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King of the Dark Episode 2: The Shining from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We're back with Episode 2 of King of the Dark, our special summer series exploring the worlds of Stephen King. We started our journey last week with King's iconic debut novel Carrie. Th...
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Sarah Blake from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Today on the podcast we're joined by bestselling novelist Sarah Blake for a conversation about family, secrets, money and the power of the past over the present. The bestselling author of T...
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Maris Kreizman: Talking Great Reading in 2018 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We're getting close to the end of 2018, and whether you're doing last-minute gift-buying, looking for a great book for holiday down time, or maybe just stocking up your bookshelf for the coming ...
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Dean Atta on The Black Flamingo from 2020-06-22T04:00
Our guest today is Dean Atta, author of The Black Flamingo—our Listen
Mike Birbiglia & J. Hope Stein on The New One from 2020-06-16T04:00
Our guests today are Mike Birbiglia and J. Hope Stein, authors of The New One...
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Megha Majumdar on A Burning from 2020-06-09T04:00
Our guest today is Megha Majumdar, debut author of A Burning—our <...
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Brit Bennett on The Vanishing Half from 2020-06-02T10:00
Our guest today is Brit Bennett, author of our June Barnes & Noble Book Club selection Listen
Emma Straub on All Adults Here from 2020-05-11T10:00
Our guest today is Emma Straub, author of our May Barnes & Noble Book Club selection Listen
Elizabeth Gilbert on City of Girls from 2020-05-04T10:00
Our guest today is Elizabeth Gilbert, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Listen
N.K. Jemisin on The City We Became from 2020-04-20T16:00
Our guest this week is the three-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Listen
Monica Hesse on They Went Left from 2020-04-17T10:00
In this episode, we dive into They Went Left, A tour de force historical myster...
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Wes Moore on Five Days from 2020-04-13T14:41:39
Our guest this week is Rhodes Scholar, bestselling author, decorated combat veteran, former White House fellow, and CEO of Robin Hood, one of the largest anti-poverty nonprofits in the nation, <...
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Lisa Wingate on The Book of Lost Friends from 2020-04-10T18:07:14
Our guest today is Lisa Wingate, bestselling author of Listen
Afia Atakora on Conjure Women from 2020-04-07T16:00
Our guest today is Afia Atakora, author of our April Barnes & Noble Book Club selection Listen
Elizabeth Wetmore on Valentine from 2020-04-03T16:00
Our guest today is Elizabeth Wetmore here to discuss Valentine, an astonishing ...
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Sarah Watson on Most LIkely from 2020-03-30T09:00
Our guest this week is Sarah Watson, creator of the hit TV series, The Bold Type.
Sarah joins us to discuss Listen
Abi Daré on The Girl with the Louding Voice from 2020-03-23T15:21:06
Our guest today is Abi Daré here to discuss her debut novel Listen
Therese Anne Fowler on A Good Neigborhood from 2020-03-16T14:33:15
Our guest today is Therese Anne Fowler, here to talk with us about her latest novel, Listen
Hilary Mantel on The Mirror & The Light from 2020-03-10T14:22:15
Our guest today is Hillary Mantel, the two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize.
Mantel joins us to talk about her latest novel The Mirror & The Light, a triumphant close to the t...
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James McBride on Deacon King Kong from 2020-03-03T05:00
Our guest today is non-other than James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird.
James is with us to discuss his latest book Deacon King Kong, Listen
Erik Larson on The Splendid and The Vile from 2020-02-25T15:58:15
Our guest today is Erik Larson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of
Holly Jackson from 2020-02-11T18:57:43
Our guest today is Holly Jackson, who joins us to talk about her new YA crime thriller Listen
Jason Reynolds from 2020-01-24T21:14:22
We revisit our podcast interview with celebrated novelist for young readers Jason Reynolds, recently named National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, and the author of Listen
Jeanine Cummins from 2020-01-17T20:17:41
Lydia Pérez is an ordinary bookseller in Acapulco, Mexico, when an article by her journalist husband makes her family a target for a drug cartel. In an instant, Lydia and her family become migra...
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Abigail Hing Wen from 2020-01-06T22:43:35
Our guest today is the novelist Abigail Hing Wen, who joins us to talk about her new YA novel Listen
Ann Napolitano from 2020-01-06T02:30
Our guest on today's episode of the B&N Podcast is the novelist Ann Napolitano, who joins us to talk about her heart-stopping new novel Listen
Voices of 2019: Elizabeth Strout from 2019-12-24T14:25:03
In celebration of some of the most fascinating authors we spoke with in 2019, we're re-sharing our conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning writer Elizabeth Strout, who joined us to talk about h...
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Voices of 2019: Colson Whitehead from 2019-12-20T17:25:43
To mark the end of 2019 we're re-sharing some of our favorite conversations from our year in reading. Among the standouts: our chat with Colson Whitehead, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Aw...
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Alice Hoffman from 2019-12-12T21:40:44
Today's episode is a conversation with the prolific, bestselling author Alice Hoffman, who joins us to talk about her engrossing new novel Listen
Charlie Mackesy: B&N's Book of the Year from 2019-12-06T21:49:09
In this episode we're so pleased to be joined via phone by the artist and author Charlie Mackesy, whose wonderful new book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse has just been selecte...
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Brian K. Vaughan from 2019-12-04T21:45:10
Today on the podcast we're bringing you a conversation that features the wildest science fiction story in the galaxy -- one that's not been playing out not on television on a movie screen, but o...
