Podcasts by The Bookshelf
0000017a-15d9-d736-a57f-17ff8a330001The Bookshelf features authors from around New Hampshire and the region, as well as books about New Hampshire by authors from anywhere. Covering mostly fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, it also features literary conferences, events and trends.Hosted by Peter Biello, The Bookshelf airs every other Friday on All Things Considered.What's on your bookshelf? Let us know by sending an email to books@nhpr.org.
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The Bookshelf: The Little-Known History Of Violence At New England's African American Schools from 2020-06-16T11:22:04
The history of school desegregation in America has long been centered around the southern United States.
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The Bookshelf: Monadnock Literary Journal Brings Regional Writers Together from 2020-02-29T00:51:59
The second issue of the literary journal Monadnock Underground is set to release next week. The collection brings together more than a dozen pieces of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, mostly by loc...
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The Bookshelf: Meredith Tate Takes On The Difficult Subject of Rape from 2020-02-14T18:05:11
In Concord-native Meredith Tate’s new novel, a young woman is kidnapped after a drug deal goes badly. To summon help, she has an out-of-body experience. Her quest to give her sister clues about whe...
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The Bookshelf: A Sexual Assault Survivor Learns to Thrive in Lisa Gardner's New Novel from 2020-01-31T11:47:03
One day, while hiking in the Georgia mountains, a couple finds the bones of a human body buried many years ago. The discovery prompts a search for answers: why was this person killed? Who did it? A...
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The Bookshelf: N.H. Poet Laureate Will Be Your Reader from 2020-01-17T17:01:24
Alexandria Peary is New Hampshire’s new poet laureate, and she’s ramping up her work as the state’s official advocate for poetry and the literary arts more broadly. As part of her work as poet laur...
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The Bookshelf: Keene Author Recalls'Cub'Reporting Days in Graphic Memoir from 2020-01-03T14:31:01
When Cindy Copeland was in seventh grade in the early 1970s, an English teacher encouraged her to become a writer. Shortly after that, the Keene resident landed an internship as a “cub reporter” wi...
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The Bookshelf: Author John Brighton Remembers the Sullivan County of the 1960s from 2019-12-20T16:00
When New Hampshire author John Brighton was six years old, his family bought a lakeside farm in Washington, a small town in New Hampshire's Sullivan County.
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The Bookshelf: Poet Marie Harris and'Desire Lines' from 2019-12-06T10:26:54
If you've ever been on a college campus or a public park, you may have seen desire lines. Those are those well-worn paths carved by travelers who, for whatever reason, preferred a route that diverg...
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The Bookshelf: N.H. Writers Face the National Novel Writing Month Challenge from 2019-11-22T17:17
This November, writers across the world are participating in National Novel Writing Month. Organized by a non-profit, its goal is to encourage anyone who has dreamed of writing a book to just do it...
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The Bookshelf: Author Alex Myers Challenges Gender Norms in New Novel from 2019-11-08T15:17:16
Novelist Alex Myers came out as transgender in the mid-90s, when society's understanding of what it means to be transgender was less clear than it is today.
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The Bookshelf: Nelson's Stacia Tolman On Her Debut Novel from 2019-10-25T17:03:24
Writer Stacia Tolman worked for many years as a high school English teacher at a private school in New Hampshire’s Monadnock region.
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The Bookshelf: Joe Hill on Collaboration:'Story is Our Family's Private Language' from 2019-10-11T12:18:38
When Joe Hill launched his career as a writer, he didn't want anyone to know about his famous writer parents, Stephen and Tabitha King. Rather than ride their coattails, he wanted to find success o...
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The Bookshelf: The'People's Book'Showcases New Hampshire Writers, Artists from 2019-09-27T15:41:10
This week marked the launch of the second annual edition of The People's Book, a collection of literary works and visual art created by New Hampshire writers and artists.
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The Bookshelf: Enfield Author Marko Kloos on War and Human Nature from 2019-08-30T14:51:10
For much of human history, human beings have waged war against each other. In the new novel by Marko Kloos, that tendency to wage war remains as strong as ever more than a thousand years into the f...
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The Bookshelf: In Debut Memoir, Jennifer Militello Upends Time from 2019-08-16T16:00
In Jennifer Militello's debut memoir, Knock Wood, time moves in more than one direction. The relationship between cause and effect is upended as Militello explores her memories of illicit love, dom...
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The Bookshelf: Miriam Levine's Poetry of'Loss and Consolation' from 2019-08-02T17:54:14
Miriam Levine's new collection of poetry is, as she describes it, a book about loss and consolation. In Saving Daylight, poems recall small moments: a chance meeting outside a theater, an encounter...
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The Bookshelf: New Sources and New Liberties in Volume II of Civil War Graphic Novel from 2019-07-19T18:00
Freeman Colby was a young schoolteacher from New Hampshire who joined the Union Army during the American Civil War. For the first nine months, Colby kept detailed notes of his service and wrote to ...
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The Bookshelf: The U.S. Confronts a Future Health Crisis in Wheelan’s Political Satire from 2019-07-05T17:06:48
Imagine there's a virus living inside you. This virus is harmless. Most of the time. But then, something causes it to change and it could kill you unless you take one dose of a powerful drug. Now i...
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The Bookshelf: Trans Girl Navigates Middle School in Exeter Author's New Novel from 2019-06-07T15:55:36
For many kids, middle school is a fraught time. Friendships are forged and broken; bodies begin to change in sometimes uncomfortable ways. For Zenobia July, starting middle school is far more compl...
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The Bookshelf: A Story About Two Pairs Of Sister Years Apart from 2019-05-24T15:19:45
In a small New Hampshire community two sisters, Henrietta and Jane, grow up under the shadow of a folk tale about the ruins of a house near their own. The house, more than a century earlier, was th...
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