The Book Show Podcast
1) The Book Show | Allison Russell - The Antidote [encore airing]
Karen Russell's latest, “The Antidote,” is a dust bowl novel and a reckoning with a nation’s forgetting that enacts the settler amnesia and omissions passed down from generation to generation.
2) The Book Show | Ron Chernow - Mark Twain
In his latest biography, “Mark Twain,” Ron Chernow brings to life the man known as the father of American literature, Mark Twain. Chernow peels back the layers of this complex figure, showing us the m...Show More
3) The Book Show | Ann Packer - Some Bright Nowhere
Ann Packer’s newest novel, “Some Bright Nowhere,” marks a profound return after a decade: it tells the story of Eliot and Claire, married nearly forty years in a quiet Connecticut town, facing the tou...Show More
4) The Book Show | Susan Orlean - Joyride
5) The Book Show | Michael Connelly - The Proving Ground
Michael Connelly has long been a master at mapping the evolving landscape of crime and justice in America, and in his latest, "The Proving Ground," he turns his attention to one of the defining questi...Show More
6) The Book Show | John Iriving - Queen Esther
John Irving has long been one of America’s most distinctive and beloved novelists. With his new novel, “Queen Esther,” Irving once again returns to the questions that have animated his career: What sh...Show More
7) The Book Show | Jeffrey Archer - End Game
Jeffrey Archer's novels have always balanced suspense with insight into the corridors of power. From “Cain and Abel” to “The Clifton Chronicles,” he investigates ambition, betrayal and redemption on a...Show More
8) The Book Show | Dan Brown - The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown’s new novel, "The Secret of Secrets," marks the return of Robert Langdon, the Harvard symbologist. This time, Langdon’s journey takes him to Prague where a lecture on human consciousness qui...Show More
9) The Book Show | Mona Awad - We Love You, Bunny
Mona Awad’s books walk the line between the surreal and the deeply human. Her latest novel, “We Love You, Bunny,” is a darkly glittering fable about love, obsession, and the masks we wear.
10) The Book Show | Dan Chaon - One of Us
Author Dan Chaon’s latest, “One of Us,” carries readers into early twentieth-century America where a traveling carnival offers both wonder and menace. At its heart are orphaned twins whose bond is tes...Show More