1683: Ayad Akhtar “Homeland Elegies”

The Book Show

1683: Ayad Akhtar “Homeland Elegies” | The Book Show

Oct 20 2020 | 00:27:41

00:00 / 00:27:41

Show Notes

This week on The Book Show, novelist and playwright Ayad Akhtar. Akhtar is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His latest work is Homeland Elegies, a deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams. It blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing […]

Other Episodes

Episode

September 08, 2020 • 00:27:30

#1677: Carl Hiaasen “Squeeze Me” | The Book Show

This week on The Book Show, author Carl Hiaasen discusses his latest novel Squeeze Me. Hiaasen takes on The Palm Beach social scene –...

Episode 0

May 16, 2023 • 00:27:11

1817 - Susanna Hoffs - This Bird has Flown |The Book Show

Susanna Hoffs co-founded the pop-rock band The Bangles in 1981 before embarking on a critically acclaimed solo career. Now, she has written a rock...

Episode

July 30, 2024 • 00:27:16

The Book Show | Kevin Barry - The Heart in Winter

“The Heart in Winter” by Kevin Barry is a big-hearted, violent, hypnotic, and lovelorn epic set against the iconic genre of the American Western....