Top Shelf at the Merrick Library

Top Shelf at the Merrick Library


Latest Episodes

E112: Interview with Rachel Koller Croft, author of Stone Cold Fox
February 14, 2023

Three words for you all: STONE COLD FOX. STONE COLD FOX is a perfectly wicked debut thriller about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mother, wants to leave her dark pa

E111: Interview with Johnny Compton, author of The Spite House
January 30, 2023

THE SPITE HOUSE by Johnny Compton has all the things and gives us all the things in this stunner by a horror master in the making. Think The Babadook meetsA Head Full of Ghosts in Texas Hill Country

E110: Interview with Tiffany Quay Tyson author of The Past Is Never
January 19, 2023

Tyson penetrates your imagination with characters and places in The Past is Never, so real they feel like your own suppressed memories. Ill never look at the Everglades the same way again. Carrie

E109: Interview with Allegra Goodman, author of SAM
December 29, 2022

One of the most evocative and tender examinations of youth that I have ever read. ~ Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here Sam, the latest by Allegra Goodman knocked me sideways with how good i

E108: Interview with Scott Blackburn, author of It Dies With You
December 09, 2022

It Dies With You is a satisfying gut-punch of a story. Gritty and surprising, the small-town Southern mystery is populated with big characters that make this novel truly special. I cant wait to read

Episode 107: Interview with author Mark Westmoreland for A Violent Gospel and A Mourning Song
November 09, 2022

These two books by Mark Westmoreland? They are absolutely terrific. BothA Violent Gospel and A Mourning Song feature the Dooley brothers and if you can, start with A Violent Gospel. After the events

Episode 106: Interview with Gary Goldstein, author of The Mother I Never Had
November 03, 2022

Nates morning began like any other. So how could he possibly know that well before the day was over his life would never be the same? ~The Mother I Never Had by Gary Goldstein. Hook set! I loved ta

Episode 105: Interview with author Louise Kennedy for her debut novel, Trespasses
October 26, 2022

I had the absolute pleasure of hosting author Louise Kennedy for her debut novel, Trespasses. Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, Trespasses is a shattering novel about a young woman caught b

Episode 104: Interview with Alice Elliott Dark author of Fellowship Point
October 21, 2022

Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark is the masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives,

Episode 103: Interview with Bobby Finger debut author of The Old Place
September 19, 2022

The Old Place by Bobby Finger is a bighearted, moving debut about a wry, retired schoolteacher whose decade-old secret threatens to come to light and send shock waves through her small Texas town and