Jessica Winters Mireles's guest appearances

Jessica Winters Mireles

New Books in Literature

KRCB-FM: A Novel Idea

Joanna FitzPatrick

Jeanne Baker Guy

Jessica Barksdale Inclán

Caitlin Hamilton Summie

Meredith Hall

James Franco

James Rollins

Octavia Randolph

James Rosone

Eliot Peper

Karen Hugg

Jason Brown

Seanan McGuire

Michelle Kuo

Colm Tóibín

OwlTail

After an injury to her hand derails her promising concert career, Camille retreats to her mother’s house and teaches piano to mostly desultory students. The years pass, and she finds Graciela, the talented daughter of her mother’s Mexican housekeeper, and Camille focuses on preparing her to live the life she herself was unable to live. Graciela has just won a prestigious piano competition and the chance to jump start her career, but two weeks before she’s supposed to perform with the LA Philharmonic, she disappears. Camille is determined to find her and bring her back before she squanders the opportunity of a lifetime, but a bus accident on route to Graciela’s family village outside of Oaxaca leaves her alone, unable to speak the indigenous language, and without a passport, money, or clothes. Camille, who grew up privileged, finally starts to learn just what it really means to be hungry.Born and raised in Santa Barbara, California, Jessica Winters Mireles holds a degree in piano performance from USC. After graduating, she began her career as a piano teacher and performer. Four children and a studio of over forty piano students later, Jessica’s life changed drastically when her youngest daughter was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of two; she soon decided that life was too short to give up on her dreams of becoming a writer, and after five years of carving out some time each day from her busy schedule, she finished Lost in Oaxaca (She Writes Press, 2020). Jessica’s work has been published in GreenPrints and Mothering magazines. She also knows quite a bit about Oaxaca, as her husband is an indigenous Zapotec man from the highlands of Oaxaca and is a great source of inspiration. She lives with her husband and family in Santa Barbara and has transformed her front yard into an English Garden.If you enjoyed today’s podcast and would like to discuss it further with me and other New Books network listeners, please join us on Shuffle. Shuffle is an ad-free, invite-only network focused on the creativity community. As NBN listeners, you can get special access to conversations with a dynamic community of writers and literary enthusiasts. Sign up by going to www.shuffle.do/NBN/joinG.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com) if you wish to recommend an author (of a beautifully-written new novel) to interview, to listen to her previous podcast interviews, to read her mystery book reviews, or to check out some of her awesome recipes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

After an injury to her hand derails her promising concert career, Camille retreats to her mother’s house and teaches piano to mostly desultory students. The years pass, and she finds Graciela, the talented daughter of her mother’s Mexican housekeeper, and Camille focuses on preparing her to live the life she herself was unable to live. Graciela has just won a prestigious piano competition and the chance to jump start her career, but two weeks before she’s supposed to perform with the LA Philharmonic, she disappears. Camille is determined to find her and bring her back before she squanders the opportunity of a lifetime, but a bus accident on route to Graciela’s family village outside of Oaxaca leaves her alone, unable to speak the indigenous language, and without a passport, money, or clothes. Camille, who grew up privileged, finally starts to learn just what it really means to be hungry.Born and raised in Santa Barbara, California, Jessica Winters Mireles holds a degree in piano performance from USC. After graduating, she began her career as a piano teacher and performer. Four children and a studio of over forty piano students later, Jessica’s life changed drastically when her youngest daughter was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of two; she soon decided that life was too short to give up on her dreams of becoming a writer, and after five years of carving out some time each day from her busy schedule, she finished Lost in Oaxaca (She Writes Press, 2020). Jessica’s work has been published in GreenPrints and Mothering magazines. She also knows quite a bit about Oaxaca, as her husband is an indigenous Zapotec man from the highlands of Oaxaca and is a great source of inspiration. She lives with her husband and family in Santa Barbara and has transformed her front yard into an English Garden.If you enjoyed today’s podcast and would like to discuss it further with me and other New Books network listeners, please join us on Shuffle. Shuffle is an ad-free, invite-only network focused on the creativity community. As NBN listeners, you can get special access to conversations with a dynamic community of writers and literary enthusiasts. Sign up by going to <a href="http://www.shuffle.do/NBN/join" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.shuffle.do/NBN/join</a>G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (<a href="https://gpgottlieb.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GPGottlieb.com</a>) if you wish to recommend an author (of a beautifully-written new novel) to interview, to listen to her previous podcast interviews, to read her mystery book reviews, or to check out some of her awesome recipes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>Support our show by becoming a premium member! <a href="https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature</a>

Jessica Winters Mireles, "Lost in Oaxaca" (She Writes Press, 2020)

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Suzanne M. Lang talks with two authors whose novels reflect on gender and family, race and ethnicity, and the effects of heritage on American culture Margaret Wilkerson Sexton talks about her NAACP Image Award-winning novel The Revisioners, a multi-generational story set in Louisiana that is real and magical all at once. Suzanne also talks with Jessica Winters Mireles, author of Lost in Oaxaca, a novel of cross-cultural identity and discovery. A Novel Idea airs on the first and fifth Sundays of every month at 10:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org /Download the FREE KRCB mobile app @ iTunes &amp; Google Play! https://media.krcb.org/podcast/a_novel_idea/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/A_Novel_Idea_20200329_WilkersonS_MAR_29.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Android | RSS

Suzanne M. Lang talks with two authors whose novels reflect on gender and family, race and ethnicity, and the effects of heritage on American culture Margaret Wilkerson Sexton talks about her NAACP Image Award-winning novel The Revisioners, a multi-generational story set in Louisiana that is real and magical all at once. Suzanne also talks with Jessica Winters Mireles, author of Lost in Oaxaca, a novel of cross-cultural identity and discovery. A Novel Idea airs on the first and fifth Sundays of every month at 10:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / <a href="https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/krcbanovelidea/~amber.streamguys.com:5540/live.m3u" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org</a> /Download the FREE KRCB mobile app @ iTunes &amp; Google Play! <a href="https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/krcbanovelidea/~https://media.krcb.org/podcast/a_novel_idea/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/A_Novel_Idea_20200329_WilkersonS_MAR_29.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://media.krcb.org/podcast/a_novel_idea/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/A_Novel_Idea_20200329_WilkersonS_MAR_29.mp3</a> Podcast: <a href="https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/krcbanovelidea/~https://media.krcb.org/podcast/a_novel_idea/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/A_Novel_Idea_20200329_WilkersonS_MAR_29.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Play in new window</a> | <a href="https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/krcbanovelidea/~https://media.krcb.org/podcast/a_novel_idea/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/A_Novel_Idea_20200329_WilkersonS_MAR_29.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Download</a> Subscribe: <a href="https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/krcbanovelidea/~https://subscribeonandroid.com/media.krcb.org/podcast/a_novel_idea/feed/podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Android</a> | <a href="https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/krcbanovelidea/~https://media.krcb.org/podcast/a_novel_idea/feed/podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton and Jessica Winters Mireles (Aired: March 29, 2020)