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Welcome to Book Wise, where we explore leadership through books. Books are “uniquely portable magic” (Stephen King) and “mirrors of the soul” (Virginia Woolf). From BookClub.com, host Britt Brewer (with guest host appearances from CEO Jonathan Munk) helps you find the next book that stops you in your tracks… and just might shape your life and career.
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Booktrovert Reader Podcast

Charity the Booktrovert Reader

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Welcome to the Booktrovert Reader Podcast, your ultimate destination book podcasts for all things fantasy books! I help readers discover new fantasy books by one discussion at a time. Don't miss out on the latest episodes and be sure to subscribe on your favorite platform for a magical journey through the realms of fantasy!
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Hosts Bridget and Shani review romance novels and interview some of romance’s biggest authors exploring the breadth of the genre, the sex, diverse couplings, and taboo to create a safe space for listeners to learn, laugh, and pique their naughty curiosity. Expect 100% honest reviews, spontaneous singing, life lessons, indecent anecdotes, and bawdy humor.
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Join comedians and authors Sara Pascoe and Cariad Lloyd in their Weirdos Book Club - a space for the lonely outsider to feel accepted and appreciated. Assisted by their comedian and writer friends, each week they’ll discuss a book that is special, stimulating and y’know – weird. Welcome to your new book club! Thank you for reading with us. We like reading with you! Sara’s debut novel Weirdo is published by Faber & Faber and is available to pre-order here. Cariad’s book You Are Not Alone is p ...
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A podcast for comic book fans, hosted by Mike Rapin. IRCB features a rotating, 2-person panel of diverse comic book experts discussing what they’re reading with a comic book specific topic every week. New episodes every Wednesday.
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Bookworm

Mike Schmitz and Cory Hixson

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Bookworm is dedicated to doing more than just reading books. Mike Schmitz and Cory Hixson read a book every two weeks and discuss ways to apply the authors lessons to their lives.
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Kendall Bookworms

Joe and Alex Kendall

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A podcast where two brothers discuss books that they love and the occasional book that missed the mark. We will deep dive into our thoughts about the books along with the themes and book group discussion points that we find pertinent. All the books will be spoiled; you have been warned.
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The One Drink Book Club reviews books from all genres including historical fiction, thrillers, biographies, business books and many more. In each episode, host Jamey Bowers brings on a guest to discuss the book and share a drink inspired by the story.
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So Many Damn Books

Christopher Hermelin

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A blessing, a curse, a podcast, since 2014. Christopher (@cdhermelin) invites folks to the Damn Library to talk about reading, literature, publishing, and trying to make it through the never-dwindling stack of things to read. All with a themed drink in hand. Recorded at the Damn Library in Brooklyn, NY. For show info, book lists, and drink recipes, follow @somanydamnbooks and visit somanydamnbooks.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Shelf Love is about romance novels and how they reflect, explore, challenge, and shape desire. Host Andrea Martucci invites experts from a variety of perspectives to critically engaging with romance novels. Listen for discussions of individual books, genre discourse, and scholarly topics.
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Prosecco N Prose is a monthly virtual book club. Literature is lit with entertaining English teachers Wendy and Amy as they dive deep while deconstructing prose and downing Prosecco. We talk all things book club and then some. We'd love feedback and always take into consideration requests.
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In 1996, K.A. Applegate invaded our hearts with the first installment of the series Animorphs. Robin has loved the books ever since and decided to re-read all of them as an adult and tell her friends about them! Join Robin and her two rotating guests each episode for a summary and discussion of every book in the Animorphs series (not to mention the laughs, lobsters, and hawk-love).
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Find your next great read. Book recommendations, book news and guests, including top authors and other book enthusiasts who discuss what’s happening in the world of books with a focus on frontlist and backlist fiction including literary fiction, suspense, historical, memoir and nonfiction.
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Currently Reading

Meredith Monday Schwartz and Kaytee Cobb

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Currently Reading is a podcast dedicated to the love of books and reading. Two bookish friends discuss what’s on their nightstands, in their earbuds, and on their Kindles right now, in addition to books they’ve loved forever, and a variety of other readerly topics. Looking for your next great book? You'll find tons of book recommendations every week.
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One Bright Book

Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca

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A podcast where three friends read *all* the books, one book at a time. Join Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss one book in depth and chat about their reading. Visit our website at onebrightbook.com Support us by buying books from our shop at https://bookshop.org/shop/OneBrightBook Find us on Twitter at @pod_bright Frances: @nonsuchbook Dorian: @ds228 Rebecca: @ofbooksandbikes Dorian blogs at https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/ Rebecca writes a newsletter at https://readingindie.subst ...
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Books Unbound

