👉 Listen to KNIFEPOINT HORR…

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Moonlight Express: Monisha Rajesh on the Magic of Night Trains 58:35

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In this conversation recorded live at Shakespeare and Company, travel writer Monisha Rajesh talks about her new book Moonlight Express: Around the World by Night Train. From Paris to Istanbul, Scotland to India, the United States to Lapland, Rajesh explores the romance and realities of sleeper trains—where the carriages, the landscapes, and above a…

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Ellen Datlow, Jeffrey Ford, Gemma Files, Nathan Ballingrud: NIGHT & DAY: Day and Night Horror! 2:00:16

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📺 To WATCH this episode, go here: https://youtube.com/live/LnbHDy7DjS4 👉 NIGHT & DAY: DREADFUL DARK: TALES OF NIGHTTIME HORROR/MERCILESS SUN: https://www.amazon.com/Night-Day-Dreadful-Nighttime-Merciless-ebook/dp/B0DV6FLXG5 ------------- 🙏 Lovecraft eZine Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lovecraftezine 📪 Join the email alert list to be reminded whe…

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Martin Austin Nesvig, "The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico" (Cambridge UP, 2025) 1:04:49

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The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (Cambridge UP, 2025) by Dr. Martin Austin Nesvig tells the stories of women from Spain, North Africa, Senegambia, and Canaries accused of sorcery in sixteenth-century Mexico for adapting native magic and healing practices. These non-native women – the mulata of Seville…

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Twenty Writers, One Bookshop: The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews, now in paperback 1:18:21

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In this special episode of the Shakespeare and Company Interview Podcast, we celebrate the paperback release of The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews (Canongate), a compelling collection of literary conversations recorded live at our bookshop in Paris. Capturing a decade of rich, revealing discussions, the episode revisits unforgettable mo…

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Brian A. Stauffer, "Victory on Earth or in Heaven: Mexico’s Religionero Rebellion" (U New Mexico Press, 2019) 1:02:15

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In Victory on Earth or in Heaven: Mexico’s Religionero Rebellion (University of New Mexico Press, 2019), Brian A. Stauffer reconstructs the history of Mexico's forgotten "Religionero" rebellion of 1873-1877, an armed Catholic challenge to the government of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada. An essentially grassroots movement--organized by indigenous, Afro-…

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Philis Barragán-Goetz, "Reading, Writing, and Revolution: Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas" (U Texas Press, 2020) 52:04

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Debates about Ethnic Studies in K-12 and Higher Education have highlighted the importance of culturally inclusive pedagogy in schools. Despite discussions about Ethnic Studies, there is a more extended history of Mexican-origin people pushing for culturally responsive education. In Reading, Writing, and Revolution: Escuelitas and the Emergence of a…

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Raymond Jonas, "Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire" (Harvard UP, 2024) 1:05:12

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For a few years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Mexico was ruled by an Austrian and defended by a French army. This often neglected story is more than just historical trivia - it's a way of understanding 19th century imperial politics, and global insurgencies today. In Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Em…

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Warding off Existential Dread with TODD KEISLING | Depression & Anxiety: Real-Life Solutions 1:50:07

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😃 We're not just a podcast; we're a friendly community! 🙂 I hope you'll join us: https://www.patreon.com/lovecraftezine ❤️ "I am deeply, deeply grateful for this group and the guests you have. When I listen/watch, I feel like after a lifetime of being a square peg in a round world, I've finally found my peer group. Thank you, thank you, thank you."…

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Small Girl, Big Ideas: Getting to know Mafalda, with Samanta Schweblin and Frank Wynne 55:10

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In this episode Adam speaks with translator Frank Wynne and Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblin about the first-ever English edition of Mafalda, the beloved Argentine comic strip by Quino (Archipelago Books). Together, they explore how this precocious, principled six-year-old girl—who challenged everything from soup to capitalism—shaped generation…

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LOST IN THE DARK with John Langan: An Interview! 1:52:53

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👉 A conversation with John Langan about his latest collection LOST IN THE DARK. Cover artist Matthew Jaffe joins us as well. 👉 LOST IN THE DARK at WordHorde: https://wordhorde.com/books/lost-in-the-dark/ 👉 LOST IN THE DARK on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Dark-Other-Excursions-Langan-ebook/dp/B0FH5ZJGLW 👉 Matthew Jaffe's Instagram: https://ww…

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Calls May Be Recorded: Lipstick, Loneliness, and Late Capitalism with Katharina Volckmer 41:54

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Katharina Volckmer joins Adam Biles to discuss her biting, bleakly funny second novel, Calls May Be Recorded for Training and Monitoring Purposes. Set in a London call centre, the book follows Jimmie, a disillusioned former actor trapped in a soul-crushing job, a suffocating home life with his immigrant mother, and an alienating body. Volckmer disc…

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Sarah E. K. Smith, "Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America" (UBC Press, 2025) 34:00

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hat is the relationship between culture and trade? In Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America Sarah E. K. Smith, an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University and the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Art, Culture and Global Relations, examines the history of cultural relatio…

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The Shape of Survival: Eimear McBride on Love, Art, and the City 1:02:49

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In this textured conversation, author Eimear McBride joins Adam Biles at Shakespeare and Company to discuss her latest novel The City Changes Its Face. Set in Camden Town in the 1990s, the book revisits characters from The Lesser Bohemians as they navigate the complexities of love, art, aging, trauma, and parenthood. McBride explores the enduring i…

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Daniel Morales, "Between Here and There: The Political Economy of Transnational Mexican Migration, 1900-1942" (Oxford UP, 2024) 1:00:46

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Between Here and There is the first history of the creation of modern US-Mexico migration patterns narrated from multiple geographic and institutional sites. This book analyzes the interplay between the US and Mexican governments, civic organizations, and migrants on both sides of the border and offers a revisionist and comprehensive view of Mexica…

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Katie Kitamura on Fiction’s Shifting Realities 55:22

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Katie Kitamura joins Adam Biles to discuss her remarkable novel Audition. Centred on a middle-aged actress whose settled life is upended by a young man claiming to be her son, Audition blurs the lines between performance, identity, and narrative certainty. Kitamura reflects on the novel’s dual structure—a “rabbit-duck” ambiguity—and her fascination…