Bookable
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Morgan Jerkins: Wandering In Strange Lands
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever signed up for one of those ancestry sites, or maybe sent in a sample of your saliva and received DNA results? Well what can those resul...
Calvin Baker: A More Perfect Reunion
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Americans have been raised on a system of myths about race. We’ve invented stories to explain what we don’t understand, and it’s our belief in ...
Nicole Dennis-Benn: Patsy
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The world puts you in a box -- geography, social class, family dynamics, gender, all things you’re born into with no say in the matter. But life ge...
Roxane Gay & Tracy Lynne Oliver: The Sacrifice of Darkness
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever felt like you’re in a tunnel trying to dig your way out and are just getting nowhere? Like there’s not even a light at the end? In ...
Rumaan Alam: Leave the World Behind
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Want to get away from it all? Maybe rent a house somewhere remote, with no access to the internet, overlooking the woods and a swimming pool? But wh...
Lynn Steger Strong: Want
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Time to forget the way too familiar depictions of female friendship that lean on thread-worn stereotypes: the back-stabbing competitor, the gossip, th...
Karen Russell: Sleep Donation
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Have you had trouble sleeping lately? Did you take a pill for it? What if sleeping pills no longer worked and your insomnia was so acute it could kill...
Steven Berglas: Stay Hungry and Kick Burnout in the Butt
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Are you exhausted? Does this pandemic and political hellscape feel like a job you’re not allowed to quit? In Stay Hungry and Kick Burnout In The B...
Claudia Rankine: Just Us
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The United States is experiencing a time of reckoning, but too often it seems like we’re all talking past each another other rather than attempting...
Susan Burton: Empty
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes we hold a secret inside that feels so big and so overwhelming that it distorts the way we see and move through the world. In the memoir Emp...
Gary Shteyngart & Paul LaFarge
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
All summer we’ve been inviting previous Bookable guests back to the show to talk to other authors they admire. Well today we’re breaking the mold...
Raven Leilani: Luster
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What do you want to do with your life and how much are you willing to struggle for it? Bestselling debut novelist Raven Leilani has written a luminou...
Shawn Stewart Ruff: Finlater
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We are all products of our environment. Who we are, and who we become in the world, is shaped by the places we were raised. In Shawn Stewart Ruff's ...
Summer Reads: Ottessa Moshfegh, Nathan Englander, & Team Bookable!
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this special 'Summer Reads' episode Amanda calls up authors Ottessa Moshfegh and Nathan Englander to find out what they're reading. Then the rest ...
Emily Bernard & Nell Freudenberger
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You may remember Nell Freudenberger from Episode 7 of Bookable when she talked to Amanda about the metaphase typewriter (used to communicate with the ...
Storybound: Mitchell S. Jackson
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Storybound, a weekly podcast that features acclaimed authors reading excerpts from their work--sometimes with help from actors--always set to fan...
Ursula Hegi: The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Writers can sometimes overlook the richness of their less central characters. Ursula Hegi isn't one of those writers. In The Patron Saint of Pregnant ...
Adrian Tomine & Julie Orringer
28 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You may remember Julie Orringer from Episode 4 of Bookable when she talked to Amanda about her novel The Flight Portfolio and the amazing Varian Fry ...
Nicholas Lemann: The Big Test
21 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's been more than twenty years since the publication of Nicholas Lemann's classic book The Big Test, which exploded the myth of meritocracy in a sys...
Lydia Millet: A Children's Bible
07 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lydia Millet's new novel A Children's Bible is the perfect book for a global pandemic set against a backdrop of growing social unrest, and Amanda is t...
Jennifer Egan & Susan Choi
31 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Are you having trouble staying focused? Listen in on Jennifer Egan and Susan Choi as they explore productivity in the time of Covid, luck, how to outl...
Etgar Keret: Fly Already
17 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Etgar Keret has a unique talent for finding humor in the indignities of everyday life, the miscommunications that drive us and the losses that punctua...
Rebecca Solnit & Alexander Chee
10 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The authors of Bookable have the most amazing friends. We wondered what would happen if we asked a former Bookable guest to choose an author they adm...
Nell Freudenberger: Lost and Wanted
03 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can ghosts use radiation to talk to us? And what does quantum entanglement have to do with friendship? Acclaimed novelist Nell Freudenberger answers ...
Michelle Lhooq: Weed
19 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Do you know what devil's lettuce is? Any idea exactly how much THC you need to get the exact right high? Got Cannabinoids? What about CBD? What's the...
Oyinkan Braithwaite: My Sister The Serial Killer
12 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How far would you go for family? In My Sister The Serial Killer author Oyinkan Braithwaite writes about two sisters with an unusually deadly sibling ...
Julie Orringer: The Flight Portfolio
29 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Comic book franchises are all about the allure of a good superhero, but real-life superheroes are rare. Author Julie Orringer writes about one in The ...
Susan Choi: Trust Exercise
15 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Spoilers and secrets have a lot in common, but what happens when a book’s structure is the spoiler? How do you talk about something like that withou...
Alexander Chee: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
01 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What’s in your junk drawer? For writer Alexander Chee, answering that question resulted in a critically-acclaimed collection of essays entitled How ...
Mira Jacob: Good Talk
01 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a time of great political and social division, how do you tackle tricky topics with your loved ones? Or even trickier--with your mixed-race child...
Introducing Bookable!
01 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is the book podcast everyone's talking about. Bookable features established authors and emerging talent in conversation with host and author Aman...