Literary interviews and discussions on the latest releases in the world of publishing, from poetry through to physics. Presented weekly by Sam Leith.
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Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels
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A podcast about language, with host John McWhorter.
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The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
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Your favourite fiction authors share the story behind their latest books.
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Listen to the latest literary events recorded at the London Review Bookshop, covering fiction, poetry, politics, music and much more. Find out about our upcoming events here https://lrb.me/bookshopeventspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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What are you reading, loving or being challenged by? We review the latest in fiction for dedicated readers and for those who wish they read more.
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New York comedians Claire Parker and Ashley Hamilton are reading celebrity memoirs so you don't have to.
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A Podcast about reading comics and talking to your friends
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Biweekly conversations between Richard Aldous, Bard College professor and distinguished historian, and authors on their newest books. www.persuasion.community
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Grab some hot chocolate and snuggle into your favorite chair because things are about to get spooky...and maybe a little goofy. On Boo Sisters, Autumn and Lora discuss everything paranormal from mysterious ghost ships to your-not-so-average haunted houses.
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“Go inside the mind of one of television and movies’ wildest storytellers…” Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf is a podcast that feels like discovering a secret diary. Every episode unravels the mysteries of a book from Richard's bookshelf and a story from Richard’s life, weaving together the excitement of the supernatural and the warmth of personal storytelling.
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The C-SPAN Bookshelf podcast feed makes it easy for you to listen to all of the C-SPAN podcast episodes about nonfiction books. Each week we gather episodes from the different C-SPAN podcasts that feature authors talking about history, biography, current events, and culture to make it easier to discover the episodes and listen. If you like nonfiction books, follow this podcast feed so you never miss an episode!
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A podcast. About a book. With an author. Interviewed. Reading from said book.
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This is a vitural bookclub podcast where we discuss our favorite books, talk about their meanings, and introduce our favorite characters! Warning before listening: these episodes do contain spoilers. Trigger warnings are listed in each episode description. Follow on instagram: @thebookstoppodcast! Become a Patron for early access to episodes and extra content: https://www.patreon.com/thebookstoppodcast
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Each week host Nancy Wiegman talks to local, regional and national writers about their latest projects. Nancy's Bookshelf airs on NSPR Fridays at 10 a.m.
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New Fun and Encouraging Podcast on Life Choices and Scandalous Confessions.
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When the book ends, the conversation begins. Mattea Roach speaks with writers who have something to say about their work, the world and our place in it. You’ll always walk away with big questions to ponder and new books to read.
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If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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It takes years for a Broadway musical to hit the stage, but on OFF BOOK: The Improvised Musical, you get a brand new original musical every week! Each episode, Jessica McKenna, Zach Reino and a special guest create a new musical on the spot. Accompanied by Scott Passarella, King of Pianists, Pianist of Kings.
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In need of a good read? Or just want to keep up with the books everyone's talking about? NPR's Book of the Day gives you today's very best writing in a snackable, skimmable, pocket-sized podcast. Whether you're looking to engage with the big questions of our times – or temporarily escape from them – we've got an author who will speak to you, all genres, mood and writing styles included. Catch today's great books in 15 minutes or less.
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Bill Simmons’s new podcast breaks down the NBA's most important games, players, and teams, extending and reinventing his New York Times no. 1 bestselling book from 2009. Playing off the NBA’s dramatic changes during the past decade, Bill uses new commentary and fresh interviews with players and top media members to determine how the league has evolved and where it’s headed.Produced by Bill Simmons and Kyle Crichton Music by Jackson Lowe Lyrics and vocals by Tic Tac and Melatonin
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Helping leaders grow insight for effective ministry.
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Every week we watch a movie that's streaming on Netflix, then we talk about it.
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Interview with Philosophers about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/philosophy
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We're not just book nerds. We're professional book nerds! We are staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks from public libraries and schools. It's our job to discuss books all day long so we thought, "Why not share the conversation!" Hear about the best books we've read, get recommendations, and learn about the hottest books coming out that we can't wait to dive into. Titles discussed are available to borrow through public libraries. Get started readin ...
