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Ep. 3 - The News We've Been Waiting For!

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We're finally able to tell you our grand opening date! (Spoiler alert: It's October 25. Come visit!) Press play to hear what we've been doing to get e...

Ep. 2 - Updates and Book Recs

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The store is almost ready! We're just waiting (and waiting and waiting) on a new entrance before we can start putting books on the shelves. Find out o...

Ep. 1 - We're Opening a Bookstore!

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We (authors Eve Yohalem and Julie Sternberg) are opening a bookstore called Books & Cake in Hillsdale, New York! Renovations are underway--take a list...

Bonus Ep. 143 - Julie & Eve Have Big News!

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Julie and Eve have big news! Find us on⁠ ⁠⁠Instagram (@bookdreamspodcast)⁠, or email us at ⁠[email protected]⁠. We encourag...

Bonus Ep. 142 - I’m Sorry I Did This to You, with Eve and Julie

26 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why, oh why, does Eve make Julie take on questions that no person on the planet wants to be forced to think through out loud on air? (Three guesses wh...

Bonus Ep. 141 - When One Book Leads to Another, with Eve and Julie

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our theme for this episode is book connections—times when one book leads us to thoughts of another or inspires us to read further. It’s one of our...

Bonus Ep. 140 - Roz Chast!

21 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's been a long time since you've seen an author interview here on Book Dreams, but we were recently given the chance to interview Roz Chast, and who...

Bonus Ep. 139 - The Stephen King Novel That (Almost) Drove Us Apart, with Eve and Julie

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“This is so bad that I feel like I'm in a Stephen King novel where there's just one thing off about my familiar world, but that one thing is a livin...

Bonus Ep. 138 - One Great Read After the Other, with Eve and Julie

11 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Eve read so much during the weeks since our last episode, she gave herself a repetitive reading injury. But it was worth it! In this episode she share...

Bonus Ep. 137 - Talking Books to Honor the Legacy of a Constant Reader, Eve’s Dad, with Eve and Julie

06 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What have Julie and Eve been reading lately? Find out in this new bonus episode, in which Eve talks about the legacy of her dad, a constant reader, th...

Bonus Ep. 136 - What We’ve Read and Loved Lately, with Eve and Julie

25 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What have Julie and Eve been reading lately? Find out in this new bonus episode where we talk about loving old favorites even more the second time aro...

Bonus Ep. 135 - Good Books for Bad Times, with Eve & Julie

06 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve all been there: one of those tough times in life when it’s hard to get your mind to settle enough to escape into a good book. Yet that’s w...

Ep. 134 - The Most Personalized Book Subscription Service in the World, with James Gilbert

23 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to our last regularly scheduled episode of Book Dreams. We started the podcast because books, more than just about anything, bring us joy. So ...

Ep. 133 - Fire Island: A Century in the Life of a Queer, Literary Paradise, with Jack Parlett

09 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Book Dreams producer and guest host Gianfranco Lentini takes us on a journey to a real-life literary paradise—a thin barrier island...

Ep. 132 - How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water, with Angie Cruz

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we talk to author Angie Cruz, whose latest novel is the widely acclaimed How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water. This irresistible book...

Ep. 131 - Keeping Family Secrets, with Margaret K. Nelson

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What do family secrets show us about the times we live in, and how do they impact the people who safeguard them? These are questions that sociologist ...

Ep. 130 - Our 2022 End-of-Year Holiday Extravaganza!

29 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to our 2022 end-of-year holiday extravaganza! In the spirit of holiday giving, we have a present for you, which, if we’re being honest, is a...

Ep. 129 - The Science Behind Heartbreak, with Florence Williams

15 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why, exactly, do we feel so shattered when someone we love leaves us? What is the science behind the physical changes we experience during heartbreak,...

Ep. 128 - A Feminist Retelling of the Ramayana, with Vaishnavi Patel

01 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What is it like to create a modern, feminist retelling of an ancient, foundational text? Vaishnavi Patel–author of the instant New York Times bestse...

Ep. 127 - Constructing a Nervous System, with Margo Jefferson

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What are the raw materials of our lives? Who are the authors, the singers and songwriters, the actors and artists whose work resonates with each of us...

Ep. 126 - Read Dangerously, with Azar Nafisi

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How can reading a novel become an act of political rebellion? This is one of the important questions we take up with Azar Nafisi, author of the memoir...

