Anna Rasche leaves no stone unturned.
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Author Anna Rasche visits our headquarters for this week’s episode of VBT to discuss her new book, The Stone Witch of Florence. She covers writing about the Black Plague during a modern day-pandemic, the importance of wellness girlies, and why she loves crystals. After nearly a decade in exile for witchcraft, Ginevra di Gasparo is called upon to use her healing powers to save people from the Black Plague—or so she thinks. When she’s asked to use her unique abilities to hunt down a thief, she starts to suspect she may be a pawn in a larger political scheme. Get at...
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Ann Liang on milking her JSTOR access.
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The best way to listen to Virtual Book Tour is in the Book of the Month app! Author Ann Liang joins us on this week’s episode of VBT to discuss her newest book, A Song to Drown Rivers. From making the most of her JSTOR access while it lasted, to thinking deeply about beauty standards across centuries, she breaks down how her historical fantasy novel got made. Xishi is beautiful—and deadly. When she is tasked with infiltrating an enemy kingdom and seducing the king, she undergoes rigorous training from Fanli, a famous young military advisor. But the more she succeeds, the more she...
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Coco Mellors wants you to cry in public.
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Laura Dave has a complicated relationship with thrillers.
Virtual Book Tour
The best way to listen to Virtual Book Tour is in the Book of the Month app! Repeat author Laura Dave joins us on this week’s episode of VBT to discuss her newest book, The Night We Lost Him. We talked about the question she wanted to answer with this story, how grief is an extension of love, and her complicated relationship with the thriller genre. Estranged siblings discover their father has been keeping a secret for over fifty years, one that may have been fatal… Liam Noone was many things to many people. To the public, he was an exacting, self-made hotel magnate fleeing his past....
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Chelsea Bieker is obsessed with grocery stores.
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The best way to listen to Virtual Book Tour is in the Book of the Month app! Chelsea Bieker joins us on this week’s episode of Virtual Book Tour to discuss her new book, Madwoman. We talked about her somatic practice around writing (shaking your sillies out) and our (mostly her) obsession with wellness. Clove has gone to extremes to keep her past a secret. But when she receives a letter from a women’s prison in California, her past comes screeching into the present, entangling her in a dangerous game with memory and the people she thought she had outrun. Get at...
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Kimberly McCreight on the intensity of mother-daughter relationships
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The best way to listen to Virtual Book Tour is in the Book of the Month app! Repeat author Kimberly McCreight joins us on this week’s episode of VBT to discuss her newest book, Like Mother, Like Daughter. We spoke about how Kimberly’s former days as a lawyer helped inform this story and we also discussed the intense relationships between mothers and daughters. When Cleo arrives late for dinner at her childhood home, she finds food burning in the oven and no sign of her mother. Then Cleo discovers her mom’s bloody shoe under the sofa. Something terrible has happened. But what? Get ...
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Liz Moore was not a happy camper.
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The best way to listen to Virtual Book Tour is in the Book of the Month app! Repeat author Liz Moore joins us on this week’s episode of VBT to discuss her newest book, The God of the Woods. We talked about how her own family history with the Adirondacks inspired the setting for this novel, her own experience with camp as a kid, and the myth and reality of self reliance. When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondacks summer camp, two worlds collide. Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk and the camper has gone missing. This camper isn’t just any...
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Sarah Pekkanen loves eavesdropping.
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The best way to listen to Virtual Book Tour is in the Book of the Month app! Repeat author Sarah Pekkanen joins us on this week’s episode of VBT to discuss her newest book, House of Glass. We talked about the benefits of eavesdropping, how Sarah’s experience as an investigative reporter informs her work as a thriller novelist, and haunted mega mansions. On the outside they were the golden family. On the inside they built the perfect lie. A young nanny who plunged to her death, or was pushed? A nine-year-old girl who collects sharp objects and refuses to speak. A lawyer whose...
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Isabel Banta on what makes a perfect pop song.
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The best way to listen to Virtual Book Tour is in the Book of the Month app! This week we spoke with Isabel Banta on what it means to be a child popstar. We discussed the price of celebrity, coming-of-age experiences, and how music lets us all connect. It is 1997, and Amber Young has received a life-changing call. It’s a chance thousands of girls would die for: the opportunity to join girl group Cloud9 in Los Angeles and escape her small town. She quickly finds herself in the orbits of fellow rising stars Gwen Morris, a driven singer-dancer, and Wes Kingston, a member of the...
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Rufi Thorpe's persona is a Germanic washerwoman.
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The best way to listen to Virtual Book Tour is in the Book of the Month app! We had so much fun getting to talk to Rufi Thorpe, the author of Margo's Got Money Troubles on this week's episode of VBT! We talked about the consequences of snap judgements, how OnlyFans has shifted over the past couple of years, and Rufi's love for wrestling. As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo has always known she’d have to make it on her own. So she enrolls at her local junior college. She is still figuring things out and never planned to have an affair with her English...
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