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Join Sam, Bernard and Trish as they play through classic RPGs together, pausing each week to talk about what has happened so far, and speculate, and discuss, and all those good things that bookclubs do.
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A rambling and too brief history podcast on the people, companies and events that make up the great comic book medium.
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Conversations with journalists, academics and writers on Turkey and its region. New episode every two weeks.
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Anything and everything in the world of professional wrestling.
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Dive deep into best-selling books with author Christen Civiletto and poet Julia Rose as they interview top authors about the hot-button topics and heartfelt themes that drive their bestsellers. Your favorite authors are here! And this mother-daughter duo is asking them the BIG questions about their novels, memoirs, and more. Love great books? This podcast is for you!
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An authoritative look at recent books that may or may not have shown up on your radar screen. Fiction and non-fiction. Biographies and comic books. Politics and the arts. And quite certainly, no gardening or cookery books. All presented with Tim Haigh’s passion for books and writing. Tim is a widely respected critic, reviewer and broadcaster. Expert without being stuffy, he is noted for the lively intelligence and irreverence he brings to the field.
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Interviews with Scholars of Military History about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history
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The show where kids discuss a middle grade novel, interview the author, and hear a reading from the book by a celebrity. Kitty Felde is host.
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Interviews with Economists about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economics
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This podcast features Open Book and A Good Read. Open Book talks to authors about their work. In A Good Read Harriett Gilbert discusses favourite books.
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Presenter James Crawford looks at an author's latest work and delves further into their creative process by learning about the three other texts that have shaped their writing.
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A chud-lit book club, check future reads and you can follow along.
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Book Spider (previously known as The God Setebos) is a book-of-the-week podcast primarily covering novels, with the occasional detour into nonfiction, literary criticism, poetry, and music. We pride ourselves in running a smart podcast for the discerning listener, and we strive for the highest level of intellectual rigor. Our mascot, the book spider, sits in its cold corner, gathering its web of text, looking at the world with its calm, chilly eyes.
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Always looking at those Self Improvement books on your shelf and wondering when you might get the time to read them? We are a Podcast book club that reads one self improvement book a month to help us and you develop your business and your mindset. Developed by Entrepreneurs & Property Investors for Entrepreneurs & Property Investors
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CraftLit is—Annotated Audiobooks for Busy People Love the classics (or wish you did) *** No time to pick up a book? Not any more! *** This weekly annotated audiobook podcast presents curated classic literature in a serialized format. The host—Heather Ordover—"teaches to the joke" by filling in any relevant tidbits before listening to the next chapter of the book. *** Callers regularly send in voicemail comments for play on the air to keep the "book club" vibe going. *** The podcast has been ...
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Journalist and book reviewer Suzanne Perez reviews the latest books and such for KMUW on air and right here. Discover new reviews on Mondays.
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Alison Jones, publisher and book coach, explores business books from both a writer's and a reader's perspective. Interviews with authors, publishers, business leaders, entrepreneurs, tech wizards, social media strategists, PR and marketing experts and others involved in helping businesses tell their story effectively.
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A Christian’s bookshelf is filled with a number of vital titles—first and foremost the Bible. By exploring the Bible with the help of Philadelphia Church of God literature (available for free at theTrumpet.com), you will find answers to life’s most important questions and unlock the vision of your marvelous future.
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The CFO Bookshelf weekly podcast is geared toward global financial leaders who are serious about lifelong learning and reading widely. The show's 200-plus podcast catalog features well-known authors who are experts in finance, pricing, marketing, sales, operations, organizational health, and leadership. Episodes are released weekly, and the host responds to every message he gets about the shows on LinkedIn.
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Join Hugo and Nick each month to tackle a new book, discuss what makes it work, and write the best book ever written one sentence at a time. We might even have some fun along the way.
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The daily antics of LA’s Favorite Afternoon duo as heard on Alt 98.7. Covering everything that’s happening in So Cal from music, sports, entertainment and body hair.
