Ranked #1
Jacqueline Woodson, "RED AT THE BONE" w/ Kara Brown
Jacqueline Woodson, "RED AT THE BONE" w/ Kara Brown
As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Br... Read more
9 Oct 2019
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48mins
Ranked #2
SARAH SCHULMAN DISCUSSES HER BOOK CONFLICT IS NOT ABUSE
SARAH SCHULMAN DISCUSSES HER BOOK CONFLICT IS NOT ABUSE
Conflict Is Not Abuse (Arsenal Pulp Press) From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a con... Read more
11 Nov 2017
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49mins
Ranked #3
Demetri Martin, "IF IT'S NOT FUNNY, IT'S ART"
Demetri Martin, "IF IT'S NOT FUNNY, IT'S ART"
Demetri Martin, comedian and New York Times bestselling author of This Is a Book and Point Your Face at This, is back wi... Read more
17 Jun 2018
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45mins
Ranked #4
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, "THE MOUNTAINS SING"
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, "THE MOUNTAINS SING"
With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner's In the ... Read more
22 Apr 2020
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33mins
Ranked #5
CAITLIN DOUGHTY DISCUSSES HER BOOK FROM HERE TO ETERNITYCAITLIN DOUGHTY DISCUSSES HER BOOK FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
CAITLIN DOUGHTY DISCUSSES HER BOOK FROM HERE TO ETERNITYCAITLIN DOUGHTY DISCUSSES HER BOOK FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
From Here To Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (W.W. Norton) In From Here To Eternity: Traveling the ... Read more
22 Nov 2017
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47mins
Ranked #6
Alex Dimitrov, "ASTRO POETS" w/ Melissa Broder
Alex Dimitrov, "ASTRO POETS" w/ Melissa Broder
Critically-acclaimed poets Alex Dimitrov (Sagittarius) and Dorothea Lasky (Aries) met at a party nearly a decade ago. Th... Read more
12 Nov 2019
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50mins
Ranked #7
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO READS FROM HER NEW SHORT STORY COLLECTION HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO READS FROM HER NEW SHORT STORY COLLECTION HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES
Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf Press) In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the ... Read more
11 Nov 2017
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36mins
Ranked #8
Michelle Tea,
Michelle Tea,
When Sophie Swankowski surfaces from the freezing waters in Michelle Tea's Castle on the River Vistula, she finds hersel... Read more
21 Feb 2019
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39mins
Ranked #9
Lisa Taddeo, "THREE WOMEN" w/ Clarissa Cruz
Lisa Taddeo, "THREE WOMEN" w/ Clarissa Cruz
Lina, a homemaker in suburban Indiana, is a decade into a passionless marriage when she embarks on an affair that quickl... Read more
5 Aug 2019
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43mins
Ranked #10
Sophia Shalmiyev, "MOTHER WINTER" w/ Sara Benincasa
Sophia Shalmiyev, "MOTHER WINTER" w/ Sara Benincasa
From Laurels Award Fellowship recipient Sophia Shalmiyev comes the exquisite Mother Winter, a haunting and deeply person... Read more
4 Mar 2019
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48mins
Ranked #11
Elaine Kahn, "ROMANCE OR THE END"
Elaine Kahn, "ROMANCE OR THE END"
Romance or The End takes up the tools of romantic narrative in order to perform the rupture between self and story that ... Read more
6 Mar 2020
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51mins
Ranked #12
Ed Brubaker, "BAD WEEKEND" w/ Paul Scheer and Nicholas Winding Refn
Ed Brubaker, "BAD WEEKEND" w/ Paul Scheer and Nicholas Winding Refn
Comics won't just break your heart. Comics will just kill you. Hal Crane should know, he's been around since practically... Read more
16 Aug 2019
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57mins
Ranked #13
Marlon James, "BLACK LEOPARD, RED WOLF"
Marlon James, "BLACK LEOPARD, RED WOLF"
Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysteriou... Read more
7 Mar 2019
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1hr 7mins
Ranked #14
Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen, "CIRCLE"
Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen, "CIRCLE"
This book is about Circle. This book is also about Circle’s friends, Triangle and Square. Also it is about a rule that C... Read more
15 Mar 2019
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40mins
Ranked #15
Cyrus Grace Dunham, "A YEAR WITHOUT A NAME"
Cyrus Grace Dunham, "A YEAR WITHOUT A NAME"
For as long as they can remember, Cyrus Grace Dunham felt like a visitor in their own body. Their life was a series of i... Read more
4 Nov 2019
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50mins
Ranked #16
Tommy Pico, "JUNK" w/ Joseph Osmundson
Tommy Pico, "JUNK" w/ Joseph Osmundson
The third book in Tommy Pico’s Teebs trilogy, Junk is a breakup poem in couplets: ice floe and hot lava, a tribute to Ja... Read more
24 Jan 2019
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1hr 3mins
Ranked #17
Kristen Arnett, "MOSTLY DEAD THINGS" w/ Tommy Pico
Kristen Arnett, "MOSTLY DEAD THINGS" w/ Tommy Pico
One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right... Read more
9 Aug 2019
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1hr
Ranked #18
Amy Meyerson, "THE IMPERFECTS" w/ Quig Bruning
Amy Meyerson, "THE IMPERFECTS" w/ Quig Bruning
The Millers are far from perfect. Estranged siblings Beck, Ashley and Jake find themselves under one roof for the first ... Read more
20 May 2020
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54mins
Ranked #19
Amanda Yates Garcia, "INITIATED" w/ Pam Grossman
Amanda Yates Garcia, "INITIATED" w/ Pam Grossman
An initiation signals a beginning: a door opens and you step through. Traditional Wiccan initiates are usually brought i... Read more
6 Nov 2019
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1hr 10mins
Ranked #20
Fariha Róisín, "HOW TO CURE A GHOST" w/ Fatimah Asghar
Fariha Róisín, "HOW TO CURE A GHOST" w/ Fatimah Asghar
A poetry compilation recounting a woman’s journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance, confusion to clarity, and bitte... Read more
17 Oct 2019
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1hr 11mins