Books Podcast Transcripts
Transcripts from Books podcasts, every one with the speakers named.
Episodes
- David Treuer traces America's relationship with violence back to the frontier
- The Magical Power of Objects. How a Glass Bird Inspired a Brilliant Novel...
- The Dangerous Mistake Western Leaders Keep Making - Dickie Shearer
- Romania, the Little Entente and the Struggle for Europe with Owen Grey (Bloomsbury, 2026)
- Meshell Ndegeocello turns familiar songs inside out
- Can Ukraine Win Without America?
- Ep 772 - Butter, by Asako Yuzuki
- Episode 125 - Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju by Haruko Kumota
- Best Of: Mahershala Ali / Writer Yiyun Li
- Remembering Eva Marie Saint / 'Interview with the Vampire' turns 50
- The Making of Xi Jinping
- Governing Islam in Austria and Germany, with Farid Hafez
- Inside the Musk/Bezos space race
- Baseball Icon Dusty Baker: The Life Lessons Baseball Taught Me
- Shanghai: The Story of China's Most Dynamic City with Michael Dillon (Yale UP, 2026)
- Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany with Michelle Lynn Kahn and Lauren Stokes (Cornell UP, 2026)
- Why the Arctic is a new source of global tension
- Poles and Jews: A Call for Myth Reconstruction with Jennifer Stark-Blumenthal (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
- After losing her sons, Yiyun Li learned to ‘suffer better’
- Ep 771 - The Only Good Indians, by Stephen Graham Jones
- Episode 124 - Magic Knight Rayearth by CLAMP
- A John Prine Appreciation
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Will Adapt George R.R. Martin's Unpublished Pages
- Dr. Florence Comite on Living Longer -- and Better
- The Popcast: Movies > Books Collection Preview
- Lois Lowry on 'Building 903,' 'The Giver' and relationships between the old and young
- Small-talk emergency kit: who the heck is Anne Carson?
- The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Part 1 of 4, by H.P. Lovecraft
- Veteran White House reporter April Ryan’s ‘Blacklash’
- Ep 483 - Banned Books Week - Being a Reader in a Dystopian Hellscape
- #62 B.K. Borison: Why She Started Writing Supernatural Romance
- Barbara Kingsolver on PARTITA
- What Happened Inside Russia’s Plague Lab?
- Bob De Niro Has 10 to 18 Dogs
- S6 : Ep 35 : The Valkyries - Everything You Need To Know Before ACOTAR 6
- Ep 2: Threshing Day Stories 7-13
- Episode 602 || What Would Scully & Mulder Read?
- TWO FOR ONE: Robert Kolker AND Chloe Benjamin
- Delivering on the DNA of the Book
- London Revisited: The Monster
- 835 Blackness in Iran (with Amy Motlagh) | My Last Book with Nicholas Boggs
- The Phantom of the Opera: Chapters 14 & 15
- The Great Winnowing of 2026 (for 2027)
- The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State (w/ Jill Lepore) | TCHR
- The Problem of Thor Bridge, Part 3
- How Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought the culture wars to the military
- Robert Greene: The Unwritten Laws of Great Writing | How I Write
- Barbican Station – Slow Horses Season 6 Episode 4 recap
- S5 E9 V.E. Schwab: At the End of a Trilogy
- Our Thriller TBR
- Grimmauld Goss (DH Chapter 10, ‘Kreacher’s Tale’)
- 15 Years of Book Riot
- Indian folklore: Fake It 'Til You Make It
- Ep 5: Dungeon Crawler Carl (Ch. 35-43)
- Ep. 445 What's a Shadow Daddy? with Jess Lee
- Sweet Treats: Bakeries and Patisseries in Romance
- Early 2010s Pop Culture Nostalgia
- ‘Showbiz!’ entertainer Murray Hill became what he didn’t see
- 298 – Stephen King & The Final Turn of the Big Combination
- Klara And The Sun: Dua Lipa & Kazuo Ishiguro On Technology & Human Loneliness
- The Tower of Babel
- Ep. 545: Books that just WORK for me
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Ep 2 - Instructions for a Swamp Witch Funeral
- Just Released: Dementia Care for Caregivers from Dr. Kenneth Robbins and Real Caregivers
- mist opportunity (Silver Flames ch. 54-62)
- Barbara Kingsolver: Partita
- The Swan Doc, Memoirs for Alix Earle, East of Eden, and DWTS Picks!
- "Lilith" by George MacDonald, Ch. 6-16
- A Study in Scarlet - Part One
- Easily Distracted by New Releases + How to Become a Pro at Reader Maxxing
- Goldfinger: The Ultimate James Bond Novel
- Michael Douglas
- Poetry Unbound in Conversation — Martín Espada
- Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis and Google - THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 3 - Part 02
- Bossing Some TBRs + Streamlining Bookish Problems (S9E10)
- Ep 770 - She Waits Where Shadows Gather, by Michelle Tang
- Episode 123 - The Marshal King by Boichi
- Crescent City: Starsword and Truth-Teller Deep Dive | What will happen with the Starsword now??
- The Mad King: Tournament at Harrenhal
- 426 – Tiny Dancer
- The Pen Pals
- Dennis Etchison's The Mist
- Celebrating minimalist composer Steve Reich
- Ep 65: A PARADE OF HORRIBLES | Ch 45 - 51
- From the Archives : Elvia Wilk : Oval
- Colm Tóibín Reads Tobias Wolff
- New drones, deadlier attacks: Dystopian reality in Ukraine
- Carolyn Forché Reads Mahmoud Darwish
- Best of Historical Fiction with Elizabeth Barnhill | Ep. 236
- Mahmoud Khalil’s 104 days in ICE Detention
- #265. What Is Cozy Fiction? 10 Characteristics Cozy Writers Need to Know
- Kyle MacLachlan was David Lynch’s ‘submersible’ into dark places
- Ep 769 - Starship Troopers, by Robert A. Heinlein
- Best Of: Rhiannon Giddens / Investigating Diddy’s Rise & Fall
- The Sillymarillion Ep 04 - The Black Gate Opens (J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion)
- Bluegrass virtuoso Billy Strings
- Investigating the system that protected Sean “Diddy” Combs
- Global power, rivalry, and A.I.; a preview of the U.S./China summit
- Inside the 'modern slavery' where cyber scammers are victims themselves
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