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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Richard Blanco reads from and discusses his latest poetry collection.
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In All the Little Bird-Hearts, debut novelist Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow has created a richly drawn psychological drama set in the late 1980s about a woman, Sunday Forrester, who is autistic. The author is also autistic. The novel was longlisted for the Booker Prize for 2023.
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Kelly Sather discusses her award-winning story collection, 'Small in Real Life.'
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Elizabeth Crook's latest novel, The Madstone, is a thrilling story set in Texas in the late 1860s. Protagonist Benjamin Shreve sets out on a long journey to help a pregnant mother and her little son evade a murderous gang.
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At 95 years old, Lore Segal is at the top of her game with her latest story collection, Ladies’ Lunch.
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In James McBride’s The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, we are in Pottstown, Pennsylvania in 1972. A human skeleton has been discovered at a construction site. Who holds the secrets of this discovery? The answer might be found among the residents of Chicken Hill, a neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans have lived side by side for decades, sharing life’s sorrows and joys—and looking out for each other.
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Richard Russo won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Empire Falls and millions have followed the saga of Donald “Sully” Sullivan. Richard Russo discusses Somebody’s Fool, the third book in his North Bath trilogy.
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Cristina García discusses her latest novel, Vanishing Maps. The novel follows the del Pino family we first met in García's first novel, Dreaming in Cuban.
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A review of the novel 'Home Reading Service' by Fabio Morábito