Apr 26, 2016

Litsy, Book Awards,  plus, don't you forget about 84, Charing Cross Road and Nobody's Fool.

Ann and I are both on Litsy, a new photo-focused book-based social media app (usernames AnnKingman and mkindness). The one problem we're encountering is posting about a book that we're reading electronically in manuscript form;...

Apr 16, 2016

This week, we bring you three authors from Booktopia Petoskey (September 2015), each of whom gives a short talk about their work (or other things).

• Lauren Fox, author of Days of Awe
  Jim Ottaviani, author of Primates
  Jennifer McMahon, author of The Night Sister

These are always very entertaining, so please do listen...

Apr 12, 2016

"April Showered" with listener questions. Plus, we recommend Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh, and Geek Parenting by Stephen H. Segal and Valya Dudycz Lupescu.

Thanks to all of you who commented on episode 375 with suggestions for adult books that can be ready by a precocious 9-year-old. And, in a follow-up to episode 376,...

Apr 5, 2016

We're thinking about summer, trying not to be book snobs, and raving about The Caped Crusade and Lab Girl.

It's time to start thinking about summer (even though there is snow out my window right now). Specifically, we'd like you to help us create the categories that will appear in this year's Books on the Nightstand...