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Bookable features established authors and emerging talent in conversation with host and author Amanda Stern, author of Little Panic and creator of the Happy Ending Music
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Gary Shteyngart&Paul LaFarge from 2023-12-13T17:05:56.075681
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 because there are just too many authors we haven’t ...
ListenHoliday Reads: Neil Gaiman & Team Bookable! from 2021-06-02T04:53:13.876325
Amanda finds out which books Neil Gaiman and Team Bookable are giving to family and friends this holiday season!
ListenIntroducing Bookable! from 2021-05-05T03:56:10.797972
This is the book podcast everyone's talking about. Bookable features established authors and emerging talent in conversation with host and author Amanda Stern, perhaps best known for creating the H...
ListenMira Jacob: Good Talk from 2021-05-05T03:56:10.796556
“I don't want to lie to him, but I don't want to make him scared. And somehow even just telling him the most basic truth was pretty horrific.” --Mira Jacob
ListenAlexander Chee: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel from 2021-05-05T03:56:10.795694
“The act of trying to tell a story introduces you to what matters to you. It teaches you something that you needed to know.” --Alexander Chee
ListenMorgan Jerkins: Wandering In Strange Lands from 2021-03-02T05:05
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 results really tell you about the people and the trad...
ListenCalvin Baker: A More Perfect Reunion from 2021-02-16T05:05
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 these often preposterous ideas that have shaped histor...
ListenNicole Dennis-Benn: Patsy from 2021-02-02T05:05
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 gets really interesting when you’re finally able to ...
ListenRoxane Gay&Tracy Lynne Oliver: The Sacrifice of Darkness from 2021-01-19T05:05
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 Roxane Gay and Tracy Lynne Oliver's fantastical grap...
ListenRumaan Alam: Leave the World Behind from 2020-12-22T05:05
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 what if that heavenly vacation goes wrong -- really...
ListenLynn Steger Strong: Want from 2020-11-24T21:20
Time to forget the way too familiar depictions of female friendship that lean on thread-worn stereotypes: the back-stabbing competitor, the gossip, the manipulator, the superficial princess. In Wan...
ListenCathy Park Hong & Ayad Akhtar from 2020-11-10T05:05
"Seeing characters struggle with their place in this country as part of the existential circumstance of their lives becomes a political statement" -- Ayad Akhtar
ListenKaren Russell: Sleep Donation from 2020-10-27T04:05
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 you? In Sleep Donation, Karen Russell creates ...
ListenKiese Laymon, Saeed Jones & Mira Jacob from 2020-10-13T04:05
"This is a transformative genre. Who you are going into it is not who you are going to be on the other side." -- Saeed Jones
ListenSteven Berglas: Stay Hungry and Kick Burnout in the Butt from 2020-10-06T04:05
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 Butt, Dr. Steven Berglas has the perfect prescriptio...
ListenJames Hannaham & Shawn Stewart Ruff from 2020-09-29T04:05:11
The people who would have jailed writers in the past have convinced enough people that nothing is true. --James Hannaham.
Claudia Rankine: Just Us from 2020-09-22T04:05
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 meaningful dialogue. In Just Us, Claudia Rankine ...
ListenSusan Burton: Empty from 2020-09-15T04:05
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 Empty, Susan Burton explores an eating disorder she...
ListenRaven Leilani: Luster from 2020-08-25T04:05
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 luminous book that explores this question. Luster is a ...
ListenShawn Stewart Ruff: Finlater from 2020-08-18T04:05
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 debut novel Finlater, a Cincinatti housing projec...
ListenSummer Reads: Ottessa Moshfegh, Nathan Englander,&Team Bookable! from 2020-07-28T04:05
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 of Team Bookable gives Amanda their picks, compl...
ListenEmily Bernard&Nell Freudenberger from 2020-07-21T04:05
You may remember Nell Freudenberger from Episode 7 of Bookable when she talked to Amanda about the metaphase typewriter (used to communicate with the dead) and her New York Times bestselling novel ...
ListenStorybound: Mitchell S. Jackson from 2020-07-14T04:05:12
Meet Storybound, a weekly podcast that features acclaimed authors reading excerpts from their work--sometimes with help from actors--always set to fantastic original score and an immersive sound de...
ListenUrsula Hegi: The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls from 2020-07-07T04:05
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 Girls, she sets in motion characters that fans ...
ListenAdrian Tomine&Julie Orringer from 2020-06-28T04:05
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 who saved thousands of cultural creatives during...
ListenNicholas Lemann: The Big Test from 2020-06-21T04:05
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 system blind to the inequalities it fostered. Whil...
ListenLydia Millet: A Children's Bible from 2020-06-07T04:05
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 the perfect person for her to talk to about it. ...
ListenJennifer Egan&Susan Choi from 2020-05-31T04:05
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 outline a story, beginnings and endings, and one of...
ListenEtgar Keret: Fly Already from 2020-05-17T04:05
Etgar Keret has a unique talent for finding humor in the indignities of everyday life, the miscommunications that drive us and the losses that punctuate life. In Fly Already, Etgar Keret gives a ma...
ListenRebecca Solnit&Alexander Chee from 2020-05-10T04:10
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 admire and interview them. In our first bonus episo...
ListenNell Freudenberger: Lost and Wanted from 2020-05-03T04:05
Can ghosts use radiation to talk to us? And what does quantum entanglement have to do with friendship? Acclaimed novelist Nell Freudenberger answers these questions, and tells Amanda the true story...
ListenMichelle Lhooq: Weed from 2020-04-19T04:10
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 matter with marijuana? Indica or sativa? We got...
ListenOyinkan Braithwaite: My Sister The Serial Killer from 2020-04-12T04:05
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 dynamic. The elder sister is meticulous, tidy, a...
ListenJulie Orringer: The Flight Portfolio from 2020-03-29T06:10:05
"We need certain people in our world to feel larger than life. We need superheroes. " --Julie Orringer
ListenSusan Choi: Trust Exercise from 2020-03-15T05:05:04
“It’s about love and sex and power and the betrayal between friends that they’re never able to forget.” -- Susan Choi
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