Morgan Jerkins: Wandering In Strange Lands
Have you ever signed up for one of those ancestry sites, or maybe sent in a sample of your saliva and received DNA results? Well what can those result...
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This is the book podcast everyone's talking about. Bookable features established authors and emerging talent in conversation with host and author Amanda Stern, perhaps best known for creating the Happy Ending Music & Reading Series at New York's famous Joe's Pub and Symphony Space. With an immersive sound experience designed around each episode, Bookable takes you on an audio exploration of a book—usually new, sometimes classic and occasionally obscure but always worth knowing about.
Calvin Baker: A More Perfect Reunion
Americans have been raised on a system of myths about race. We’ve invented stories to explain what we don’t understand, and it’s our belief in these o...
Nicole Dennis-Benn: Patsy
The world puts you in a box -- geography, social class, family dynamics, gender, all things you’re born into with no say in the matter. But life gets ...
Roxane Gay & Tracy Lynne Oliver: The Sacrifice of Darkness
Have you ever felt like you’re in a tunnel trying to dig your way out and are just getting nowhere? Like there’s not even a light at the end? In Roxan...
Rumaan Alam: Leave the World Behind
Want to get away from it all? Maybe rent a house somewhere remote, with no access to the internet, overlooking the woods and a swimming pool? But what...
Holiday Reads: Neil Gaiman & Team Bookable!
It’s the most wonderful time of the most hellish year in memory. But 2020 had some great new books--and plenty of down time to read them! We’ve featu...
Lynn Steger Strong: Want
Time to forget the way too familiar depictions of female friendship that lean on thread-worn stereotypes: the back-stabbing competitor, the gossip, th...
Cathy Park Hong & Ayad Akhtar
What happens when you write about the American experience from two opposing viewpoints? In novelist and playwright Ayad Akhtar’s latest book, we follo...
Karen Russell: Sleep Donation
Have you had trouble sleeping lately? Did you take a pill for it? What if sleeping pills no longer worked and your insomnia was so acute it could kill...
Kiese Laymon, Saeed Jones & Mira Jacob
When you work in a field that demands exposing your deepest self to the public, it fosters a deep, even profound kind of humility born from the habit ...