Episode 269 - Min Jin Lee Triple Header!
Welcome to a special MIN JIN LEE triple header to celebrate her new novel, AMERICAN HAGWON. Part 1: We talk about AMERICAN HAGWON in the first part of the episode. The novel publishes on 9/29, and i...
22 Sep 1h 48min
Episode 268 - Goodbye Big Book Summer, Hello Shorty September!
Welcome to Episode 268! We recap our Big Book Summer reads, which were all good. There wasn’t a DNF among them, although Chris hasn’t yet finished ROOTS. Wake Now in the Fire by Jarrett Dapier and...
8 Sep 52min
Episode 267 - Author Spotlight with Susan Gregg Gilmore
Welcome to Episode 267, featuring an Author Spotlight with Susan Gregg Gilmore. Her new novel, THE CURIOUS CALLING OF LEONARD BUSH, is the fiction winner of the 2025 Willie Morris Award for Southern W...
25 Aug 1h 42min
Episode 266 - Author Spotlight with Jennifer Putzi
Welcome to Episode 266, featuring an Author Spotlight with Jennifer (Jenny) Putzi, a leading scholar of nineteenth-century American women's writing. She talks with us about her captivating new book, T...
11 Aug 1h 35min
Episode 265 - In the grip of JAWS
Welcome to Episode 265! Content warning: We talk a lot about JAWS in this episode, both the novel and the movie. We jest about the content warning (maybe), but there’ll be more JAWS talk in the next ...
28 Jul 1h 8min
Episode 264 - Author Spotlight with Claire Fuller
Welcome to Episode 264! We were thrilled to have a chance to speak with CLAIRE FULLER about her new novel, HUNGER AND THIRST. If you’re looking for an atmospheric, creepy, twisty, coming-of-age novel...
14 Jul 1h 21min
Episode 263 - Author Spotlight with Denise Kiernan
Welcome to Episode 263! We were excited to talk with Denise Kiernan about her timely new book on the eve of America’s 250th birthday, OBSTINATE DAUGHTERS: The Rebels, Writers, and Renegade Women Who ...
30 Jun 1h 42min
Episode 262 - Q2 Readalong: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
lcome to Episode 262! We had a fantastic discussion with an enthusiastic group of listeners about our second quarter readalong, Fannie Flagg’s novel FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFE. We ...
16 Jun 1h 23min
