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A sweeping four-century debut novel that travels from France to Acadia to the bayous of Southern Louisiana. Plus, New York Times literary critic Dwight Garner on today's literary landscape.

An unemployed actress finds a new job taking wealthy clients on luxury time-travel tours through history. And on the Book Biz, an unlikely theme night idea that’s sold out Fenway and selling books.

Some favorite authors offer their suggestions for summer reading, plus host Rachel Barenbaum has some books by New England authors to recommend.

The Book Biz segment is where we look at the forces shaping what gets written, published and read. We talk to Katherine Center, a veteran romance author about how the industry has changed in the last 20 years, her new novel, "The Shippers," and what it's like to have your work turned into a movie.

This debut novel is about an itinerant Singaporean ex-con hiding from her past in different countries. And on our Book Biz segment, author Katherine Center reflects on her 20-year publishing career.

We discuss the rise of audio books and how they are driving books sales and creating fandoms with bookseller Rachel Kanter.

The debut novel "Homebound'" features four lives entangled across time by a computer game, saved to a floppy disk in the 1980s. And on our Book Biz segment, how audiobooks are changing publishing.

A discussion with book critic Ron Charles about the changing landscape for book reviews and literary criticism.

An unsettling debut novel blending romance, horror, and fairy tale elements, with nods to Frankenstein, plus, in our Book Biz segment, the future of literary criticism.

Where we look at the forces shaping what gets written, published, and read, featuring author and podcaster Sarah MacLean on why romance has become the engine of modern publishing.