Keene on Books

Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun: A Keene on Books Podcast

Keene on Books returns with an episode on Alison Cochrun's 2024 novel, Here We Go Again. Host / Associate Professor of English Education Chris Parsons is joined by Amber Davisson, Professor and Chair of the Communication and Philosophy Department at Keene State and Kim McKane, Assistant Professor of Nursing at Keene State. Our start-of-summer timing is immaculately-aligned with the start of this book -- to the Keene Applebee's!

Angel Down by Daniel Kraus: A Keene on Books Podcast

Keene on Books is back with an episode discussing Daniel Kraus's 2025 novel, Angel Down. Host / Associate Professor of English Education Chris Parsons is joined by Celia Rabinowitz, the Assistant Vice-President for Academic Engagement and Dean of Mason Library at Keene State as well as Molly Parsons, Assistant Director of the Center for Research and Writing at KSC. The episode runs over an hour, but we had to put a period on it at some point.

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins: A Keene on Books Podcast

Keene on Books returns with an episode on Suzanne Collins's 2025 novel and Hunger Games prequel, Sunrise on the Reaping. Host / Associate Professor of English Education Chris Parsons is joined by Amber Davisson, Professor and Chair of the Communication and Philosophy Department at Keene State and Molly Parsons, Assistant Director of the KSC Center for Research and Writing. It is winter in New England and 'snow KEEPS landing on top'; is that what people mean when they call this novel relevant to our current events?

Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Keene on Books Podcast

Keene on Books makes its 2026 return with an episode on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 2025 novel Dream Count. Host / Associate Professor of English Education Chris Parsons is joined by KoB legend Dr. Emily Robins Sharpe. She is Professor of English at Keene State, teaching courses on, amongst other things, postcolonial and world modernist literatures. Emily is the author of Mosaic Fictions: Writing Identity in the Spanish Civil War.

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica: A Keene on Books Podcast

Keene on Books returns with an episode on Agustina Bazterrica’s 2017 novel Tender Is the Flesh (Sarah Moses's 2020 English translation). Host / Associate Professor of English Education Chris Parsons is joined by three KSC legends: Dr. Anna Schur is Professor of English at Keene State and author of the books Wages of Evil: Dostoevsky and Punishment and The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia; Dr. Kirsti Sandy is Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Keene State, an English professor, and author of the prizewinning book of linked memoir essays, 2017’s She Lived, and the Other Girls Died; and Dr. Lisa DiGiovanni is Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures and Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State and author of the 2025 book, Militarized Masculinity in Spain and Chile: Remembering Violence through Film and Literature.