BookRiot.com co-founder Jeff O'Neal explores the wide bookish world. Interviews, lists, rankings, retrospectives, recommendations, and much more, featuring people who know and love books.
Jeff talks to Gabe Henry about his new book, Enough is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell. For centuries, a series of thinkers, writers, politicians, and bankers have been advocating to make English easier to spell. It hasn't really worked. But the effort is fascinating.
Jeff talks to Jon Hickey about his debut novel, Big Chief.
Jeff talks to the great Katie Kitamura about her new novel, Audition (it is very, very good).
Jeff talks about 21 books coming out this month that caught his eye.
Jeff talks to Emma Pattee about her debut novel, Tilt
Jeff is joined by Jack Lohmann, author of the new book White Light: The Elemental Role of Phosphorus-in Our Cells, in Our Food, and in Our World
Jeff talks to Stephen Graham Jones about his reading life.
Alissa Wilkinson joins Jeff to talk about her new book, We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine.
Jeff talks to Amal El-Mohtar about This is How You Lose the Time War getting one of greatest bookish gifts ever bestowed by the internet before talking about her new book, The River Has Roots.
Saachi Koul joins Jeff to talk about her new book, Sucker Punch with a new little format for First Edition called "10 Notecards With..." Jeff has picked out 10 things from the new book--words, ideas, stories, etc--written them on notecards, and then has Saachi pick them in a random (at least at the start order). Turned out to be a lot of fun, so expect to hear more of these.