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Steve Bertrand on Books

Hosted by wgnradio.com · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 41 episodes

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Steve Bertrand on Books from WGN Radio

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Steve Bertrand on Books: Melanie Benjamin

Jun 3, 202600

Chicago writer Melanie Benjamin has made a career out of writing historical fiction with stories that largely center around women. Put another way, Melanie has given us fictional accounts of our non-fiction world. In her

Steve Bertrand on Books: Djamel White

May 27, 202600

Djamel White is being called a powerful new voice in Irish literature. His debut novel, All Them Dogs, takes a look inside the crime underworld of west Dublin, focusing on a lost young man looking to be found. Unfortunat

Steve Bertrand on Books: Hannah Thurman

May 20, 202600

Hannah Thurman’s smash debut novel is set in Raleigh, North Carolina, mostly at an under-pressure mental institution. At the center of Mercy Hill is a family of four daughters, their dad, and the mom who is the force fig

Steve Bertrand on Books: Charlie Schutt

May 13, 202600

Charles Schutt is a former Chicago priest who left the Church after 17 years and then successfully moved to the world of corporate recruiting. And he wants you to know why. He’s got a new book out called “A True Story of

Steve Bertrand on Books: Rachel Khong

May 6, 202600

Maybe it’s in our 30s that the rubber finally meets the road and it’s time to confront life, maybe accept the fact that you can’t be anything you want to be after all. In a way, that’s a way to read Rachel Khong’s short

Steve Bertrand on Books: James H. McCommons

Apr 29, 202600

Sometimes a small story can help to paint a much bigger picture. That’s the case with The Feather Wars by James H. McCommons. Actually, his is not a small story at all, it’s a remarkable accounting of America’s assault o

Steve Bertrand on Books: Clay Cane

Apr 22, 202600

Clay Cane has written a pretty remarkable book in a personal, novel way. Burn Down Master’s House is a fictional account of a variety moments of resistance by several separate slaves in the days before the civil war. He

Steve Bertrand on Books: Michael Glover Smith

Apr 15, 202600

When you think of Bob Dylan, what comes to mind? A cultural revolutionary, right? Lyrics, musicianship, even painting. But did you know Bob Dylan was a filmmaker? Fellow filmmaker Michael Glover Smith did….and his book B

Steve Bertrand on Books: Tana French

Apr 8, 202600

Irish writer Tana French joins Steve to talk about her Cal Hooper Series. Hooper is a retired Chicago police detective who settles into life in small town Ireland. It’s not as easy as it is sounds. And, don’t tell Steve,

Steve Bertrand on Books: Colm Tóibín

Apr 1, 202600

Irish writer Colm Tóibín is a master, whether it’s his novels like Brooklyn or Nora Webster or The Testament of Mary, he has a settled style of writing that brings you not just to a place but to a specific moment. It’s t

Steve Bertrand on Books: Nick Petrie

Mar 25, 202600

Alright, it’s time to move to the edge of your seat. Nick Petrie joins Steve to talk about his new thriller, The Dark Time. It’s the ninth book in his acclaimed Peter Ash series. The book takes on the threat of rapidly e

Steve Bertrand on Books: Mark Oppenheimer and Chris Kelly

Mar 18, 202600

One of the spring’s most anticipated books is a biography of American literary icon Judy Blume. Author Mark Oppenheimer joins Steve to talk about the writer who helped us grow up and how she’s developed as she’s grown up

Steve Bertrand on Books: Johnny Compton and Jordy Rosenberg

Mar 11, 202600

In this episode, Steve talks with two authors. Johnny Compton writes horror/fantasy stories and his latest is Dead First. Johnny has and interesting theory on horror stories. He says most of our most famous stories all h

Steve Bertrand on Books: Mark Greaney and Adam al-Sirgany

Mar 4, 202600

Mark Greaney joins Steve to talk about The Hard Line, the 15th installment of his Gray Man thriller series. In the book, the intelligence community is under attack by selective assassins. It’s up to Court Gentry and his

Steve Bertrand on Books: Dr. Ashely Alker and Aaron Brown

Feb 25, 202600

How about we get a few chuckles from the emergency room? Dr. Ashely Alker takes a light-“hearted” look at how we die in “99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them”. It’s actually a fun read with a very personal origin story.

Steve Bertrand on Books: Charles Finch and Sophie Vershbow

Feb 18, 202600

Why is it we’re so drawn to Victorian novels? Charles Finch has some ideas. He’s the author behind the Charles Lenox detective series. His novel The Hidden City was a hit last year. Charles is also a respected book criti

Steve Bertrand on Books: Brad Meltzer and Adithi Ramakrishnan

Feb 11, 202600

In this episode of Steve Bertrand on Books, Steve talks with author Brad Meltzer. Brad has succeeded in every type of writing he’s explored, including television, non-fiction and even children’s books, but he’s best know

Steve Bertrand’s 2015 visit with Nobel Prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro

Oct 5, 201700

British writer Kazuo Ishiguro has been named the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2015, he spoke with WGN Radio’s Steve Bertrand about his novel The Buried Giant: Kazuo Ishiguro, who has won the Man Booke

Bertrand On Books | Alan Furst, A Hero of France

Jun 10, 201600

The New York Times has called Alan Furst “America’s preeminent spy novelist.” His new book, A Hero of France, about the French Resistance, is the first in a long time set during the war years, rather than the eve of Worl

Bertrand On Books | Stephen Coss ‘The Fever of 1721’

Apr 29, 201600

Let’s go back to Boston in 1721. Historian Stephen Coss says it was one of the most influential years in U.S. history. And why not: We meet a young Ben Franklin, a chastised Cotton Mather and the beginning American argum

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