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Michael Eric Dyson from 2019-11-26T20:31:31
Our guest on today's episode is the writer, thinker and teacher Michael Eric Dyson, who joins us to talk about his new book Jay-Z: Made in America. Dyson is the author of a wide array of books, ...
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Bill Bryson from 2019-11-21T12:30
Our guest today is bestselling writer Bill Bryson, whose books on travel, history and science celebrate our endless curiosity, our drive to discover and understand the mysteries of our world and...
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Erin Morgenstern from 2019-11-12T14:00
Our guest on today's episode is the novelist Erin Morgenstern, who joins us to talk about her new novel Listen
Lisa Jewell from 2019-11-04T22:00
We're joined on today's episode by Lisa Jewell, the author of a host of suspenseful, psychologically twisty novels that include I Found You, The Girls in the Garden, and the Ne...
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Stephen Chbosky from 2019-10-31T13:00
Happy Halloween! On today's episode of the B&N Podcast we're joined by the novelist and filmmaker Stephen Chbosky, for a conversation about his spine-tingling new novel Listen
Elizabeth Strout from 2019-10-30T13:00
Our guest on today's episode is the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize winning writer Elizabeth Strout, who joins us to talk about her new novel Listen
Saeed Jones from 2019-10-23T13:00
Our guest on today's episode is celebrated poet and memoirist Saeed Jones, who joins us to talk about his new book Listen
Rick Riordan from 2019-10-21T13:34:31
Today's guest has turned thousands of 21st century kids into passionate, intensely knowledgable fans of ancient mythologies. When Rick Riordan published The Lightning...
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Julie Andrews with Emma Walton Hamilton from 2019-10-18T13:00
We're joined on this episode of the B&N podcast by Julie Andrews and her daughter and co-author Emma Walton Hamilton, for a conversation about Listen
Kate DiCamillo from 2019-10-16T13:58:41
Our guest on today's episode is the award-winning writer Kate DiCamillo, whose books include contemporary classics like Because of Winn Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux, The M...
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Shea Serrano from 2019-10-11T13:00
Our guest on today's episode of the B&N Podcast is the journalist and bestselling author Shea Serrano, whose unconventional, hilarious and insightful works put the writer's obsessions with sport...
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Leigh Bardugo — Ninth House from 2019-10-07T21:00
Today's guest is the bestselling writer Leigh Bardugo, whose works of boldly imagined and intricately plotted fantasy like Shadow and Bone, Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom...
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King of the Dark Episode 17: The Dark Tower from 2019-10-04T13:45:48
On this episode of the B&N Podcast we're bringing you our final installment of our special podcast series King of the Dark, one devoted to a project that has been woven through most of Stephen K...
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Jonathan Van Ness from 2019-10-02T13:00
Our guest on the B&N podcast today is none other than Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness. Van Ness's brand new new memoir is titled Listen
Margaret Atwood from 2019-10-01T13:33:30
The Testaments is Margaret Atwood's long-awaited return to the world and c...
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King of the Dark Episode 16: Short Stories from 2019-09-27T15:26:38
On this episode of King of the Dark, Louis Peitzman, Liz Braswell and Bill Tipper turn from the grand scale of Stephen King's dark epics to the supremely concentrated pleasures of his short fict...
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Ann Patchett from 2019-09-25T18:35:05
Today our guest is the spellbinding storyteller Ann Patchett, joining us to talk about her new novel Listen
King of the Dark Episode 15: The Institute from 2019-09-20T17:09:42
Welcome to episode fifteen of King of the Dark, our special series on the B&N Podcast devoted to the worlds of Stephen King. It's big week for us — Louis Peitzman, Liz Braswell and Bill Tipper s...
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Randall Munroe from 2019-09-18T15:13:03
Our guest on this episode is author and cartoonist Randall Munroe, author of the new book Ho...
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King of the Dark Episode 14: Doctor Sleep from 2019-09-13T13:07:45
Welcome back to King of the Dark, our special series on the B&N Podcast, a journey through the gloriously shadowy fiction of Stephen King. On today's episode, we're not quite caught up to the au...
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Malcolm Gladwell from 2019-09-10T13:00
On today's episode of the B&N Podcast we were joined by one of the most influential writers in the world, whose books examine how humans think and behave in ways large and small. As a staff writ...
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King of the Dark Episode 13: 11/22/63 from 2019-09-06T17:25:22
Welcome back to King of the Dark, our special series on the B&N Podcast, celebrating and exploring the fictional worlds of Stephen King. Every week for this limited series Liz Braswell and Louis...
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Mary H.K. Choi from 2019-09-04T13:07:15
Today on the B&N Podcast our guest is the New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi, who in two razor sharp novels — 2018's Emergency Contact and her brand-new Listen
King of the Dark Episode 12: Lisey's Story from 2019-08-30T13:00
Welcome back to King of the Dark, our special series on the B&N Podcast devoted to the fictional creations of Stephen King. Every week, Liz Braswell and Louis Peitzman join B&N's Bill Tipper fo...
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Lorenzo Carcaterra from 2019-08-27T13:00
Our guest on the podcast today is Lorenzo Carcaterra, whose work in both fiction and nonfiction has often been wrapped up with the mean streets of New York City. Carcaterra first came to the att...
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King of the Dark Episode 11: Richard Bachman and The Dark Half from 2019-08-23T13:00
Welcome back to King of the Dark, our special summer series on the B&N Podcast exploring the strange alternate reality that is Stephen King's fiction. Louis Peizman, Liz Braswell and Bill Tipper...