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Boo and Her Co- Hosts Gina, Mimi, and Evey helps Anonymous Jane to Look out for her Bestie Who is looking for love in all the wrong places and Inviting Danger into her Home. Will Jane be able to save her best friend and their Friendship.द्वारा dearboopodcast
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Don't Do The Headless Thing - Haunting 2.6
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1:10:28This week, Lora dives deep into the eerie history of the Jerome Grand Hotel in Arizona. Once a bustling (and perhaps deadly) hospital in the copper mining town of Jerome, this historic landmark is now infamous for its paranormal activity. Lora uncovers the mysterious deaths that plagued the building and shares chilling tales of the hauntings that c…
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Episode 4 - Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor (or Laini's Superpower is Writing Prose)
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1:01:01Today we chat about Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor, a fantasy novel the follows the story of orphan Lazlo Strange and Godspawn Sarai. Nick breaks down how Laini writes vivid and imaginative prose that reflects the world in which the story is set. We also discuss the implications of if this novel was set in the same universe as Inception, the r…
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Reider Payne, "War and Diplomacy in the Napoleonic Era" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
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1:12:01Though Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh remains well known today for his role in shaping the post-Napoleonic peace settlement in Europe, his half-brother Sir Charles Stewart has received far less attention despite his own prominent part in the politics and diplomacy of those years. In War and Diplomacy in the Napoleonic Era: Sir Charles Stewart…
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'Happy Land' was inspired by a real-life kingdom of formerly enslaved people
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7:41When Nikki travels to visit her grandmother in western North Carolina, she expects answers about her family's history. But instead, she uncovers her connection to the Kingdom of the Happy Land, a community of formerly enslaved people. Dolen Perkins-Valdez's new novel Happy Land follows Nikki as she delves deeper into family secrets. The author says…
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James Bradley's Landfall reveals a flooded, baked and dilapidated city
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54:06Cities that are both flooded and on alert for the next storm in James Bradley’s Landfall. The body of a saint, dreamily and weirdly listening to everyone around her in Western Australia, in Josephine Rowe’s Little World. And from Malaysia, Tash Aw's The South, in which a family has left the city to head to a failing orchard, a story of longing, pro…
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Fresh Reads, Spring Vibes and Big Book Energy: May 2025 Book Picks
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1:07:49Spring has officially sprung and so have the May 2025 book releases! Joe is joined by colleague and fellow book lover Rachel to share their top picks for this May's freshest reads. From swoony romances and thrilling mysteries to heartfelt queer YA and buzzy debuts, they’ve got a little something for every reader. Plus, stick around for Joe’s rapid-…
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FEVAH DAAWWWWGG Netflix Book Club number 248 is Almost Famous! Join the usual suspects @dennisrooney7 and @_miketoohey as they chop up this warm gooey nostalgia fueled rock and roll road trip. Check out the pod on instagram to see the upcoming schedule, @netflixbookclubpodcast!द्वारा Every week we watch a movie that's streaming on Netflix
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Nancy's Bookshelf: Mystery on West 74th St + Qabalah
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53:00Author Harry Steven Ackley tangles with faith and purpose in his novel “Our Lady of West 74th Street.” Also, Chico author Glynda-Lee Hoffmann explains the Kabbalah.द्वारा Nancy Wiegman, Matt Fidler
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Bonus: Duck Detective: The Secret Salami (2024)
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36:09Bernard is still hurt, but with yet another third thing, so Sam and Trish play Duck Detective: The Secret Salami by Happy Broccoli Games Visit rpgbook.club to pitch in and unlock cool rewards, including a weekly bonus episode! Check out https://linktr.ee/rpgbookclub for our Discord server and our socials!…
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Lamorna Ash: A New Generation's Search for Religion
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40:13My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Lamorna Ash, author of Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever: A New Generation’s Search for Religion. She describes to me how a magazine piece about some young friends who made a dramatic conversion to Christianity turned into an investigation into the rise in faith among a generation that many assumed would b…
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Eileen Myles & Amelia Abraham: a “Working Life”
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1:12:32Eileen Myles reads from their first collection of poetry since 2018’s Evolution. The poems in a “Working Life” evoke the joy and unease in the quotidian, moving ‘with call and response between perception and thought’, as Camille Roy writes in Brooklyn Rail magazine. Myles is in conversation with journalist and activist Amelia Abraham, whose Queer I…