Ep. 125 - South to America: Understanding the Soul of a Nation, with Imani Perry

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If we want to understand America today, we must first understand the South. This is both a central premise of Imani Perry’s latest book, South to Am...

Ep. 124 - Trust, with Hernan Diaz

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“I think the narratives about capital are an even more fundamental myth in America than those about the frontier.” Pulitzer Prize-nominated autho...

Ep. 123 - The Zen of Therapy, with Dr. Mark Epstein

22 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“A monk asked, ‘What is meditation?’ The Master said, ‘It is not meditation.’ The monk said, ‘Why is it “not meditation”?’ The Maste...

ATTENTION ALL BOOK DREAMERS

15 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

An exciting announcement from Eve and Julie about the past, present, and future of humanity! (And also a small schedule change.) Find us on Twitter (...

Ep. 122 - How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times, with Mónica Guzmán

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“I get so upset during conversations about politics with certain family members, I feel like my body’s on the verge of explosion, with body parts ...

Ep. 121 - We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption, with Justin Fenton

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We Own This City–written by Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Justin Fenton and the basis for David Simon’s HBO miniseries–tells the shocking,...

Ep. 120 (Re-Release) - The Rigorous Refusal to Waste a Reader’s Time, with Jo Ann Beard

25 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“It’s a testament to [Jo Ann] Beard, a towering talent, that she ... deliver[s] a book as forceful as it is fine, leaving us both awed and unsettl...

Feed Drop: Introducing Missing Pages

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we’d like to introduce you to the new podcast from The Podglomerate, Missing Pages. Missing Pages is an all-new investigative podcast hosted ...

Ep. 119 - “You Want Me to Read WHAT?” with Marc Acito

18 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to another installment of our favorite bibliophilic game, You Want Me to Read WHAT? The rules are simple: Julie, Eve, and a guest assign ...

Ep. 118 - Civil Rights Queen Constance Baker Motley, with Tomiko Brown-Nagin

11 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Constance Baker Motley was a groundbreaking civil rights lawyer and the first Black woman to become a federal judge. Her “world-changing accomplishm...

Ep. 117 - Tell Me Everything, with Erika Krouse

04 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

One pivotal afternoon, Erika Krouse met an attorney in a bookstore when they both reached for the same Paul Auster novel. Much to his surprise, he soo...

Ep. 116 - The Author Who Terrified Neil Gaiman, with Julie and Eve

28 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tensions are running high at Book Dreams! Why? The fantasy novels of author Susanna Clarke, that's why. After Julie--and multiple Book Dreams guests--...

Ep. 115 - How Fiction Helps Us Understand the Path We're On, with Vauhini Vara

21 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Fiction can invite the reader into unknown worlds and perspectives, or it can hold up a mirror so that we can see the familiar more clearly. In this e...

Ep. 114 - What Neanderthals and Other Ancient Hominins Teach Us About Being Human, with Gregory Forth and Rebecca Wragg Sykes

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What makes us human? It’s a question we keep coming back to, in part because it's got no definitive answer. In this week’s episode we explore the ...

Ep. 113 (Re-Release) - The Women Ahead of the Women Who Were Ahead of Their Time, with Sally Roesch Wagner

07 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

(RE-RELEASE) How do you write a trailblazing woman back into history after her iconic colleagues wrote her out? Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner--founder and e...

Ep. 112 - Spook Fish, Star-Nosed Moles, Vampire Bats, and Us, with Jackie Higgins

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes finding hope requires shifting our gaze from humanity. In this episode of Book Dreams, we take an up-close and uplifting look at the four-ey...

Ep. 111 - “A Really Superb Novel and a Film That Should Probably Be Burned,” with Jack Zipes

23 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Fairy tales. Why have they survived a thousand years of re-telling? How do they adapt to reflect changing times, places, and storytellers? And what is...

Ep. 110 - That Compelling Unputdownable Quality, with Sara Gran

16 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"I always think of that moment in North by Northwest, the Hitchcock movie, when someone is falling off one of the mountains in Mount Rushmore, and he ...

Ep. 109 - Black Food, with Bryant Terry

09 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The best cookbooks are so much more than collections of recipes. They’re windows into a life or a place or a time or a way of thinking. The very bes...

Ep. 108 - Citizenship and an Age of Invisible War, with Phil Klay

02 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How should we, as a country, execute our military power, and what role should we, as citizens, play in military policy? In what ways does our current ...

