Check This Out

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From New Hampshire Public Radio and PEN/Faulkner, Check This Out is a fresh literary series where host Rachel Barenbaum dives deeply into the works of emerging and diverse authors.

12/11/2025

Holiday Recommendations for winter reading

Join us for recommendations from literary fiction to romance; new favorites that flew under the radar but are worth seeking out.

50 min
12/04/2025

Janet Rich Edwards & 'Canticle'

A debut novel set in 13th century Bruges, a young woman’s exploration of faith, agency and love, with surprising resonance for today.

50 min
11/26/2025

Eliana Ramage & 'To the Moon and Back'

We follow one young woman's obsessive quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut in this debut novel about family, ambition and belonging.

50 min
11/20/2025

Callie Hart & 'Brimstone'

"Brimstone," the sequel to the worldwide phenomenon "Quicksilver," returns readers to the realm of Yvelia with with more drama, higher stakes, and deadly consequences.

49 min
11/13/2025

Quiara Allegria Hudes & 'The White Hot'

The story of a runaway mother’s ten days of freedom—and the pain, desire, longing, and wonder we find on the messy road to enlightenment.

49 min
11/06/2025

Katie Yee & 'Maggie; Or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar' plus Vanessa Lillie & 'The Bone Thief'

The title sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it’s the end of a marriage and a cancer diagnosis, and a funny and hopeful debut novel by Katie Yee. Plus, native American archeologist Syd Walker is back in Vanessa Lillie’s “The Bone Thief.”

50 min
10/30/2025

Rickey Fayne & 'The Devil Three Times'

A complex meditation on Black history set in West Tennessee, a family saga where the Devil plays a leading role.

49 min
10/23/2025

Addie E. Citchens & 'Dominion'

A Black Southern family drama unfolds as the sins of a favorite son rock a small Mississippi town.

49 min

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From New Hampshire Public Radio and PEN/Faulkner, Check This Out is a fresh literary series where host Rachel Barenbaum dives deeply into the works of emerging and diverse authors.