All Episodes

EP14: Poetry for Your Next Road Trip

EP13: Love Letters & Bad Guys

EP12: Making Choices, Good and Bad

EP11: Castles, Space, and Cigarettes ... no Slippers

EP10: Oh Chute! Everything's Falling

EP9: The French and French Lick

EP: Getting Bloody Smashing Machines

EP7: No More Daemons

EP6: Do you think that's funny?

EP5: Sex, Drugs, and Arctic Terns

EP4: Bellyflopping into the Future

EP3: Go Deep! (sports and future crimes)

EP2: Not Crying (and another music book)

EP1: A New Hope (well, a new start, anyway)

EP100: This Is the End ... For Now

EP99: The Second-to-Last Episode

EP98: Any Good Books on the Booker Long List?

EP97: Death and Time Travel

EP96: Yes, We Read Dungeon Crawler Carl

EP95: Shepherds, Guards, and Murderers

EP94: Lesbian Vampires and Pencil-Heart Readers

EP93: Careless People and the Snarling Trumpet

EP92: Sense of an Endling

EP91: John Green, Emily Henry, and all things real and imagined

EP90: Poetry & Prose with Nina MacLaughlin

EP89: Cyndle's Debut!

EP88: Parables, Memoirs, and Chords

EP87: Reading Banned Books with PEN America

EP86: Murakami and the Fourth Wing

EP85: Is Cozy Horror Next?

EP84: Adichie and the Good Girl

EP83: New Year, Old Books, New Ideas

EP82: The Age of Innocent Chickens

EP81: Our Favorite Books of 2024

EP80: Big Books for Holiday Shopping

EP79: Blood, Vampires, and Moral Philosophy

EP78: Deep Cuts from the Boozy Book Fair

EP77: Ski Romances and Outdoor Tragedy

EP76: National Book Award Longlist Reactions (We're So Smart!)

EP75: Sally Rooney, Nick Sparks, and Serviceberries

EP74: A Literary Groundhog Day

EP73: Hannah Discovers Only Fans

EP72: Feminists and Wedding People

EP71: Having a Laugh or Two on the Dock

EP70: The Mayflower, Blood Quantum, and Great Sandwiches

EP69: Keanu Reeves, Elin Hilderbrand, and the Book of the Year?

EP68: Summer Reading Kicks Off!

EP67: Late Night from NEIBA

EP66: Live from Newburyport, with Jami Attenberg and Steve Almond

EP65: Big Questions, K-Pop, and Pre-Internet Nostalgia

EP64: Sex and Satanism

EP63: Jamaica, Southie, and Points in Between

EP62: Supercommunicating, Interviewing, and Mythmaking

EP61: Time-Travelers, Survivors, Fascists, and Crooks

EP60: Comfort Books and Badass Women

EP59: Kelly Link and the Magic of Books about Magic

EP58: Nyx, Mercury, Murderbots, and Other Gods

EP57: Our favorites from 2023!

EP56: Magic, Poetry, and the Frozen River

EP55: Books for Everyone on Your List

EP54: Hannah's Happy, Sam Did Not Finish

EP53: Stars Abound with Britney! The Future! Tommy Orange!

EP52: Two Trips to Vietnam, Murder, and Romance

EP51: Three Deaths and a Deal with the Devil

EP50: Dubus, Dudes, and a Racy Audiobook

EP49: Labor Day with the Governor of Maine and Zadie Smith

EP48: Book Shop After Dark: Bad cars, great books (and not so great)

EP47: Dissing Dennis Lehane, Praising Ann Patchett

EP46: Violence in Aruba and Literary Romance

EP45: Violence on the shores of Clearwater Pond

EP44: Cockroaches, Art Thieves, and J.M. Coetzee

EP43: Trans Men, Perimenopausal Women, and "Sally Rooney, but Funny"

EP42: 'Yellowface,' Pet Birds, and Gay Mountain Lions

EP41: Events Season, Dead Mainers, and the Firekeeper's Daughter's Niece

EP40: Bookstore Day recap, Emily Henry, and getting eaten by a sperm whale

EP39: Altruism, cynicism, TC Boyle, 'You Are Here,' and Roxanne Gay

EP38: Tom Hanks, Workplace Novels, and the Bleakness of Mars

EP37: Stories, from Hannah to Kelly Link

EP36: Ooo-La-La: Is Hannah going to buy this French bookstore?

EP35: 'Saxophone Colossus'

EP34: We have Roald Dahl thoughts, too

EP33: Arguing with the Critics

EP32: The books you love with all your hearts

EP 31: What Makes Allegra Goodman's 'SAM' so Compelling?

EP30: Our favorite books of 2022

EP29: Unpacking the NYT Top 10 Books of the Year

EP28: Introducing Shoebert — and the moral quandaries of our time

EP27: Veronica Roth is still awesome, but social media is not

EP26.2: Bonus! Hannah recounts her epic storytelling performance

EP26: Strategies for raising reading kids, with Cousin Rick

EP25: Liberty reads 700-and-how-many books a year?

EP24: Cannabis and Conferences, Rivers and 'The Bloater'

EP23: Which book is it that Hannah doesn't like? Also, 'Fire & Blood,' inspiration for 'House of Dragons,' and why it's a lot like the new Maggie O'Farrell

EP22: Hope Punk, the Women Who Run the Bestseller List Now, and Why David Mitchell is Better after Hallucinogens

EP21: Garage sale success! Watch out Penguin Random House! Molly Tanzer update!

EP20: The meanness of the '90s, bookstore events, and finger insertions

EP19: Euro bookstores and reading, wimpy YA heroines, and the problems with time travel

EP18: Morgan Talty joins to talk his debut, 'Night of the Living Rez'

EP17: A New Strategy for Books at Camp and Why the Internet is Terrible

EP16: How 'Time Traveler's Wife' came to be! Plus Boston's YA treasure Kristin Cashore, and more

EP15: Updike slammed, the rules for bookselling and beach reads, and much more!

EP 14: Authors Shonna Humphrey and Tanya Whiton Join To Dish About 'Breaking Bread'