10 Podcasts like Bookable
10 podcasts like Bookable picked by Podyssey's community of podcast lovers.
Podcasts like Bookable
Fresh Air from WHYY, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Hosted by Terry Gross, the show features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.
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How Tech Companies Track Your Every Move & Sell Your Data
48:26 | Jul 31st, 2019
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'Washington Post' tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler talks about how web browsers, phone apps, and smart speakers are tracking users, even when they're asleep. Fowler listened to four years' worth of audi...Show More
A monthly reading and conversation with the New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman.
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A. M. Homes Reads Shirley Jackson
31:58 | Nov 12th, 2008
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A. M. Homes reads Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.
3. Knifepoint Horror
Soren Narnia
These tales of supernatural suspense by Soren Narnia adhere to the most primal element of storytelling: a single human voice describing events exactly as it experienced them. Music by Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com. These stories are licensed unde...Show More
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28:41 | Aug 16th, 2017
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A boy growing up in post-Depression Kansas learns there are no truly innocuous objects as long as the human imagination can infuse them with fearsome properties. Music by Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.co...Show More
4. Reading Women
Reading Women
The Reading Women podcast is bi-weekly show where women discuss books by or about women.
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5. Public Intellectual
Jessa Crispin
Complicated conversations with complicated people about complicated topics. Let's get into the real mess of gender, feminism, punishment, class, politics, and culture and leave easy rhetoric and jingoism behind. Hosted by Jessa Crispin.
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Why I Quit Writing (with Yasmin Nair)
1:11:48 | Oct 7th, 2019
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Jessa speaks with cultural critic, academic, and leftist thinker Yasmin Nair about the exploitative, dumbed down, and click-baity hot take culture in which we all consume. They discuss trying to write...Show More
Buzzing, creative, brave. Libraries don’t just keep our stories safe; they’re where new stories begin. Meet the people making amazing things happen in them. Hosted by Cleo Laskarin from the British Library’s exhibitions team. Discover more at www.bl....Show More
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30:52 | Jun 20th, 2019
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Journey to New York for a milestone 50th anniversary, hear stories of love and identity in wartime Britain, and meet the drag queens and kings making library story hours fabulous.
Storybound is a radio theater program designed for the podcast age. In each episode, listeners will be treated to their favorite authors and writers reading some of their most impactful stories, designed with powerful and immersive sound environments...Show More
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The world's top authors and critics join host Pamela Paul and editors at The New York Times Book Review to talk about the week's top books, what we're reading and what's going on in the literary world.
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Susan Orlean on a Great Library Fire
57:18 | Oct 19th, 2018
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Orlean discusses “The Library Book,” and Reid Hoffman talks about “Blitzscaling.”
9. Writing Excuses
Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler
Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Howard Tayler, and Daniel Wells discuss writing techniques in a fast-paced, 15-minute format.
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18:31 | Sep 1st, 2019
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Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Dan, and Howard The advice commonly given to writers is to worldbuild an iceberg, but only to show the reader the tip. This is still too much work. Icebergs are bi...Show More
10. Myths and Legends
Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser / Bardic
Jason Weiser tells stories from myths, legends, and folklore that have shaped cultures throughout history. Some, like the stories of Aladdin, King Arthur, and Hercules are stories you think you know, but with surprising origins. Others are stories yo...Show More
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85A-Slavic Folklore: For the Right Reasons
32:22 | Oct 4th, 2017
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The story of a sleazy dwarf, a helpful horse, and all-you-can-eat cake
