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Each week on The Book Show, host Joe Donahue interviews authors about their books, their lives and their craft. It is a celebration of both reading and writers.

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March 26, 2020 00:29:58
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#1653: Jenny Offill’s “Weather” | The Book Show

Jenny Offill’s new novel, “Weather,” is about a family, and a nation, in crisis. Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without...

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March 18, 2020 00:30:00
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#1652: Paul Krugman’s “Arguing With Zombies” | The Book Show

Nobel Prize-winning economist, Paul Krugman, is one of the most recognizable and trusted voices on economics and policy today. In his new book “Arguing...

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March 11, 2020 00:30:00
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#1651: Patrick Radden Keefe’s “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland” | The Book Show

Patrick Radden Keefe, a staff writer for the New Yorker, is the author the best-selling: “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory...

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March 03, 2020 00:30:00
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#1650: Diane Rehm’s “When My Time Comes” | The Book Show

Renowned radio host Diane Rehm joins us this week to discuss her new book, “When My Time Comes,” which addresses the urgent, hotly contested...

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February 27, 2020 00:30:00
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#1648: Tom Shachtman’s “The Founding Fortunes” | The Book Show

In the new book, “The Founding Fortunes,” historian Tom Shachtman reveals the ways in which a dozen notable Revolutionaries deeply affected the finances and...

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February 27, 2020 00:30:00
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#1649: Erik Larson’s “The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz,” | The Book Show

Erik Larson is known for expertly transporting readers to past worlds. Even stories we think we know come to life in a different way...

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