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Ibram X. Kendi from 2019-08-20T13:00
Our guest on the podcast today is Ibram X. Kendi, here to talk about his new book Listen
King of the Dark Episode 10: Dolores Claiborne from 2019-08-16T13:00
Welcome back to King of the Dark, our special summer series on the B&N Podcast, a journey across the incredible spectrum of Stephen King's fictional creations. Every week this summer, the writer...
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Tea Obreht from 2019-08-12T21:00
Today on the B&N Podcast, the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel The Tiger's Wi...
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King of the Dark Episode 9: Gerald's Game from 2019-08-09T17:35:12
Welcome back to King of the Dark, our special summer series on the B&N Podcast devoted to the shadowy fictional universe of Stephen King. Last week, we did our best to scale the mountain of King...
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Kiese Laymon and Shane Bauer from 2019-08-07T16:00
Today's episode is a fascinating and timely conversation that comes to us courtesy of Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers program, featuring Kiese Laymon the author of Heavy: an Amer...
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King of the Dark Episode 8: The Stand from 2019-08-02T13:09:05
Welcome back to King of the Dark, our special summer series on the B&N Podcast devoted to the imagined worlds of Stephen King. Every week this summer Liz Braswell and Louis Peitzman join Bill Ti...
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Karl Marlantes from 2019-07-31T13:00
Our guest on today's episode is the writer Karl Marlantes, who burst onto the literary scene in 2010 with his critically acclaimed, bestselling novel Listen
King of the Dark Episode 7: Misery from 2019-07-26T11:40:04
Welcome back to King of the Dark, our special summer series on the B&N Podcast devoted to Stephen King's monumental career. Every week this summer, Liz Braswell, Louis Peitzman ...
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Writing a World on Fire — the BN Podcast at SDCC from 2019-07-25T19:16:17
Today's episode features an overflowing cornucopia of amazing voices from the worlds of fantasy and science fiction, all gathered up in live recordings at this year's San Diego Comic Con, just a...
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Griffin McElroy and Carey Pietsch – LIVE from San Diego Comic Con from 2019-07-24T16:00
Today we've got the first of two special podcast episodes we recorded live at this year's San Diego Comic Con, amid the costumes, the new-movie hype, and the overwhelming euphoria of thousands o...
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King of the Dark Episode 6: It from 2019-07-19T13:00
Welcome back to King of the Dark, our special summer series on the B&N Podcast devoted to the strange alternate universe created by Stephen King. Every week this summer, Liz Braswell, Louis Peit...
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George Takei from 2019-07-17T13:00
Today on the B&N Podcast George Takei joins us to talk about They Called...
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Colson Whitehead: The Nickel Boys from 2019-07-15T21:00
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of The Undergrou...
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King of the Dark Episode 5: Pet Sematary from 2019-07-12T13:00
Welcome to King of the Dark, our summer-long road trip through Stephen King's America. We've arrived at Episode Five, and Louis Peitzman and Liz Braswell are back, this time to talk with ...
Marjorie Liu from 2019-07-10T13:00
Many readers know Marjorie Liu from her New York Times bestsellers in the Hunter Kiss series and the Dirk and Steele urban fantasy series, but she is also a prolific and masterful writer of comi...
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King of the Dark Episode 4: Different Seasons from 2019-07-05T13:00
Welcome to Episode 4 of King of the Dark, our ongoing weekly series of excursions into the parallel universe that is the world of author Stephen King. Every week Bill Tipper, Liz Braswell and L...
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Linda Holmes from 2019-07-04T13:00
On today's episode we're joined by Linda Holmes, the host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour to talk about her sparkling new novel Listen
Emily Nussbaum from 2019-07-03T13:00
With the golden age of television has come a golden age of great writing about television. As Emily Nussbaum points out in her new book Listen
King of the Dark Episode 3: The Dead Zone from 2019-06-28T15:01:39
Neal Stephenson from 2019-06-27T19:32:39
When you are reading a Neal Stephenson novel you know you're going to get two kinds of experience in one book. Whether it's in a work like his revolutionary science fiction novel Snow Crash<...
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Bobby Hundreds from 2019-06-25T13:00
Entrepreneur, Artist, Tastemaker, and now author Bobby Hundreds — AKA Bobby Kim joins us to talk about Listen
Elaine Welteroth from 2019-06-19T13:00
As the groundbreaking editor in chief of Teen Vogue, Elaine Welteroth reinvented the fashion magazine, putting the big issues of the moment — class, race, equality, opportunity, and the changing...
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King of the Dark Episode 1: Carrie from 2019-06-14T16:00
If you've listened to the B&N Podcast you know that every episode we take a kind of a deep dive into one writer's book -- the world they explore, the story they have to tell, and how their own ...
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Ocean Vuong from 2019-06-12T13:00
"Writing your own story is perhaps the truest enactment of the American dream." Today on the B&N Podcast, we're talking with Ocean Vuong, the author of the remarkable new novel Listen
Jennifer Weiner from 2019-06-10T21:00
In her many bestselling novels, from Good in Bed to Who Do You Love and In Her Shoes, Jennifer Weiner's characters are wildly various in background and temperament, bu...
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George Will from 2019-06-07T13:00
In today's episode we're joined by a writer who has come since his early days in journalism become one of the signature voices of American conservative opinion. For more than thirty years, Georg...
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Jared Diamond from 2019-06-05T13:00
On today's episode we're joined by the polymathic writer Jared Diamond for a conversation about his new book Listen
Rick Atkinson from 2019-05-31T13:00
Today on the podcast, we've asked the writer Rick Atkinson to take us with him on a journey back almost two and a half centuries into the past — to Lexington and Concord, the ride of Paul Revere...