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Meet the winner of the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize
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21:13You may not be familiar with Dorian McNamara yet … but his story, You (Streetcar at Night), is the winner of the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize. If you’ve spent time in Toronto, you’ll know its trademark red streetcars. Dorian grew up on those streetcars, which is why he chose one as the backdrop for his story of a young transgender person reflecting o…
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Brian Masaru Hayashi, "Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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1:11:58द्वारा Marshall Poe
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Top Ten List to Celebrate 10 years of podcasting - Number 10 "Refugee" by Alan Gratz
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23:21What would it be like to leave everything you know, everything you own, everyone you love to escape war, persecution, or poverty? In “Refugee,” Alan Gratz imagines how three young people struggle to survive as they excape to freedom. Students from Washington Latin Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. discuss the book with host Kitty Felde. Act…
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'Paper Doll' documents trans TikTok creator Dylan Mulvaney's journey through girlhood
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8:52Three years ago, trans content creator and actor Dylan Mulvaney posted a video on TikTok documenting her first day of girlhood. Though she didn't expect to turn the post into a series, Mulvaney says the videos became a way to track both her journey and her experience of trans joy. Now, she's out with a memoir called Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bl…
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John talks about the subject of his new book by Avery Publishing — Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words. Please subscribe at www.booksmartstudios.com and thank you for listening!
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John talks about the subject of his new book by Avery Publishing — Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words. Please subscribe at www.booksmartstudios.com and thank you for listening! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lexiconvalley.substack.com…
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The Bookshelf Conversation #195: Terry Mosher
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28:33This is really getting to be old-home month, give or take. First it was Danny Gallagher, author of several titles about the Montreal Expos. Then it was Robbie Hart, with his new documentary. Next week, Curtis Pride, the deaf ballplayer who made his Major League debut with the team in 1993, the first of six […]…
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Mark Hoppus is Fahrenheit 182
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1:27:58There’s a scorching hot tune burning at 182 degrees- the only way to cool it down is with an incredibly chill and normal story. Enter Blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus. A founding member of one of the biggest bands of the 00s, he’s also just a guy who loves friendship. WE’RE BACK ON TOUR April 24: San Francisco May 1: Chicago May 16: London May 18: Dub…
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Lauren E. Bridges on Fantasies and Realities of Digital Transformation and the Data Center Industry
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1:14:53Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Lauren Bridges, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, about her work on the political, economic, and environmental politics of big data infrastructures. They focus on some of Bridges’ work on the disconnect between the promises made to localities around digital transformati…
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342. The Pyramid of Needs (LIVE from Brooklyn)
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1:17:53The following was recorded LIVE at the Bellhouse in Brooklyn NY on December 7th 2024. The brilliant Eric Gersen (keys) and also brilliant Sarah Mullins (Drums) played such a fantastic show the night before we decided to let them play this one too, and ya know what? They killed it. Never has a bowling alley been filled with SUCH ROMANCE. Come for st…
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BN+: Dr. Hassan Tetteh, "Smarter Healthcare with AI"
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1:16:26Dr. Hassan Tetteh, in his latest book, opens the introduction with a question: "How do we prepare for the future with AI?" His primary focus is on healthcare and AI, but it's subtitled "Harnessing Military Medicine to Revolutionize Healthcare for Everyone Everywhere." Dr. Tetteh is currently based at Howard University and Inova Hospital in Fairfax,…
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An early biography paints Pope Francis as 'The Great Reformer' of the Catholic Church
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6:39Pope Francis died Monday, leaving behind a legacy as "Pope of the People" and a change agent within the Catholic Church. Austen Ivereigh's The Great Reformer was published just a year into Pope Francis's papacy. But already, the biography argues, the pope had solidified his position as a radical reformer, both in his approach to hot-button issues a…
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Brad Taylor (Into the Gray Zone) is on the Radar!
