Jun 25, 202524 minS0
<p>I can’t think of a better way to close out BOOKSPO Season 3 than with a visit with novelist and literary podcast queen, Bianca Marais, whose new novel, A MOST PUZZLING MURDER, is a book she wrote to prove that it was...
About this Podcast:
A short form podcast in which authors of new books enthuse about the old books that inspired their works. kerryreads.substack.com
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Who hosts Bookspo?
Bookspo is hosted by Kerry Clare. The show has published 38 episodes to date.
What has Bookspo covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Season Three, Episode 10: Bianca Marais" (25 June 2025, 24 minutes), "Season Three, Episode 9: Heather Birrell" (18 June 2025, 23 minutes), and "Season Three, Episode 8: Teri Vlassopoulos" (11 June 2025, 21 minutes).
How often does Bookspo publish?
Bookspo publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 21 minutes across 38 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Bookspo?
Booking probability for Bookspo is 20%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Bookspo requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Bookspo's contact route on record: public web form.
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The strongest fits for Bookspo are News, Magazine & Book Publishing. Bookspo has an arts audience.
About the host
Kerry Clare hosts Bookspo, an arts podcast with 38 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Jun 18, 202523 minS0<p>The propulsive read of the summer is here with Heather Birrell’s novel, BORN, a novel whose premise is the question: What happens when an English teacher goes into labour during a Toronto high school lockdown? And...
Jun 11, 202521 minS0<p>Teri Vlassopoulos is back, following up her celebrated novel ESCAPE PLANS with LIVING EXPENSES, a novel about sisterhood, family, infertility, and more. Vlassopoulos talks to me about the story changed over the years...
Jun 4, 202525 minS0<p>Today’s BOOKSPO ventures beyond the human as I talk to Catherine Bush about her sixth book, which is also her first short story collection, SKIN. She tells me about how she, like many writers, began writing short...
May 28, 202529 minS0<p>Worlds collide in the latest BOOKSPO, in which Uzma Jalaluddin contemplates her pivot from romance writing to crime fiction. Or was it actually a pivot after all? It turns out that Jalaluddin’s history with crime...
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May 21, 202527 minS0<p>The rom-com is made new again, fresh and sparkling, in Rebecca Fisseha’s ONLY BECAUSE IT’S YOU, a novel that takes the fake relationship/marriage trope and gives it real stakes, harnessed to actual situations that...
May 14, 202523 minS0<p>In our conversation, Lindsay Zier-Vogel lays out the creative threads she wove together to create her second novel, The Fun Times Brigade, which included some people’s lacklustre response to her work writing...
May 7, 202522 minS0<p>Last year, Greg Rhyno won my heart forever with his (unlicensed) PI Dame Polara, reluctantly solving crimes in an evocatively rendered Toronto. Even better? Who By Fire was the first in a series, which Rhyno has...
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Season Three, Episode 2: Mikka Jacobsen
Apr 30, 202526 minS3<p>I’ve admired Mikka Jacobsen’s craft ever since I read her essay collection, MODERN FABLES, a couple of years ago, and was thrilled to see that everything I love about her voice returns in her latest book, the short...
Apr 22, 202522 minS0<p>Season Three of BOOKSPO launches here! But if podcasts aren’t your thing, you can opt out of receiving BOOKSPO notifications. Go to https://substack.com/home and log in. Click on your personal icon in the top corner...
Jan 20, 20257 minS0This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit kerryreads.substack.com<br/><br/><p><p>Hello everyone, especially my new subscribers. I’m so glad you’re here. Part of my Substack project is my podcast...
Nov 27, 20245 minS0This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit kerryreads.substack.com<br/><br/><p>Thank you for being a part of Seasons 1 and 2 of BOOKSPO. This bonus episode is for paid subscribers (who also receive...
Nov 20, 202421 minS0<p>We’ve made it to another Season Finale! Thank you for coming with me on this podcasting journey this year, and helping me reach the milestones of 24 episodes, 3.8K downloads (and counting), one whole sponsored...
Nov 13, 202426 minS0<p>As a huge fan of books about houses and home, I fell in love with Jenny Haysom’s debut novel KEEP and was swept away by this story of three lives connected by the very unlikely occupation of real estate home staging...
Nov 6, 202415 minS0<p>New BOOKSPO, and this time we’re talking about THE ELEVATOR, by Priya Ramsingh, a book about modern love that read like a breeze, but also tackles important questions about race, trauma, toxic relationships, eating...
Oct 30, 202420 minS0<p>I’ve been so looking forward to sharing my conversation with Richard Van Camp, whose childhood obsession with the works of Stephen King (and so many other iconic authors!) was a force behind BEAST, the 30th book of...
Oct 23, 202420 minS0<p>My conversation with Kirti Bhadresa begins with reflections about our mutual friend Melanie Masterson, who died in December 2021 after years of living with metastatic breast cancer. Kirti tells me how Melanie’s...
Oct 16, 202428 minS0<p>Marilynne Robinson’s debut novel never actually came to mind while I was reading Anne Hawk’s THE PAGES OF THE SEA (which The Guardian called “evocative of the beauty of the Caribbean and full of sparkling...
Oct 9, 202424 minS0<p>Oh my goodness, this is a good one, a conversation beginning with Jennifer Whiteford expounding on the literary qualities of the mixtape, music (both making it and loving it) being the foundation of her wonderful new...
Oct 2, 202416 minS0<p>This episode of BOOKSPO is brought to you by COPIBEC, and their new three-part podcast series COPYRIGHT ACT: A CENTURY OF STORIES, a fascinating journey through the 100-year history of copyright in Canada—and even...
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