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Chelsea Handler from 2019-05-29T13:00
If you've read one of Chelsea Handler's many bestselling books — Are You there Vodka, It's Me, Chelsea, or My Horizontal Life, or Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me — o...
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Mark Manson from 2019-05-29T13:00
In 2016 blogger and writer Mark Manson published a book based on some of the advice he'd been giving on his blog, and he gave it the eye-catching title The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Listen
David Baldacci from 2019-05-24T13:00
That's the bestselling author David Baldacci, joining us to talk about his latest thriller, Listen
Admiral William McRaven from 2019-05-22T13:00
Admiral William H. McRaven is the former commander of US Special Operations and the author of the new memoir Listen
Tony Horwitz from 2019-05-16T13:00
f you've ever heard the name Frederick Law Olmstead, it's probably because of his work as the co-creator of New York City's Central Park. But long before that career a young Olmstead was a jour...
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David McCullough from 2019-05-06T23:00
Since his marvelous 1968 book The Johnstown Flood, and through National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning works like The Path Between the Seas, Mornings on Horseback Listen
Kristen Roupenian from 2019-05-01T13:00
In this episode we're joined by the writer Kristen Roupenian for a conversation about her haunting, scary, funny, and incisive collection of short stories Listen
Melinda Gates from 2019-04-26T13:00
Today we have a bonus episode of the podcast with a very special guest. Many of the writers we speak with on the podcast are people who have made their names in the worlds of fiction, journalism...
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Ian McEwan from 2019-04-23T13:00
Ian McEwan is the author of such celebrated novels as Atonement, The Children Act, Saturday, and On Chesil Beach and the Man Booker prize-winning Amsterda...
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David Brooks from 2019-04-17T13:00
On this episode we're joined by New York Times columnist, radio and television commentator and bestselling author David Brooks, talking about his new book Listen
Damon Young from 2019-04-12T17:54:08
Martha Hall Kelly — The Barnes & Noble Book Club from 2019-04-08T22:00
Martha Hall Kelly's runaway 2016 bestseller Lilac Girls captivated the world ...
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Clive Thompson from 2019-04-05T21:10:26
Today on the podcast we're taking a look into the still-young language of coding — and into the people who speak it and use it to build the digital world that is increasingly meshing with our da...
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John Lanchester from 2019-04-03T20:44:23
Patrick Rothfuss from 2019-03-29T19:39:44
The premise is simple: what happens when the stars of the anarchic Cartoon Network hit Rick and Morty dive head-on into the world of hit points, armor classes, saving throws, and spell...
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Preet Bharara from 2019-03-27T18:39:07
Laurie Halse Anderson from 2019-03-22T13:00
In this episode of the podcast we talk with the groundbreaking writer Laurie Halse Anderson about her new book, Listen
Harlan Coben from 2019-03-20T13:16:31
If the bestselling, award-winning novelist Harlan Coben has a secret to enthralling readers, it's that his characters aren't, for the most part globetrotting spies, cops on the edge, elite speci...
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Alex Kotlowitz from 2019-03-13T17:00
Danielle Steel from 2019-03-08T19:22:25
Today we're talking with a novelist who doesn't just get described as "bestselling" and "prolific" – she's a person whose name defines both, and at a scale that very few other writers approach. ...
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Lisa See — The Barnes & Noble Book Club from 2019-03-05T00:00
Our guest this week is the bestselling novelist Lisa See, whose works include Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, and the classic memoir On Go...
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Gita Trelease from 2019-02-27T20:00
In this episode we're featuring a crossover with our sibling podcast the B&N YA Podcast as we welcome debut novelist Gita Trelease, whose sparking new novel Listen
Stephanie Land from 2019-02-20T20:43:44
"I'd become a nameless ghost." Today on the B&N Podcast, our guest is Stephanie Land, the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Listen
Julie Gaines from 2019-02-14T22:16:50
Today on the B&N Podcast we're talking about a place where business, family, and an iconic New York City institution meet. Our guest is Julie Gaines, the co-founder of the groundbreaking store ...
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Gary Sinise from 2019-02-12T22:09:05
In September 1993 actor Gary Sinise, fresh off of the triumph of directing his film adaptation of Of Mice Men, was being fitted for a long-haired wig to shoot scenes as the disabled vet...
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Marlon James from 2019-02-06T21:40:31
When the Jamaican writer Marlon James announced his intention to follow his Man Booker Prize-winning novel A Brief History of Seven Killings with — in his words — an “African Game of Th...
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Tara Conklin — The Barnes & Noble Book Club from 2019-02-05T02:00
On today's episode of the B&N Podcast, Tara Conklin joins us to talk about her brand-new novel Listen
Benjamin Dreyer from 2019-02-01T18:13:35
On this episode we're joined by Benjamin Dreyer, the copy chief for Random House on the occasion of his new book Listen
Howard Schultz from 2019-01-29T18:26:56
The year was 1983, and the director of marketing for a Seattle-based coffee roasting company was visiting Milan, Italy for the first time. It was there that Brooklyn-born entrepreneur Howard Sc...
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David Treuer from 2019-01-23T16:18:06
Today on the podcast, we look at the myths and the realities of Native American life, as seen through David Treuer's fascinating, eloquent, deeply researched and groundbreaking new book, Listen
Ottessa Moshfegh from 2019-01-16T20:00
With her 2015 novel Eileen, the writer Ottessa Moshfegh married brooding suspense...
