Book Dreams
What Makes Us Human?
In this episode, Eve and Julie explore one of our favorite questions with James Suzman, PhD, in a wide-ranging conversation about his...
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Book Dreams
- May 19
"It began to really feel like a haunting."
Ellen McGarrahan was a young reporter at the Miami Herald when she volunteered to witness the execution of Jesse Tafero, who’d been...
Book Dreams
- May 12
What do wild bears and libertarians have in common?
In 2004 a group of libertarians founded the Free Town Project, a movement to take over a town and turn it into a libertarian utopia....
Book Dreams
- May 5
Introducing Book Dreamers to The History of Literature
This week we’re running an episode from the fabulous podcast, History of Literature, about one of our favorite authors, Jane Austen. Each...
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Book Dreams
- Apr 28
[Re-Release] “My people are from Wisconsin. We used to be from New York...
...We had a little real estate problem.” –Charlie Hill, comedian and member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. (RE-RELEASE) In this...
Book Dreams
- Apr 21
"You don't need permission to make art, but you do."
In 2011, a 27-year-old Austin Kleon gave a talk to college students outlining a simple list: 10 things he wished someone had told him...
Book Dreams
- Apr 14
“All of These Things Are Incredibly Dostoevskian.”
“When Dostoyevsky was 28, he was arrested in the pre-dawn hours by the Czar's political police. … [Nine months later] the men were...
Book Dreams
- Apr 7
Our 100th Episode!
We did it! We reached our 100th episode of Book Dreams! In celebration, we went back to our guests and asked them this question: What's...
More Episodes
- Mar 31
Developing the Story of the Photographer Nanny
It was a story that captured the attention of the public and art critics worldwide: A treasure trove of exceptional photographs was...
- Mar 24
Picking Up Captain America’s Shield
Is it possible for one person to write both award-winning literary speculative fiction and Marvel's newest “Captain America” series and...
- Mar 17
Let's Talk About Sex
How’s this for fun? Take 27 incredible writers–including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, PEN Awards, Women's...
- Mar 10
"Imagination Needs Knowledge"
“Wussy” European vampires. African folklore and mythology, and how they help establish that “homophobia is not African.” How reading...
- Mar 3
Getting Inside a Murderer’s Mind
How did a forensic and psychiatric nurse transform the way that the FBI studies, profiles, and catches serial killers? In this week’s...
- Feb 24
Merlin: Medieval Wizard or Antichrist?
In 2019, a librarian at the Central Library in Bristol, England, uncovered a mystery. Pasted to the bindings of four Renaissance books...
- Feb 17
"Like a Piece of My Soul"
Can an author write a novel about a classical musician and get all the details right? And can he make that world the backdrop for a...
- Feb 10
Journeys Across The Last Untamed Frontier
After hearing New York Times Book Review editor Pamela Paul call Ian Urbina’s The Outlaw Ocean “one of the best narrative non-fiction...
- Feb 3
Nuclear Waste Sites, War Zones, Slag Heaps, Ghost Towns
What does the natural world look like after human beings abandon it? Journalist Cal Flyn delves into the history and rebirth of these...
- Jan 27
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
“It always looked like the women outside of the church were having the most fun. They were wearing the tight jeans and the heels, and I...
- Jan 20
Thank You for Riding the New York City Subway
Deep beneath the asphalt streets of New York City lurks a breed of creature that’s haunted the subway’s subterranean labyrinth for over a...
- Jan 13
The Conjunction of Grief and Love
“I think a lot about how to map the scale of our own lives against the scale of existence.” –Kathyrn Schulz Not long after Kathryn Schulz...