Ep. 107 - A Deep History of Work, with James Suzman

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What makes us human? In this episode, Eve and Julie explore one of our favorite questions with James Suzman, PhD, in a wide-ranging conversation abou...

Ep. 106 - A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice, with Ellen McGarrahan

19 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ellen McGarrahan was a young reporter at the Miami Herald when she volunteered to witness the execution of Jesse Tafero, who’d been convicted of kil...

Ep. 105 - A Libertarian Walks into a Bear, with Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

12 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What do wild bears and libertarians have in common? Turns out, more than you might think. In 2004 a group of libertarians founded the Free Town Proje...

Ep. 104 - Feed Drop: History of Literature, Sense and Sensibility

05 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week we’re running an episode from the fabulous podcast, History of Literature, about one of our favorite authors, Jane Austen. Each week on hi...

Ep. 103 (Re-Release) - Native Americans and Comedy, with Adrianne Chalepah and Kliph Nesteroff

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“My people are from Wisconsin. We used to be from New York. We had a little real estate problem.” -Charlie Hill, comedian and member of the Oneida...

Ep. 102 - How to (and How Not to) Steal Like an Artist, with Austin Kleon

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2011, a 27-year-old Austin Kleon gave a talk to college students outlining a simple list: 10 things he wished someone had told him about being crea...

Ep. 101 - The True Story Behind Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, with Kevin Birmingham

14 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“When Dostoyevsky was 28, he was arrested in the pre-dawn hours by the Czar's political police. ... [Nine months later] the men were brought out int...

Ep. 100 - Have We Got Book Recommendations for You! Celebrating 100 Episodes

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We did it! We reached our 100th episode of Book Dreams! In celebration, we went back to our guests and asked them this question: What's one book you l...

Ep. 99 - The Photographer Nanny, Vivian Maier, with Ann Marks

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It was a story that captured the attention of the public and art critics worldwide: A treasure trove of exceptional photographs was discovered after a...

Ep. 98 - Goliath and Captain America, with Tochi Onyebuchi

24 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Is it possible for one person to write both award-winning literary speculative fiction and Marvel's newest “Captain America” series and also be a ...

Ep. 97 - There’s a Lot of Sex in This Book, with Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

17 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How’s this for fun? Take 27 incredible writers–including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, PEN Awards, Women's Prize for Fic...

Ep. 96 - “Go Keep Your Hobbit,” with Marlon James

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“Wussy” European vampires. African folklore and mythology, and how they help establish that “homophobia is not African.” How reading Jackie Co...

Ep. 95 - Murderers and Mindhunters, with Ann Burgess and Steven Constantine

03 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How did a forensic and psychiatric nurse transform the way that the FBI studies, profiles, and catches serial killers? In this week’s episode of Boo...

Ep. 94 - Mysteries of a Merlin Manuscript, with Dr. Laura Chuhan Campbell

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2019, a librarian at the Central Library in Bristol, England, uncovered a mystery. Pasted to the bindings of four Renaissance books were scraps of ...

Ep. 93 - How Music Can Save Your Life, with Brendan Slocumb

17 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Can an author write a novel about a classical musician and get all the details right? And can he make that world the backdrop for a gripping contempor...

Ep. 92 - Dangers on Our Ungoverned Oceans, with Ian Urbina

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After hearing New York Times Book Review editor Pamela Paul call Ian Urbina’s The Outlaw Ocean “one of the best narrative non-fiction books by a j...

Bonus Episode: Listen to The #AmWriting Podcast with Guest Jenny Lawson

09 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you like hearing about the craft of writing and the writing life, you’ll love this bonus episode from The #AmWriting Podcast. #AmWriting focuses ...

Ep. 91 - Nature Finds a Way, with Cal Flyn

03 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What does the natural world look like after human beings abandon it? Nuclear waste sites, war zones, slag heaps, ghost towns–journalist Cal Flyn del...

Ep. 90 - The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, with Deesha Philyaw

27 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“It always looked like the women outside of the church were having the most fun. They were wearing the tight jeans and the heels, and I was like, ‘...

Ep. 89 - Reading Between the Subway Lines, with Uli Beutter Cohen

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Deep beneath the asphalt streets of New York City lurks a breed of creature that’s haunted the subway’s subterranean labyrinth for over a century....

Ep. 88 - Lost & Found, with Kathryn Schulz

13 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“I think a lot about how to map the scale of our own lives against the scale of existence.” –Kathyrn Schulz Not long after Kathryn Schulz fell ...

