• The Week in Books LIVE: Shakespeare, Chocolat, and Bill & Hillary’s Sexcapades

    With Book Marks Editors Dan Sheehan and Katie Yee and Oliver

    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 more… From Book Marks editors Dan Sheehan and Katie Yee and Oliver the Well Dressed Dog.

    Discussed in this week’s episode:

    Shakespeare’s Globe Theater facing permanent closure

    The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    Sex, lies, and saxophones in Curtis Sittenfeld’s Rodham

     A first look at the upcoming miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand

    The NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award finalists and the Caine Prize for African Writing shortlist

    The unimpeachable brilliance of 27 Dresses and Chocolat



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