Ruth Dickey, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, joins us to talk about her connection to the organization, the process of judging the National Book Awards, who she is as a reader and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over. We end this episode with TBR Top Off book recommendations from Marc, Jamie, and Donald.

This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.                     

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Featured Books (Episode): 

March: Book Three by John Lewis 

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward 

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward 

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson 

My Friends by Hisham Matar 

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu 

Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 

The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty  

Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange 

Featured Books (TBR Top Off): 

The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard 

Behind the Beautiful Forever by Katherine Boo 

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx