Turn the Page Podcast

Jacqueline Faber stops by to talk about her gorgeous debut novel, THE DEPARTMENT, a dark academic thriller about a college girl who disappears, a professor who goes looking for her, and the secrets that won't stay buried.

Anita Kopacz discusses her gorgeous book THE WIND ON HER TONGUE, a standalone companion volume to SHALLOW WATERS. We chat about blending history and mythology, coming of age, and creating empowering historical narratives.

Drs. Megan Goodwin & Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst chat with Jenn about their fascinating book, RELIGION IS NOT DONE WITH YOU: OR, THE HIDDEN POWER OF RELIGION ON RACE, MAPS, BODIES, AND LAW.

Drs. David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele return to the show to discuss their new book, OATHBREAKERS: THE WAR OF BROTHERS THAT SHATTERED AN EMPIRE AND MADE MEDIEVAL EUROPE, the follow-up to their brilliant THE BRIGHT AGES.

Author Jessica James debuts with FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY, a second chance friends to lovers to enemies to lovers romance about Valerie, a former pop punk star who gets the band back together and finds herself falling all over again for Caleb, her bandmate and first love.

LET'S CALL HER BARBIE is a fab fiction novel about the people who made Barbie a star: Ruth Handler, Jack Ryan, and Charlotte Johnson (Barbie’s Fashion designer!). Renée Rosen pulls back the curtain on all the obstacles that stood in the way of one of the boldest toy lines in history, and how how Handler made the Mattel company what it is.

Leah Konen returns to Turn the Page to chat about LAST ROOM ON THE LEFT, a thriller involving a writer, a snowstorm, a revitalized motel – and a dead body.

Shannon Ives stops by to talk about her lush debut, THOSE FATAL FLOWERS, which seamlessly blends Greco-Roman mythology and the mystery of the vanished Roanoke colony when a siren washes ashore on the North Carolina island in the 16th century.

Jenn chats with Cynthia Weiner about her arresting debut A GORGEOUS EXCITEMENT, her experiences growing up on the Upper East Side in the 1980s, the “preppy” murder that haunted the summer of 1986, and crafting fiction out of lived experience and “current” events.

Evelyn got a chance to chat with Zeeva Bukai about THE ANATOMY OF EXILE. The Abadi Family saga begins when a modern-day Romeo and Juliet story between a Palestinian and a Jew ends in tragedy. The family flees to America to mend, but encounters only more turmoil that threatens to tear the family apart.