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Marie Benedict — The Barnes & Noble Book Club from 2019-01-08T04:00
Most people know Hedy Lamarr as one of the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, billed by MGM as "the most beautiful woman in the world." What many people don't know is that the Austrian émigré was...
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Beth Comstock from 2019-01-02T14:00
To kick off 2019, Beth Comstock, the author of Imagine it Forward: Courage, Creat...
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Barbara Kingsolver from 2018-12-13T21:16:36
In book after book, bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver brings all the pleasure of a sweeping fictional landscape to novels that engage fearlessly with vexing social issues. In her new novel ...
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Kate Morton from 2018-12-07T14:00
On this episode we sit down with Kate Morton, the author of international bestsellers including The House at Riverton and The Lake House. Morton is a writer who weaves her fas...
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Liane Moriarty from 2018-12-03T18:33:54
Today we're joined by Australian novelist Liane Moriarty for a talk about where the stories that enthrall us come from. Moriarty is perhaps best known for her wildly popular novel Big Littl...
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Adriana Trigiani from 2018-11-28T16:15:25
Markus Zusak from 2018-11-21T14:24:32
After Markus Zusak's award-winning 2005 novel The Book Thief became an international bestseller, his legions of readers were eager for the next book from the Australian novelist. Their ...
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Ina Garten from 2018-11-19T17:02:34
It's hard to believe that The Barefoot Contessa cookbook was published as recently as 1999, because its author, Ina Garten, has become so indispensable to home cooks around the country ...
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James Mustich from 2018-11-14T15:42:36
This episode features a very special conversation, as the podcast's former Executive Producer James Mustich takes a turn in the guest chair, joining us to talk about the marvelous work he spent ...
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Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman from 2018-11-12T15:54:48
Heloise and Abelard, Beatrice and Benedick, Catherine and Heathcliff: move over, famous lovers of history and literature, and make way for Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman. The stars of hit TV ...
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Jill Lepore from 2018-11-02T15:30:19
Jill Lepore has illuminated the life of Benjamin Franklin's sister Jane and uncovered the revolutionary origins of Wonder Woman in her bestselling, award-winning works of history. With her new ...
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Joseph Fink from 2018-10-31T18:40:07
Happy Halloween! On today’s appropriately spooky episode we talk with Joseph Fink, who has introduced millions of listeners and readers to the delightfully eerie goings-on in a very strange sout...
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Jane Leavy from 2018-10-26T17:21:44
If you're writing about the titans of baseball there's one figure both daunting and irresistible: the Babe, the Big Bam, the Sultan of Swat. The Bambino. Babe Ruth was one of was one of 20
Nicholas Sparks from 2018-10-17T15:02:25
In the early 1990s, a young pharmaceutical salesman in Washington DC sent a to a literary agent a manuscript about a pair of lovers separated by class and by ...
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Michael Beschloss from 2018-10-12T15:26:49
Kate Atkinson from 2018-10-10T13:00
Kate Atkinson is the internationally bestselling author of eleven books including the award-winning international bestseller Life After Life, the Whitbread-award winning Behind the ...
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Jodi Picoult from 2018-10-03T15:30
Readers of the bestselling novelist Jodi Picoult know that her specialty lies in telling stories that examine ethical and social issues of deep complexity and great urgency, in a tradition that ...
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V.E. Schwab from 2018-09-28T16:15:55
The prolific writer V.E. Schwab is a storyteller and world builder, the author of the celebrated, bestselling Shades of Magic series, an enthralling saga of multiple Londons, inter-world intrigu...
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Hank Green — The Barnes & Noble Book Club from 2018-09-24T18:00
The latest selection of the B&N Book Club is the highly anticipated debut novel from Hank Green. Green is the co-creator (with his brother John) of the YouTube sensation "Vlogb...
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Doris Kearns Goodwin from 2018-09-21T13:00
Doris Kearns Goodwin is one of the most celebrated chroniclers of the lives of American presidents, the author of multiple bestsellers including The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William...
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Sally Field from 2018-09-19T13:00
With In Pieces, Sally Field has delivered an amazingly rare thing: a memoir of growi...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson from 2018-09-12T13:00
The astrophysicist, author and champion of science Neil deGrasse Tyson is more than comfortable taking on the very biggest of subjects. The director New York City’s Hayden Planetarium and host o...
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Jacqueline Woodson from 2018-09-05T20:34:38
Critically acclaimed and prizewinning author Jacqueline Woodson joins us to talk about her career making unforgettable fiction out of the lives of ordinary young people. She's author of more th...
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Andy Weir LIVE from San Diego Comic Con from 2018-08-29T13:00
Multitudes of readers now know the story of Mark Watney, the astronaut stranded in the massively popular novel Listen
Cory Doctorow LIVE at San Diego Comic Con from 2018-08-22T13:00
Science fiction author, activist, blogger, and journalist Cory Doctorow is one of the most lucid and fascinating thinkers when it comes to the question of how technology and society shape each o...
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Temple Grandin from 2018-08-15T14:48:18
If you're a parent who has ever had to think about limiting what we've come to call "screen time" with your child, you have an ally in the scientist and inventor Temple Grandin. She's the autho...
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The Adventure Zone LIVE at San Diego Comic Con from 2018-08-08T13:00
The Adventure Zone began life as a podcast with an irresistible premise: three brothers, sitting down for a game of Dungeons & Dragons with their dad. It was a lark that grew into a phenomenon, ...
