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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 Writing. The novel is available now in hardcover and pubs in paperback on September 8th, so pre-order now or ask your library to order a copy. In our “Just Read” segment, we talk about: All We Hide by Robyn Gigl The Witches of Cambridge by Alice Hoffman (release date 9/8/2026) The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture by Jimmy Carter We discuss our Q3 Readalong pick The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, translated by Anjali Singh, and the companion read, Wake Now in the Fire by Jarrett Dapier with illustrations by AJ Dungo In #BiblioAdventures, Chris recaps her trip to Alabama and Georgia where she visited the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, Virginia Highland Books, the Atlanta History Center, Horton’s Books and Gifts, and Vestavia Hills Library in the Forest. A flight delay/reroute also gave her time to visit Parnassus Books at the Nashville airport. Big thanks to the sponsors of this episode, Social Animals by Camille Perri and Greta Garbo and the Rise of the Modern Woman by Scott Reisfield. As always, we talk about more books than are listed here. Thanks for listening, and we wish you lots of Happy Reading! https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2026/episode267

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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 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

Episode 261 - Still in the Grip of Frankenstein, and Now Gyllenhaal's The Bride!

Welcome to Episode 261! It looks like our first quarter readalong title, FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley, has not lost its grip on us. We both finally watched and in this episode discuss The Bride!, wri...

2 Jun 1h 23min