Best AV Escapes Podcasts (2024)

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No Evil Episode 20 — Chapter 24 | AV Escapes Serial | Original Fiction | 4K 21:59

4d ago21:59

21:59

How far is too far? The city has been overrun and there’s talk of military involvement. Jan and Sam agree it might be for the best. This week, Tate continues his rampage. Let your narrator, Chad, guide you through Episode 21 — Chapter 25 of No Evil. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into the world of NO EVIL. We ho…

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No Evil Episode 20 — Chapter 24 | AV Escapes Serial | Original Fiction | 4K 17:08

11d ago17:08

17:08

Sam and Tate, both afflicted with an otherworldly power find themselves at odds. Is it demons or angels that possess them? This week Sam has managed to get the others to safety outside of the city while Tate continues to build his following. Let your narrator, Chad, guide you through Episode 20 — Chapter 24 of No Evil. Take a mental journey, focus,…

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8.5 And Soon: Lydia Millet and Emily Hyde 53:24

12d ago53:24

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During a desert thunderstorm outside Tucson, Lydia Millet joined the Novel Dialogue conversation with hosts John Plotz and Emily Hyde, with Emily playing the role of critic. Lydia—author more than a dozen novels and story collections and recently the nonfictional We Loved it All (Norton, 2024)—also works at the Center for Biological Diversity. Wild…

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No Evil Episode 19 — Chapter 23 | AV Escapes Serial | Original Fiction | 4K 24:08

18d ago24:08

24:08

Sam continues to struggle with his newfound gifts. He hasn’t even had time to process them. Meanwhile, Tate has fully embraced his new mission. This week, those struggles come to a head. Let your narrator, Chad, guide you through Episode 19 — Chapter 23 of No Evil. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into the world o…

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8.4 All of Our Stories Were War Stories: Jamil Jan Kochai and Kalyan Nadiminti (AV) 44:25

26d ago44:25

44:25

Imagine growing up between Sacramento, California and Logar, Afghanistan; you hear stories about war, watch coverage of the United States’ War on Terror on television, and then visit your family in the very places that the U.S. army invaded and occupied. These experiences shape the work of novelist Jamil Jan Kochai, author of 99 Nights in Logar and…

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No Evil Episode 18 — Chapter 22 16:07

1M ago16:07

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Tate is on a mission to find his father while Sam, Jan, Andre, and Case flee the city. This week we find out what happens at the Stein’s Bottom Inn. Let your narrator, Chad, guide you through Episode 18 — Chapter 22 of No Evil. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into the world of NO EVIL. We hope you enjoy this firs…

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No Evil Episode 17 — Chapter 21 16:22

1M ago16:22

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Where have Sam and Jan gone? Will Andre’s live stream cause more trouble for Sam? This week, we continue those stories and more. Let your narrator, Chad, guide you through Episode 17 — Chapter 21 of No Evil. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into the world of NO EVIL. We hope you enjoy this first original audio/vis…

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8.3 Aspire to Magic but End Up With Madness: Adam Ehrlich Sachs speaks with Sunny Yudkoff (JP) 30:20

1M ago30:20

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What happens when a novelist wants “nonsense and joy” but his characters are destined for a Central European sanatorium? How does the abecedarian form (i.e. organized not chronologically or sequentially but alphabetically) insist on order, yet also embrace absurdity? Here to ponder such questions with host John Plotz are University of Wisconsin–Mad…

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No Evil Episode 16 — Chapter 20 18:50

2M ago18:50

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Roger and Tate are dealing with their own demons while Jan and Andre look for more clues behind Sam’s seemingly out of character killing spree. Let your narrator, Chad, guide you through Episode 16 — Chapter 20 of No Evil. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into the world of NO EVIL. We hope you enjoy this first ori…

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8.2 To Gallop Again and Again into Failure: Kaveh Akbar and Pardis Dabashi (SW) 48:11

2M ago48:11

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An unforgettable horse gallops through the pages of Kaveh Akbar’s best-selling novel Martyr! (2024), but it is a figurative hastening toward failure and the limitations of language that Akbar discusses with critic Pardis Dabashi. In their conversation, Kaveh considers writing both as an escape from the confines of the self and as a vehicle for expr…

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No Evil Episode 15 — Chapter 19 13:40

2M ago13:40

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Last week Jan received a stunning call — her good friend and police officer Dianne Latchford has been killed and the suspect is the sam man she and Andre have been trying to track down. This week, we catch up with Roger and Tate. Let your narrator, Chad, guide you through Episode 15 — Chapter 19 of No Evil. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or s…

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No Evil Episode 14 — Chapter 18 12:46

2M ago12:46

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Sam find himself in more hot water. Meanwhile, Andre and Jan uncover more twists to the story. Let your narrator, Chad, guide you through Episode 14 — Chapter 18 of No Evil. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into the world of NO EVIL. We hope you enjoy this first original audio/visual journey from AV Escapes. #aves…