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Daniel Silva from 2018-07-25T13:00
Daniel Silva’s eighteen bestselling thrillers featuring art restorer and Israeli spymaster Gabriel Allon share DNA with the works of classic espionage writers like Grahame Green, Eric Ambler and...
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Emily Giffin from 2018-07-18T13:00
The novelist Emily Giffin has been hailed by Vanity Fair as a "modern day Jane Austen." Books like Something Borrowed, First Comes Love, and The One and Only have bro...
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Anne Tyler — The Barnes & Noble Book Club from 2018-07-09T16:00
Anne Tyler is the bestselling author of more than twenty novels including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant and A Spool of Blue Thread. She's the winner of the Pulitzer Prize,...
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb from 2018-07-03T13:00
In this episode our guest is the fascinating writer and thinker Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the bestsellers The Black Swan and Antifragile. Taleb has been a hedge fund ma...
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Gabrielle Union: Live in Cleveland! from 2018-06-27T13:00
The film actor and star of BET’s critically acclaimed drama Being Mary Jane became a New York Times bestselling author with the publication of her memoir in essays Listen
Lidia Bastianich from 2018-06-20T13:00
On this episode we welcome chef, restaurateur and television star Lidia Bastianich, the author of more than a dozen bestselling cookbooks which have introduced a generation to the flavors, ingre...
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Alexander Chee from 2018-06-13T13:00
How does a young person take the raw material of their life experiences — painful, funny, exhilarating, confusing — and make them into lasting art? The writer Alexander Chee drew deeply on his o...
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Marcia Gay Harden from 2018-06-08T13:00
The Academy Award-winning actor Marcia Gay Harden has created indelible characters for the stage (Angels in America, God of Carnage) and screen (Pollock, Miller's ...
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James Patterson on The President is Missing from 2018-06-05T14:00
When James Patterson sets out to write a thriller, he doesn’t take half measures. With his latest novel, Listen
Rumaan Alam from 2018-05-30T13:00
Mark Bittman from 2018-05-25T13:00
Journalist, author, environmental and nutrition advocate — none of these labels adequately captures the impact of ...
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Jon Meacham from 2018-05-23T13:00
Historian, journalist, editor and biographer Jon Meacham has never shied away from challenging subjects. American Lion, his study of the presidency of Andrew Jackson, captured one of A...
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John Scalzi from 2018-05-16T13:00
For a writer who has spent so many books imagining the future, for the novelist John Scalzi there’s no time like the present. The award-winning author of the celebrated Old Man’s War s...
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Paula McLain from 2018-05-11T13:00
Paula McLain’s luminous bestseller The Paris Wife swept readers away into Jazz Age Paris, as imagined through the eyes of Hadley Richardson, whose marriage to Ernest Hemingway buckled u...
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Christopher Moore from 2018-05-09T13:00
As a reviewer once memorably said of the comic novelist Christopher Moore, "Less may be more, but it isn’t Moore." From the supernatural hijinks of books like Practical Demonkeeping to...
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Christine Lahti from 2018-05-04T13:00
The Academy Award winning actor Christine Lahti has captivated audiences in films like Swing Shift, in Broadway plays such as The Heidi Chronicles and God of Carnage, ...
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Michelle Dean from 2018-05-02T13:30
Award-winning critic and journalist Michelle Dean's new book Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art ...
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Brent Gleeson from 2018-04-27T13:00
After serving on a Navy SEAL team deployed in Iraq and other global conflicts, decorated veteran Brent Gleeson returned to civilian life as an entrepreneur and businessman with a passion for gre...
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Sloane Crosley from 2018-04-25T13:00
With her keenly observed, winningly self-aware forays into the adventure of the everyday, Sloane Crosley makes her essays the voice of an ideal friend on a long journey – thoughtful, charming, a...
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Leslie Odom, Jr. from 2018-04-20T20:59:05
If Americans in the 21st century know about the role Aaron Burr played in the founding of our country, it's likely that it's because of the electrifying performance by Leslie Odom, Jr. in the Br...
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Lisa Scottoline from 2018-04-18T13:00
For Lisa Scottoline, writing — whether in her Rosato & DiNunzio series of legal thrillers, her standalone works of suspense, or the humor columns she co-authors with her daughter Francesca Serri...
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Michio Kaku from 2018-04-13T13:00
Human colonies on Mars, laser beams shooting digital copies of ourselves into space, and freezing your age at thirty: does it sound like fantasy? Not at all, says the physicist and author Dr. M...
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Meg Wolitzer — The Barnes & Noble Book Club from 2018-04-02T13:00
The Barnes & Noble Book Club launches this week with its inaugural pick, and we couldn't be more excited. Meg Wolitzer, the bestselling author of The Interestings and the razor-sharp co...
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Uzodinma Iweala from 2018-03-30T13:00
When Uzodinma Iweala’s first novel Beasts of No Nation was first published, readers were astonished to discover such a powerful rendering of the world of a West African child soldier co...
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A.J. Finn from 2018-03-28T13:00
With his bestselling novel The Woman in the Window, author A.J. Finn prove...
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Ernest Cline from 2018-03-23T13:00
What happens when you turn your childhood obsessions with science fiction, fantasy and video games into a novel that contains them — and then that story itself becomes a touchstone for a new gen...
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Roma Downey from 2018-03-16T16:48:41
With her role as a heavenly creature on the long-running television drama Touched by an Angel, the actor Roma Downey became an icon to fans, and she became a Hollywood power as the co-p...
