Check This Out
by New Hampshire Public Radio
Latest episode
Eli McCann's ‘Stitched:' competitive quilting and unlikely friendships
Eli McCann's ‘Stitched:' competitive quilting and unlikely friendships
About this podcast
From New Hampshire Public Radio, Check This Out is a fresh literary series where host Rachel Barenbaum dives deeply into the works of emerging authors.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 54 episodes
- Eli McCann's ‘Stitched:' competitive quilting and unlikely friendships · 28 minA breakout debut novel about the cozy yet cut-throat world of competitive quilting. And on the Book Biz, podcast host Becca Freeman, author of “Back Where We Started.”
- Stephanie Soileau's 'Should the Waters Take Us' & New York Times book critic · 28 minA sweeping four-century debut novel that travels from France to Acadia to the bayous of Southern Louisiana. Plus, New York Times literary critic Dwight Garner on today's literary…
- In "Retro," Jessica Goldstein creates a luxury time-travel agency · 28 minAn unemployed actress finds a new job taking wealthy clients on luxury time-travel tours through history. And on the Book Biz, an unlikely theme night idea that’s sold out Fenway…
- Find your next summer read · 50 minSome favorite authors offer their suggestions for summer reading, plus host Rachel Barenbaum has some books by New England authors to recommend.
- The Book Biz: Novelist Katherine Center reflects · 21 minThe Book Biz segment is where we look at the forces shaping what gets written, published and read. We talk to Katherine Center, a veteran romance author about how the industry…
- Check This Out: Yu-Mei Balasingamchow & 'Names Have Been Changed' plus the Book Biz with Katherine Center · 50 minThis debut novel is about an itinerant Singaporean ex-con hiding from her past in different countries. And on our Book Biz segment, author Katherine Center reflects on her…
- The Book Biz: How audiobooks are changing publishing · 25 minWe discuss the rise of audio books and how they are driving books sales and creating fandoms with bookseller Rachel Kanter.
- Portia Elan & 'Homebound' plus the boom in audiobooks on the Book Biz · 50 minThe debut novel "Homebound'" features four lives entangled across time by a computer game, saved to a floppy disk in the 1980s. And on our Book Biz segment, how audiobooks are…
- The Book Biz: Ron Charles & the future of literary criticism · 20 minA discussion with book critic Ron Charles about the changing landscape for book reviews and literary criticism.
- Bar Fridman-Tell & 'Honeysuckle' plus book critic Ron Charles · 50 minAn unsettling debut novel blending romance, horror, and fairy tale elements, with nods to Frankenstein, plus, in our Book Biz segment, the future of literary criticism.
- The Book Biz: Why romance rules publishing · 17 minWhere we look at the forces shaping what gets written, published, and read, featuring author and podcaster Sarah MacLean on why romance has become the engine of modern publishing.
- H.M. Wolfe & 'Daggermouth' and why romance rules publishing · 50 minA viral dystopian romance set in a corrupt surveillance state, following a mercenary who botches the assassination of the president’s son. And on the Book Biz segment, the…
- Susan Donovan Bernhard & 'Westerly' · 50 minA sweeping family saga that traces the intertwined lives of three generations of women, moving from war-torn Germany and Ireland to coastal Maine.
- Tolani Akinola & 'Leave Your Mess at Home' plus the Book Biz · 50 minIn this debut novel, we meet a Nigerian-American family set on a crash course towards each other. And on our Book Biz segment, the role of agents in publishing today.
- Stacia Stark & 'We Who Will Die' · 45 minIn this romantasy set in a Roman-inspired world ruled by vampires, a young woman faces a deadly competition where survival depends on mastering forbidden powers.
- Check This Out: Daniyal Mueenuddin & 'This Is Where the Serpent Lives' plus the Book Biz · 53 minThrough intertwining narratives, the novel follows a cast of characters in Pakistan, taking us from the chaotic cities to lawless feudal countryside. And in the Book Biz segment…
- Judy Batalion & 'The Last Woman of Warsaw' plus digital-first publishing · 50 minThis historical novel takes us to Poland in the late 1930s, where two young Jewish women must work together to find a missing teacher while storm clouds gather around them. Plus…
- Rebecca Lehmann & 'The Beheading Game' · 44 minWe all know what happened to Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn, but what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to seek justice?
- Check This Out: Clare Oshetsky & 'Evil Genius' and the debut of The Book Biz · 50 minA darkly comedic noir novel set in 1974 San Francisco following a young woman as she becomes obsessed with murder and desire after a co-worker's death, leading her to challenge…
- Karan Mahajan and 'The Complex' · 50 min“The Complex” moves between the U.S. and modern India to follow the illicit liaisons, political ambitions, and betrayals of a prominent Delhi family, unraveling in the shadow of…
