Listen Up! August 2023 on Poured Over
Anything is a beach read if you take it to the beach, so don’t let the rest of this summer past you by… Grab the books you’ve been meaning to read, listen to interviews with some of your favorite authors (and soon to be favorite authors), and enjoy!
We have bestselling authors: Ann Patchett on her latest, TOM LAKE, and more. James McBride (Deacon King Kong) on his indelible new novel, THE HEAVEN AND EARTH GROCERY STORE. A Double Shot episode with Esmeralda Santiago (When I Was Puerto Rican) + LAS MADRES and Elizabeth Acevedo (The Poet X and Clap When You Land) + her first novel for adults, FAMILY LORE. Author of H is for Hawk, Helen MacDonald charts a new path with Sin Blaché and their epic novel, PROPHET. Susan Casey (The Wave) goes back to the water—and new depths—with THE UNDERWORLD: JOURNEYS TO THE DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN; Acclaimed historian Jill Lepore (These Truths) covers the wide range of her career and our culture in THE DEADLINE. Adrian McKinty (The Chain, a B&N Mystery/Thriller Monthly Pick) returns with THE DETECTIVE UP LATE, a new installment of his Sean Duffy series. And Angie Kim follows Miracle Creek with a HAPPINESS FALLS, a family story you won’t want to put down.
And speaking of family stories that you won’t want to put down (and will show you the truth of your own life in the details of someone else’s): Jimin Han’s THE APOLOGY, John Manuel Arias’s WHERE THERE WAS FIRE, and Khashayar J. Khabushani’s I WILL GREET THE SUN AGAIN (which is half of a Double Shot episode with National Book Award finalist Jamel Brinkley (A Lucky Man) and his new story collection WITNESS. And Isabel Cañas follows up her B&N Discover pick, The Hacienda, with THE VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE, a paranormal western that fans of Victor Lavalle‘s LONE WOMEN shouldn’t miss. (Victor’s episode of Poured Over is here.) Journalist Joanna Moorhead investigates the life and art of her cousin, Leonora Carrington, in SURREAL SPACES. Daughter of an artist and an actor, Alice Carrière, has a wild story to tell in EVERYTHING/NOTHING/SOMEONE. And Prachi Gupta takes on the model minority myth, the American Dream and more in her memoir THEY CALLED US EXCEPTIONAL: AND OTHER LIES THAT RAISED US.
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