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S1E11 Isaac Fitzgerald on Dirtbag Massachusetts, American Rambler, and the stories we inherit
Today I sit down with Isaac Fitzgerald, bestselling author of Dirtbag Massachusetts, Pen & Ink, How to Be a Pirate, and the forthcoming book American Rambler: Walking the Roads of Johnny…
S1E10 Eleanor Anstruther and Alisa Kennedy Jones on radical publishing, women’s voices, and Fallout
Today I sit down with Eleanor Anstruther and Alisa Kennedy Jones, author and publisher behind Fallout, a punk-hearted coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace…
S1E9 Eric LaRocca on grief, transgressive horror, and his new novel Wretch
Today I sit down with Eric LaRocca who is a Bram Stoker Award finalist and the author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, We Are Always Tender with Our Dead, and many other works of…
S1E8 Michael Finkel on true crime, impossible stories, and The Art Thief
Michael Finkel is the author of The Art Thief, The Stranger in the Woods, and True Story; all nonfiction books that read like thrillers and dive deep into the minds of people living far outside the…
S1E7 Megha Majumdar on A Guardian and a Thief, writing full-time, and trusting the process
About the episode In this episode of Always Bring a Book, I sit down with bestselling author Megha Majumdar to talk about her new novel, A Guardian and a Thief, an Oprah’s Book Club pick and finalist…
S1E6 TJ Klune on writing from love, publishing ethics, and protecting creative work
In this episode of Always Bring a Book, I sit down with TJ Klune, bestselling author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, Under the Whispering Door, and In the Lives of Puppets. TJ and I reconnect after…
S1E5 Lucy Zhao on building Pagebound, social reading, and rejecting AI
In this episode of Always Bring a Book, I sit down with Lucy Zhao, co-founder of Pagebound, a fast-growing social reading app built as an alternative to Goodreads. Lucy shares how Pagebound grew from…
S1E4 Shen Tao on writing from the heart, poetry magic, and her debut The Poet Empress
Set in the fictional Azalea Dynasty, The Poet Empress follows a young woman living in a world where women are forbidden to read, famine is rampant, and survival demands impossible choices. In this…
S1E3 Anthony Shapland on A Room Above a Shop, queer love, and becoming a novelist
On today's episode I sit down with Welsh author and artist Anthony Shapland, whose debut novel A Room Above a Shop was released earlier this year. Set in a small Welsh town in the late 1980s, A Room…
S1E2 Emily Austin on libraries, identity, and Is This a Cry for Help?
Today we sit down with bestselling Canadian author Emily Austin, known for Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Interesting Facts About Space, We Could Be Rats, and her upcoming 2026 novel Is…
S1E1 Paul Tremblay on AI, horror writing, and his new 2026 novel
Welcome to the very first episode of Always Bring a Book. Craig sits down with award-winning author Paul Tremblay; the mind behind A Head Full of Ghosts, The Cabin at the End of the World, Horror…
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