The Book Show

Apr 04 2025 100 ep. 27 mins 241
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Each week on The Book Show, host Joe Donahue interviews authors about their books, their lives and their craft. It is a celebration of both reading and writers.

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The Book Show | Chris Hayes – The Sirens’ Call

Apr 04 2025 27 mins  
Chris Hayes is the Emmy Award-winning host of MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes.” In his new book, “The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource,” he writes about attention as a resource – one that is being drawn away from citizens in ways they don’t even realize. This episode of The Book Show was recorded at The Bardavon in Poughkeep

The Book Show | Emma Donoghue – The Paris Express

Mar 16 2025 27 mins  

The Book Show | Karen Russell – The Antidote

Apr 01 2025 27 mins  
Karen Russell's latest, “The Antidote,” is a dust bowl novel and a reckoning with a nation’s forgetting that enacts the settler amnesia and omissions passed down from generation to generation.

The Book Show | Colum McCann – Twist

Mar 25 2025 27 mins  
Colum McCann is the New York Times bestselling author of “Let the Great World Spin.” His new novel, “Twist,” tells a propulsive story of rupture and repair in the digital age, delving into a hidden world deep under the ocean.

The Book Show | Julia Alvarez – The Cemetery of Untold Stories [encore airing]

Mar 18 2025 27 mins  
Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of “In the Time of the Butterflies” and “How the García Girls Lost Their Accents,” returns with “The Cemetery of Untold Stories” - a novel about storytelling that reminds us that the events of our lives are never truly finished, even at the end.

The Book Show | Allegra Goodman – Isola

Mar 11 2025 27 mins  

The Book Show | Charlotte Wood – Stone Yard Devotional

Mar 04 2025 27 mins  
Hailed by The Booker Prize judges as a “fierce and philosophical interrogation of human existence,” Charlotte Wood’s “Stone Yard Devotional” chronicles “one woman’s inward journey to make sense of the world and her life when conflicts and chaos are abundant in both realms.”

The Book Show | Robert Crais – The Big Empty

Feb 25 2025 27 mins  
Private investigator Elvis Cole and his enigmatic partner, Joe Pike, race to find a terrifying, unidentified killer in "The Big Empty," the 20th Elvis Cole novel. Author Robert Crais delivers Cole and Pike's toughest case yet, testing their loyalty to their clients and themselves.

The Book Show | Scott Turow – Presumed Guilty

Feb 19 2025 27 mins  
Scott Turow’s latest novel is “Presumed Guilty” - a sequel to “Presumed Innocent,” the #1 bestseller that redefined the legal thriller and is the basis for Apple TV+’s most-watched drama series ever. The book examines whether the system can ever provide true justice for those who are presumed guilty.

The Book Show | Adam Ross – Playworld

Feb 11 2025 27 mins