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The B&N Podcast

We're no longer producing new episodes of this show, but you can find us now at Poured Over on Apple Podcasts. Every author has a story beyond the one that they put down on paper. The Barnes & Nob... Read more

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Ibram X. Kendi

Ibram X. Kendi

Our guest on the podcast today is Ibram X. Kendi, here to talk about his new book How to Be an Antiracist.  Kendi is a ... Read more

20 Aug 2019

40mins

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Jon Meacham

Jon Meacham

Historian, journalist, editor and biographer Jon Meacham has never shied away from challenging subjects.  American Lion,... Read more

23 May 2018

42mins

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Kelly Corrigan

Kelly Corrigan

The bestselling memoirist Kelly Corrigan joins us in this episode to talk about Tell Me More, her thought-provoking new ... Read more

10 Jan 2018

40mins

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Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

Ever since her sweeping family and political epic The House of the Spirits was published to acclaim in 1982, the Chilean... Read more

6 Dec 2017

32mins

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Michio Kaku

Michio Kaku

Human colonies on Mars, laser beams shooting digital copies of ourselves into space, and freezing your age at thirty: do... Read more

13 Apr 2018

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Ina Garten

Ina Garten

It's hard to believe that The Barefoot Contessa cookbook was published as recently as 1999, because its author, Ina Gart... Read more

19 Nov 2018

37mins

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Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin is one of the most celebrated chroniclers of the lives of American presidents, the author of multip... Read more

21 Sep 2018

44mins

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Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell

On today's episode of the B&N Podcast we were joined by one of the most influential writers in the world, whose book... Read more

10 Sep 2019

35mins

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George Will

George Will

In today's episode we're joined by a writer who has come since his early days in journalism become one of the signature ... Read more

7 Jun 2019

41mins

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Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay

Whether Roxane Gay is writing fiction or essays and memoir, it often seems as if there’s no territory she can’t make her... Read more

6 Oct 2017

27mins

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Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett

Today our guest is the spellbinding storyteller Ann Patchett, joining  us to talk about her new novel The Dutch House. ... Read more

25 Sep 2019

36mins

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Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong

"Writing your own story is perhaps the truest enactment of the American dream." Today on the B&N Podcast, we're talk... Read more

12 Jun 2019

33mins

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Hoda Kotb

Hoda Kotb

The television journalist Hoda Kotb is not only familiar to millions of viewers who join her every morning as the anchor... Read more

21 Mar 2018

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Celeste Ng

Celeste Ng

In the summer of 2014, Celeste Ng's debut novel Everything I Never Told You became a nationwide bestseller and was tagge... Read more

13 Sep 2017

27mins

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Colson Whitehead: The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead: The Nickel Boys

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of The Underground Railroad returns to the B&N Podcast fo... Read more

15 Jul 2019

28mins

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Elizabeth Gilbert on City of Girls

Elizabeth Gilbert on City of Girls

Our guest today is Elizabeth Gilbert, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love here to d... Read more

4 May 2020

34mins

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In this episode our guest is the fascinating writer and thinker Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the bestsellers The Bla... Read more

3 Jul 2018

36mins

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Ron Chernow

Ron Chernow

Ron Chernow had already written multiple award-winning biographies of figures like George Washington and J.P. Morgan whe... Read more

18 Oct 2017

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Dennis Lehane

Dennis Lehane

Sitting down to talk with the writer Dennis Lehane, one of the biggest challenges is how not to stumble into spoilers. T... Read more

17 Aug 2017

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Erik Larson on The Splendid and The Vile

Erik Larson on The Splendid and The Vile

Our guest today is Erik Larson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake jo... Read more

25 Feb 2020

27mins

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