Literary Affairs presents Beyond the Book

This Beyond the Book interview with Carol Edgarian was recorded at an online Books & Bathrobes event in April 2021. The in-depth book club style discussion about her most recent novel Vera is an exploration of the aftermath of a catastrophe as we ourselves are emerging from the isolation of a global pandemic. Julie Robinson and Carol talk about the overarching themes of home, of being the outsider and survival.

This Beyond the Book interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen was recorded in April 2021 at an online Books & Bathrobes event to benefit Stop AAPI Hate. The in-depth book club style conversation about The Committed was a wonderful continuation of the discussion Julie Robinson had with Viet about his Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Sympathizer. Readers will appreciate the insight into the continued confessional writing of his unnamed narrator, the long term cost of colonialism on individuals and cultures, and contextualizing philosophical texts through lived experience. 

This Beyond the Book interview with Anna Solomon was recorded in May 2020 at an online Books & Bathrobes event. In celebration of the paperback release, we are sharing this conversation about The Book of V. Read the book, then enjoy this in depth book club-style conversation with Anna Solomon and Julie Robinson.

This Beyond the Book interview with Kiley Reid was recorded in May 2020 at an online Books & Bathrobes event. In celebration of the paperback release, we are sharing this conversation about Such a Fun Age. Read the book, then enjoy this in depth book club-style conversation with Kiley Reid and Julie Robinson.

This Beyond the Book interview with Janelle Brown was recorded in May 2020 at an online Books & Bathrobes event. In celebration of the paperback release, we are sharing this conversation about Pretty Things. Read the book, then enjoy this in depth book club-style conversation with Janelle Brown and Julie Robinson.

In this episode we welcomed back Medici Book Club Prize winner Yaa Gyasi to discuss her latest novel Transcendent Kingdom. In this book club style conversation, Yaa talks about the shifts she had to make to create a completely different novel from her debut. She also told us what she read before and during the writing process that impacted her craft and how she approached race, culture and geography in her work.

This Beyond the Book interview with Lisa See was recorded April 2020 at an online Books & Bathrobes event. In celebration of Women’s History Month we are publishing Lisa’s discussion about The Island of Sea Women. The in depth book club-style conversation with Julie Robinson focused on female friendships, loss, resilience and forgiveness.

This Beyond the Book interview with Lily King was recorded at our first online Books & Bathrobes event. Lily discussed her novel Writers and Lovers in an in depth book club style conversation with Julie Robinson. We are releasing this fun and informative talk in celebration of the paperback publication of Writers and Lovers. We know it will appeal to writers, readers and lovers alike as we are still experiencing life in a pandemic.

We ended our conversation last April hoping for another inaugural poet to speak to our nation and we were gifted with that and more. In celebration we are releasing our private America’s Food Fund fundraising event, with inaugural poet Richard Blanco in conversation with Julie Robinson, talking all things poetry and inclusive of poetry readings by Blanco.

An online Books & Bathrobes conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ayad Akhtar about his novel Homeland Elegies. In this in-depth book club style conversation with Julie Robinson, Ayad discusses his delight in heightened language and takes us through this fascinating, brilliant and deeply personal novel and how it reflects the post 9/11 American landscape.