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  • Book Public: "Loneliness" from the collection 'Second Childhood' by Fanny Howe

    Book Public: "Loneliness" from the collection 'Second Childhood' by Fanny Howe
    Jul 11 2025
    Fanny Howe passed away on July 9 at the age of 85. Yvette Benavides pays tribute to the author and shares Howe's poem, "Loneliness."
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    7 min
  • Book Public: 'The Slip' by Lucas Schaefer

    Book Public: 'The Slip' by Lucas Schaefer
    Jul 4 2025
    The Slip by Lucas Schaefer is an epic novel, but it tells a very intimate story about the basic human need to belong. Spanning over a dozen years and weaving the intersecting tales of a varied cast of characters, it's a story for right now—about all of us.
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    25 min
  • Book Public: “Birdsong from the Radio” from the story collection ‘The Souvenir Museum’ by Elizabeth McCracken

    Book Public: “Birdsong from the Radio” from the story collection ‘The Souvenir Museum’ by Elizabeth McCracken
    Jun 27 2025
    Yvette Benavides reflects on the power of short fiction to convey what we might not have the words for. "Birdsong from the Radio" is from the collection The Souvenir Museum by Elizabeth McCracken.
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    13 min
  • Book Public: 'The Scrapbook' by Heather Clark

    Book Public: 'The Scrapbook' by Heather Clark
    Jun 20 2025
    The Scrapbook is a novel that is a modern-day love story in the shadow of German history—a Germany of artists, philosophers, virtuosos—and World War II. Heather Clark is the guest on this episode of Book Public to discuss her novel, The Scrapbook.
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    27 min
  • Book Public: 'Homework' by Geoff Dyer

    Book Public: 'Homework' by Geoff Dyer
    Jun 13 2025
    Readers of Geoff Dyer’s books have come to expect his trademark humor and incisive cultural commentary. His new book, Homework, shows us that the more success he had in school, the further he diverged from his parents. But his telling of this story brings us up close to share in his profound appreciation of his past.
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    23 min
  • Book Public: 'Endling' by Maria Reva

    Book Public: 'Endling' by Maria Reva
    Jun 6 2025
    In the novel Endling, by Maria Reva, protagonist Yeva joins guided romance tours in Ukraine to help pay for her research as a snail conservationist. Somehow, she becomes part of a kidnapping caper. Then Russia invades Ukraine. And the book shifts to a work of nonfiction with the author herself telling her story. Fiction and reality collide—beautifully.
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    22 min
  • Book Public: 'The Fate of Others' by Richard Bausch

    Book Public: 'The Fate of Others' by Richard Bausch
    May 23 2025
    Richard Bausch discusses his latest story collection, The Fate of Others. This may be the author’s 24th book, but it is a fresh, powerful collection of stories for today’s world with all its resonances of loss and isolation—but also of hope.
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    31 min
  • Book Public: 'Have Mercy on Us' by Lisa Cupolo

    Book Public: 'Have Mercy on Us' by Lisa Cupolo
    May 16 2025
    The flaws and follies of Cupolo’s characters teach us something about what it means to be human when we make mistakes or when we allow each other mercy. Lisa Cupolo discusses her award-winning story collection.
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    25 min