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Back to SearchSam Kean on THE ICEPICK SURGEON
Sam Kean is an eclectic writer with an affinity for scientific subjects and their weird and darker paths, and he has an inimitable knack for transfor…
5 years ago
Matt Haig on THE BOOK OF COMFORT
Readers LOVE Matt Haig's charming, full of heart, and genuinely unputdownable novels The Midnight Library and How to Stop Time and made both of them …
5 years ago
S. A. Cosby on RAZORBLADE TEARS
We're huge fans of S.A. Cosby's pulse-pounding noir novels set in Red Hill County, VA—and we're not alone: Dennis Lehane, Walter Mosley, Lee Child, …
5 years ago
Ayad Akhtar on HOMELAND ELEGIES
Ayad Akhtar's plays—Disgraced (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama), The Who and the What, and Junk¬—and his novels, American Dervish and Homeland…
5 years, 1 month ago
Casey McQuiston on RED, WHITE AND ROYAL BLUE
We're not the only readers who adore Casey McQuiston's super-fun, hilarious—and bestselling—love stories. She joins us on the show to talk about usin…
5 years, 1 month ago
Kiese Laymon on LONG DIVISION
Kiese Laymon — memoirist, essayist, novelist — is one of the most extraordinary and exciting writers working today. Best known for his acclaimed memo…
5 years, 1 month ago
Laura Lippman on DREAM GIRL
Writer Gerry Allen is trapped at home after a bad fall, isolated in his swank apartment high over Baltimore Harbor — and the strange calls and letter…
5 years, 1 month ago
Kristen Arnett on WITH TEETH
We fell head over heels for Mostly Dead Things, Kristen Arnett's wonderful, darkly comic debut novel about family (and taxidermy) set in central Flor…
5 years, 1 month ago
John MacLean on HOME WATERS
You don't have to be an avid fly fisher to appreciate John Maclean's beautiful new book HOME WATERS, but it will certainly inspire you to spend more …
5 years, 1 month ago
Danielle Henderson on THE UGLY CRY
You might know Danielle Henderson as the creator of the legendary feminist Ryan Gosling meme (which she later turned into a book); or from her most e…
5 years, 1 month ago