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Back to SearchColson Whitehead on THE HARLEM SHUFFLE
Two Pulitzers, a National Book Award, and a MacArthur Genius Grant: Colson Whitehead is one of the greatest novelists working today. From The Intuiti…
5 years ago
Qian Julie Wang on BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY
Qian Julie Wang's unforgettable memoir, Beautiful Country, belongs on the shelf next to modern classics like Educated by Tara Westover, When I Was P…
5 years ago
Joy Harjo on POET WARRIOR
"My ears were bent for stories." Poet Warrior is the indelible new memoir by Joy Harjo, Poet Laureate of the United States. Joy joins us on the show…
5 years, 1 month ago
Lauren Groff on MATRIX
A new book from Lauren Groff is always a hit with us, from her early novels, The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia, to her massive 2015 bestseller, F…
5 years, 1 month ago
B.B. Alston on AMARI AND THE NIGHT BROTHERS
We love B.B. Alston and his Supernatural Investigation series—his debut novel for Middle Readers, Amari and the Night Brothers, is the Overall Winner…
5 years, 1 month ago
Min Jin Lee on THE GREAT GATSBY
Love it or hate it (and there really seems to be no middle ground), The Great Gatsby still speaks volumes about us, our society, and the American Dre…
5 years, 1 month ago
Linden Lewis on THE SECOND REBEL
A fun, spoiler-free conversation with Linden Lewis about her fabulous new novel The Second Rebel, the sequel to The First Sister, our first Speculati…
5 years, 1 month ago
Kat Chow on SEEING GHOSTS
Grief, trauma and tragedy run through Kat Chow's family tree, with everything coming together in 1980s Connecticut. Kat joins us on the show to talk …
5 years, 1 month ago
Miranda Cowley Heller on THE PAPER PALACE
If you were offered a life-changing do-over, would you take it? That's the central question at the heart of Miranda Cowley Heller's stunning debut n…
5 years, 1 month ago
Silvia Moreno-Garcia on VELVET WAS THE NIGHT
We stayed up impossibly late one night because we just had to know how Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Gods of Jade and Shadow ends. (Sleep is overrated …
5 years, 1 month ago