Peter Mendelsund is a writer, book designer, musician, novelist, and painter. And he has two books coming out within just a couple of weeks of each other: Exhibitionist and Weepers. We talk about both in deep, wide-ranging conversation. This is a good one.
Rebecca Schinksy, Vanessa Diaz, and Danika Ellis go deep on V.E. Schwab's highly anticipated new book to answer the question: So, is it good?
Kate McKean joins Jeff to talk about her new book, Write Through It: An Insider's Guide to Publishing and the Creative Life. Kate is a literary agent at the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency and writes the extremely interesting and popular Agents + Books newsletter.
This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, A Murder for Miss Hortense, A Rare Find, and more great books!
Welcome to Part One of Jane Austen June, plus prepare to take part in this month's book club.
Danika Ellis joins Jeff to talk about a spate of book-related AI disasters, Amazon's list of the best books of the year, Michelle Obama's recently-announced book, and much more.
Five excellent queer beach reads for your tote bag this summer.
Jeff talks about a bunch of books coming out in June he wants to read. That's it. That's the episode.
Jeff is joined by Book Riot editors Danika Ellis and Erica Ezeifedi to talk about what makes a beach read, beach reads picks, and memorable beach reading moments.
Kelly talks with E. Lockhart about the We Were Liars adaptation and Erica talks with Rioter Danika Ellis about the 10th anniversary of Nimona.