Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHonoree Fanonne Jeffers, "The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois" (HarperCollins, 2021)
Episode 1918
In 2021, the NAACP Image Award-winning poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers made her fiction debut with The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois, a magisterial epic o…
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David Lagercrantz, "Post Mortem: A Mystery" (Knopf, 2026)
Episode 1917
Post Mortem: A Mystery (Knopf, 2026) is the third book in David Lagercrantz's mystery series following detective duo Rekke and Vargas: this time, t…
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Ed Park, "Three Tenses" (Random House, 2026)
Episode 1916
Three Tenses (Random House, 2026) by Ed Park is not quite a memoir, not quite fiction, not quite poetry and not quite prose—and yet it transcends the…
2 months, 1 week ago
A Hosts' Special: Ferry and Plotz Choose Books in Dark Times (EF, JP)
Episode 1915
For our pandemic-era Books in Dark Times (our first ever Special Series!) Elizabeth and John discussed books that were keeping us afloat, barely aflo…
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Angelica Cheng, "The Fast Track" (Simon & Schuster, 2026)
Episode 1914
Angelica Cheng's YA rom-com, The Fast Track (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2026) brings readers into the world of F1 racing. Justine Kwon…
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Paul Yoon, "Etna" (Scribner, 2026)
Episode 1913
Beloved author and winner of The Story Prize, Paul Yoon, is back with the unforgettable story of a working dog, Etna, who, after a devastating war, e…
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Robyn Gigl, "All We Hide" (Soho Crime 2026)
Episode 1912
In All We Hide (Soho Crime 2026), after Lauren Kelly transitions to female in a small-town District Attorney’s Office, her bosses do whatever they c…
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Caroline Bicks, "Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King" (Hogarth, 2026)
Episode 1911
After Caroline Bicks was named the University of Maineʼs inaugural Stephen E. King Chair in Literature, she became the first scholar to be granted e…
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Lauren Delapenha, "Supermarketing" (Spring, 2026)
Episode 1910
Lauren Delapenha speaks to Emily Everett about her poems “Supermarketing” and “If You Are Learning English,” which appear in The Common’s spring issu…
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Rhys Bowen, "The Castle in the Glen" (Lake Union Publishing, 2026)
Episode 1909
I love Rhys Bowen’s historical mystery series, especially Her Royal Spyness books, which feature Lady Georgiana Rannoch. The Castle in the Glen (Lake…
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