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Book Public host Yvette Benavides and Peter Orner discuss "The Doll" by Edna O'Brien.

Jim Reese's latest work is a memoir in essays titled Bone Chalk.

Book Public host Yvette Benavides reviews “Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime” by Debora Harding.

Texas Public Radio's Yvette Benavides, host of Book Public, speaks to author Aimee Bender about her latest novel, "The Butterfly Lampshade."

Texas Public Radio's Book Public host Yvette Benavides and Peter Orner discuss the joy of reading.

Book Public host Yvette Benavides speaks with Jess Walter about his historical novel "The Cold Millions."

Book Public host Yvette Benavides reviews “Things You Would Know If You Grew Up Around Here” by Nancy Wayson Dinan.

Book Public Host Yvette Benavides speaks to Jenny Offill about her novel "Weather."

“The Lonely Voice with Peter Orner” from Book Public on Texas Public Radio with Host Yvette Benavides discusses “Remember” by Juan Rulfo with writer Peter Orner and guest Alberto Reyes Morgan.

TPR Book Public's Yvette Benavides speaks with Louise Erdrich about her novel "The Night Watchman."

TPR Book Public “The Lonely Voice with Peter Orner” with host Yvette Benavides, with a special guest, Alberto Reyes Morgan, discussing Juan Rulfo's story Luvina” from the collection "El Llano en Llamas."

“Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis”: Ada Calhoun Explores the Complicated Lives of Gen X Women

A review of a book of short stories; Lost Girls by Ellen Birkett Morris

Stephen Graham Jones’ latest novel, The Only Good Indians, takes us to the Blackfeet Nation in Montana’s fertile forests and the undeniable mystery and allure they hold for hunters of elk. This is the backdrop for a stunning horror story where four Native American men come face to face with the karmic forces that will exact revenge on them for disrespecting the land and its sacred creatures.

A discussion of the short story "It's Because We're So Poor" by Juan Rulfo with Yvette Benavides and Peter Orner.

Texas Public Radio's Book Public with Yvette Benavides: “Olive Again”: Elizabeth Strout on the Return to Crosby, Maine and Olive—Again

The Lonely Voice: "You Don't Hear Dogs Barking" by Juan Rulfo

Lee Gutkind is the author of My Last Eight Thousand Days: An American Male in His Seventies It’s published by The University of Georgia Press. He is also the professor and writer-in-residence in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University.

A review of Sejal Shah's debut collection of essays, This Is One Way to Dance.

In the short story collection To Be a Man, Nicole Krauss helps us decipher the puzzle of what it means to be a man—and woman—in various roles and stages of life.

The Lonely Voice: The third in our series celebrating the stories of Gina Berriault, is “Works of the Imagination.”

“Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write” : Claire Messud On Her Life as a Writer and Reader

Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays by Megan Harlan

In Dennis Mahoney’s novel Ghostlove, protagonist William Rook is a reluctant occultist who falls in love with a ghost named June.

The Lonely Voice: "The Infinite Passion of Expectation" by Gina Berriault