Ariel Bissett & Raeleen Lemay

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Unbinding books to get to their hearts! Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay discuss the books they've read, the books they've bought, and recommend books to listeners every week!
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Ozone Nightmare

Joe Esposito & Orlando Bru

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The Ozone Nightmare covers a wide range of subjects, from gaming to politics, comics to culture. We speak our minds, for better or worse, but we also try to keep the conversation approachable for everyone.
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Put us on your "pull list"! We're a bi-weekly comic book variety podcast. We discuss current events, new and older comics that we read together, and some general takes on the hobby along with the occasional CBM review/discussion. In 2024 we're doing a Let's Read of The Boys by Garth Ennis with monthly episodes, and a special guest host. Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/KYJwYXBtZu Exclusive content on TikTok and Instagram: TT @comicdudeswithattitudes / https://www.tiktok.com/@comicdudeswi ...
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Book Overflow

Carter Morgan & Nathan Toups

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In a world of short-form content, it's important to engage with long-form ideas. Book Overflow is a podcast created for software engineers, by software engineers to discuss the best technical books in the world. Join co-hosts Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups each week as they discuss a new technical book! New episodes every Monday!
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Book Vs. Movie is the podcast that ponders the question: "Which was better...the book or the movie?" We spoil away the details, uncover the plot points, discuss casting choices and shower with praise (or pummel with snark) as we see fit. Hosts are Margo P. (She's Nacho Mama's Blog) and Margo D. (Creator of Brooklyn Fit Chick.com) and we are not afraid to tell it like it is!
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The Stacks is your one stop shop to talk books and reading. Guests will join the host, Traci Thomas for lively discussions about books and the ways they have shaped their lives, and they way we all understand culture, race, politics, and more. The last Wednesday of each month Traci and guest will break down a book in detail as part of The Stacks Book Club. Make sure to check the website www.thestackspodcast.com for more details, including upcoming The Stacks Book Club picks.
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Books, Cats & Snacks is a weekly podcast by Oaky and Cattie where we discuss our chosen book of the month as well as other book-related obsessions. We include cat stories and snacks, too! The podcast is a two parter, where one episode discusses the book and the other is the midway check-in episode before the next book. We have include book shoutouts in our minisodes.
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In this weekly show, hosts John Kealey and Jay Swords examine events of history through the discussion of books, journal articles, papers, and presentations, then historians and history buffs ask the question, what is relevant or irrelevant in today’s world. For more than a decade, this show has aired over-the-air on KALA-FM in the Quad Cities. Now, we're bringing it here to make listening easier than ever!
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We're not just book nerds. We're professional book nerds! We are staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks from public libraries and schools. It's our job to discuss books all day long so we thought, "Why not share the conversation!" Hear about the best books we've read, get recommendations, and learn about the hottest books coming out that we can't wait to dive into. Titles discussed are available to borrow through public libraries. Get started readin ...
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In this episode of Radio ReOrient we return to the literary theme of this season, to explore the work of Laury Silvers. Laury is the author of many successful book series set in the past and present of the Islamicate, including her Sufi Mysteries Quartet set in 10th Century Baghdad. In this interview she tells Saeed Khan and Salman Sayyid about her…
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John Kuligowski is a Nonfiction Assistant Editor at Prairie Schooner and also currently a PhD student in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He worked as an assistant editor for volumes 392 and 394 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography and has published in a number of venues both online and in print. Zainab Omaki is likewise a Nonficti…
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This is our season finally for our 16 picks! And boy is it a doozy. Joe tried to warn Alex that it might be better to split this one into two parts. But he didn't listen. More fool him. So now you get to enjoy your second long episode in a row. We promise we will be better about it next season. In this episode Joe and Alex read the book Use of Weap…
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Kate Slotover, host of The Book Club Review podcast, joins me in the Damn Library all the way from London! Drinks are had, New York is discussed, along with two different worlds of New York reportage, Helene Hanff’s Letter from New York, and Joseph Mitchell’s Up in the Old Hotel. Such a joy! contribute! https://patreon.com/smdb for drink recipes, b…
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Join us as we delve into the intricate and thought-provoking chapters 12 and 13 of R. Scott Bakker's The Great Ordeal. In this episode, we unravel the complexities of the Inchoroi's transformation, the enigmatic concept of salvation for the Non-men, and the speculative nature of the Nail of Heaven as a wormhole. We also discuss the mysterious coffe…