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26:04New York Times bestselling author BRAD TAYLOR joins BOOKSTORM Podcast to discuss INTO THE GRAY ZONE! Pike Logan is back - and the action is seemingly ripped right from the headlines! Nations are gearing up to procure Rare Earth Elements -- the ones at the heart of our phones, watches, electric cars, and defense industry ... so how far will China go…
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Aided by new sources, Clay Risen's 'Red Scare' brings McCarthyism back to life
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7:42Journalist Clay Risen is out with a new narrative history of the Red Scare, based in part on newly declassified sources. In Red Scare, Risen depicts McCarthyism as a cultural witch hunt against all kinds of people, not just potential communist spies. And he argues that the Red Scare was part of a broader cultural backlash against New Deal progressi…
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'Ordinary Time' underscores the idea that a quiet, small-town life can be magical
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1:37'Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put' is a memoir in essays by Annie B. Jones, the owner of an independent bookstore in Thomasville, Georgia. It explores small-town living and the idea that you don't have to do big things in a big city to have a meaningful life.द्वारा Suzanne Perez
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Saleem H. Ali, "Sustainability: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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46:19The growing concern about global environmental change and human impacts on the planet has led to the emergence of a broad field of study on the 'sustainability' of human societies. The term's common usage can be traced back to the advent of the Earth Summit in 1992 when 'sustainable development' was broadly embraced by the international community a…
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Q&A: Nicole Kobie, "The Long History of the Future"
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1:08:39Technology reporter Nicole Kobie, author of "The Long History of the Future," talks about how technology evolves and discusses why many predicted technologies – including driverless and flying cars, smart cities, hyperloops, and autonomous robots – haven’t become a reality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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S4 Ep64: What is the illusion in The Book of Illusions?
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1:06:49In which the Spiders take on Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions, weaving it into a web of textual filmism with prior picks Flicker and Zeroville, while debating and ultimately settling the question of its internal reality.द्वारा Xi Draconis Books
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AW: Viet Thanh Nguyen, "To Save and to Destroy - Writing as an Other
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1:04:07Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen reflected on how society can build allegiances beyond racial identity & have more global solidarity. He's interviewed by author Ijeoma Oluo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesद्वारा C-SPAN
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Chigozie Obioma on kindness, big families and the Biafran War
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54:05Booker Prize shortlisted Nigerian author Chigozie Obioma joined Claire Nichols at Byron Writers Festival to discuss his latest novel The Road to the Country about civil war in Nigeria. Now based in the US, Chigozie Obioma's first two novels The Fishermen (2015) and An Orchestra of Minorities (2019) were shortlisted for The Booker Prize. His third n…
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This week, Take Four Books, presented by James Crawford, talks to the British-Chinese writer Xiaolu Guo about her new novel - Call Me Ishmaelle - which reinterprets Herman Melville's mighty Moby Dick story and follows the protagonist of Ishmaelle, a woman who sneaks onto a whaling ship disguised as a man. For her three influencing texts Xiaolu chos…
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Episode 162: Jonathan Rauch on Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy
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34:03In this episode of Bookstack, host Richard Aldous sits down with Nicole Karlis, award-winning journalist and author of Your Brain on Altruism: The Power of Connection and Community During Times of Crisis (University of California Press). Bookstack is now a production of American Purpose at Persuasion. Follow Persuasion on X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and…
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Why you can’t forget your first love
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33:17That all-consuming, dizzying feeling is what acclaimed poet Seán Hewitt captures in his debut novel, Open, Heaven. The book follows a teenager named James, whose first love is made complicated by his own sexuality and the realities of the rural English village where he lives. Seán joins Mattea to talk about the difference between love and desire, t…
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Talia Mae Bettcher, "Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
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52:53What does transphobic oppression have to do with sexism, heterosexism, and racism? How does a decolonial analysis help us understand trans oppression? How are the relatively recent concepts of person, self, and subject implicated in these forms of oppression? And what theorizations are already available within trans communities for thinking through…