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Brad Meltzer from 2018-03-14T13:00
When you read a Brad Meltzer novel, the author tells us, he's not looking to give readers a passive experience. The author of twelve bestselling thrillers is playing a game with you, and he’s g...
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Kristin Hannah from 2018-03-09T20:13:56
In Kristin Hannah's 2015 bestseller The Nightingale — set in WWII France —Listen
Tara Westover from 2018-03-07T14:00
Steven Pinker from 2018-03-02T14:00
Harvard psychology professor and award-winning author Steven Pinker has been named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine, and his specialty is books that challenge...
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Robert Harris from 2018-02-28T14:00
The novelist Robert Harris has made a specialty out of flash points in history: the explosion of Mt. Vesuvius in ancient Rome, the cracking of the WWII Enigma code, or intrigue surrounding the D...
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Steve Coll from 2018-02-23T14:00
The seemingly endless war in Afghanistan is both a recurrent headline and a perpetual mystery: the longer America's shadowy conflict with the Taliban drags out, the less we understand about who ...
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Laura Lippman from 2018-02-21T14:18
Laura Lippman's new novel Sunburn begins with the arrival in a Delaware town – the ki...
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Reginald Hudlin from 2018-02-15T21:30
In 2005 writer, director and producer Reginald Hudlin added comic book author to his resume, picking up the mantle of the first black superhero, the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby creation Listen
Morgan Jerkins from 2018-02-14T14:00
With her bracing, witty, and incisive reflections on her experience as a young black woman in 21st-century America, Morgan Jerkins has arrived as one of the essential voices of our moment, discu...
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Melissa Albert from 2018-02-09T14:00
It's been more than 200 years since the Grimm Brothers first defined the "fairy tale" as we now know it, but its atmosphere of enchantment, peril, hunger, desire and transformation still fascina...
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Tayari Jones from 2018-02-05T22:30
An American Marriage is Tayari Jones's extraordinary fourth novel, a page-turning love story with a powerful political undercurrent. It's as much a novel about family and race, expectat...
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James Dashner from 2018-01-31T14:00
As readers we love to get lost in stories -- but as fans, we've become addicted to "world building" -- the excitement of exploring the terrain of a magical continent or alternate future. In thi...
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Michael Wolff from 2018-01-25T21:30
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House is the book of the week, the month, and most likely the year. Its intimate look at the personalities of the administration makes for rivetin...
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Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele from 2018-01-24T14:00
Perhaps no social movement of the 21st century has had the impact of Black Lives Matter. Born as an online outcry in 2013, it became a fully-fledged vehicle for nationwide protests that have ca...
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Daniel Pink from 2018-01-17T14:00
Ask almost anyone you know about how their mood changes during the course of the day, and you’ll get evidence that the way our minds and emotions respond to the clock is no small matter. But to...
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Kelly Corrigan from 2018-01-10T17:05:01
The bestselling memoirist Kelly Corrigan joins us in this episode to talk about Tell Me More, her thought-provoking new book, built around twelve brief phrases – like "I Was Wrong" or "...
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James Lee Burke from 2018-01-03T14:00
James Lee Burke’s literary triumph was long in coming — but once he introduced New Orleans detective Dave Robicheaux in the 1987 novel The Neon Rain, he quickly became both one of the most accla...
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Gretchen Rubin from 2017-12-27T15:00:21
Calendars change every twelve months, but resolutions — and how to keep them — are a perpetually urgent question. And as we're just about to step into a brand new year, it’s the perfect time ...
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Cory Doctorow/Will Schwalbe from 2017-12-15T19:20:30
Authors are, without exception, readers, and behind every book there is... another book, and another. In this episode of the podcast, we're joined by two writers for conversations about the vita...
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Debbie Macomber from 2017-12-13T14:00
When Debbie Macomber decided to become a novelist in the late 1970s, she rented a typewriter and worked away at a kitchen table while raising four children at the same time. Four manuscripts an...
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Kevin Young/Jeffrey Eugenides from 2017-12-08T20:29:06
Today we're bringing you a pair of conversations that are all about invention, and about the lies that reveal the truth. First Kevin Young joins Bill Tipper for a conversation about America’s l...
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Isabel Allende from 2017-12-06T14:00
Ever since her sweeping family and political epic The House of the Spirits was published to acclaim in 1982, the Chilean-born writer Isabel Allende has been weaving the output of her ap...
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Andre Aciman/Amor Towles from 2017-12-01T19:27:35
In this episode, Miwa Messer interviews two novelists about the power of memory and imagination. First, Andre Aciman joins us in the studio to talk about his elegant, atmospheric love story
Krysten Ritter/Jason Reynolds from 2017-11-29T14:00
In this episode of the podcast, we talk with two very different writers about how one kind of art can fuel another. First, the actor and writer Krysten Ritter talks with our interviewer Josh Pe...
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Massimo Bottura from 2017-11-22T14:00
Massimo Bottura is the chef and proprietor of the celebrated Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy, a restaurant that was named the best in world in 2016 and highlighted in an episode of Netflix'...
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James Patterson from 2017-11-17T22:47:31
In 1976, a 29-year-old writer published a debut book called The Thomas Berryman Number that went on to capture the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. But James Patterson didn't quit his ...
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Annie Leibovitz/The 2017 National Book Awards from 2017-11-15T16:09:28
In this episode we talk first with the world-renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz, about her new collection, Portraits: 2005-2016. There is perhaps no photographer whose distinctive style is ...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates from 2017-11-13T20:01:45
There may be no writer closer to the center of our national conversation about race, equality, justice, and how racism divides and disorders our society than Ta-Nehisi Coates. His 2015 book
Lawrence O’Donnell from 2017-11-08T14:22:13
If you’re one of those people who thinks of 2016 as a uniquely tumultuous and unpredictable year in American politics, the writer and MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell would like to draw your attent...
