The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast

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S15: Ep 287 - The Geomagician with Guest Jennifer...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2026/09/30

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button You can find Jennifer Mandula at jennifermandula.com/ or on IG @jennifermandula. This week we chat with Jennifer Mandula about her book The Geomagician, a historical fantasy novel that explores the life of pioneering paleontologist Mary Anning and a dinosaur that comes to life, all within an alternate

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71:52

S15: Ep 286 - Quite Literally Books with Guests Lisa...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2026/09/16

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Quite Literally Books at https://quiteliterallybooks.com/ or on IG at @quiteliterallybooks. This week we chat with two long-time friends and book lovers, Lisa Endo Cooper and Bremond Berry MacDougall, who decided to create a small press together to help bring some forgotten books back into

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65:47

S15:Ep285 - 4 Janes: A Novel with Guest Marian Yee +...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2026/09/02

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Marian Yee at marianyee.com or on IG at @mariangyee Remember the 1996 film Jerry Maguire and its famous line, “You had me at hello?” Well, our guest this week, Marian Yee, had me at hello with her novel 4 Janes, which is a genre- and time-bending re-imagining of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

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67:30

S15:Ep264 - Ohio Celebrates Toni Morrison with Guest...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2026/08/19

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. For more information about Ohio Celebrates Toni Morrison, visit their website www.OhioCelebratesToniMorrison.org or on Insta at @ohiocelebratesmorrison. This week we have created a motley episode of different segments all about or set in OH in some way. Think of it as the Frankenstein’s monster episode

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73:48

S15:Ep283 - The Mixed Marriage Project with Guest...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2026/08/05

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Dorothy Roberts at www.dorothyeroberts.com/ or you can find her on IG at @dorothyeroberts . This week, we chat with Dorothy Roberts, the author of the book The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family. As an esteemed professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania and a

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S15:Ep282 - Love and Other Monsters with Guest Emily...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2026/07/22

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Emily Franklin at www.emilyfranklin.com or on IG at emilyfranklinauthor At the end of May, we attended a Carmichael’s book event featuring author Emily Franklin, who has written numerous books. Her latest titled Love & Other Monsters is about a time in history that most English majors look

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REPLAY - Award Winners! Hugo Award Winner Alix E. Harrow

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2026/07/07

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Alix E. Harrow at www.alixeharrow.wixsite.com or on IG at @alix.e.harrow Carrie and I are still reading and resting on our summer hiatus but we are continuing our summer replay series of award winners! This week we are going way back in the archives to the fall of 2019, the first season of

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60:36

REPLAY - Award Winners! - Edgar Award Winner Erin...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2026/06/23

Carrie and I are on summer hiatus but we are leaning into award winners! We have been lucky enough to interview many acclaimed authors who have won awards in their genres. So we are replaying some of these past episodes. First up is Erin Flanagan who was on the show in 2022. Her debut novel Deer Season won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. The Mystery Writers of America gives the Edgar Award to recognize the best in fiction, non-fiction, and television writing. Erin has gone on to write 2

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S14:Ep281 - Never Say Die with Guest Meredith Doench...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2026/06/10

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Meredith Doench at www.meredithdoench.com or on IG at @meredithdoench If you’ve listened to our show for a while, you may be aware that we’ve interviewed several Ohio authors. Katrina Kittle, Erin Flanagan, Christina Consolino, and Sharon Short (who has also published under the name Jess

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S14:Ep280 - The Missing Pages with Guest Alyson...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2026/05/27

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Alyson Richman at www.alysonrichman.com or on IG @alysonrichman. If you’re a historical fiction lover, you’ve probably read something by Alyson Richman. She’s the author of 11 novels, including The Missing Pages, which was published last fall. We were delighted that she agreed to come on the

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REPLAY - S13:Ep268 Pulitzer Prize Winner Daniel Kraus...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2026/05/19

This week you get a bonus episode because we are revisiting the conversation we had back last November with Daniel Kraus, the author of Angel Down. This novel just won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. So enjoy and we will be back with an all new episode next week.Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Daniel Kraus at his website

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S14:Ep279 - Summer Reads with Guest Sam Miller of...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2026/05/13

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Carmichael’s at carmichaelsbookstore.com We were sad last fall that we weren’t able to record with our favorite bookseller, Sam Miller, manager at the Frankfort Ave location of Carmichael’s Bookstore for our Holiday Book Buying episode. But she is back for summer, telling us all about the new

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67:38

S14:Ep278 - You Are Now Old Enough To Hear This with...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2026/04/29

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Aaron Starmer at www.aaronstarmer.com or on IG @aaron_starmer. This week on the podcast we welcome middle grade and young adult novelist Aaron Starmer whose most recent book, You Are Now Old Enough to Hear This, is a quirky middle grade novel about a Toe Beast and a girl who travels with a

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S14: Ep 277 - The Folger Shakespeare Library Book...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2026/04/15

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Folger Shakespeare Library at www.folger.edu Now you may be familiar with the Folger Shakespeare Library’s editions of Shakespeare’s works. In fact, Carrie is still using some of hers from high school. But she had no idea this world-famous research library in Washington DC had a book club

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S14:Ep276 - Aftertaste with Guest Daria Lavelle +...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2026/04/01

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Daria Lavelle at www.darialavelle.com and on IG at @daria.lavelle.author What is a food that, when you smell it or taste it, reminds you of a person or a place? Our guest this week, Daria Lavelle, has written a novel titled Aftertaste that asks what would happen if you could summon ghosts

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S14:Ep275 - Books with Betsy Podcast with Guest Betsy...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2026/03/18

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Books with Betsy at https://www.bookswithbetsy.com/ and on IG at @books_with_betsy This week, we chat with Chicago resident Betsy Tomszak who by day is a kindergarten teacher who reads lots and lots of picture books. After school hours, though, she is a reader of all kinds of other genres and

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S14:Ep274 - The International Book Project with Guest...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2026/03/04

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. This week we talk to Rachel Ray, CEO of the International Book Project, a nonprofit organization in Lexington, KY that helps make book lovers out of people all over the world. She talks to us about the logistics of shipping books and how close relationships with the Peace Corps and other nonprofits help get

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S14: Ep273 - The Mourner's Bestiary with Guest Eiren...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2026/02/18

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Eiren Caffal at her website eirencaffall.com or on IG @eirencaffall We chat this week with Eiren Caffall, a Chicago writer whose memoir, The Mourner’s Bestiary, sat on Carrie's shelf staring at her for a year until she finally made time to read it but she is so glad I did. In this creative

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S14:Ep272 - The Place Where They Buried Your Heart...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2026/02/04

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Christina Henry at christinahenry.net or on IG @authorchristinahenry In this week’s episode, our focus is on houses that are so important to a story that they essentially become a character. When we started thinking about this idea, we realized that Chicago writer Christina Henry would be a

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S14:Ep274 - The International Book Project with Guest...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2026/02/04

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. This week we talk to Rachel Ray, CEO of the International Book Project, a nonprofit organization in Lexington, KY that helps make book lovers out of people all over the world. She talks to us about the logistics of shipping books and how close relationships with the Peace Corps and other nonprofits help get

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