• The Week in Books LIVE:
    Joy Harjo, Discworld, and Some Thoughts on Henry Kissinger

    With Book Marks Editors Dan Sheehan and Katie Yee

    Featuring the good news and the bad news from the week in books, the big titles everyone is talking about, the best reviewed books, adaptation news, and, of course, the incomparable banter of Book Marks editors Dan Sheehan and Katie Yee.

    Discussed in the episode:

    An Alaska school board’s plan to take classics off the curriculum backfired

    Joy Harjo will serve a second term as U.S. Poet Laureate

    The winners of the 2020 Edgar Awards

    Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels set to get “absolutely faithful” TV adaptations 

    Some thoughts on Henry Kissinger…


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