Ep. 87 - What Dreams Are Made of, with Sidarta Ribeiro

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What are dreams made of? What role can they play in predicting the future, and why? To what extent have they shaped the past? What can we glean when w...

Ep. 86 (Re-Release) - The Truth About the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife, with Ariel Sabar

30 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

(RE-RELEASE) What happens when a Harvard professor puts the weight of her reputation behind an alleged ancient gospel with monumental implications for...

Ep. 85 - LIVE from Miami Book Fair 2021, with Jane Smiley

23 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

LIVE EPISODE: If you love Jane Smiley, this episode is for you. Eve and Julie are joined by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author in an interview that was...

Ep. 84 - How Memory Works and How to Make Yours Better

16 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

MINI EPISODE: Do you lose your keys, your wallet, your glasses…in your own home? Do you forget the names of people you met two minutes ago? How ofte...

Ep. 83 - To Infinity and Beyond, with Astronomer Emily Levesque

09 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“Today we're learning things as fundamental as the shape of our universe, or how the universe might've begun or ended. We are learning new things ab...

Ep. 82 - The Mutual Haunting of Past and Future, with Sunjeev Sahota

02 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“It's a piece of family lore or legend that I've been hearing since I was a quite young boy.” In this week’s episode of Book Dreams, acclaimed a...

Ep. 81 - A History-Making Librarian with a Lifelong Secret, with Victoria Christopher Murray and Marie Benedict

25 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Belle da Costa Greene. Morgan Library visionary. One of the most prominent and influential librarians in history. Democratizer of museums. And, until ...

Ep. 80 - Pigeons, A Love Story, with Rosemary Mosco

18 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Pigeons: rats with wings or wonder birds? Rosemary Mosco, science writer and naturalist, enters the dovecote with Eve and Julie to settle the debate. ...

Ep. 79 - Exploding the Classic American Western, with Tom Lin

11 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when an author takes a genre that's considered a bedrock of American culture and flips the wagon upside-down? As Tom Lin puts it, “I’...

Ep. 78 - “This Is You.” Finding Ourselves in Ancient Greek Plays, with Bryan Doerries

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What if our experience of ancient Greek plays, rather than involving stultifying boredom, could instead evoke powerful emotions? Bryan Doerries–auth...

Ep. 77 - Witchery, Vengeance, and Norman Rockwell: A Conversation with Brom

28 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A modern western set in hell. A tale of revenge between Krampus and Santa. One man's determined trek through the brutal landscape of purgatory. These ...

Ep. 76 - Why You Shouldn’t Believe a Word, with David Shariatmadari

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is the worth of a word? David Shariatmadari, author of Don't Believe A Word: The Surprising Truth About L...

Ep. 75 - Memoir of a Rogue Ballerina, with Georgina Pazcoguin

14 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What’s it like for a professional ballerina to try a sedentary art form like writing? Georgina Pazcoguin, soloist with the New York City Ballet, tal...

Ep. 74 - When It’s Exceptional to Be Unexceptional, with Kaitlyn Greenidge

07 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Even when history has been overlooked, ignored, or suppressed, that doesn’t mean it’s hidden. Researching and writing her novels, Kaitlyn Greenidg...

Ep. 73 - How Magicians Think, with Joshua Jay

30 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Magic. It’s just a bunch of hocus pocus…or is it? World-renowned magician Joshua Jay--author of the new book How Magicians Think: Misdirection, De...

Ep. 72 - When Every Performance Could Be Their Last, with Megan Abbott

23 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hidden behind an Olympic gymnast’s smile or a classical ballerina’s serene grace is a darker reality, one involving grueling work and, often, phys...

Ep. 71 - “We Were Outsiders. Now We're Not. What Do We Do With That?” with Sanjena Sathian

16 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What does it say about the American Dream if immigrants achieve financial success but their children, and their children’s children, still experienc...

Ep. 70 - Combating Corruption and Generating Change, with Nat Geo’s Bryan Christy

09 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bryan Christy's investigations as a reporter have led to police raids of ivory shops in Vatican City, the defrocking of a pedophile monsignor, the arr...

Ep. 69 - The Truth About the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife, with Ariel Sabar

02 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when a Harvard professor puts the weight of her reputation behind an alleged ancient gospel with monumental implications for the Roman Ca...

