A literary podcast featuring author interviews and discussions with bookish content creators, hosted by Jaylen (aka @thebarandthebookcase on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok).
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A literary podcast featuring author interviews and discussions with bookish content creators, hosted by Jaylen (aka @thebarandthebookcase on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok).
Reading the Room is BACK. The first episode of 2024 is an interview with one of my all-time favorite writers: Sheila Heti. Her new book, “Alphabetical Diaries,” is available today from @fsgbooks.
Alice McDermott, National Book Award winner and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, joins me to discuss her new novel, "Absolution," available now from FSG.
A discussion with a handful of authors and a co-editor of PEACH PIT, an anthology of fierce and dangerous women, available now from Dzanc Books, edited by Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley.
CJ Reads, owner of Sunny's Books, joins me to discuss the origin of our merch collab (the "I Got Saved by Queer Books" tee, available now!), opening a queer bookstore in Yuma, AZ, and some of our favorite queer books.
An interview with Brandon Taylor about his new novel, "The Late Americans," available now from Riverhead Books. We also discuss his Substack, Twitter, realism, romance novels, character, criticism, and the Internet.
A literary podcast featuring author interviews and discussions with bookish content creators, hosted by Jaylen (aka @thebarandthebookcase on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok).
