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Hosted by Craig Silva · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 16 episodes
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Always Bring a Book is a podcast for readers who love hearing from the people behind the stories. Hosted by Craig Silva, each episode features candid conversations with authors, booksellers, librarians, and other book-world voices.
Craig Silva hosts Always Bring a Book, a arts show with 16 episodes published.
Today I sit down with Rachel Harrison , New York Times bestselling author of The Return, Cackle, Such Sharp Teeth, Black Sheep, So Thirsty, and Play Nice and chat about her newest novel, Kiss Slay Replay , follows a relu
Today I sit down with bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author J.W. Ocker, whose work spans spooky travel guides, children’s books, and horror novels. His newest book, Don’t Go There: A Tour of the World’s Most Siniste
Today I sit down with Sara van Os ( https://www.instagram.com/saramcclarinet/ ), author of the debut horror novel Decomposition Book , an emotional, electrifying, and darkly hilarious debut about a woman who finds a dead
Today I sit down with Allie Rowbottom, author of the memoir Jell-O Girls, the novel Aesthetica, and the new novel Lovers XXX. Set against the backdrop of the Los Angeles adult film industry in the 1980s, Lovers XXX follo
Today I sit down with author Yah Yah Schofield, whose debut novel On Sundays She Picked Flowers began as a project on Tumblr before being self-published and later rereleased by Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
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 Appleseed. In the new book, Isaac
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 Camp. Our conversati
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 transgressive, boundary-p
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 bounds of normal life.
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 for the National Boo
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 a few years to talk
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 an idea between two
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 conversation, Shen refl
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 Above a Shop tells th
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 This a Cry for Help?
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 Movie, and his middle-gr
Isaac Fitzgerald
author of American Rambler: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed
1 appearance on this show
Eric LaRocca
1 appearance on this show
Megha Majumdar
author of A Guardian and a Thief
1 appearance on this show
TJ Klune
author
1 appearance on this show
Emily Austin
professor of philosophy at Wake Forest
1 appearance on this show
Paul Tremblay
Author of Survivor Song
1 appearance on this show
Lucy Zhao
Pagebound
1 appearance on this show
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