Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Governor’s Wife by Michael Harvey
Michael Harvey knows Chicago. The former CBS news producer proves that time and again with his hard-boiled Michael Kelly detective novels. He talks …
11 years ago
Mary Morris: The Jazz Palace
Mary Morris talks Jazz, Al Capone, and Chicago in the days of Prohibition with Steve Bertrand on Books. It’s all in her novel The Jazz Palace.
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Maz Jobrani: I’m Not a Terrorist, But I’ve Played One on TV
Maz Jobrani is an Iranian-born, American comedian who is looks at his life with both comedy and introspection in his memoir I’m Not a Terrorist, But…
11 years, 1 month ago
Kazuo Ishiguro – ‘The Buried Giant’
Kazuo Ishiguro, who has won the Man Booker Prize and been awarded the O.B.E., has been called one of Britain’s most important living novelists. His …
11 years, 1 month ago
David Brooks – ‘The Road to Character’
New York Times columnist David Brooks says we’ve lost focus on the virtues that matter most: we worry too much about shallow accomplishments and not…
11 years, 1 month ago
Erik Larson – ‘Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania’
Erik Larson talks with Steve Bertrand on Books about Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. It was 100 years ago this week that a German U-b…
11 years, 2 months ago
Jessica Hagy – ‘The Art of War Visualized’
Cartoonist Jessica Hagy explains Sun Tzu’s Art of War with Venn diagrams. She talks with Steve Bertrand on Books about taking an ancient text and pu…
11 years, 2 months ago
Barney Frank – ‘Frank’
Former Congressman Barney Frank lives up to his name in his new memoir, “Frank.” He talks with Steve Bertrand on Books about his life in Washington,…
11 years, 3 months ago
Boris Fishman – ‘A Replacement Life’
Author Boris Fishman talks with Steve Bertrand on Books about A Replacement Life.
https://serve.castfire.com/audio/8481996/Boris_Fishman_2026-06-29…11 years, 3 months ago