Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchValentines Day Adjacent Book Recs from Not Quite Romance Readers with Halley Sutton
Episode 356
This week, Halley Sutton is back, and we catch up on what we've been reading and watching, as well as our thoughts in Emerald Fennell's upcoming Wuth…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Art As Resistance: Breaking Down Benito Bowl with MacKenzie Green
Episode 355
BONUS EPISODE!!
MacKenzie Green and I were set to record yesterday (the morning after the Benito Bowl) for a Friday episode, but all we could talk abo…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Family, Fear and the Final Frontier: Jeff Rake's and Rob Hart's Detour
Episode 354
This week, I talk with Jeff Rake and Rob Hart about the first installment of their new series Detour. Jeff shares how he got the idea for the story o…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Big Hair and Big Secrets: May Cobb's All The Little Houses
Episode 353
This week, Gare and I chat with May Cobb about her new, messy thriller All the Little Houses! She shares the inspiration for the story, how she manag…
3 months ago
Grief, Meteoric Fame and Parasocial Relationships: Ashley Winstead's The Future Saints
Episode 352
This week, Gare and I talk with Ashley Winstead about her new contemporary fiction (tragi-comedy but don't tell Ashley's publicists we said so) The F…
3 months ago
Body Swapping, Dark Academia & Personal Magic: Petra Lord's Queen of Faces
Episode 351
This week, I talk with Petra Lord about her debut genre bending fantasy-sci-fi-dark-academia book Queen of Faces. She shares the eight year journey o…
3 months ago
Motherhood, Memory, and Murder: The Water Lies by Amy Meyerson
Episode 350
This week, I talk with Amy Meyerson about her new mystery thriller The Water Lies. We dive into her inspiration for the book, how audiobooks changed …
3 months, 1 week ago
Predicting Our 2026 Favorite Books with Gare and Steph
Episode 349
This week, Gare and Steph and I attempt to predict which books will be some of our favorite books in 2026!
Kate’s Books
Dead Beat Alex Stern Leigh Bard…
3 months, 1 week ago
History, Horror, and Identity: L.S. Stratton's Sundown Girls
Episode 348
This week, I talk with L.S. Stratton about the her new YA mystery thriller Sundown Girls. Stratton discusses how the story began as an adult novel an…
3 months, 1 week ago
How the NYC Reagan 80s Taught America to Excuse Violence: Heather Ann Thompson's Fear and Fury
Episode 347
This week, I talk with historian Heather Ann Thompson about her new non-fiction Fear and Fury, which traces how the 1984 Bernie Goetz subway shooting…
3 months, 1 week ago