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BookRiot.com co-founder Jeff O'Neal explores the wide bookish world. Interviews, lists, rankings, retrospectives, recommendations, and much more, featuring people who know and love books.

Recent Episodes
  • From Mourning to Making Art: A Conversation With Peter Mendelsund
    Jun 12, 2025 – 55:15
  • An Agent's View on Publishing and Writing a Book
    Jun 10, 2025 – 51:15
  • The "I Wish I Could Read All Day" Books of June
    Jun 5, 2025 – 40:02
  • Susan Choi on FLASHLIGHT & Damon Young on THAT'S HOW THEY GET YOU
    Jun 3, 2025 – 01:02:42
  • Wisdom, Aphorisms, and THE SECRETS OF ADULTHOOD with Gretchen Rubin
    May 29, 2025 – 41:39
  • The "Hey I Just Might" Books of May PLUS: Books on the Blockchain
    May 8, 2025 – 54:12
  • The Business of Being a Writer with Jane Friedman
    Apr 24, 2025 – 46:15
  • The Books of Marie-Helene Bertino...with Marie-Helene Bertino
    Apr 22, 2025 – 01:24:07
  • Trying to Make English Spelling EZ: Gabe Henry & ENOUGH IS ENUF
    Apr 17, 2025 – 40:24
  • Jon Hickey & BIG CHIEF
    Apr 11, 2025 – 48:06
  • Katie Kitamura & AUDITION
    Apr 8, 2025 – 34:44
  • 21 Books I've Got My Eye on This Month (April 2025)
    Apr 3, 2025 – 38:27
  • Writing the Big One with Emma Pattee, Author of TILT
    Mar 27, 2025 – 47:01
  • Making Phosphorus Interesting: WHITE LIGHT and How to Make a Microhistory
    Mar 21, 2025 – 49:56
  • The Reading Life of Stephen Graham Jones
    Mar 20, 2025 – 56:58
  • How Hollywood Shaped Joan Didion with Alissa Wilkinson
    Mar 14, 2025 – 40:48
  • A Gift from the Internet, Murder Ballads, and Liking Your Writing with Amal El-Mohtar
    Mar 6, 2025 – 54:11
  • 10 Notecards with Scaachi Koul
    Mar 4, 2025 – 34:03
  • How to Talk About New Books for 500 Episodes
    Feb 27, 2025 – 59:00
  • Book Collecting, Bibliomemoir, and JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF with Rebecca Romney
    Feb 21, 2025 – 44:07
  • BIBLIOPHOBIA with Sarah Chihaya
    Feb 13, 2025 – 41:40
  • Life, Literature, and Psychological Richness with Professor Shigehiro Oishi
    Feb 6, 2025 – 36:46
  • Human Writing, LLMs, and the Challenges and Opportunities of Living in the Age of AI
    Feb 4, 2025 – 01:07:41
  • Bookshop.org's Ebook Launch & Reading 25 Minutes a Day in 2025 with Gretchen Rubin
    Jan 30, 2025 – 01:05:53
  • What's In Store in 2025 for The World of Books?
    Jan 23, 2025 – 32:29
  • The Reading Life of Nnedi Okorafor
    Jan 16, 2025 – 42:35
  • Dedicated to Debuts: Adam Vitcavage of Debutiful
    Jan 2, 2025 – 42:51
  • [Rerun] The Reading Life of Ada Limón
    Dec 26, 2024 – 57:34
  • The Books Won't Save Us
    Dec 5, 2024 – 34:10
  • What It Is Like To Break Into Agenting & The Black List
    Nov 7, 2024 – 01:16:12
  • Tracking Bestsellers, What You See (or Don't) When You Read, and Growing Up on the Internet Can Be Great
    Oct 24, 2024 – 59:32
  • 10 Burning Questions for the World of Books and Reading
    Oct 3, 2024 – 14:57
  • Democracy...the Book
    Aug 23, 2024 – 23:22
  • My Reading Life
    Aug 1, 2024 – 59:19
  • What is Going On With Book Sales?
    Jul 25, 2024 – 52:15
  • The Reading Life of Ada Limón
    Jun 27, 2024 – 53:46
  • Ayana Mathis and THE UNSETTLED
    Jun 6, 2024 – 46:03
  • Claire Messud and THIS STRANGE, EVENTFUL HISTORY
    May 23, 2024 – 34:44
  • Connection, The Alchemy of Happiness, and Office Parties with Rachel Khong, author of REAL AMERICANS
    May 2, 2024 – 48:09
  • THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET at 40
    Apr 25, 2024 – 28:23
  • Anatomy of a Scene and Hardest/Easiest with Xochitl Gonzalez
    Mar 8, 2024 – 44:12
  • The State of Ereaders
    Mar 6, 2024 – 41:31
  • How to Bring Back a Book
    Dec 21, 2023 – 36:02
  • The It Books of the Year
    Dec 6, 2023 – 01:05:23
  • THE SISTERHOOD with Prof. Courtney Thorsson
    Nov 16, 2023 – 42:48
  • The It Books of November
    Nov 2, 2023 – 53:23
  • The Making of the Modern Publishing Industry
    Oct 19, 2023 – 42:30
  • October 2023 “It Book” Knockout Round
    Oct 5, 2023 – 52:26
  • How the Publishing Phenomenon of the Year Was Made
    Sep 27, 2023 – 37:45
  • September 2023 It Book Knockout & The History of Women's Words
    Sep 6, 2023 – 01:26:01
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