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Book Dreams is a podcast for everyone who loves books and misses English class. In each episode co-hosts Julie Sternberg and Eve Yohalem explore a book-related topic they can’t stop thinking...

We're finally able to tell you our grand opening date! (Spoiler alert: It's October 25. Come visit!) Press play to hear what we've been doin...

The store is almost ready! We're just waiting (and waiting and waiting) on a new entrance before we can start putting books on the shelves....

We (authors Eve Yohalem and Julie Sternberg) are opening a bookstore called Books & Cake in Hillsdale, New York! Renovations are underway--t...

Julie and Eve have big news! Find us on Instagram (@bookdreamspodcast), or email us at contact@bookdreamspodcast.com. We encourage you...

Why, oh why, does Eve make Julie take on questions that no person on the planet wants to be forced to think through out loud on air? (Three...

Our theme for this episode is book connections—times when one book leads us to thoughts of another or inspires us to read further. It’s one...

It's been a long time since you've seen an author interview here on Book Dreams, but we were recently given the chance to interview Roz Chas...

“This is so bad that I feel like I'm in a Stephen King novel where there's just one thing off about my familiar world, but that one thing is...

Eve read so much during the weeks since our last episode, she gave herself a repetitive reading injury. But it was worth it! In this episode...

What have Julie and Eve been reading lately? Find out in this new bonus episode, in which Eve talks about the legacy of her dad, a constant...

What have Julie and Eve been reading lately? Find out in this new bonus episode where we talk about loving old favorites even more the secon...

We’ve all been there: one of those tough times in life when it’s hard to get your mind to settle enough to escape into a good book. Yet that...

Welcome to our last regularly scheduled episode of Book Dreams. We started the podcast because books, more than just about anything, bring u...

In this episode, Book Dreams producer and guest host Gianfranco Lentini takes us on a journey to a real-life literary paradise—a thin barrie...

In this episode, we talk to author Angie Cruz, whose latest novel is the widely acclaimed How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water. This irresis...

What do family secrets show us about the times we live in, and how do they impact the people who safeguard them? These are questions that so...

Welcome to our 2022 end-of-year holiday extravaganza! In the spirit of holiday giving, we have a present for you, which, if we’re being hone...

Why, exactly, do we feel so shattered when someone we love leaves us? What is the science behind the physical changes we experience during h...

What is it like to create a modern, feminist retelling of an ancient, foundational text? Vaishnavi Patel–author of the instant New York Time...

What are the raw materials of our lives? Who are the authors, the singers and songwriters, the actors and artists whose work resonates with...

How can reading a novel become an act of political rebellion? This is one of the important questions we take up with Azar Nafisi, author of...

If we want to understand America today, we must first understand the South. This is both a central premise of Imani Perry’s latest book, Sou...

“I think the narratives about capital are an even more fundamental myth in America than those about the frontier.” Pulitzer Prize-nominated...

“A monk asked, ‘What is meditation?’ The Master said, ‘It is not meditation.’ The monk said, ‘Why is it “not meditation”?’ The Master said,...

An exciting announcement from Eve and Julie about the past, present, and future of humanity! (And also a small schedule change.) Find us on...

“I get so upset during conversations about politics with certain family members, I feel like my body’s on the verge of explosion, with body...

We Own This City–written by Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Justin Fenton and the basis for David Simon’s HBO miniseries–tells the shock...

“It’s a testament to [Jo Ann] Beard, a towering talent, that she ... deliver[s] a book as forceful as it is fine, leaving us both awed and u...

Today, we’d like to introduce you to the new podcast from The Podglomerate, Missing Pages. Missing Pages is an all-new investigative podcast...

Welcome back to another installment of our favorite bibliophilic game, You Want Me to Read WHAT? The rules are simple: Julie, Eve, and a gue...

Constance Baker Motley was a groundbreaking civil rights lawyer and the first Black woman to become a federal judge. Her “world-changing acc...

One pivotal afternoon, Erika Krouse met an attorney in a bookstore when they both reached for the same Paul Auster novel. Much to his surpri...

Tensions are running high at Book Dreams! Why? The fantasy novels of author Susanna Clarke, that's why. After Julie--and multiple Book Dream...

Fiction can invite the reader into unknown worlds and perspectives, or it can hold up a mirror so that we can see the familiar more clearly....

What makes us human? It’s a question we keep coming back to, in part because it's got no definitive answer. In this week’s episode we explor...

(RE-RELEASE) How do you write a trailblazing woman back into history after her iconic colleagues wrote her out? Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner--fou...

Sometimes finding hope requires shifting our gaze from humanity. In this episode of Book Dreams, we take an up-close and uplifting look at t...

Fairy tales. Why have they survived a thousand years of re-telling? How do they adapt to reflect changing times, places, and storytellers? A...

"I always think of that moment in North by Northwest, the Hitchcock movie, when someone is falling off one of the mountains in Mount Rushmor...

The best cookbooks are so much more than collections of recipes. They’re windows into a life or a place or a time or a way of thinking. The...

How should we, as a country, execute our military power, and what role should we, as citizens, play in military policy? In what ways does ou...

What makes us human? In this episode, Eve and Julie explore one of our favorite questions with James Suzman, PhD, in a wide-ranging conversa...

Ellen McGarrahan was a young reporter at the Miami Herald when she volunteered to witness the execution of Jesse Tafero, who’d been convicte...

What do wild bears and libertarians have in common? Turns out, more than you might think. In 2004 a group of libertarians founded the Free T...

This week we’re running an episode from the fabulous podcast, History of Literature, about one of our favorite authors, Jane Austen. Each we...

“My people are from Wisconsin. We used to be from New York. We had a little real estate problem.” -Charlie Hill, comedian and member of the...

In 2011, a 27-year-old Austin Kleon gave a talk to college students outlining a simple list: 10 things he wished someone had told him about...

“When Dostoyevsky was 28, he was arrested in the pre-dawn hours by the Czar's political police. ... [Nine months later] the men were brought...

We did it! We reached our 100th episode of Book Dreams! In celebration, we went back to our guests and asked them this question: What's one...

It was a story that captured the attention of the public and art critics worldwide: A treasure trove of exceptional photographs was discover...