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King of the Dark Episode 12: Lisey’s Story

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We've arrived at an ode to dreams: This week, Liz, Louis and Bill visit the world of Boo'ya Moon and "Lisey's Story," the novel Stephen King has called his favorite.

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The B&N Podcast: Lorenzo Carcaterra’s Tales of the City

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The B&N Podcast: Lorenzo Carcaterra’s Tales of the City

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The journalist and memoirist of life on NYC's mean streets joins us to talk about his new thriller, in which ex-cops take on a cold case that turns perilously hot.

King of the Dark Episode 11: Richard Bachman and The Dark Half

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King of the Dark Episode 11: Richard Bachman and The Dark Half

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We take a side trip on our journey through Stephen King's biggest books to look at the shelf occupied by his alter ego Richard Bachman, and how the author wove that into his chilling tale "The...

The B&N Podcast: Ibram X. Kendi and the Call to Be an Antiracist

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The B&N Podcast: Ibram X. Kendi and the Call to Be an Antiracist

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The National Book Award-winning author of "Stamped from the Beginning" returns with a galvanizing new work that blends memoir, analysis, and a charge to America.

King of the Dark Episode 10: Dolores Claiborne

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King of the Dark Episode 10: Dolores Claiborne

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Our excursion into the worlds of Stephen King docks at Little Tall Island, Maine, and the story told by one of the author's most unforgettable characters.

The B&N Podcast: Tea Obreht’s Wild Wild West

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The B&N Podcast: Tea Obreht’s Wild Wild West

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The author of the award-winning debut "The Tiger's Wife" joins us in the studio to talk about her epic new novel of the American West, "Inland."

King of the Dark Episode 9: Gerald’s Game

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King of the Dark Episode 9: Gerald’s Game

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Our Summer of Stephen King podcast series returns with a look at the 1992 thriller whose setting makes "Misery" look positively expansive.

Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark

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Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark

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The hybrid punctuation mark has met with resistance from many readers and writers since its invention by an early printer. But the semicolon endures.

The B&N Podcast: Kiese Laymon and Shane Bauer on Writing with a Mission

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The B&N Podcast: Kiese Laymon and Shane Bauer on Writing with a Mission

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A conversation with two celebrated young writers about the challenges of their work, and the urgency of telling true stories in America today.

Remembering Toni Morrison (1931-2019)

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Remembering Toni Morrison (1931-2019)

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Remembering the life and work of a giant of American letters, and her last novel, " the effort of a writer impatient to cast off every superfluity to expose the rage and sadness at its heart."

King of the Dark Episode 8: The Stand

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King of the Dark Episode 8: The Stand

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Our Summer of Stephen King continues with a plunge into the author's post-apocalyptic doorstopper The Stand. A man-made plague, a supernatural villain, and a cast as big as War & Peace! Who...

The B&N Podcast: Karl Marlantes Finds Deep Family Roots among the Big Trees

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The B&N Podcast: Karl Marlantes Finds Deep Family Roots among the Big Trees

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The author of the celebrated Vietnam novel "Matterhorn" returns to fiction with "Deep River" -- a family epic that follows his Finnish-American forbears as they made a new world in the forests of...

King of the Dark Episode 7: Misery

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King of the Dark Episode 7: Misery

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Our weekly adventure in Stephen King country is back! This week, Liz, Louis and Bill find themselves snowbound in a Colorado cabin. We're talking Misery: dirty birds, addiction, fanatical fans...