From New Hampshire Public Radio, Check This Out is a fresh literary series where host Rachel Barenbaum dives deeply into the works of emerging authors.
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Signup to Generate a PitchFrom New Hampshire Public Radio, Check This Out is a fresh literary series where host Rachel Barenbaum dives deeply into the works of emerging authors.
Recent episodes include "Stephanie Soileau's 'Should the Waters Take Us' & New York Times book critic" (23 October 2026, 28 minutes), "In "Retro," Jessica Goldstein creates a luxury time-travel agency" (16 October 2026, 28 minutes), and "Find your next summer read" (3 July 2026, 50 minutes).
Check This Out publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 42 minutes across 53 episodes.
Booking probability for Check This Out is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Check This Out requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Check This Out's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Check This Out are News, Magazine & Book Publishing. Check This Out has an arts audience.
Check This Out is an arts show with 53 episodes published.
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A sweeping four-century debut novel that travels from France to Acadia to the bayous of Southern Louisiana. Plus, New York Times literary critic Dwight Garner on today's literary landscape.
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An unemployed actress finds a new job taking wealthy clients on luxury time-travel tours through history. And on the Book Biz, an unlikely theme night idea that’s sold out Fenway and selling books.
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Some favorite authors offer their suggestions for summer reading, plus host Rachel Barenbaum has some books by New England authors to recommend.
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The Book Biz segment is where we look at the forces shaping what gets written, published and read. We talk to Katherine Center, a veteran romance author about how the industry has changed in the last 20 years, her new...
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This debut novel is about an itinerant Singaporean ex-con hiding from her past in different countries. And on our Book Biz segment, author Katherine Center reflects on her 20-year publishing career.
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This debut novel is about an itinerant Singaporean ex-con hiding from her past in different countries. And on our Book Biz segment, author Katherine Center reflects on her 20-year publishing career.
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We discuss the rise of audio books and how they are driving books sales and creating fandoms with bookseller Rachel Kanter.
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The debut novel "Homebound'" features four lives entangled across time by a computer game, saved to a floppy disk in the 1980s. And on our Book Biz segment, how audiobooks are changing publishing.
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A discussion with book critic Ron Charles about the changing landscape for book reviews and literary criticism.
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An unsettling debut novel blending romance, horror, and fairy tale elements, with nods to Frankenstein, plus, in our Book Biz segment, the future of literary criticism.
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Where we look at the forces shaping what gets written, published, and read, featuring author and podcaster Sarah MacLean on why romance has become the engine of modern publishing.
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A viral dystopian romance set in a corrupt surveillance state, following a mercenary who botches the assassination of the president’s son. And on the Book Biz segment, the romance genre as the engine of publishing.
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A sweeping family saga that traces the intertwined lives of three generations of women, moving from war-torn Germany and Ireland to coastal Maine.
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In this debut novel, we meet a Nigerian-American family set on a crash course towards each other. And on our Book Biz segment, the role of agents in publishing today.
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In this romantasy set in a Roman-inspired world ruled by vampires, a young woman faces a deadly competition where survival depends on mastering forbidden powers.
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Through intertwining narratives, the novel follows a cast of characters in Pakistan, taking us from the chaotic cities to lawless feudal countryside. And in the Book Biz segment, how A.I. is affecting publishing.
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This historical novel takes us to Poland in the late 1930s, where two young Jewish women must work together to find a missing teacher while storm clouds gather around them. Plus the Book Biz on digital-first publishing.
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We all know what happened to Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn, but what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to seek justice?
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A darkly comedic noir novel set in 1974 San Francisco following a young woman as she becomes obsessed with murder and desire after a co-worker's death, leading her to challenge her controlling husband.
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“The Complex” moves between the U.S. and modern India to follow the illicit liaisons, political ambitions, and betrayals of a prominent Delhi family, unraveling in the shadow of a nation's transformation.
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