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No Evil Episode 13 — Chapter 17 18:56

2M ago18:56

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Sam's found some Helping Hearts, but do they have his best interests at heart? Sam's still half-delirious, seeing things and hearing voices. He thinks he may be going crazy. What does it all mean? Let your narrator, Chad, guide you through Episode 13 — Chapter 17 of No Evil. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into t…

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8.1 Dirt Bag Novels: Lydia Kiesling in Conversation with Megan Ward (CH) 48:18

2M ago48:18

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What does it mean for a novel to think globally? And can a global novel concerned with the macro movements of capital and labor still exist in the form of a bildungsroman? This conversation between Lydia Kiesling and Megan Ward takes up questions of form and political consciousness in the novel, globality and rootedness, capitalism and the yearning…

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No Evil Episode 11 — Chapter 15 15:53

2M ago15:53

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A screeching metal sound wakes Jeff and Cierra. Is it the voice again? Will Tate's message of faith be accepted by Jeff and Cierra? Find out this week on No Evil. Let your narrator, Chad, guide you through Episode 11 — Chapter 15 of No Evil. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into the world of NO EVIL. We hope you e…

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No Evil Episode 12 — Chapter 16 22:50

3M ago22:50

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On the last episode, Tate’s art came to life and sin was made. Where does Tate go from here? This week, Sam finds himself lost and cold. Let your narrator, Chad, guide you through Episode 12 — Chapter 16 of No Evil. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into the world of NO EVIL. We hope you enjoy this first original a…

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No Evil Episode 10 — Chapter 14 17:53

3M ago17:53

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Last week, Jan and Andre had an unsettling experience. This week, they share a drink while Tate O'Byrne continues his renewal of faith. Let your narrator, Chad, guide you through Episode 10 — Chapter 14 of No Evil. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into the world of NO EVIL. We hope you enjoy this first original au…

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No Evil Episode 9 — Chapter 13 30:51

3M ago30:51

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Last week, Tate O'Byrne had his lack of faith challenged. This week, Jan and Andre track a lead that takes them straight to Sam's apartment. Let your narrator, Chad, guide you through Episode 9 — Chapters 13 of No Evil. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into the world of NO EVIL. We hope you enjoy this first origin…

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No Evil Episode 8 — Chapter 12 12:33

3M ago12:33

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Sam is still in hospital recovering. Little does he know the worst is far from over. Let your narrator, Chad, guide you through Episode 8 — Chapters 12 of No Evil. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into the world of NO EVIL. We hope you enjoy this first original audio/visual journey from AV Escapes. #avescapes #fic…

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No Evil Episode 7 — Chapters 9,10, and 11 19:34

4M ago19:34

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Tate O’Byrne’s tongue has been seared out of his mouth. He's just the latest of a growing number of innocent people who’ve been assaulted by an unseen force across the country. This week, we meet one person who may help unravel the mystery. Let your narrator, Chad, guide you through Episode 7 — Chapters 9, 10 and 11 of No Evil. Take a mental journe…

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No Evil Episode 6 — Chapter 8 18:28

4M ago18:28

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We last left Sam with a pair of smouldering eye sockets. This week, another enters the fray. Tate O'Byrne hates people, usually. But working the night shift has a way of making him rethink that. Or does it? Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into the world of NO EVIL. We hope you enjoy this first original audio/visu…

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No Evil Episode 5 — Chapter 7 11:53

5M ago11:53

11:53

There's been an incident at the sleep clinic that has only added to Sam's growing sense of impending doom. Now, both Case and Dr. Runnels will get a sense of what's really been bothering Sam. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into Sam's world. We hope you enjoy this first original audio/visual journey from AV Escap…

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No Evil Episode 4 — Chapter 6 17:47

5M ago17:47

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Sam meets up with Case for further assessment of his sleep problem, but both end up with more than they bargained for. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into Sam's world. We hope you enjoy this first original audio/visual journey from AV Escapes. #avescapes #fiction #originalstory #writing #horrorstories #suspense …

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No Evil Episode 3 — Chapters 4 and 5 18:06

5M ago18:06

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In this episode, we meet Roger — a homeless man called by voices. Sam heads to work, but soon finds his health is in worse shape than he thought. Take a mental journey, focus, relax, or sleep as you're transported into Sam's world. We hope you enjoy this first original audio/visual journey from AV Escapes. #avescapes #fiction #originalstory #writin…

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No Evil Episode 2 — Chapters 2 and 3 15:43

5M ago15:43

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This is the second episode of our new serialized story No Evil. This original fiction story follows Sam Munson, an ordinary man plagued by nightmares. Sleep deprived, Sam begins to notice odd and unsettling things happening all around him. In this episode Sam meets up with Case to discuss his recurrent nightmares and feelings of unreality. Take a m…