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We are so excited to preview our newest content for Patreon supporters of the show! Going forward, this episode series will live on Patreon, where you can join us for $5 a month to support the show and get ALL our awesome bonus content! This is a special series just for the Bookish Friends of the Currently Reading Podcast who love swooning and sexy…
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Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen (Vintage, 2024) is a critical memoir about women, reading, and mental illness. When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother—feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain—she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute.…
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Bombarded with the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb a day for half a century, Pacific people have long been subjected to man-made cataclysm. Well before climate change became a global concern, nuclear testing brought about untimely death, widespread diseases, forced migration, and irreparable destruction to the shores of Oceania. In The Ocean on Fi…
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In this elegantly written study Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales (Penn State University Press, 2024), Dr. Nancy Mason Bradbury situates Chaucer’s last and most ambitious work in the context of a zeal for proverbs that was still rising in his day. Rival Wisdoms demonstrates that for Chaucer’s contemporaries, these tiny embedde…
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Suddenly, the Sight of War: Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940s (Stanford UP, 2016) is a genealogy of Hebrew poetry written in pre-state Israel between the beginning of World War II and the War of Independence in 1948. In it, renowned literary scholar Hannan Hever sheds light on how the views and poetic practices of poets changed…
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Ever wondered why Regencies became all the rage? Or how historical romances shape and sanitize our perceptions of history? This episode delves into how Regency romances displace inconvenient historical truths. A critical look at older 'problematic' romances like Jennifer Blake's 'Fierce Eden' reveals the complexities of characters and settings, cha…
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We're doing another Reading Confessions episode! In this one we have three Amy's who are all worried about very different bookish problems and Kelly who feels that her books are "so 2015"! Links mentioned: Leena Norms: https://www.instagram.com/leenanorms/ Article about books and the environment: https://www.dw.com/en/paper-book-or-e-reader-which-i…
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Summary In this episode of the Comic Dudes podcast, Dave and Matt discuss their top 10 moments from the 1987 animated movie G.I. Joe: The Movie. They cover various scenes, including Cobra Commander's transformation into a snake, the introduction of Nemesis Enforcer, and the fight between Sergeant Slaughter and Nemesis Enforcer. The hosts also touch…
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On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are joined by show regulars Roxanna and Mary and they are discussing: Season Six In Review: interesting stats, regrets, and exciting upcoming content! Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site) . . . . . …
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Book Vs. Movie: The Most Dangerous Game The 1924 Short Story Vs.The 1932 Movie "The Most Dangerous Game" is a short story by Richard Connell, published in 1924. It follows Sanger Rainsford, a big-game hunter who ends up on an isolated Caribbean island. There, he meets General Zaroff, a hunter who has grown bored with traditional games and now hunts…
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In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups discuss the second half of "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers. Join them as they discuss how to keep up a good attitude while working on legacy code, how to get started when you're intimidated, and some of the legacy and greenfield projects they've worked on in…
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In Christian Collier's debut poetry collection, Greater Ghost (Four Way Books, 2024), this extraordinary Black Southern poet precisely stitches the sutures of grief and gratitude together over our wounds. These pages move between elegies for private hauntings and public ones, the visceral bereavement of a miscarriage alongside the murder of a famil…
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WARNING there are spoilers up ahead! This week your favorite book besties talk about Funny Story by Emily Henry. We include a book summary, book chats, our analysis, and our rankings. We decided to put this one back on the shelf! Stay tuned for next week's episode! We post every Monday. Make sure to follow us on Tiktok and Instagram @skiptothelastp…
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Send us a Text Message. Join Dan and Leah in this special episode of the Zombie Book Club as we swap apocalyptic life updates and laugh about our social media antics. From a hilarious poll determining the most unhinged face on Instagram to a shoutout for our listener Gerard Clark’s thrilling new book, "The End," this episode is packed with humor, r…
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Join hosts Holly Tinsley and Steve in an engaging conversation with DB Rook, a member of the Four Beardsman of the Bookpocalypse—a unique book review group that combines their love for literature with RPG gaming. In this episode, they dive into a variety of topics including DB Rook's indie writing projects, the resurgence of the Western genre, and …
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Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution (Verso, 2020), Breanne Fahs has curated a comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos from the nineteenth century to today. Fahs collected over seventy-five manifestos from around the world, calling on feminists to act, be defiant and show their rage. This thought-provoking and timely collect…
