Book Public Podcast
1) Book Public: Giving thanks through poetry
Prayers, grace, words of gratitude. Doesn’t it seem like Thanksgiving is the perfect holiday for poetry? Yvette Benavides, the host of 'Book Public,' shares some of her favorite poems about giving tha...Show More
2) Book Public: 'The Art of Jacques Pépin'
The Art of Jacques Pépin celebrates the master chef and 99 of his all-time favorite recipes, paired with his signature artwork spanning the last 60 years.
3) Book Public: 'Startlement' by Ada Limón
Ada Limón served as the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. Her latest book, Startlement: New and Selected Poems, is a retrospective spanning two decades and also includes 21 new poems. The book ...Show More
4) Book Public: 'At Last' by Marisa Silver
Marisa Silver joins Yvette Benavides on Book Public to discuss her latest novel, At Last. Helene and Evelyn are two women who are bound together because they happen to be the mothers of two people who...Show More
5) Book Public: 'A Guardian and a Thief' by Megha Majumdar
Megha Majumdar's novel, A Guardian and a Thief, is set in the near future in Kolkata amid a climate crisis. There are two families from very different stations in life struggling to survive. But whose...Show More
6) Book Public: 'Girl Warrior' by Joy Harjo
In Girl Warrior, Joy Harjo shares stories about her own coming of age to bring to light pivotal moments of becoming—among them, forgiveness, failure, falling, rising up, honoring those who came before...Show More
7) Book Public: 'Starting from Here' by Paula Saunders
Paula Saunders discusses her novel Starting from Here. It's a coming-of-age story about 15-year-old René. She leaves a home that is tense and difficult in order to pursue a career in ballet. But the c...Show More
8) Book Public: 'Kaplan's Plot' by Jason Diamond
In Jason Diamond's novel, Kaplan's Plot, Elijah’s mother is dying, and she is sharing some family secrets he never knew before— including that the family owns a cemetery and his grandfather was a gang...Show More
9) Book Public: 'The Waterbearers' by Sasha Bonét
Sasha Bonét’s intergenerational memoir, The Waterbearers, offers us the idea that the journey of Black American motherhood is like a complex, powerful river. As you read, you travel through generation...Show More
10) Book Public: ‘Weepers’ and ‘Exhibitionist’ by Peter Mendelsund
Peter Mendelsund has two new books out. His latest novel is Weepers—about card-carrying members of a union of people who cry for a living. His memoir is Exhibitionist: 1 journal, 1 Depression and 100 ...Show More