Book Dreams
Book Dreams is a podcast for everyone who loves books and misses English class. In each episode co-hosts Julie Sternberg and Eve Yohalem explore a book-related topic they can’t stop thinking about, everything from the genius of your favorite picture books to books bound in human skin. Julie and Eve are both award-winning authors, which allows them to come at interviews with an insider’s knowledge as well as all the wonder associated with storytelling.
Book Dreams is brought to you by The Podglomerate and is a member of Lit Hub Radio. New episodes run every Thursday.
Find Book Dreams on Twitter (@bookdreamspod) and Instagram (@bookdreamspodcast), or email contact@bookdreamspodcast.com.
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Ep. 21 - Making History with Christina Baker Kline
Christina Baker Kline--#1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train and the newly released The Exiles--joins Eve and Julie to discuss the research strategies, language choices, and overarching philosophies that shape the writing of historical...
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Ep. 20 - What Makes a Book a Bestseller? with M...
What makes a book a bestseller? It’s a question that’s captivated us as readers and as writers. In this episode, Eve and Julie talk to three experts who might have cracked the code: Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, author of the New York Times bestseller...
30 min
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Ep. 19 - What Makes for a Great Book Club? with...
Step aside, Reese and Oprah! Julie and Eve discuss keys to finding or creating the perfect book club. Also, Eve goes unfiltered on Dr. Suess. Find us on Twitter (@bookdreamspod) and Instagram (@bookdreamspodcast), or email us at...
18 min
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Ep. 18 - Black Voices, Black Vision, and Book D...
In our first follow-up episode, Julie and Eve talk about book design with Dr. Kinohi Nishikawa (@kinohin), an associate professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University and a specialist in 20th century African American...
28 min
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Ep. 17 - Behind the Wheel of a Bookmobile, with...
Move over, ice cream truck! Make way for the bookmobile. Eve and Julie get a behind-the-wheel look at the joys and perils of operating a bookmobile. They interview Hannah Spratt and Michelle Fernandez, Senior Librarians with the New York Public...
26 min
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Ep. 16 - Eve and Julie's Book Club: We Chose SO...
Julie and Eve discuss their latest book club picks, Edwidge Danticat’s Everything Inside and Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book. Spoiler alert: We love them both and we think you will, too. Plus we have a bonus chat about a sixteenth-century exorcism...
16 min
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Ep. 15 - When One Genre Isn't Enough, with Tric...
Tricia Elam Walker--novelist, essayist, playwright, picture book author, and assistant professor of creative writing at Howard University--and KJ Dell’Antonia--novelist, essayist, nonfiction book author, cohost of the #amwriting podcast, and former...
31 min
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Ep. 14 - Nevertheless, These Independent Bookst...
Julie and Eve have always dreamed of having a bookstore of their own. In this episode, they spoke with independent bookstore owners Donna Paz Kaufman of Story & Song Bookstore Bistro and Janet Webster Jones of Source Booksellers about the power of...
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Ep. 13 - Ellen Lupton and Reif Larsen on Judgin...
Have you ever judged a book by its cover? Don’t feel bad; you’re supposed to. But how are design choices made, and who holds the power to make them? In Book Dream’s first double-guest episode, Eve and Julie discuss and challenge conventions of book...
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Ep. 12 - The Truth According to Eve Yohalem's N...
On this special episode of Book Dreams, our very own Eve Yohalem talks us through the making of her latest book, The Truth According to Blue, now in bookstores. In the middle of a plague, no less! Find us on Twitter (@bookdreamspod) and Instagram...
19 min
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Ep. 11 - Inside the World of Rare Books: An Epi...
Ever wondered about rare books and who collects them? Nicho Lowry, third generation bookseller and President of Swann Auction Galleries, takes us behind the glass cases and tells us stories from this unusual world. Find us on Twitter (@bookdreamspod)...
30 min
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Ep. 10 - Funny Books for Not So Funny Times, wi...
Julie and Eve find funny books that are great anytime, but especially now. Find us on Twitter (@bookdreamspod) and Instagram (@bookdreamspodcast), or email us at contact@bookdreamspodcast.com.
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Ep. 9 - Editing Great Books for Bad Children, w...
Julie and Eve talk to children’s book expert Leonard Marcus about what it’s like to edit iconic authors. Among other questions, they ask, How do you tell E. B. White he’s got a problem with Charlotte? Find us on Twitter (@bookdreamspod) and Instagram...
34 min
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Ep. 8 - The REAL Little Women, with Anne Boyd R...
Following the release of Greta Gerwig’s 2019 film adaptation, scholar Anne Boyd Rioux joins Eve and Julie to talk about why the Little Women we grew up with is not, in fact, Alcott’s original text--and why Little Women still matters. Find us on Twitter...
24 min
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Ep. 7 - Side Effects of Bibliotherapy May Inclu...
Eve and Julie try some of the literary medicine prescribed to them in their first bibliotherapy session. Find us on Twitter (@bookdreamspod) and Instagram (@bookdreamspodcast), or email us at contact@bookdreamspodcast.com.
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Ep. 6 - What's Bibliotherapy and How Can I Get ...
Ella Berthoud, UK-based bibliotherapist and artist, conducts an on-air bibliotherapy session with Julie to prescribe a dose of literary medicine during these trying times. Find us on Twitter (@bookdreamspod) and Instagram (@bookdreamspodcast), or email...
30 min
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Ep. 5 - What Are We Supposed to Read Now? with ...
Eve and Julie ask Jim Mustich, author of 1000 Books to Read Before You Die, how to decide what to read next. Find us on Twitter (@bookdreamspod) and Instagram (@bookdreamspodcast), or email us at contact@bookdreamspodcast.com.
24 min
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Ep. 4 - I Could Live on the Prairie, with Eve a...
SPECIAL QUARANTINE EPISODE: Eve addresses a love letter to New York City, and Julie vows to stop reading creepy crime fiction (for now at least). Find us on Twitter (@bookdreamspod) and Instagram (@bookdreamspodcast), or email us at...
17 min
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Ep. 3 - Advice from a Woman with 7 Children, wi...
SPECIAL QUARANTINE EPISODE: Eve and Julie consider nineteenth century parenting techniques. And also beheadings. And donuts. (Not all at the same time, of course.) Find us on Twitter (@bookdreamspod) and Instagram (@bookdreamspodcast), or email us at...
11 min
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Ep. 2 - The Mice Have Run Amok, with Eve and Julie
SPECIAL QUARANTINE EPISODE: Julie trades murder mysteries and mayhem for love triangles and cannibalism, and Eve escapes to nineteenth century Colorado. Find us on Twitter (@bookdreamspod) and Instagram (@bookdreamspodcast), or email us at...
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Ep. 1 - Groceries, Witchcraft, & Social Distanc...
SPECIAL QUARANTINE EPISODE: Book Dreams gets a different launch than expected. Eve and Julie practice social distancing while highlighting some of their must reads right now. Find us on Twitter (@bookdreamspod) and Instagram (@bookdreamspodcast), or...
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Welcome to Book Dreams! (Trailer)
Book Dreams is a podcast for everyone who loves books and misses English class.
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