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Chatter on Books is where books meet opinions. Smart readers, great questions, lively debates, and yes—sometimes a strong take or two. New episodes drop regularly. Join in! chatteronbooks.start.page

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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Pitch finalist No. 3: Tom Lin and Babylon, South Dakota, nominated by Left Bank Books. A Chinese American family, a South Dakota farm, a government missile silo and things get weird. Judge Erica Wright is already weighing in. Three finalists. One Pitch. Stay tuned.
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Pitch has its second finalist. Melissa Faliveno’s Hemlock, nominated by Maggie Robe of Flyleaf Books, is headed to the finals. Dark, queer, Gothic and, as Maggie puts it, a book that’ll make you “look at deer a little differently.” Two down. One to go. chatteronbooks.com
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Chatter rolls into fall remembering Dolly and we check in on the final three for The Pitch. DMV native, Fulbright scholar and prolific writer Camille Acker joins us with A Very Special Episode. Black TV (sort of). Family, race, class and identity (definitely). 🎧 Listen anywhere or buff.ly/WdvHDHy
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Pitch is back. Chatter asked indie bookstores to nominate a standout author from their region. Now, our first finalist: Chantel Acevedo’s Cages, nominated by Books & Books in Miami. From 1960s Cuba to London and Miami, one life pieced together by those who knew him. Two more to come.
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly gave the world a lot to remember her by. Her greatest legacy may be her Imagination Library which put hundreds of millions of books into the hands of children, opening up a world of stories long before they entered a classroom. Honoring a songwriter, storyteller and one hell of a Book Lady.
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Summer travel has a way of making you look at the world differently. So do maps. William Rankin’s Radical Cartography explores how maps shape our perceptions of the places around us. Worth a Chatter revisit before your next trip. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social 🎧 chatteronbooks.com/podcast-epis...
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Three spots. Only one S.A. Cosby. The NYT named its 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century, and Chatter fave S.A. Cosby made the list THREE times. Good company, great excuse to revisit our conversation with him. 🎧 chatteronbooks.libsyn.com/2021/07
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
On National Purple Heart Day, we’re revisiting Matthew Delmont’s Until the Last Gun Is Silent and the story of Medal of Honor recipient Dwight “Skip” Johnson. A remarkable story of courage in Vietnam, the wounds carried home, and what a country owes those it sends to war. 🎧 Listen: buff.ly/i0hRDrg
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Thomas Mallon spent years reading other people’s diaries. Then he published his own. He joins Claude, David, Torie, and pal Louis Bayard for A Book of One’s Own, The Very Heart of It, and a vivid return to New York during the AIDS crisis. Listen at chatteronbooks.com.
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Wait, wait... don't tell us you missed Mary Roach on Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me this weekend! Keep the Mary streak alive with her visit to Chatter, where she joined us to talk about Replaceable You and the wonderfully weird science behind rebuilding the human body. 🎧 buff.ly/KnDmskt
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🦈 What if you caught the person everyone else missed? 🦈 Emma Styles joins Chatter to talk The Shark (Pegasus Books), a gripping Australian thriller where the line between hunter and hunted disappears. Plus a welcome to The Brady Readery and one last sigh for the World Cup. 🎧📚 chatteronbooks.com
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🍎🚶What happens when you spend a year chasing the real Johnny Appleseed? Isaac Fitzgerald set out to follow an American legend and came back with stories about kindness, curiosity, and the strangers who remind us we're all connected. 🎧 Chatteronbooks.com or wherever you get podcasts.
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
📚 This week's Pitch comes from Flyleaf Books. Their pick: Hemlock by Melissa Faliveno. Queer gothic meets literary horror as a woman returns to the Wisconsin woods to confront family secrets, addiction, and a past that's anything but buried. Listen where you get your podcasts or buff.ly/ToeLMuF
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
What if the things that hold us together aren't beliefs, but rituals? Bruce Feiler joins to talk about A Time to Gather, a globe-spanning look at the traditions, gatherings and shared experiences that help people find meaning and connection. Then Wimbledon+World Cup+a Pitch nom! buff.ly/FhBb3ns
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
How does a country reckon with its darkest history? This week, Wonderland Books nominates Jeffrey Katz's Unsettled Ground for The Pitch, a deeply personal look at Germany's ongoing effort to confront the Holocaust and its legacy chatteronbooks.com
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Why is it always Florida? This week: Wonderland Books nominates Jeffrey Katz's Unsettled Ground for The Pitch, and Erica Wright joins Chatter to talk murder, mysteries, poetry, and The Museum of Unusual Occurrence. We're convinced she never sleeps. 🎧 Stream where you get podcasts: buff.ly/542Dd7Z
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
If you like hearing about great books before everyone else does, this episode’s for you. Mitchell Kaplan from Books & Books nominates Chantel Acevedo’s Cages for The Pitch, our indie bookstore-powered writing contest spotlighting standout new voices.🎙️ 🎧️ Listen where you get podcasts or link in bio!
