Episodes

  • Holiday Recommendations for winter reading

    Holiday Recommendations for winter reading
    Dec 11 2025
    Join us for recommendations from literary fiction to romance; new favorites that flew under the radar but are worth seeking out.
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    50 mins
  • Janet Rich Edwards & 'Canticle'

    Janet Rich Edwards & 'Canticle'
    Dec 4 2025
    A debut novel set in 13th century Bruges, a young woman’s exploration of faith, agency and love, with surprising resonance for today.
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    50 mins
  • Eliana Ramage & 'To the Moon and Back'

    Eliana Ramage & 'To the Moon and Back'
    Nov 26 2025
    We follow one young woman's obsessive quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut in this debut novel about family, ambition and belonging.
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    50 mins
  • Callie Hart & 'Brimstone'

    Callie Hart & 'Brimstone'
    Nov 20 2025
    "Brimstone," the sequel to the worldwide phenomenon "Quicksilver," returns readers to the realm of Yvelia with with more drama, higher stakes, and deadly consequences.
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    49 mins
  • Quiara Allegria Hudes & 'The White Hot'

    Quiara Allegria Hudes & 'The White Hot'
    Nov 13 2025
    The story of a runaway mother’s ten days of freedom—and the pain, desire, longing, and wonder we find on the messy road to enlightenment.
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    49 mins
  • Katie Yee & 'Maggie; Or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar' plus Vanessa Lillie & 'The Bone Thief'

    Katie Yee & 'Maggie; Or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar' plus Vanessa Lillie & 'The Bone Thief'
    Nov 6 2025
    The title sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it’s the end of a marriage and a cancer diagnosis, and a funny and hopeful debut novel by Katie Yee. Plus, native American archeologist Syd Walker is back in Vanessa Lillie’s “The Bone Thief.”
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    50 mins
  • Rickey Fayne & 'The Devil Three Times'

    Rickey Fayne & 'The Devil Three Times'
    Oct 30 2025
    A complex meditation on Black history set in West Tennessee, a family saga where the Devil plays a leading role.
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    49 mins
  • Addie E. Citchens & 'Dominion'

    Addie E. Citchens & 'Dominion'
    Oct 23 2025
    A Black Southern family drama unfolds as the sins of a favorite son rock a small Mississippi town.
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    49 mins