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Hosted by Beanstack · arts · EN · 86 episodes
Host Jordan Lloyd Bookey speaks with authors and reading enthusiasts to explore ways to build a stronger culture of reading in our communities. They'll dive into their personal experiences, inspirations, and why their stories and ideas are connecting so well with kids.
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Signup to Generate a PitchHost Jordan Lloyd Bookey speaks with authors and reading enthusiasts to explore ways to build a stronger culture of reading in our communities. They'll dive into their personal experiences, inspirations, and why their stories and ideas are connecting so well with kids.
The Reading Culture is hosted by Beanstack. The show has published 86 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Reading Culture: Yearbook 2025" (23 December 2025, 43 minutes), "No Wasted Sunshine: Sophie Blackall on the Meaning of Home" (10 December 2025, 33 minutes), and "Joy to the People: Mychal Threets Live from AASL" (25 November 2025, 43 minutes).
The Reading Culture publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 37 minutes across 86 episodes.
Booking probability for The Reading Culture is 22%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Reading Culture requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Reading Culture's contact route on record: public web form.
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Beanstack hosts The Reading Culture, an arts show with 86 episodes published.
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Episode #84
<p><br>Three years strong, y’all! We’re back with our favorite tradition: The Reading Culture Yearbook. </p><p><br>As we close out 2025, we’ve gathered superlatives and stories that celebrate some of the memorable...
Episode #83
“When we are making books, we are making little homes for our readers that they can return to hopefully again and again and again, just as we return to books and find a sense of home, we return to the person we once...
Episode #82
“The library is where I felt, I'm safe here. I have friends in Encyclopedia Brown, Junie B. Jones, Amelia Bedelia, Stanley Yelnats, and all these various characters. I think that's the beauty. That's the sanctuary, the...
Episode #81
“It's important that my perspective stays flexible because my perspective could need updating, it could need to be changed based on new information.” — Nic Stone<p><br></p><p>Nic Stone isn’t interested in staying in her...
Episode #80
<p>“It’s that old expression that I love, which is ‘wherever you go, there you are.’ So you never really get out of the limbo, because the limbo is you.” — Erin Entrada Kelly</p><p>There are seasons when life slows...
Episode #79
<p>“This is what awe always does: it’s the zoom out. All of a sudden, you can see how tiny and insignificant you are, and you plug into that bigger thing” - Kate DiCamillo</p><p>When was the last time you were so...
Episode #78
"I don’t want to be whatever version of masculinity y’all keep telling me I have to be. Why are all the benchmarks violent and aggressive? I don’t wanna do it. I’m not interested” — Jason Reynolds<p><br>We all inherit...
Episode #77
“When you're a kid, you have so little control over things. To be the big entity controlling the smaller entity, whether it's dolls or [toy] soldiers or whatever it is, they do what you tell them to do. They become the...
Episode #76
”Why are some people treated differently? Why are some people chosen ones for no particular reason? And why do some people get to have that extra shine?” — Victoria Aveyard<p><br></p><p>Unfairness is a pervasive theme...
Episode #75
“Whenever I think of people who have gone through something, I'm always like, but they were human before this. Before they were monsters, they were human. Before they were zombies, they were human.” — Tiffany D...
Episode #74
“There were kind of always like two simultaneous stories happening with my coming out. One was the realization and breaking through some of that denial and repression, seeing kind of what was right there in front of me...
Episode #73
<p>This week, we revisit our episode with Kwame Alexander while we take a quick summer break!</p><p><br>Kwame Alexander recently interviewed the esteemed and now former Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, for the...
Episode #72
"We all need to have radical hope. I have my really hopeless days too, but… it’s such a privilege to get to live and to survive. Our job is to live, and I think that’s a really amazing thing.” - Jasmine Warga<p><br>We...
Episode #71
“Those moments of connection when you can have them with people who seem so different from you on the outside, I really do think that it braids a level of connectiveness and empathy, and it is much harder to harden your...
Episode #70
“As my own mother is aging, she's telling me … before I take this to my grave, here is something you should know. So the secrets are coming out. And as more and more secrets are revealed, I'm learning more about...
Episode #69
“I tell kids that books are not there to torment you. The author has to get you in the first ten pages. If they do not, they fail, because a book is like a lawnmower—you pull it, and either it starts or it doesn't...
Episode #68
<p>"I think all of us had the experience after reading the book of looking in maybe our grandparents' wardrobe, our parents' wardrobe, and like knocking on the back of the wardrobe and being like, maybe this is my time...
Episode #67
“And I think that’s what reading is… It’s a personal interpretation of the story, and it may not be the same as somebody else's. That’s the whole idea of a good teacher. There should be different interpretations, and...
Episode #66
"It's very rare for a person to just be one thing. Most issues, most things that matter, are not so black and white." – Debbie Levy<p><br></p><p>We all want to believe in heroes and villains, right and wrong, and...
Episode #65
“I lean on my community. I lean on the power of the pen. I lean on remembering who my ancestors are and what they endured, the colonization that they survived in the Americas, I think, ‘we've been here before, and the...
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