Missing Pages: An Investigative Podcast on the Book Publishing Industry
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Writing Communities: The Man Who Played Hache Carrillo
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We take a look at the case of Hache Carrillo, who lied about his ethnicity, and put it in context with his contributions to the communities he worked ...
Writing Communities: The Bad Art Friend Saga
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We cover the story behind Bad Art Friend. In this episode, we plan to observe how the publishing industry is built on trust and investigate what happe...
Ghostwriting: Bonus - Big Business
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve been talking a lot about ghost writing, because ghosting – that’s the industry term – is BIG business. This is a bonus episode of our se...
Ghostwriting: Bonus - Cookbooks
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How does a ghostwriter capture the subject’s voice when writing a cookbook? And for the ghostwriters behind the stories, how does ghostwriting cookb...
Podcast Perspectives: The State of the Audiobook Industry
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we’re looking at audiobooks. While the explosive growth of podcasting has dominated headlines in the audio world, the audiobooks market has sl...
Ghostwriting: Fiction - Will The Real Tom Clancy Please Stand Up?
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We explore what ghostwriting looks like for fiction. For genres like spy novels and fantasy, how does book publishing capitalize on ghostwriters to un...
Ghostwriting: Non-Fiction - The Literary Chameleon
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Missing Pages we examine the lucrative culture of non-fiction ghostwriting and all its thorny edges, with a focus on what the elusi...
Nerdette Best Books of 2023
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're excited to share an episode from Nerdette, a fun weekly interview show produced by our friends at WBEZ. In this episode, fellow profes...
Bans & Violence: Bonus - Gaby Wood Interview
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We look into the results of censorship in extreme cases, using Salman Rushdie as a case study. Does extreme censorship of books lead to violence? We s...
Bans & Violence: Bonus - The Full Jodi Picoult Interview
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you listened to our episodes about the rise of book banning, you heard about the efforts around the U.S. to censor books on sexual or racial ground...
Book Banning Part II: The Current State of Banned Books
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 1 of this series, we looked at the history of banned books in America. Today, we look at its current state. Is there more nuance to book ce...
Book Banning Part I: The History of Banned Books
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to books, America has had the same cultural arguments since its founding. One group perpetually focused on the moral ramifications and s...
Paradigm Shift: DOJ v. PRH: The Hidden Peaks of a Flat Industry
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House barred from merging, are publishers losing substantial power as gatekeepers to the industry? What is th...
Paradigm Shift: Botched Initiative: The Dungeons and Dragons Story
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As an extension of our last episode on the paradigm shifts in the fanfiction community, we take a look at the complicated history of Dungeons and Drag...
Paradigm Shift: Copyright & Fanfiction: Who Owns What?
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are fanfiction communities becoming stronger than traditional publishers? In this episode, we’ll look at how fans, publishers, and creators are (or ...
Paradigm Shift: The Colleen Hoover Story
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Colleen Hoover created a book empire through self-publishing, in part due to the power of social media. Is her career a sign of a changing landscape w...
Season 2 of Missing Pages: An Investigative Podcast about the Book Publishing Industry
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Book bans are on the rise across America. With the rise of social media, book publishers are losing their power as the industry gatekeepers. More and ...
Missing Pages Unabridged: Constance Grady on How the Book World Works
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To get a better sense of the book world Caroline Calloway found herself in, we talked to Constance Grady, a senior correspondent and culture critic fo...
Missing Pages Unabridged: The Full Kaavya Viswanathan Interview
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Kaavya Viswanathan: The Full Package, we looked back into "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life," and the plagiarism scandal that br...
Greg Mortenson: Cups Half-Full
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He enlightened millions with his writings and built dozens of schools in the Middle East. But despite his praiseworthy deeds, author-philanthropist Gr...
A Writer's Dreams vs. Reality
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In writers’ dreams, every published author is a millionaire, every title sells at auction, every editor is brilliant and attentive, and every book h...
Anna March: Inventing Anna
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bethanne doesn’t just talk about scandals after the fact: Sometimes she’s embroiled in them as they happen. In this episode, Bethanne spills the t...
An Apple Books Collection: How Books Get Featured
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this short bonus episode, Bethanne chats with Missing Pages Executive Producer Jeff Umbro about a new Apple Books collection of books and authors f...
Caroline Calloway Part II: Heavy Is The Head That Wears The Flower Crown
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Some stories are too big, or at least too entertaining, to fit into a single episode. In part two, Bethanne speaks to authors, publishers, and NYC nig...
Caroline Calloway Part 1: Essential Snake Oils
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
They say that being too online will mess with your head, and no one was more online than Caroline Calloway, the mega-influencer who is known for botch...
J.T. LeRoy: The Last Literary Rockstar
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Raw, transgressive, and true: Praise for hard-hitting books like Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things made Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy the ...
Dan Mallory: The Good Liar
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A.J. Finn — also known as Dan Mallory, former Executive Editor at William Morrow and Co. — overcame tragedy and illness to publish "The Woman in t...
Kaavya Viswanathan: The Untold Story
14 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At the start of 2006, 19-year-old Kaavya Viswanathan seemed to have it all. From a high profile six-figure book deal to good standing at Harvard Unive...
Introducing Missing Pages: An Investigative Podcast about the Book Publishing Industry
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An all-new investigative podcast hosted by world-renowned literary critic and publishing insider Bethanne Patrick. Across its eight-episode debut sea...