Chatter on Books

Chatter On Books is a weekly podcast hosted by Torie Clarke, with co-hosts Claude Jennings and David Aldridge, plus a rotating crew of writers, journalists, and the occasional welcome surprise. Every week, the gang sits down with a new author, debates what they're reading, and lets the conversation wander wherever it wants to go. It's the kind of show where the guests are interesting, the hosts are opinionated, and nobody's pretending this is a book club.

Thomas Mallon — “A Book of One’s Own — People and Their Diaries” and “The Very Heart of It - New York Diaries, 1983-1994” 08/05/2026

Emma Styles “The Shark" 07/21/2026

Isaac Fitzgerald “American Rambler: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed" 07/07/2026

Bruce Feiler “A Time to Gather: How ritual created the world and how it can save us” 06/23/2026

Erica Wright "Museum of Unusual Occurrence" 06/03/2026

James Grady “Shadows on Sidewalks” 05/19/2026

Book Festival Palooza and More 05/06/2026

Berner "Becoming Legend: Get Rich and Leave a Legacy" 04/28/2026

David Wright Falade “The New Internationals” 04/14/2026

Charlotte Wood “The Natural Way of Things” 04/01/2026

April Reynolds “The Shape of Dreams” 03/10/2026

Mark Hertling “If I Don’t Return: A Father’s Wartime Journal” 03/03/2026

Rebecca Lehmann “The Beheading Game” 02/24/2026

Matthew Delmont “Until the Last Gun is Silent: A story of patriotism, the Vietnam War, and the fight to save America’s soul.” 02/10/2026

Mark Medley “Live to See the Day: Impossible Goals, Unimaginable Futures, and the Pursuit of Things That May Never Be” 01/27/2026

William Rankin “Radical Cartography: How Changing Our Maps Can Change Our World” 01/13/2026

Steve Israel & Steve Vogel 12/17/2025

Eugenia Cheng “Unequal: The Math of When Things Do and Don’t Add Up" 12/02/2025

Thomas Dann “Midnight in Memphis” 11/25/2025

DeMaurice Smith “Turf Wars: The Fight For the Soul of America’s Game” 11/11/2025

Ann E. Butler “Wife, Mother, Spy: An Extraordinary Life Filled With Ordinary Days” 11/07/2025

Mary Roach "Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy" 10/14/2025

Hannah Pittard “If You Love It, Let It Kill You” 09/30/2025

Susan Morrison “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live” 09/16/2025

James Grady “American Sky” 07/15/2025

S.L. Price “The American Game: History and Hope in the Country of Lacrosse” 07/08/2025

Kyra Davis Lurie “The Great Mann” 06/24/2025

Ling Ling Huang “Immaculate Conception 06/10/2025

Ted Genoways "Tequila Wars: Jose Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico” 05/20/2025

Victoria Christopher Murray “Harlem Rhapsody” 05/07/2025