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Paul M. McGarr, "Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India's Secret Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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1:05:30Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India's Secret Cold War (Cambridge UP, 2024) is the first comprehensive history of India's secret Cold War. It examines interventions made by the intelligence and security services of Britain and the United States in post-colonial India and their strategic, political, and socio-cultural impact o…
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Sasha Colby, "The Matryoshka Memoirs: A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance" (ECW Press, 2023)
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1:25:00Irina Nikifortchuk was 19 years old and a Ukrainian schoolteacher when she was abducted to be a forced laborer in the Leica camera factory in Nazi Germany. Eventually pulled from the camp hospital to work as a domestic in the Leica owners’ household, Irina survived the war and eventually found her way to Canada. Decades later Sasha Colby, Irina’s g…
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Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025)
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1:04:57Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of farm machinery, fertilizer, seeds, and pesticides are sold to farmers around the world. Although agricultural inputs are a huge sector of the global economy, the lion's share of that market is controlled by a relatively small number of very large transnational corporations. The high degree of co…
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Victory Lap 032 - Recording is Easy with Eyes Closed
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33:45Thanks for being a supporter of RPG Bookclub! In Victory Lap, the RPG Bookclub gang talks about whatever random topics come to mind after recording the regular episode. This episode was recorded after Bonus: Another World (1991).द्वारा RPG Bookclub
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Humans cannot produce Gods! Yet we are supposed to become God. How does this work? Learn how your human will is absolutely worthless when it comes to creating godly character. “The War of the Wills”
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It's WrestleMania week baby!!!!! Listen in for today's episode where it's wall to wall coverage of WrestleMania 41 as we place our bets from the strip in Vegas!द्वारा Marky Mark & Frank Donaldson
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SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE: Living with Ghosts
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1:33:34What does it actually feel like to be a psychic medium? What is it like to have ghosts be a constant part of your otherwise normal life? Cindy Valenzuela and Colleen McKinnie can tell you -- because they are both in touch with the spirit world every day. They are both wives and mothers, they have professional careers -- and they can communicate wit…
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Ep. 680: Cranford | Chapter 2 Book talk begins at 6:13. This week’s chapter is a sobering reminder that small towns sometimes carry the heaviest stories. Also, we get another battle over Dickens vs. Johnson (yep, that again). --------------------------------------------------------------- • 02:40 - : Listen to “The Blog” (4 min vs 19 min on “The Gi…
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China’s Trade War Strategy: How Xi Jinping Uses Autocracy, Fear, and Innovation to Compete with the West
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48:00Hosts Nina dos Santos and Owen Bennett-Jones analyze the global fallout after Donald Trump plunged America and the world into a trade war with China. David Rennie, The Economist’s geopolitics editor and former Beijing and Washington D.C. bureau chief, joins the podcast to unpack how Xi Jinping is playing the long game and playing to win. In this ep…
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Two new children's books view the natural world as a site of personal growth
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15:56Two new picture books explore how the outside world can transform our relationships with our communities and ourselves. First, Kiese Laymon is out with a children's book about three Black boys who connect during a transformative summer in the South. With City Summer, Country Summer, Laymon says he wanted to explore the experience of getting lost as…
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The Bookshelf Easter Special: Irish writer Niall Williams
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54:00Irish writer Niall Williams with Kate Evans at the 2025 Adelaide Writers Week — with a focus on his Faha novels, History of the Rain, This is Happiness and (his latest) Time of the Child. Williams is also a screenwriter, playwright and travel writer — and his first novel, Four Letters of Love, has just been released as a film. He also appeared onst…
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Hey Shelf Improvers! 🎙️ In today’s episode, we’re discussing: Chapter 4 - Building Emotional Intelligence Chapter 5 - Releasing The Past I must apologise in advance we do have a good moan on this one and we do say goodbye then speak for another 10-15mins as we do lol :p 💬 Got thoughts? We’d love to hear them! Join the conversation in our WhatsApp g…
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Archives - The Life of Stan 'The Man' Lee
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33:16And now a reposting of this rambling and too brief biography of Stan 'The Man' Lee, the man who made Marvel Comics what it is today.द्वारा JT Wheatley
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