Learning America – Ep 96 with Luma Mufleh
It was a wrong turn that changed everything. When Luma Mufleh —a Muslim, gay, refugee woman from hyper-conservative Jordan—stumbled upon a p...
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20 of 97 episodesThe Kaiju Preservation Society – Ep 95 with John Scalzi
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a de...
The Sleep Fix – Ep 94 with Diane Macedo
Roughly thirty percent of the population is estimated to be living with insomnia, while many more suffer from other sleep disorders. ABC anc...
Read Until You Understand – Ep 93 with Farah Jasmine Griffin
Farah Jasmine Griffin is the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University where she also serve...
The Power of Nothing to Lose – Ep 92 with William L. Silber
Following books by Malcolm Gladwell and Dan Ariely, noted economics professor William L. Silber explores the Hail Mary effect, from its orig...
Catch the Rabbit – Ep 91 with Lana Bastašić
Winner of the 2020 European Union Prize for Literature, Lana Bastašić’s powerful debut novel Catch the Rabbit is a modern-day Alice in Wonde...
Ridgeline – Ep 90 with Michael Punke
Ridgeline is the thrilling, long-awaited return of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Revenant In 1866, with the country barely...
A Master of Djinn – Ep 89 with P. Djèlí Clark
Forty years ago in Egypt, the mystic and inventor Al-Jahiz pierced the veil between realms, sending magic into the world before vanishing in...
From PA to LA – Ep 88 with Yogi Roth
From PA to LA isn’t like anything you’ve read before. Expect this book to cut deeper than your traditional tell-all. Built around a detailed...
Beloved Beasts – Ep 87 with Michelle Nijhuis
A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement―told through the lives and ideas of the people who built it. In the late nineteenth ce...
A Beginner’s Guide to America – Ep 86 with Roya Hakakian
A stirring, witty, and poignant glimpse into the bewildering American immigrant experience from someone who has lived it. Also, a mirror hel...
The Women’s History of the Modern World – Ep 85 with Rosalind Miles
The internationally bestselling author of Who Cooked the Last Supper? presents a wickedly witty and very current history of the extraordinar...
Mental Illness and Graphic Novel as Memoir – Ep 84 with Joshua Kemble
Josh thought he was living the artist’s dream. The young, ambitious comic book creator had a hip Portland apartment, an affectionate fiancé,...
Don’t Judge a College Athlete by Their Cover – Ep 83 with Corey Sobel
The Redshirt challenges tenacious stereotypes, shedding new light on the hypermasculine world of American football. Over the course of their...
A Mayan Creation Story – Ep 82 with Ilan Stavans
Popul Vuh: A Retelling is an inspired and urgent prose retelling of the Mayan myth of creation by acclaimed Latin American author and schola...
Stories From a Syrian Refugee – Ep 81 with Perween Richards
Drawn from her experiences of growing up as a young woman in the ‘world’s largest prison’—Gaza—Nayrouz Qarmout’s stories in The Sea Cloak (t...
You Ought To Do A Story About Me – Ep 80 with Ted Jackson
You Ought To Do A Story About Me: Addiction, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Endless Quest for Redemption is the heartbreaking, timeless, an...
E.E. Cummings And The Great War – Ep 79 with Alison Rosenblitt
An incisive biography of E. E. Cummings’s early life, including his World War I ambulance service and subsequent imprisonment, inspirations...
Our Moral Character – Ep 78 with Christian B. Miller
We like to think of ourselves, our friends, and our families as decent people. We may not be saints, but we are still honest, relatively kin...
In Praise of Walking – Ep 77 with Shane O’Mara
In this captivating book, neuroscientist Shane O’Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits walking confers on our bodies and brains, and to...