Colum McCann is the New York Times bestselling author of “Let the Great World Spin.” His new novel, “Twist,” tells a propulsive story of rupture and r...
The Book Show | Julia Alvarez - The Cemetery of Untold Stories [encore airing]
Mar 18 2025 • 00:27:24
Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of “In the Time of the Butterflies” and “How the García Girls Lost Their Accents,” returns with “The Cemetery of Unt...
The Book Show | Allegra Goodman - Isola
Mar 11 2025 • 00:27:27
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The Book Show | Charlotte Wood - Stone Yard Devotional
Mar 04 2025 • 00:27:24
Hailed by The Booker Prize judges as a “fierce and philosophical interrogation of human existence,” Charlotte Wood’s “Stone Yard Devotional” chronicle...
The Book Show | Robert Crais - The Big Empty
Feb 25 2025 • 00:27:25
Private investigator Elvis Cole and his enigmatic partner, Joe Pike, race to find a terrifying, unidentified killer in "The Big Empty," the 20th Elvis...
The Book Show | Scott Turow - Presumed Guilty
Feb 19 2025 • 00:27:27
Scott Turow’s latest novel is “Presumed Guilty” - a sequel to “Presumed Innocent,” the #1 bestseller that redefined the legal thriller and is the basi...
The Book Show | Adam Ross - Playworld
Feb 11 2025 • 00:27:27
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The Book Show | Sheila Heti - Alphabetical Diaries [encore airing]
Feb 03 2025 • 00:27:27
“Alphabetical Diaries” by Sheila Heti contains a decade’s worth of thoughts, arranged in alphabetical order. The book is a chronicle of the self, of t...
The Book Show | Kaveh Akbar - Martyr! [Encore airing]
Jan 28 2025 • 00:27:27
Poet Kaveh Akbar joins us to discuss his first novel “Martyr!” which follows Cyrus Shams on a journey of introspection and discovery. Cyrus is a drunk...
The Book Show | Pico Iyer - Aflame
Jan 21 2025 • 00:27:26
Pico Iyer is the acclaimed and bestselling author of more than a dozen books translated into twenty-three languages, most recently “The Half Known Lif...