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Each week on The Book Show, host Joe Donahue interviews authors about their books, their lives and their craft. It is a celebration of both reading and writers. Joe holds interesting conversations with a variety of authors including Malcolm Gladwell, Lawrence Wright, and Emily St. John Mandel.As the son of a librarian, Joe has been part of the book world since childhood. His first job was as a library assistant, during college he was a clerk at an independent book store and for the past 25 years he has been interviewing authors about their books on the radio.He is also the host of The Roundtable on WAMC Northeast Public Radio, a 3-hour general interest talk show. Notable authors he has interviewed include: Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving, John Updike, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Arthur Miller, Stephen King, Amy Tan, Anne Rice, Philip Roth, E.L Doctorow, Richard Russo, David Sedaris and Maya Angelou.Joe has won several awards for his interviews, including honors from the Associated Press, the Edward R. Murrow Awards, the New York State Association of Broadcasters, The Headliners, The National Press Club and the Scripps-Howard Foundation.
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Emily St. John Mandel, bestselling author of 'Station Eleven,' returns with 'Exit Party.' Set in a fractured America in 2031, the novel follows an ex-prisoner into a mysterious celebration—and a story of surveillance, freedom, love, and shifting realities.
Booker Prize-winning novelist Marlon James returns to Jamaica with 'The Disappearers.' Set in Kingston in 1988, the novel follows eight gay men whose lives are forever changed by a brutal attack.James joins us to talk about friendship, violence, identity, survival and a story that asks what it means to disappear.
Chang-Rae Lee joins us to discuss 'A Tender Age,' a coming-of-age story set in the summer of 1976 that explores family, identity, memory, and the moments that shape a life. From the award-winning author of Native Speaker comes a deeply moving new novel.
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo has made a career exploring the complicated relationships of small-town America. His latest, 'Under the Falls,' follows a famous musician returning to the Adirondack town he fled years ago, where old friends, an old love and old secrets are waiting.
Sigrid Nunez has long been one of America's most thoughtful literary voices. Now, after more than three decades as a novelist, she's published her first collection of short fiction, 'It Will Come Back to You.' The stories span much of her career, bringing together characters wrestling with memory, loneliness, desire, aging, and the strange turns of everyday life.
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