Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchChristopher Bollen unleashes ‘Havoc’ with his new thriller
Maggie Burkhardt is 81, a deceptively sweet former Wisconsinite who now resides in Egypt at a once-fashionable hotel. She’s landed there somewhat mys…
1 year, 10 months ago
A bereaved single father navigates a new path forward in ‘I Will Do Better’
Charles Bock is honest from the beginning of his new memoir, “I Will Do Better”: He never wanted to be a dad. He was much more interested in pursuing…
1 year, 10 months ago
In her new book, journalist Brigid Schulte asks what if work wasn’t such a grind?
The pandemic shook up the way many of us work. It accelerated change in a system often slow to adapt.
But more change is needed, argues journalist Br…
1 year, 10 months ago
The gut's curious history
The gut is all the rage these days. Many an influencer has built a platform on how to keep our digestive systems happy, healthy and moving.
But human…
1 year, 10 months ago
Dr. Marty Makary on medicine's blind spots
If you stopped eating eggs for fear it could raise your cholesterol, or you avoided giving peanuts to your toddler to prevent allergies, or you staye…
1 year, 11 months ago
Helen Scales advocates for the ocean in ‘What the Wild Sea Can Be’
When faced with the realities of climate change, marine biologists must hold two competing thoughts simultaneously: The seas are warming, the fish ar…
1 year, 11 months ago
Richard Powers brings to life the death of the world’s oceans in ‘Playground’
In his 2019 Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, “The Overstory,” Richard Powers imagines a world where only a few acres of virgin forest remain on the cont…
1 year, 11 months ago
Talking Volumes: Kate DiCamillo
Beloved children’s author Kate DiCamillo published three new books this year: “Ferris,” “Orris and Timble: The Beginning,” and “The Hotel Balzaar.” S…
2 years ago
Unsung Americans with Minnesota‘s own Sharon McMahon
You might know Katharine Lee Bates wrote the poem that eventually became the song, “America the Beautiful,” after she visited the top of Pike’s Peak …
2 years ago
American democracy requires that we ’be architects, not arsonists’
As we approach Election Day, Big Books and Bold Ideas returns to our Americans and Democracy series. Here are some of the question we’re confronting.…
2 years ago