Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast

• Long Distance by Ayşegül Savaş

  Ayşegül Savaş reads an excerpt from “Twirl,” a story in her collection Long Distance, published by Bloomsbury in July 2025.

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  4:16

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  4:16
• Last Day of My Face by James Shea

  James Shea reads four poems from his collection Last Day of My Face, published by the University of Iowa Press in June 2025.

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  3:23

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  3:23
• The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex by Melissa Febos

  Melissa Febos reads an excerpt of The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex, published by Knopf in June 2025.

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  4:58

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  4:58
• End of Empire by Marissa Davis

  Marissa Davis reads “Ecclesiastes: New Madrid Fault” from her debut poetry collection, End of Empire, published by Penguin Books in July 2025.

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  2:59

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  2:59
• An Oral History of Atlantis by Ed Park

  Ed Park reads “A Note to My Translator” from his story collection An Oral History of Atlantis, published by Random House in July 2025.

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  5:13

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