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John Hodgman from 2017-11-03T17:23:40
When you're talking with the writer and performer John Hodgman, it doesn't seem like any page, or chapter or volume, could contain his restlessly inventive mind. It’s impossible to find a subje...
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Michael Connelly from 2017-11-01T16:52:48
If you’re one of the writer Michael Connelly’s friends — especially if you’re connected to the world of law enforcement — you might find yourself fielding requests for information at just about ...
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Scary Story from 2017-10-27T21:19:55
Think of one of the first times you encountered the pleasure of a truly spine-tingling story: the kind of book you felt uneasy about reading after dark, but it compelled you to keep turning page...
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Mohsin Hamid from 2017-10-25T15:51:10
"Everybody is a migrant," says the novelist Mohsin Hamid. In this episode, Miwa Messer interviews the award-winning author of pathbreaking works of fiction like Moth Smoke, The Rel...
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Walter Isaacson from 2017-10-20T13:00
Readers who had followed Walter Isaacson from his life of Benjamin Franklin to his record-setting biography Steve Jobs could already discern a pattern – a fascination with personalities...
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Ron Chernow from 2017-10-18T13:00
Ron Chernow had already written multiple award-winning biographies of figures like George Washington and J.P. Morgan when he decided to take up the life of th...
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Hannah Tinti from 2017-10-13T18:56:02
Sometimes inspiration arrives by accident. As the novelist Hannah Tinti explains to Miwa Messer in this episode, that was particularly true in the case of the author’s second novel, The Twe...
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Roxane Gay from 2017-10-06T20:30
Whether Roxane Gay is writing fiction or essays and memoir, it often seems as if there’s no territory she can’t make her own, turning her sharp in...
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Masha Gessen from 2017-10-04T22:10:46
Perhaps no writer is better suited to help us grapple with the tumultuous and unexpected recent history of Russia — a history that has enormous impact on the rest of the world — than the journal...
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Jenny Zhang from 2017-09-29T20:04:43
The short stories in Jenny Zhang’s debut collection Sour Heart started out as sep...
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Claire Messud from 2017-09-27T19:59:12
Claire Messud may be best known to most readers as the author of the 2006 bestseller and Booker-prize nominated novel The Emperor's Children, a diamond-sharp satire of wealth, privilege...
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Frank Miller from 2017-09-22T20:53:47
If you’ve read a comic book in the last 30 years—or even if you’ve only been to the movies—you've felt the impact of Frank Miller’s work. One of the most influential comics creators of his era, ...
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Tom Perrotta from 2017-09-20T21:00
Tom Perrotta can be hard to pin down: in Election, he wickedly sent up American politics with a dark comedy of high school ambition; his treatment of suburban couples in 2004’s bestsell...
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Celeste Ng from 2017-09-13T14:00
In the summer of 2014, Celeste Ng's debut novel Everything I Never Told You became a nationwide bestseller and was tagged on multiple best-of-the-year lists as the story of a teenage gi...
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Jesmyn Ward from 2017-09-07T21:12:02
Jesmyn Ward’s writing marries a devastating realism with a unique sensitivity to the long echoes of violence and trauma. Her National Book Award-winning novel Salvage the Bones brought...
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Jennifer Finney Boylan from 2017-08-30T16:00
The author of 15 works of fiction and nonfiction, Jennifer Finney Boylan may be known to most readers via her bestselling memoir She's Not There. As she told Miwa Messer in this episo...
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Christina Baker Kline from 2017-08-25T15:45:08
Sherman Alexie from 2017-08-22T20:55:11
"The primal need for stories is the most important thing in anybody’s life… we’re all still children being read to.” Over an astonishing 26 books in 25 years, Sherman Alexie has devoted himself...
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Dennis Lehane from 2017-08-17T20:50:47
Sitting down to talk with the writer Dennis Lehane, one of the biggest challenges is how not to stumble into spoilers. The author of novels like Mystic River and Shutter Island...
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Imbolo Mbue from 2017-07-31T19:41:35
You never know where the idea for a great story is going to come from. For the writer Imbolo Mbue, a scene glimpsed as she strolled through a bustling New York City neighborhood offered the ins...
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Peter Gethers from 2017-07-17T14:20:32
When a stroke left celebrated cook and food writer Judy Gethers unable to work in the kitchen, her son, editor and novelist Peter Gethers, wanted to cook her ideal meal – an epic attempt at haut...
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Paula Hawkins from 2017-07-17T14:19:14
A blockbuster debut like Paula Hawkins's psychological thriller The Girl on the Train might seem a hard act to follow, but Into the Water — wi...
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J. Courtney Sullivan from 2017-07-17T14:17:54
Get thee to a nunnery: to research her new novel Saints for All Occasions, bestselling writer J. Courtney Sullivan found herself investigating the unseen lives of cloistered nuns. In th...
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John Grisham from 2017-07-17T14:10:18
John Grisham's latest page-turner leaves behind the courtroom but keeps the crime: Camino Island turns on the theft of a rare manuscript. In this episode, John Grisham talks with Jim Mu...
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Colson Whitehead from 2017-06-29T14:58:46
From elevator inspectors to championship poker to an epic of escape from bondage, Colson Whitehead likes to write about outsiders. In this episode the author talks with Miwa Messer about his inc...
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