The Book Show

By Joe DonahueArts Books

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September 22 Edwidge Danticat - Dèy
Edwidge Danticat has long explored Haiti, family, memory, and the meaning of home. Her new novel,'Dèy,' follows a Haitian American woman who survives a mass shooting and keeps it secret, confronting trauma, grief, motherhood, and survival.Edwidge Danticat on this week’s Book Show.
29 min
September 15 Emily St. John Mandel - Exit Party
Emily St. John Mandel, bestselling author of 'Station Eleven,' returns with 'Exit Party.' Set in a fractured America in 2031, the novel follows an ex-prisoner into a mysterious celebration—and a story of surveillance, freedom, love, and shifting realities.
29 min
September 08 Marlon James - The Disappearers
Booker Prize-winning novelist Marlon James returns to Jamaica with 'The Disappearers.' Set in Kingston in 1988, the novel follows eight gay men whose lives are forever changed by a brutal attack.James joins us to talk about friendship, violence, identity, survival and a story that asks what it means to disappear.
29 min
September 01 Chang-Rae lee - A Tender Age
Chang-Rae Lee joins us to discuss 'A Tender Age,' a coming-of-age story set in the summer of 1976 that explores family, identity, memory, and the moments that shape a life. From the award-winning author of Native Speaker comes a deeply moving new novel.
29 min
August 25 Richard Russo - Under the Falls
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo has made a career exploring the complicated relationships of small-town America. His latest, 'Under the Falls,' follows a famous musician returning to the Adirondack town he fled years ago, where old friends, an old love and old secrets are waiting.
29 min
August 18 Sigrid Nunez - It Will Come Back to You
Sigrid Nunez has long been one of America's most thoughtful literary voices. Now, after more than three decades as a novelist, she's published her first collection of short fiction, 'It Will Come Back to You.' The stories span much of her career, bringing together characters wrestling with memory, loneliness, desire, aging, and the strange turns of everyday life.
29 min
August 11 Paul Yoon - Etna
Novelist Paul Yoon has earned acclaim for fiction that examines lives shaped by war, exile, and resilience. His new novel, 'Etna,' tells an unforgettable story through the eyes of a combat-trained dog who leaves the soldiers he served alongside to undertake an odyssey back to the place he once called home.
29 min
August 04 Daniel Mason - Country People
Physician and acclaimed novelist Daniel Mason has a gift for finding the extraordinary in everyday life. His new novel, 'Country People,' follows a young family whose move to rural Vermont becomes an unexpected journey into folklore, community, and imagination.
29 min
July 27 Colson Whitehead - Cool Machine
Colson Whitehead is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and now brings his acclaimed Harlem trilogy to a close with 'Cool Machine.' The novel reunites readers with furniture dealer and reluctant fence Ray Carney as one last score draws him back into New York City’s criminal underworld.
29 min
July 21 Amy Bloom - Blunt Instrument
Novelist Amy Bloom ventures into new territory with her first mystery novel, 'Blunt Instrument.' At the center is Dell Chandler, a failed professor and newly minted private investigator called to solve the murder of an eminent English scholar whose death by a bronze Hawthorne bust leaves an entire university full of suspects.
29 min

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Each week on The Book Show, host Joe Donahue interviews authors about their books, their lives and their craft. It is a celebration of both reading and writers. Joe holds interesting conversations…