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A Bookish Home takes you “behind the book” with bestselling authors. Add to your TBR list while getting the inside scoop on the winding road to publication.

A Bookish Home Laura Szaro Kopinski

    • Arts
    • 5.0 • 36 Ratings

A Bookish Home takes you “behind the book” with bestselling authors. Add to your TBR list while getting the inside scoop on the winding road to publication.

    Ep. 168: Denene Millner on the Story Behind Her Powerful New Multigenerational Novel

    Ep. 168: Denene Millner on the Story Behind Her Powerful New Multigenerational Novel

    This week, Denene Millner takes us "behind the book" with One Blood, a powerful new novel which follows three women from The Great Migration, to the civil unrest of the 1960s, to  the quest for women’s equality in the early 2000s. This is one of the most compelling, beautifully written books I've read in years and I've been recommending it to everyone I see.

    • 37 min
    Ep. 167: Virginia Pye on on the Literary Women of Gilded Age Boston

    Ep. 167: Virginia Pye on on the Literary Women of Gilded Age Boston

    This week, Boston author Virginia Pye discusses The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann, a historical novel which she calls a love letter to books and authors and to the literary city she adores. It came to be as she imagined being a young woman writing books in Boston’s male-dominated publishing industry of the 19th century.

    • 29 min
    Ep. 166: Vibhuti Jain on the Path to Debut and the Importance of Distance from her Setting and Character

    Ep. 166: Vibhuti Jain on the Path to Debut and the Importance of Distance from her Setting and Character

    Today my guest is Vibhuti Jain, author of Our Best Intentions, a gripping debut about an immigrant family that gets caught in the middle of a criminal investigation, perfect for readers of Everything I Never Told You.

    • 30 min
    Ep. 165: Logan Steiner on Bringing L.M. Montgomery to Life in After Anne

    Ep. 165: Logan Steiner on Bringing L.M. Montgomery to Life in After Anne

    This week my guest is Logan Steiner, author of the debut novel, After Anne, a stunning and unexpected portrait of Lucy Maud Montgomery, creator of one of literature’s most prized heroines, whose personal demons were at odds with her most enduring legacy—Anne of Green Gables.

    • 30 min
    Ep. 164: Katherine Marsh on The Lost Year, a Timely Middle-Grade Novel Set in 1930s Ukraine

    Ep. 164: Katherine Marsh on The Lost Year, a Timely Middle-Grade Novel Set in 1930s Ukraine

    This week, Katherine Marsh is here to discuss The Lost Year an incredibly timely, page-turning middle grade novel that traces a harrowing family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine that devastated Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s.

    • 27 min
    Ep. 163: Elizabeth Shick on the Expat Experiences in Myanmar That Shaped Her Debut Novel

    Ep. 163: Elizabeth Shick on the Expat Experiences in Myanmar That Shaped Her Debut Novel

    This week my guest is Elizabeth Shick, author of the debut novel, The Golden Land. Inspired by the six years she lived in Myanmar, and set there and in Boston, it’s a novel that digs deep into the complexities of family history and relationships.

    • 30 min

Customer Reviews

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36 Ratings

36 Ratings

Janettheorganizer ,

Loved this conversation

Thank you making me even prouder of my cousin who served in the Army. Keep the episodes coming

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Love from Coffee and Cases Podcast

I love books and have found my people— enough said! Love ❤️❤️

Andee2s ,

Resource to find your next book!

Laura does a great job interviewing the authors. This is a good podcast to find a book/author that you may not necessarily know about.

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