Episodes

  • Steve Bertrand on Books: Nick Petrie

    Steve Bertrand on Books: Nick Petrie
    Mar 25 2026
    Alright, it’s time to move to the edge of your seat. Nick Petrie joins Steve to talk about his new thriller, The Dark Time. It’s the ninth book in his acclaimed Peter Ash series. The book takes on the threat of rapidly expanding Artificial Intelligence in a way only Peter Ash can.
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  • Steve Bertrand on Books: Mark Oppenheimer and Chris Kelly

    Steve Bertrand on Books: Mark Oppenheimer and Chris Kelly
    Mar 18 2026
    One of the spring’s most anticipated books is a biography of American literary icon Judy Blume. Author Mark Oppenheimer joins Steve to talk about the writer who helped us grow up and how she’s developed as she’s grown up. Blume cooperated with the writing of the book but has kept her distance from the final […]
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  • Steve Bertrand on Books: Johnny Compton and Jordy Rosenberg

    Steve Bertrand on Books: Johnny Compton and Jordy Rosenberg
    Mar 11 2026
    In this episode, Steve talks with two authors. Johnny Compton writes horror/fantasy stories and his latest is Dead First. Johnny has and interesting theory on horror stories. He says most of our most famous stories all have some aspect of horror in them. You might agree after you hear what he has to say. Also […]
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  • Steve Bertrand on Books: Mark Greaney and Adam al-Sirgany

    Steve Bertrand on Books: Mark Greaney and Adam al-Sirgany
    Mar 4 2026
    Mark Greaney joins Steve to talk about The Hard Line, the 15th installment of his Gray Man thriller series. In the book, the intelligence community is under attack by selective assassins. It’s up to Court Gentry and his team to stop them. Greaney is well known to those who like to read on the edge of […]
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  • Steve Bertrand on Books: Dr. Ashely Alker and Aaron Brown

    Steve Bertrand on Books: Dr. Ashely Alker and Aaron Brown
    Feb 25 2026
    How about we get a few chuckles from the emergency room? Dr. Ashely Alker takes a light-“hearted” look at how we die in “99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them”. It’s actually a fun read with a very personal origin story. Ashely’s mom was diagnosed with a serious illness and the family couldn’t […]
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  • Steve Bertrand on Books: Charles Finch and Sophie Vershbow

    Steve Bertrand on Books: Charles Finch and Sophie Vershbow
    Feb 18 2026
    Why is it we’re so drawn to Victorian novels? Charles Finch has some ideas. He’s the author behind the Charles Lenox detective series. His novel The Hidden City was a hit last year. Charles is also a respected book critic. That’s a job that comes with some heavy responsibility. He talks about that and about […]
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  • Steve Bertrand on Books: Brad Meltzer and Adithi Ramakrishnan

    Steve Bertrand on Books: Brad Meltzer and Adithi Ramakrishnan
    Feb 11 2026
    In this episode of Steve Bertrand on Books, Steve talks with author Brad Meltzer. Brad has succeeded in every type of writing he’s explored, including television, non-fiction and even children’s books, but he’s best known for his thrillers. Brad is currently on the New York Times best seller list with The Viper. In the interview, […]
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  • Steve Bertrand’s 2015 visit with Nobel Prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro

    Steve Bertrand’s 2015 visit with Nobel Prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro
    Oct 5 2017
    British writer Kazuo Ishiguro has been named the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2015, he spoke with WGN Radio’s Steve Bertrand about his novel The Buried Giant: Kazuo Ishiguro, who has won the Man Booker Prize and been awarded the O.B.E., has been called one of Britain’s most important living novelists. […]
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