
Book Public
Book Public is a Texas Public Radio podcast about books. At Book Public we believe books have the power to enlighten and entertain us. Listen in as we talk to authors about their books and why and how they wrote them. At Book Public we’re committed to connecting listeners to books that help us understand today’s world—and each other—a little bit better.
Latest Episodes
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Tod Lending joins Yvette Benavides for a discussion about The Umbrella Maker’s Son. This World War II novel is a powerful and poignant story about survival and hope in the face of terror and violence. It's an important addition to modern works of Holocaust literature.
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A new Little Golden Book biography immortalizes the story of Selena Quintanilla for a new generation of young readers.
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This special issue of the Book Public podcast includes conversations and readings from several contributors whose work appears in issue No. 26 of The Common.
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Eiren Caffall’s The Mourner’s Bestiary, is a memoir about her experiences with polycystic kidney disease (PKD)—a chronic illness that has afflicted her family for 150 years—with the stories of marine life struggling to survive in the world’s fastest warming marine ecosystem.
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Blues in Stereo is a collection of Langston Hughes' very early works—some penned when he was just a teenager and in his early 20s. The collection, curated by Danez Smith, portends the sublime talent and abilities of Langston Hughes, a master poet who went on to help define American literature.
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Carys Davies' latest novel is set in Scotland in the 1840s— a time when tenant farmers were moved off their Scottish coastal lands. John Ferguson must evict a man named Ivar from his remote home. When John injures himself in a bad fall from a cliff, Ivar saves him, nurses him back to health, and the two men form an unexpected bond.
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In Bruna Dantas Lobato's Blue Light Hours, when a daughter and mother live 4,000 miles apart, they both come of age, feeling a deep longing for the past but also learning about how their bond deepens because of the independence each one is learning to live with.
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A fixer for journalists covering Haiti, Jean Marseille becomes the subject—and the teller—of his own story of displacement in The Four Deportations of Jean Marseille. He shares the harrowing stories of the struggle to survive the chaos and violence of Haiti and his search for a better life—for himself and his family.
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Jenny Minton Quigley is the editor of the series. Amor Towles is this year's guest judge.