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).

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,

"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 r...

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,

Three mini topics. Plus, don't you forget about Bel Canto by Ann Patchett and Plenty by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon. - In addition to candy, my kids got books for Easter. Later that day, Friends came over and we gave their daughter a late birthday ...

A new podcast; an audiobook narrated by the creator of Hamilton, and questions from the mailbag. -   - This week Michael tells us about a new podcast, This is the Author, published by the audiobooks division of Penguin Random House.

Defining literary and commercial fiction. We recommend Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg and All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage. -   - I've just gotten over a reading slump. For a few weeks, I couldn't get into any books or audios.

Authors Steve Himmer and Mary Doria Russell, speaking at Booktopia Vermont 2015. -     - Michael and I are at Sales Conference this week, learning about books that Penguin Random House will publish in the fall of 2016. In place of our usual episode,

Diverse books for a diverse reading population. We recommend What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell, and Evicted by Matthew Desmond. -   - I recently discovered The Setup Wizard, a Tumblr-based fan fiction about a Muggle who is the first ever IT pers...

Hi all, Ann here. - Episode 371 was accidentally published with the incorrect audio file (episode 317 -- you can see how it happened). - I've fixed the file so that if you received it via email or find it through the website,