Book Dreams
Good Books for Bad Times
We’ve all been there: one of those tough times in life when it’s hard to get your mind to settle enough to escape into a good book. Yet...
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Book Dreams
A podcast for everyone who loves
books and misses English class.
New episodes every other Thursday.
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New Episodes
Book Dreams
- Feb 23
You Need to Stay Curious about Books
Welcome to our last regularly scheduled episode of Book Dreams. We started the podcast because books, more than just about anything,...
Book Dreams
- Feb 9
Where Trouble Melts Like Lemon Drops
In this episode, Book Dreams producer and guest host Gianfranco Lentini takes us on a journey to a real-life literary paradise—a thin...
Book Dreams
- Jan 26
Everything You Believe Emerges in the Work
In this episode, we talk to author Angie Cruz, whose latest novel is the widely acclaimed How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water. This...
Book Dreams
- Jan 12
Keeping Family Secrets in the 1950s
What do family secrets show us about the times we live in, and how do they impact the people who safeguard them? These are questions that...
Book Dreams
- Dec 29, 2022
Our 2022 End-of-Year Holiday Extravaganza!
Welcome to our 2022 end-of-year holiday extravaganza! In the spirit of holiday giving, we have a present for you, which, if we’re being...
Book Dreams
- Dec 15, 2022
A Personal and Scientific Journey Through Heartbreak
Why, exactly, do we feel so shattered when someone we love leaves us? What is the science behind the physical changes we experience...
Book Dreams
- Dec 1, 2022
Giving a “Tweak” to a Beloved Story
What is it like to create a modern, feminist retelling of an ancient, foundational text? Vaishnavi Patel–author of the instant New York...
Book Dreams
- Nov 17, 2022
A Breadcrumb Trail Through the Self
What are the raw materials of our lives? Who are the authors, the singers and songwriters, the actors and artists whose work resonates...
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- Nov 3, 2022
The Subversive Power of Literature
How can reading a novel become an act of political rebellion? This is one of the important questions we take up with Azar Nafisi, author...
- Oct 20, 2022
Where America Begins
If we want to understand America today, we must first understand the South. This is both a central premise of Imani Perry’s latest book,...
- Oct 6, 2022
America’s Fundamental Myths and Narratives
“I think the narratives about capital are an even more fundamental myth in America than those about the frontier.” Pulitzer...
- Sep 22, 2022
Injured Innocence and Violent Nostalgia
“A monk asked, ‘What is meditation?’ The Master said, ‘It is not meditation.’ The monk said, ‘Why is it “not meditation”?’ The Master...
- Sep 8, 2022
"We should pay more attention to perspectives."
“I get so upset during conversations about politics with certain family members, I feel like my body’s on the verge of explosion, with...
- Sep 1, 2022
“How Will We Know…That the Baltimore Police Department Has Turned a Corner?”
We Own This City–written by Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Justin Fenton and the basis for David Simon’s HBO miniseries–tells the...
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- Aug 25, 2022
[Re-Release] “Why are you talking about this essay that you never talk about?”
(RE-RELEASE) In this week’s episode, Eve and Julie speak with Jo Ann Beard about Festival Days, her extraordinary new collection of...
- Aug 18, 2022
"I always knew I loved you, E. B. White."
Welcome back to another installment of our favorite bibliophilic game, You Want Me to Read WHAT? The rules are simple: Julie, Eve, and a...
- Aug 11, 2022
The First Black Woman to Become a Federal Judge
Constance Baker Motley was a groundbreaking civil rights lawyer and the first Black woman to become a federal judge. Her “world-changing...
- Aug 4, 2022
The Private Investigator Behind America’s First Title IX Case
One pivotal afternoon, Erika Krouse met an attorney in a bookstore when they both reached for the same Paul Auster novel. Much to his...
- Jul 28, 2022
Piranesi & Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Tensions are running high at Book Dreams! Why? The fantasy novels of author Susanna Clarke, that's why. After Julie--and multiple Book...
- Jul 21, 2022
“For what, for what, for what?”
Fiction can invite the reader into unknown worlds and perspectives, or it can hold up a mirror so that we can see the familiar more...
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