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Black leather jacket energy this week! James Grady joins with stories about Robert Redford, politics, murder and the shadows of American power. Torie survives Book Fair-palooza, David gets emotional for graduation and Mitchell Kaplan nominates Chantel Acevedo for The Pitch. 🎧️ chatteronbooks.com
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Book festival season is upon us! Jud Ashman joins Chatter to talk about the May 16 Gaithersburg Book Festival, where Torie & Claude will interview Jason Mott, while Torie also prepares for the Gold Coast Book Fair in Oyster Bay w/ Isaac Fitzgerald and Bruce Feiler. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The Pitch runs on indie bookstore instincts. This week Shane Mullen nominated Soman Chainani — creative, ambitious, and exactly the kind of writer these stores tend to find first. New episode out now. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or open.spotify.com/show/0hTeSU7... 📘 🎧️
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Berner built Cookies into a billion-dollar company by seeing where cannabis was going before most people believed it was going anywhere. Now he wrote the book. Literally. New York Times bestseller. 🎙️Give it a listen. Find it wherever you get your podcasts or podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The Pitch is Chatter On Books' writing contest, built around independent bookstores nominating authors they believe in. This week Shane Mullen from Left Bank Books joined with his nomination: Tom Lin's new book 'Babylon, South Dakota'. Wherever you get podcasts or link in bio. 🎧️ 📘 buff.ly/lXUT3Um
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Torie’s still got Duke on her mind, leading into Grady’s buzzy new one, Mayor Ashman's pitch for the Gaithersburg Book Fest and on to David Wright Faladé. The New Internationals lands in postwar Paris and takes on race and identity without smoothing the edges. 📚💙 Link in bio www.chatteronbooks.com
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Masters week. The back nine at Augusta. Michael Croley has written beautifully about golf and loss, and what the game holds long after the people we played it with are gone. We could not think of a better week to bring this one back. ⛳️ 🎙️ Listen where you get your podcasts or buff.ly/xdQbry6
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
@charlottewood.bsky.social joins Torie, David and James Grady to discuss The Natural Way of Things, a novel about ten women imprisoned in the Australian outback and the resilience that follows. 🎧️ 📘 Listen where you get your podcasts or buff.ly/PMpbBaM
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Chatter's own David Aldridge took on the 100 greatest NBA players ever in The Basketball 100, harder than any bracket you've filled out this week. Hear him defend every pick on the pod. 🏀 www.chatteronbooks.com/episode/davi...
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Hockey romance. Life lessons. And a great indie bookstore.The crew picks their sports romance guilty pleasures (spoiler: they're not guilty). Shane Mullen from @leftbankbooks joins and @markhertling.bsky.social shares "If I Don't Return"—fatherhood, resilience, not a book about war. buff.ly/v4ISGf4
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Olympics withdrawal? Try this. Andrew Maraniss joined to talk Inaugural Ballers, the true story of the first womens basketball team. Olympic bonus: his dad @davidmaraniss.bsky.social wrote Path Lit by Lightning on Jim Thorpe, including the 1912 wins and his medals being stripped.🏅📚🎧 buff.ly/Ih6Fr9V
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This week we Chattered with @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social about The Beheading Game. Anne Boleyn is well-trod ground but Lehmann tackles it with imagination, empathy, and provocative thinking. Couldn’t put it down. 👑📚🎧 Listen now | 🔗 Link in bio | open.spotify.com/episode/6s2W...
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Valentine’s Day, but make it history. 💘📚 @nytimes.com best seller Ilyon Woo joined us to talk Master Slave Husband Wife, the extraordinary true story of Ellen & William Craft who escaped slavery together in one of the boldest acts of love and courage in American history. 🎧✨ buff.ly/vGBj2Gw
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Matthew Delmont joins David, Torie, and David Maraniss to discuss Until the Last Gun Is Silent, his examination of Black activism during the Vietnam War. Coretta Scott King and Dwight “Skip” Johnson get their due. If you think you know this chapter of history, think again. 🎙️📚 Listen" buff.ly/OW9tVyM
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
If you like knowing what’s really going on behind the scenes, this one’s worth a listen. DeMaurice Smith joined Chatter on Books to talk Turf Wars and the power, labor fights, and leadership battles that shape the game off the field. Call it light prep for the big game! 🎧Listen: buff.ly/2b9GGYV
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Nancy Baenan of Arcadia Books @arcadiabookstore.bsky.social joins us to nominate their first author for THE PITCH. James DeVita’s new novel Sanctuary is post apocalyptic and uncomfortably current. The contest conversations are officially underway. 📚💙 Link in bio or ▶️ www.chatteronbooks.com
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This week on Chatter on Books, @markmedley.bsky.social joins us to talk Live to See the Day, a wide ranging, deeply human look at what keeps people going against impossible odds. Thoughtful, hopeful, and a great conversation. 📚💙 Link in bio or ▶️ www.chatteronbooks.com
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Our first nominee for THE PITCH is here! From @citylightsbooks.bsky Rae Alexandra social discusses "Unsung Heroines" a collection of profiles honoring 35 women that shaped the bay area. This begins PITCH author appearances allowing listeners to learn about the writers and their work. buff.ly/KupSs8q
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
We’re excited to launch THE PITCH, a writing contest rooted in independent bookstores. Indie stores nominate one author. One winner gets $5,000 and the nominating bookstore gets $500! Featured authors will appear on Chatter on Books, so tune in to follow the journey. buff.ly/DnzOw3U
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Chatter On Books @chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Hello Bluesky! Chatter on Books is a podcast for people who love books and love talking about them even more. We love smart readers, sharp questions, and the occasional strong opinion. New episodes drop regularly.
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