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Yanagawa Seigan (1789–1858) and his wife Kōran (1804–79) were two of the great poets of nineteenth-century Japan. They practiced the art of traditional Sinitic poetry—works written in literary Sinitic, or classical Chinese, a language of enduring importance far beyond China’s borders. Together, they led itinerant lives, traveling around Japan teach…
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In this episode of the One Drink Book Club, Jamey discusses Anything is Good with the New York Times best-selling author Fred Waitzkin. Anything is Good is based on the true story of a brilliant man who becomes homeless and ends up living for 20 years on the streets of Florida. The story gives incredible insights into friendship, family, and homele…
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I'm joined by 2000AD artist and colourist John Charles to discuss his own comics and his new Kickstarter for Technofreak Apocrypha. Find Technofreak on Kickstarter, or find more details on the Facebook page You can find a list of all the upcoming books on the Facebook page, follow the podcast on instagram, Threads, Mastodon, and BlueSky. And email …
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Welcome to our show! We did a little quiz/trivia for both of our books! Our discussion for this July 2024 Check-In: FAIR WARNING!! Minor spoiler alert on both books! Cattie's pick - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman Oaky's pick - I Need You to Read This by Jessa Maxwell Current BOM read: The Devil & Mrs. Davenport by Paulette Kennedy Our we…
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Our final Bonus Episode of Season 1! We made it people. Thank you to all of those people that have stuck with us since the get go. Alex and Joe hope that you have enjoyed the show thus far. And hopefully you all enjoy this special episode that we put together. This book is different. Alex read House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. Be careful read…
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In Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s. The book reveals continuity in Vienna's cultural history across this period and a framework for interpreting Viennese c…
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Approaching translations of Tolkien's works as stories in their own right, Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation (Bloomsbury, 2024) reads multiple Chinese translations of Tolkien's writing to uncover the new and unique perspectives that enrich the meaning of the original texts. Exploring translations of The Lord of the Rings…
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Cammie Pohl, owner of The Mississippi Spoon Gallery And Museum, joins the "ROI" panelists for the 570th edition in this series to discuss her gallery and museum. The host for this program is John Kealey, and the history buffs for this episode are Rick Sweet and Terri Toppler. Opinions expressed in this program are those of the hosts and the guest(s…
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BONUS DISCUSSION: Cammie Pohl, owner of The Mississippi Spoon Gallery And Museum, joins the "ROI" panelists for the 570th edition in this series to discuss her gallery and museum. The host for this program is John Kealey, and the history buffs for this episode are Rick Sweet and Terri Toppler. Opinions expressed in this program are those of the hos…
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Today’s author presents the stoic case for living a life of self-discipline. Join Mike & Cory as they consider what it means to do what’s right – even when it isn’t easy. Support the Show Spiral.computer Hypefury Mike’s Starter Vault Mike’s Bible Study video Mike’s newsletter Mike’s notes for Right Thing, Right Now Raycast Mike’s Obsidian Pro Vault…
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In this episode of Page Chewing, we sit down with Michael Castleman, the acclaimed author of The Untold Story of Books. Castleman takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of book publishing, from the days of handwritten manuscripts to the rise of digital publishing. He sheds light on the challenges faced by authors, the evolution of th…
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Part of a formidable publishing industry, cheap yet eye-catching graphic narratives consistently charmed early modern Japanese readers for around two hundred years. These booklets were called kusazōshi (“grass books”). Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of Kusazōshi (Brill, 2024) is the first English-language publication of its k…
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Kendra Sullivan's latest book of poetry, Reps (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024), cycles through a series of operational exercises that gradually enable her to narrate an attempted escape from the trappings of narrativity—plot, character, chronology, and the promise of a probable future issuing forth from a stable past. From deep within a narrowly constr…
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*Patreon- and Substack-only bonus episode teaser* This edition of The Stacks Unabridged is dedicated to the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. First we talk with Gilbert Cruz, the editor of the NYT Book Review, about the creation of the list and all the excitement it generated. Then, we welcome a panel of readers - Sara Hildreth, H…
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Emma and Joe recommend The Film Library podcast! Follow the show: The Film Library: a Kanopy Podcast. Watch season 1 here. Dive into the rich world of cinema with The Film Library, a brand-new podcast presented by Kanopy, the free streaming service available through participating public and academic libraries. Join hosts Alonso Duralde and Daniel T…
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Before J.D. Vance catapulted into the spotlight, he was a bestselling author. On this episode, we’ll give you the scoop on his 2016 book, “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.” Britt Brewer is joined by BookClub CEO Jonathan Munk, who sets the scene for Vance’s upbringing in a small Ohio town hit hard by the decline of Ameri…
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