Ep. 68 - Living History with Freedom Rider Charles Person

26 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Book Dreams, Julie and Eve talk with Charles Person, the youngest and only surviving member of the original Freedom Riders. In May ...

Ep. 67 - Vanessa Zoltan on What Makes a Secular Text Sacred?

19 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Vanessa Zoltan, author of the recently published Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice, is not your usual chaplain. She...

Ep. 66 - The Rigorous Refusal to Waste a Reader’s Time, with Jo Ann Beard, author of Festival Days

12 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“It’s a testament to [Jo Ann] Beard, a towering talent, that she ... deliver[s] a book as forceful as it is fine, leaving us both awed and unsettl...

Ep. 65 - How to Ease Anxieties and Resist Chocolate Cake: Testing Strategies Proposed by Neuroscientist Judson Brewer

05 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

MINI EPISODE: Need help easing anxieties? Or resisting your cravings for sugar? Julie does. For this week’s episode, she sought help from neuroscien...

Ep. 64 - The Genius of Your Favorite Picture Books, with Marla Frazee

29 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What’s it like to see stories through the eyes of a visual artist? Marla Frazee, multiple award-winning children’s book author and illustrator, sh...

Ep. 63 - Native Americans and Comedy, with Adrianne Chalepah and Kliph Nesteroff

22 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“My people are from Wisconsin. We used to be from New York. We had a little real estate problem.”--Charlie Hill, comedian and member of the Oneida...

Ep. 62 - David Levithan on How The Baby-Sitters Club Became a Publishing Juggernaut

15 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Baby-Sitters Club. You may know the books, but do you know their story? David Levithan--Editorial Director at Scholastic; Founding Editor of Schol...

Ep. 61 - "You Want Me to Read WHAT?" with Brookes May

08 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We’ll take book recommendations for $1,000, please! In a first for Book Dreams, Eve and Julie have teamed up with Brookes May--host of the podcast B...

Ep. 60 - Feed Drop: Storybound, Matt Haig reads an excerpt from “The Midnight Library"

01 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Storybound is a radio theater program designed for the podcast age. In each episode, listeners will be treated to their favorite authors and writers r...

Ep. 59 - No Family Members Were Harmed in the Making of This Episode with Jesse Q. Sutanto

24 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How does an author write her extended family into a madcap romantic comedy and live to tell the tale? Jesse Q. Sutanto--author of the YA thriller The ...

Ep. 58 - Plundering Lovely, Messy, Family Stories

17 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What strange and unexpected paths might one author take delving into his family's history? Menachem Kaiser--author of Plunder: A Memoir of Family Prop...

Ep. 57 - When Fiction Is More Personal Than Memoir

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How can a thriller be more personal to an author than her own memoir? Paula McLain--New York Times and international bestselling author of The Paris W...

Ep. 56 - How a Book on the Human Mind Is Reshaping Baseball, with Joe Lemire

03 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How has one book that barely mentions sports reshaped the game of baseball? Joe Lemire--senior writer at SportTechie and contributor to the New York T...

Ep. 55 - Summer of Julie Sternberg's Secrets

27 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Book Dreams, our very own Julie Sternberg offers a behind-the-scenes look at her brand new middle-grade novel. Summer of Stolen Sec...

Ep. 54 - Frankly, My Dear, Laurie Frankel Gives a Damn

20 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when a novelist takes on complicated and often controversial issues that consume her? And what's the payoff for the reader when she succe...

Ep. 53 - Sublime Objects of the Hoard, with Rebecca Falkoff

13 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What does your collection of toilet paper say about you? Rebecca Falkoff--author of Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding, assistant professor of ...

Ep. 52 (Re-Release) - Finding Hope, Even Now, with Dr. Edith Eger

06 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

(RE-RELEASE) How do we find hope even in the most difficult of times? How do we thrive after experiencing trauma? Dr. Edith Eger--eminent psychologist...

Ep. 51 - Jill Santopolo on Writing Bestsellers for Adults While Editing Bestsellers for Kids

05 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What’s it like to be a New York Times bestselling author and the editor of bestselling books by authors like Chelsea Clinton, Justice Sonia Sotomayo...

Ep. 50 - It's Time to Rethink the Way We Tell Stories, with Matthew Salesses

29 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What are the downsides to the way we tell stories? Do we need to re-imagine the craft of writing and the way it’s taught? Matthew Salesses--English ...

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