{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Scott Alexander Howard on border-crossings across time","description":"Host Michael Tamblyn spoke with novelist Scott Alexander Howard, winner of the&amp;nbsp;2025 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and author of The Other Valley. It\u2019s the story of Odile Ozanne, a young girl who lives in a small village in a valley. In the next valley over, in the west, there is an identical village where events from 20 years ago are taking place, and in the valley to the east there is another village where it\u2019s 20 years in the future. Occasionally, and under the strictest controls and in a disguise rendering them unidentifiable, people will visit the other valleys, looking forward, or backward in time.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; One day, visitors from the east\u2014that is, from the future\u2014are recognized by Odile, and she has to carry on pretending she hasn\u2019t seen what she knows she saw.&amp;nbsp;  Scott Alexander Howard on the border-crossings between present and past ","author_name":"Kobo in Conversation","author_url":"https:\/\/koboinconversation.libsyn.com\/site","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/37971060\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/bf0000\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/192372095"}