Sure, you have important things to do. But it takes just a 10 minutes or so to learn about two upcoming book releases and something fascinating about the world.
Listen below or wherever you get your podcasts. Remember to visit your local library and your independent bookstore to lose some time yourself!
In this episode, we get excited about two new books for reading fun — The Power of Saying No by Vanessa Patrick and Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum — then Dave shares fun facts about Shakespeare's First Folio.
In this episode, we get excited about The Tumbling Girl by Bridget Walsh and The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives by Naoíse Mac Sweeney, then Mel shares highlights of the first Pulitzer Prize winners in 1917.
In this episode, we get excited about two books — Tasting History by Max Miller and This Isn't Going to End Well by Daniel Wallace — then Mel transports us to a street in Vilnius, Lithuania that's made for book lovers.
In this episode, we get excited about two new books — The Lioness of Boston by Emily Franklin and The Partisan by Patrick Worrall — then guest Jeremy Anderberg shares a fun website to find great new-to-you titles.
In this episode, we get excited about two books — a dysfunctional family novel and a memoir from a beloved American poet — then Dave tells the tale of remarkable women involved in the London's criminal underworld.
In this episode, we get excited about two books — a historical novel about the first lady Pinkerton detective and an epic nonfiction sea adventure — then Mel shares tips for getting great poetry into your life.
In this episode, we get excited about two books — a novel set in a mid-Western family restaurant and a fresh take on Southern Gothic — then Mel shares her excitement about an unfinished Brontë novel that got finished.
In this episode, we get excited about two book releases — a moody Gothic romance and a swashbuckling adventure story — then Dave talks about how to help your non-podcast-listening friends become podcast fans.
In this episode, we get excited about two books: Jane & Edward by Melodie Edwards and Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto. Then Dave invites us to get nerdy about punctuation.
In this episode, we get excited about two books: The Girl with Twenty Fingers by Kate Mueser and White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link. Then Mel introduces everyone to the man teaching modern foodies how to cook like Jane Austen.
In this episode, we get excited about two books: The Company by J.M. Varese and Sweet Enough: A Dessert Cookbook by Alison Roman. Then Dave shares stories from a recent trip to the Shetland Islands.
In this episode, we get excited about two books: Speak for the Dead by Amy Tector and I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai. Then Mel shares a story about the Gotham Book Prize that will warm your literature-loving heart.
In this episode, we get excited about two books: Weyward by Emilia Hart and Psych: The Story of the Human Mind by Paul Bloom. Then Dave tells the story a recently solved code that reveals new secrets about a famous Queen.
In this episode, we get excited about two books: My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor and A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawiziak. Then Mel talks about the fantastic Virginia Woolf exhibit at the New York Public Library.
In this episode, we get excited about two books: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson and All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley. Then Dave tells a (true) tall tale about an extraordinary map of the New World.
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