On this week’s program, I talk to Mamie Pound about how flash fiction works, poetry, and finding the authentic, messy, true emotion and understanding despite the editors in our brains.

On this week’s program, I talk to Elliot Ackerman about his new novel, Sheepdogs, a hell of a military caper story.

Happy Valentine’s Day, world! Listen to Dianne Turgeon Richardson and I discuss the memorable, occasionally exhausting, and morally iffy smut of Anaïs Nin’s Delta of Venus.

After reading some of Charlotte Brontë’s Tales of Angria (#682), John and Sophia go a-Brontë-ing again. They discuss Lucasta Miller's extraordinary survey of the Brontë cult and the durable, troubled legacy of their fiction.