Listen Up! February 2024 on Poured Over

“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: They feed the soul.” — Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

How great is this? February 2024 give us an extra day to read and listen and think…We’ve got a terrific lineup on Poured Over this month, starting with our newest B&N Book Club pick, Dolly Alderton’s Good Material, perfect for fans of Fleabag or Sally Rooney, Caroline O’Donoghue and Monica Heisey. We’re kicking off Black History Month with the one and only Kwame Alexander and This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets, a not-to-be missed anthology that can be read straight through or dipped in and out of. Sheila Heti (Motherhood and How Should a Person Be) discusses Alphabetical Diaries, a memoir in a form all its own that tells a story of identity and change in lyrical prose. We’re live from our flagship store on NYC’s Union Square with Kiley Reid, bestselling author of Such a Fun Age, who returns with Come and Get It, another smart, sharp novel about money and power and coming-of-age. Kelly Link — the author of our January Speculative Fiction pick White Cat, Black Dog — riffs on her first novel, The Book of Love. Lucy Sante’s memoir, I Heard Her Call My Name, is a sublime exploration of identity and change. National Book Award Finalist (Cursed Bunny) Bora Chung talks about her February Speculative Fiction pick, Your Utopia, a wild and unforgettable collection of stories. Ours is the epic debut novel from acclaimed poet Philip B. Williams (Mutiny), who takes us behind the scenes of this incredible story full of magic and love and indelible characters. We’re live from our store on NYC’s Upper West Side with our February Discover pick, Andrés N. Ordorica and his debut, How We Named The Stars. Our Double Shot episode this month features a pair of new books from bestselling writers: the new WWI novel, The Warm Hands of Ghosts, from Katharine Arden (The Bear and the Nightingale) and The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo (The Night Tiger and The Ghost Bride). Maurice Carlos Ruffin returns with a new novel, The American Daughters, a Civil War spy story unlike anything you’ve read before, and biographer Ilyon Woo closes out the month with Master Slave, Husband Wife, a New York Times Ten Best Books of 2023 just out in paperback.