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No Evil Episode 1 — Chapter 1 17:12

6M ago17:12

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This is the first episode of our new serialized story No Evil. This original fiction story follows Sam Munson, an ordinary man plagued by nightmares. Sleep deprived, Sam begins to notice odd and unsettling things happening all around him. In this episode Sam enlists an estranged friend to help him get to the bottom of his nightly terrors. We hope y…

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7.6 Escape Velocity: Sarah Manguso in Conversation with Tess McNulty (EH) 50:01

6M ago50:01

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What’s the truth and what’s a lie? What’s a memoir, what’s a novel, and what if both are just a series of “prose blocks”? This conversation between Sarah Manguso and Tess McNulty takes up questions of writing and veracity, trauma and memory. Sarah Manguso is the author of nine books, including three memoirs. Her first novel, Very Cold People, was n…

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7.5 Machine, System, Code: Masande Ntshanga and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra (EH) 50:15

6M ago50:15

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Building parallels between technology and the human imagination, Masande Ntshanga’s conversation with Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra explains how cities are like machines and how South African history resembles some of the most sinister versions of techno-futurism. Masande is the author of two novels: The Reactive, winner of a Betty Trask Award in 2018, a…

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7.4 Not Prophecy but Inversion: Omar El Akkad and Min Hyoung Song 53:37

7M ago53:37

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Omar El Akkad joins critic Min Hyoung Song for a gripping conversation that interrogates fiction’s relationship to the real. Before he became a novelist, Omar was a journalist, and his experiencing reporting on (among other subjects) the war on terror, the Arab Spring, and the Black Lives Matter movement profoundly shapes his fiction. His first nov…

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7.3 What do the PDFs say about this?: Brandon Taylor and Stephanie Insley Hershinow (CH) 47:41

7M ago47:41

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Brandon Taylor practices moral worldbuilding in his fiction—that means an essential piece of these worlds is the “real possibility that someone could get punched in the face.” Brandon, author of the novels Real Life and The Late Americans, joins Stephanie Insley Hershinow for a wide-ranging, engrossing, and often hilarious conversation about the st…

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7.2 You Write Because You Want to Feel Free: Katie Kitamura and Alexander Manshel (SW) 58:53

8M ago58:53

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Although Katie Kitamura feels free when she writes—free from the “soup of everyday life,” from the political realities that weigh upon her, and even at times from the limits of her own thinking—she is keenly aware of the unfreedoms her novels explore. Katie, author of the award-winning Intimacies (2021), talks with critic Alexander Manshel about th…

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7.1 Etherized: Anne Enright in Conversation with Paige Reynolds (JP) 41:58

8M ago41:58

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Anne Enright, writer, critic, Booker winner, kindly makes time for Irish literature maven Paige Reynolds and ND host John Plotz. She reads from The Wren, The Wren (Norton, 2023) and discusses the “etherized” state of our inner lives as they circulate on social media. Anne says we don't yet know if the web has become a space of exposure or of author…

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6.6 Overtaken by Awe: Sheila Heti speaks with Sunny Yudkoff 44:24

1y ago44:24

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Sheila Heti sits down with Sunny Yudkoff and ND host John Plotz to discuss her incredibly varied oeuvre. She does it all: stories, novels, alphabetized diary entries as well as a series of dialogues in the New Yorker with an AI named Alice. Drawing on her background in Jewish Studies, Sunny prompts Sheila to unpack the implicit and explicit theolog…

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6.5 Attention is Love: A Discussion with Lauren Groff and Laura McGrath (SW) 48:31

1y ago48:31

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Just days before the release of her latest novel, The Vaster Wilds (Riverhead Books, 2023), three-time National Book Award Finalist and The New York Times-bestselling author Lauren Groff sat down to talk to critic Laura McGrath and host Sarah Wasserman. Although Groff admits that she wants “each subsequent book to destroy the one” that came before,…

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6.4 “We All Relate to Each Other’s Dystopias” 46:11

1y ago46:11

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Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Norton, 2022), which won the Booker Prize in 2022, is a thriller that begins in the afterlife, an uproarious murder mystery set amid the tragedies of Sri Lanka’s long civil war. Its protagonist, a war photographer, has become a ghost with just seven moons to find his killer and give his life’s…

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6.3 Narrative, Database, Archive: Tom Comitta and Deidre Lynch (AV) 41:20

1y ago41:20

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2 tables; 300 novels, 1500 pages of nature description: This is how Tom Comitta created The Nature Book, a one-of-a-kind novel cut from 300 years of English literary tradition. It has no human characters, no original writing, and it is astoundingly good! Tom sits down with distinguished Harvard prof, Deidre Lynch and host Aarthi Vadde to talk about…

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